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Is Canon following Adobe’s steps?

 
Canon just released their “EOS Digital Solution Disk V28.1″ software suite. As usual, it…

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Some interesting products for Photographers and Filmmakers.

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Great interview with X-Rite Coloratti on Color Management.

Last month, I was invited to join the pres­ti­gious X-Rite Col­oratti team, which includes the world’s top pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phers. I was inter­viewed by X-Rite about my work, as well as my thoughts on color man­age­ment for dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phers, and specif­i­cally for those shoot­ing video. We also chat­ted a bit about my views on how video has changed the play­ing field for all pro­fes­sional photographers. Please take a few min­utes to lis­ten to this short clip of our con­ver­sa­tion.

We recently shot a series of video tuto­ri­als, focus­ing on the impor­tance of color man­age­ment and mon­i­tor cal­i­bra­tion for video edit­ing. Here’s the most recent episode.

If any­one is inter­ested, there are a few spaces left at my upcom­ing work­shop: Inkjet Print­ing: Color Man­age­ment and Cal­i­bra­tion at the Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy in New York City, Aug 4th, 2012.

Please feel wel­come to leave any feed­back, ques­tions or com­ments below.

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I am a contrarian, or so it seems.

UPDATE: July 9 from Fast Com­pany “5 Con­trar­ian Lessons From Suc­cess­ful Entre­pre­neurs.“
 

Lego Lucius Malfoy with Cape Wand

I am a contrarian. At least that’s what a good friend told me a few days ago. Why? Accord­ing to him because:

• I use an Android phone (check our Visual Serendip­ity, a weekly series of pic­tures taken with a cell phone) not an iPhone.

• I have a Lenovo tablet (read my good and bad reviews about it) instead of an iPad.

• I pur­chased a 60D the week AFTER the 5D Mark III was made avail­able. I might write a post about this if enough peo­ple show interest.

• I have been using Adobe Pre­miere Pro CS6 well before Apple released Final Cut X, and not Final Cut Pro.

And the cherry on top? I am now seri­ously con­sid­er­ing buy­ing an HP Z820 (yes, a PC com­puter) instead of the iMac that I was plan­ning to get for the past sev­eral months.

Now, you may be won­der­ing why I am a con­trar­ian in these mat­ters. As part of my job, I spent a lot of time think­ing about what will come next in terms of tech­nol­ogy. I bet on Adobe Pre­miere Pro months before the flood gates opened. I also have the priv­i­lege to see many prod­ucts, hard­ware and soft­ware, as pro­to­types or in their beta phases, so even though I can not talk about them, I can wait until they are com­mer­cially avail­able or I can get some­thing cheaper temporarily.

LEGO Minifigure Collection Series 4 : Sailor

But per­haps the main rea­son to be a “con­trar­ian” is that I don’t care much about brands or trends. What I do care a lot about is per­for­mance and reli­a­bil­ity. The faster I work on my busi­ness, the more time I have to build the busi­ness. And there’s another nice plus in this—I also get more dis­cre­tionary time to enjoy life off-line and out of the office.

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Adobe Creative Suite 6: is your current system supported?

As part of Adobe’s Pho­to­shop CS6 Pub­lic Beta announce­ment, the com­pany said that it will con­tinue to pro­vide offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows XP, and Win­dows 7, but will be drop­ping offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows Vista. As you might know, Light­room 4 is no longer offi­cially sup­ported on Win­dows XP. For Mac OX OS, Adobe is offi­cially end­ing sup­port for Mac­in­tosh sys­tems that are not 64-bit capa­ble. Pre­miere Pro CS6  requires Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7, and Win­dows 7 with Ser­vice Pack 1, but it is not clear if Win­dows Vista and/or XP will be sup­ported. We have been beta test­ing Pre­miere Pro CS6 for sev­eral months and I can tell you this: it is sweeeeet!!! Actu­ally, most of our “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends” have been edited on CS6.

Premiere Pro CS6

If you are just get­ting started with video and want to explore a video edit­ing appli­ca­tion, you could also con­sider Pre­miere Ele­ments 10.  Ele­ments is a slightly less pow­er­ful, but still very capa­ble ver­sion of Pre­miere Pro with an easier-to-use inter­face. It is impor­tant to know that Pre­miere Pro is a 64-bit only soft­ware and requires a com­puter with a 64-bit proces­sor and 64-bit oper­at­ing sys­tem. Pre­miere Ele­ments 10 includes both 32-bit and 64-bit ver­sions to run on both sys­tems, but the 32-bit ver­sion won’t be able to access more than 4 GB of RAM. The same is true for the old Final Cut Pro 7 and older.

