The season finale of House aired about two weeks ago but I only caught it last night in HD on iTunes. I was keen to watch this one because it was shot on the Canon 5D SLR using photographic lenses, the first time anything like this has been done for a major TV show.
I’m a big fan of shooting HD with these Canons, I use a 7D after changing over from a Sony HDV. There’re compromises, pros and cons between the two. However the convenience, ease and quality of output from Canon’s HD SLRs wins it for me.
So I settled down to watch House and see what a pro crew could get out of the 5D. I gave up after a few minutes. I’ve never watched House before and the story totally absorbed me. I just forgot about the camera aspect of it, it didn’t matter. Straight away that’s a good thing. Camera heads can discuss the colours and pixels and artifacts, but the story stood head and shoulders above all of this.
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In sci-fi films the s**t usually hits the fans around about the time that the computer or robot becomes ’self aware’. Well photoshop has become almost self aware except this new tool is called ‘content aware’.
This video from Adobe shows how the new tool goes beyond the usual retouching tools to actually reimaginging and creating imagery in your picture where there wasn’t any before.
The first photo example shows how handy this tool will be, but skip along to towards the end and the last two examples. It’s gets a bit creepy for me.
It’s a universal remote control that also opens beers. Keep it simple, stupid.
(Via Gizmodo and Myclicker)
First up, now one was seriously hurt during this incident, so sit back and enjoy the noisy destruction! A crane collapses at a coal mine in Queensland, Australia, to a magnificent sound. This includes the Aussies attempt at problem solving by saying ‘Aw Fuck’ a few times and then the sound of the start of AC/DC’s Hells Bells. Oh I only hope the end comes with this soundtrack!
(via liveleak)
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