Monthly Archives: October 2012

3D, Business

Consumers apparently do want 3D

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The week ended Oct. 14, 20th Century Fox’s Prometheus, in its first week in stores, generated 25% of its unit sales from the 3D version which, it should be noted, came with an extra bonus disc to encourage sales, according to Nielsen VideoScan. Since 76% of Prometheus sales were of a Blu-ray configuration, that means 33% of Prometheus Blu-ray shoppers opted for the 3D edition — a collector’s set that included the film on Blu-ray 3D, regular Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy iTunes and UltraViolet.

via 3D Starts Popping Up in U.S. Homes – The Hollywood Reporter.

3D

Is there a rehab group for 3D photography addiction?

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Is there a rehab group for 3D photography addiction?

I went out to shoot plain old fashioned 2D fall color pictures. Within about 10 minutes I was looking at railroad tracks going off into the distance and thought, “That would be cool in 3D!” and was doing the “cha cha” to shoot a 3D image with my one camera.

In another 30 minutes, I had two cameras mounted on my tripod mount … and was shooting 3D video. Sigh. I am addicted to 3D. Is there any hope of recovery?

(I posted this earlier on my Google+ page!)

Cameras, Lighting, Still photography, Techniques

Question on how to expose for greatest dynamic range on GH2

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Question on how to expose for greatest dynamic range on GH2 – Personal View Talks.

This question was posted on Personal-View.com, the web site for micro four thirds (run by the author of the GH-1 and GH-2 hacks) and specifically the high end Lumix cameras.

Suggestion is made to consider using graduated neutral density filters or polarizing filters to help reduce the highlights in photographs. The same could be said for video, and that this tip applies not just to Lumix cameras but all kinds of still and video cameras.

I shot something recently, on video, using a Canon camera, where the subjects were in the shade but enough else was in direct sunlight. There was nothing I could do but allow the highlights to blow out on the limited dynamic range of 4:2:0 HDV video. But the suggestion to use a graduated ND is a good one that I thought worth sharing with others.