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Archive for August, 2006 - click any heading for the full Article

31 Aug 2006

Enhanced QTVR interactive features

CubicConnector does the trick.
That rather intimidating title is nothing more than the addition of ‘click here’ functionality to a QTVR movie/panorama.
This is best illustrated by the enhanced version of the 360 degree panorama of my home theater which has graced these pages before.
Once the QuickTime image loads - click below - cursor over any of […]

30 Aug 2006

Aperture 2.0? My wish list.

Apple to exhibit at Photokina.
Photokina is the biennial show of photography goods in Cologne. The next one is this coming September, starting on the 26th. The format of a physical show is getting rapidly obsoleted with most press releases and product announcements being done on the web nowadays; still, lots of people show […]

29 Aug 2006

Joseph Sudek

A master of lyrical monochrome.

There is so much to like in the Aperture book ‘Josef Sudek - Poet of Prague’ that it’s hard to know where to begin. Sudek (1896-1976) spent nearly his whole life in Czechoslovakia. From 1940, inspired by contact prints from large negatives he devoted himself to this way of working, […]

28 Aug 2006

Canon 5D sensor dust revisited

Not an unknown issue.
Mention of the dust removal system in the new Canon 400D prompts this column.
I pointed out how easily the guileless are fooled by horribly overpriced sensor cleaning solutions here.
I have since added another very effective tool to my sensor cleaning arsenal, on top of that little $5 brush. It is made […]

27 Aug 2006

Canon EOS 400D

Canon addresses the dust issue.

The curious thing about Canon’s newly announced EOS 400D, the replacement for the estimable 350D, is the use of a 10+ mp cropped sensor. This cropped sensor has a higher pixel count than the 8.2 mp in the premium ‘amateur’ Canon EOS 30D model. That’s interesting positioning, probably driven […]

26 Aug 2006

QTVR on the big screen

100″ of forest glory!
I wrote the other day about displaying QTVR pictures on the TV screen.
Today, using the same connecting cables with my iBook I plugged the computer into the ‘Video 1′ input on the AV unit in our home theater and what do you think I got?

Surround sound quality from the MP3 soundtrack - […]