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Month: February 2018

(vid) Cleaning the CCD sensor of a Panasonic Lumix Compact Digital Camera

(vid) Goodbye Distant Shores II

“Distant Shores” is a TV series I immensely enjoyed watching.

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(vid) Here’s what it’s like to ski an Olympic downhill course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy_fGWrVUY

(vid) Kung Fu: Young Caine’s Shaolin Tea and Pebble Tests

(Time-lapse Video) ALIVE | Canada 4K – Traveling 5500 km in 6 weeks – 54,000 single photos!

The story: Behind the scenes: Shooting a motion time-lapse in the Canadian wilderness

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Aspect Ratio: What It Is and How It Greatly Affects Composition

Two articles excerpted below. The first shows through some photographic examples how many scenes or subjects work best in one aspect ratio and not as well in others. I would like to see all mirrorless cameras have some type of multi-aspect ratio sensors so various aspect ratios can be chosen, all having the widest field of view — instead of having to crop from 3:2 or 4:3, which loses field of view and pixels.

(vid) 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 1:1?! Aspect Ratio is VERY IMPORTANT — “Why does the sensor have to be this one form of rectangle? It doesn’t have to be. It could be … circular, and capture the entire image circle, and allow you to crop later… • As people are choosing more and more different form factors, it’s going to get more important to shoot in a wide variety of aspect ratios” – Tony Northrup

“Why does the sensor have to be this one form of rectangle? It doesn’t have to be. … It could be circular, and capture the entire image circle, and allow you to crop later, so that no matter what ratio you decided to go you weren’t losing a lot of megapixels. As people are choosing more and more different form factors, it’s going to get more and more important to shoot in a wide variety of aspect ratios.” – Tony Northrup, transcribed by Jeff Fenske

(vid) LX100’s Amazing Lens! – *All-glass* elements, no polymer & *special milling technique* to improve bokeh

B&H with Matt Frazer from Panasonic, transcribed by me:

Matt: This camera actually uses 5 aspheric elements.

B&H: Glass elements, I might add. No polymer…, just glass.

Matt: They’re all glass. There’s actually 8 aspheric surfaces…. And 2 of them are ED glass. … To go a step further, we were really worried about the quality of the bokeh in the background: those little bokeh balls you get in the background, and all of a sudden you see these concentric rings. Well, we have a new milling technique for molding our aspherics that gets rid of that. So you shouldn’t have any of that funky, onion curl ring in your bokeh balls.

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First Look: Panasonic | Lumix DMC-LX100

B and H

Published on Sep 15, 2014

The Panasonic LX-100 is the successor to the LX-7. Featuring a 12.8 MP Micro four-thirds sensor and 4K video recording.

 

(vid) Shaun White’s Emotion w/ Family After Winning Gold | Epic Final Run | Medal Ceremony!!!

His dad says he never saw Shaun cry before. WoW!!!!!!!

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(vid) 16 Best Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop Alternatives For 2018 – Weekly Photo Blog With Joe

Some of these I haven’t heard of, like Pixlr, which works in a browser and is free, which some could find useful.

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(vid) Jim McKay: “The Agony of Defeat” – Wide World of Sports

I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s watching ABC’s Wide World of Sports, which began like this:

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(vid) Hotei Tomoyasu Live: ‘Battle Without Honor or Humanity’

(vid) Tomoyasu Hotei Guitar & Symphony: ‘Battle Without Honor or Humanity’

Starts at 1:15 with fine sounding orchestra!

(vid) ♫ ‘Battle Without Honor or Humanity’ Mix – Tomoyasu Hotei ♫

Extended mix. Good sound quality.

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(vid) ‘Battle Without Honor or Humanity’ – Hotei Tomoyasu Live 2016-07-15

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