The age of the plenoptic lens, etc.

May we all see like insects: light fields and plenoptic lenses. There could well be an interesting shift in specialised photography where extracting 3D data from digital images shot with either special lenses or sensors (and with a lot of post-processing/number crunching) become useful tools for VFX practitioners.
(Full disclosure: like most people, I’ve had a lenticular […]

The truth and the chaff

It is interesting when you are scouring on the web for the newest thing™—be it the RED camera, or anything else—that so many reviews are now done by new owners writing on their own blogs. Some of them write excellent appraisals, some of them don’t. “Traditional media” reviews can be much the same; but usually […]

Red One on eBay

I was wondering when this would happen, while there have already been a few, this auction is for a “soon to ship” RED One body (the idea being you can skip the waiting list… a bit like those people that stand in line for you at Disneyland!) Check it out here. One day to go…

The iPhone’s colour gamut…

File under obscure: The iPhone’s colour gamut is quite good! Which can’t be a bad thing, right?

A sniff of 5D MkII

While I stand in my kitchen, sipping my morning coffee, a couple of junkies outside are locked in the slowest verbal jousting I have ever heard. Each side seems to take a little nap between responses… I hope they finish before noon.
They probably wouldn’t be arguing if only they knew that details of the Canon […]