If you are curi­ous about which NVIDIA graph­ics cards are bet­ter for Adobe’s CS6 Suite, gohere.

Tomor­row we will show the quick and easy way to tell if your Mac has a 32-bit or a 64-bit proces­sor.
Ques­tions? Com­ments? Please post them below.

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Video Essentials and Video Editing for photographers at SVA.

PDN Mag­a­zine recently pub­lished what we con­sider the “13 Prod­ucts you need to add HD Video to your busi­ness.” (You might need the pass­word “tuto­ri­als” to down­load the file.) The arti­cle is also avail­able on PDN’s May print issue. If you are new to the world of Video, this list is a great place to start.

Dur­ing the sum­mer we will be offer­ing two new work­shops at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City: a 2-day “Video Essen­tials for Pho­tog­ra­phers” and a 1-day “Video Edit­ing for Pho­tog­ra­phers” using Adobe Pre­miere Pro. We hope to see you there!

School of Visual Arts - New York - Summer Classes

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Catching up with the coolest tech news. Summary.

I’ve been on the road for the past 2 weeks, with very lim­ited inter­net access. Today, I finally had some time to catch up with the lat­est tech­nol­ogy news (1683 arti­cles and 268 emails). These are, in my opin­ion, the most inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant announcements:

• Film­maker Jeff Desom took Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1954 film “Rear Win­dow” and turned it into a sin­gle panoramic time-lapse video.

Two years ago I set up my cam­era to take a pic­ture every 15 sec­onds for 36 hour and edited 698 still images into a 29-second video.

• Recently I was inter­viewed by PDN about the “13 Prod­ucts you need to add HD Video to your busi­ness.” Do you agree or dis­agree? Did we miss some­thing? We would love to hear your com­ments below. The arti­cle is also avail­able on PDN’s May print issue.

PDN May 2012

• Blurb posted a cool arti­cle about how we use the Book Mod­ule on Adobe Light­room 4. If you are inter­ested in explor­ing this option don’t miss one of our upcom­ing sem­i­nars. Here’s the sam­ple book (about wine!) we created.

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• Canon announced the EOS 60Da, specif­i­cally designed for astropho­tog­ra­phy. The cam­era has the same image sen­sor as the stan­dard 60D, but it has been reworked for enhanced trans­mis­sion of a spe­cific wave­length of red light — 656 nanome­ters — within the vis­i­ble spectrum.

• Tenba announced the Roadie II Hybrid, a carry-on com­pli­ant rolling cam­era case than can be con­verted into a backpack.

Tenba

• Sony announced the NEX FS700, a new 4k-capable E-mount cam­corder, with 1080p video and 60p, 50p, 60i and 24p. Appar­ently a firmware upgrade will enable 4k cap­ture and Raw out­put, as well as slow-motion footage (up to 960 fps at reduced res­o­lu­tion and 240fps in Full HD). As always, our friends from Abel Cine posted a great arti­cle about the new sys­tem here.

Phase One New Camera

• A few months ago we tested Adobe Pre­miere Pro and Twix­tor to find out which one was bet­ter for slow motion. We chose skate­board­ers as the sub­ject mat­ter, which proved to be very chal­leng­ing. On these new tuto­ri­als (Part 1 and Part 2) a pro skate­board­ing pho­tog­ra­pher dis­cusses var­i­ous com­po­si­tion tips and techniques.

• David Pogue, the New York Times tech­nol­ogy colum­nist wrote about the changes he has wit­ness dur­ing the last year on pro­fes­sional TV and film cam­eras while shoot­ing a new PBS show. He cov­ers the flex­i­bil­ity of inter­change­able lenses and amaz­ing low-light capa­bil­ity of the new (Canon, Sony, and Pana­sonic) dig­i­tal systems.

• Canon announced a free Dig­i­tal Photo Pro­fes­sional (DPP) update to enhance EOS 5D Mark III CR2 file cor­rec­tions. The soft­ware update will be avail­able next month.

• Adobe is host­ing a free Webi­nar this Fri­day April 6th at noon Pacific Time titled “Devel­op­ing Dig­i­tal Pub­lish­ing Suite Con­tent for the New iPad.” This is a VERY rel­e­vant topic for any­one cre­at­ing and deliv­er­ing online con­tent, which means, everybody.

Source: eduardoangel.com