Monthly Archives: January 2009

Jan
17
2009

Mega Zoom Videocams

Video cameras are adding huge zoom capabilities. Optical zooms with image stabilization. The Pansonic SDR-H90 above is 70x true optical (think of it as a 37.9-2650mm (4:3) still camera telephoto range). The camera has a builtin 80GB drive and takes SD card with up to 32GB of memory for combined long play record of over [...]

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Jan
15
2009

LED Projectors

Benq is showing the pint sized LED projector with power to burn … but this is just one example of the explosion of projector products that have been coming down the pike due to the miniturization of LEDs linked with ever smaller and more capable DSP chips coming primarily from TI. The result is a [...]

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Jan
12
2009

Video Going Still

It has been said many times before on this blog but the CES 2009 show in las Vegas made it big time official - Video is Going Still. Video cameras are now doing still photography in a big way as we can see in the camcoders above and below. For example the Sony CM1 line [...]

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Jan
12
2009

TV and Web Converge

PictureThat has featured the accelerating convergence in  functionality and features between still cameras and video camcorders. Still cameras are borrowing much wider zooms, low lux performance, and image stabilization from video cameras while providing HD video recording capabilities with interchangeable lens in cameras like the Nikon D90 or Canon Mark 2D and the new Kodak [...]

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Jan
06
2009

Flash on TV

Adobe has just concluded agreements with Intel and Broadcom that assure that the latest  Flash Player technology will be available on TVs that will deliver more online, Web based experiences. Why is this important to graphic artists - read the fine print here, but it opens Flash on TV to a potential 1 billion customers.

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