It lives!! Where’s my wallet??

Although it is not the Scarlet FF35 I personally would like to get my hands on, there’s no doubt that this shot of a WORKING Red Scarlet 2/3″ is a positive step forward – yes, yes, I know that I keep harping on about these cameras (and how slow their release has been), but they are seriously sweet tech!!

No point really reaching for my wallet though, they’re all too expensive for my shooting budget (which has a lot of zeros in it – starting with 0!!) – if the SLR-like EPIC-X is anything to go by, $US 28,000 for a camera body is not exactly attractively priced unless you want to shoot stills and high frame-rate video – otherwise, you’d buy a point-and-shoot ‘blad and have change left over!!

*sigh* Perhaps doing all my shoots with an iPhone is the way forward, all the pro’s are doing it!! 😉

I’ll take 2!

Seriously, I don’t think 570 Megapixels is enough – I’d need at least 2 of these car-sized photographenwonders, and at $US 35 million each, they’re a bargain!!

It has 74 CCDs – if there is something interesting (ie living!) in the universe, surely this bad boy will see it!!

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/570-megapixel-camera-is-the-mother-and-father-of-all-cameras/

Tilt shift Disney amazement

I know there are PS filters to achieve this look, but there’s something uber cool about some genuine tilt-shift lens action! For those of you not familiar with these lenses, tilt-shift lenses are realistically intended to be a corrective lens – architecture photographers often use them to straighten the edges of buildings so it doesn’t look like the walls are curved (like you get if you use a wide-angle to shoot a very tall building like the Empire State).

There’s also an excellent article in the tech behind tilt-shift on photo.net

However, tilt-shift lenses also have a pretty cool side effect – it’s easy to get an extremely shallow depth of field that is shaped along a plane!! What does this mean? Well, instead of a shallow DoF you get with a normal lens (which is a circle at the centre of the lens, and the bokeh appears more pronounced as you move further away from the centre to the outer edges), tilt-shifts have a horizontal or vertical DoF plane – which results in some amazing effects!!

A long explanation I know, but tilt-shift is the original method used to turn big, well known city scapes into images that look like model railroad miniatures. And finally one photographer has gone one further, and made some stop motion videos of Florida Disney World.

Check the full article here and watch the video too!!

I’ll take 3…

Just wanted to let everyone know I won’t be posting for a while – I’m off to be first in the queue to get my hands on a new, cheap gigapixel camera!! You’ll find me waiting outside my local computer store – that’s where you get cheap flash memory, right?

This is a really interesting article that hints at the possibilities in the future world of photography!! Megapixel wars? Gone!! Instead, everyone will have cheap, amazing capability in their hands – and suddenly, it will be the good photographers (or at least, those with good business models) who will survive!!

This is a very interesting (tech) read, check it out!