Apple announces Final Cut Pro 8 – Final Cut Pro, Avid, and After Effects Training.
FCP 8 is practically confirmed.
Rumors are that it will drop Firewire support. If true, that implies that Canon’s XH and XL line (tape-based cameras using Firewire interface) will come to an end in April as well, we presume?
With digital cameras, many enthusiasts engage in “pixel peeping” contests to super enlarge and examine every image pixel for bragging rights over whose image is sharper or has less digital noise.
This leads to pointless debates over the effectiveness of different types of camera sensors that usually leave out so many details as to be, well pointless debates.
If you’d like to know more about sensors and other aspects of photography, read what a physicist writes on his personal blog:
When I hear people claiming that the Four Thirds format is incapable of providing resolutions above 10 MP, I just laugh. Then, hearing the same “experts” say that APS-C sensors can deliver such resolutions, just because they are bigger, I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. Stop worrying about pixels, start thinking about lenses. Or just start thinking.
via wrotniak.net: Four Thirds Sensor Size and Aspect Ratio.
His conclusion is similar to mine, outlined in my last sentence here.
At the link: Canon Vixia HF G10 Sample recordings – ARMdevices.net. Including a sample low light video clip that you can download.
The G10 uses a 1/3 sq inch sensor for 1920×1080 HD video, promising better low light capabilities than other low end cameras.
43 Rumors | Home. Questions arise about the financial results for Olympus. Thom Hogan, in a comment, notes that Olympus itself is fine – but the imaging division isn’t fine. And then there is Kodak … whose share price has fallen to $3.
Lacking consistent credible progress towards addressing their challenges, both companies have some huge issues to address to remain in their respective businesses. Who knows? I do not predict the future!
The 2011 National Association of Broadcasters convention (or just “NAB Show”) will be held April 9-14 in Las Vegas. The entire world of broadcasting, radio, television, film production, media, related software, transmitters, lighting, sound, cameras, DSLRs, video, online media production – you name – will be in Las Vegas.
NAB is huge. Mind blowingly huge.
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