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After a long abstention, Konica Minolta’s re-entry into the digital SLR market is aimed squarely at the enthusiast and semi-pro territory dominated by Canon’s 8mp EOS 20D. The new Dynax 7D needs some distinctive features if it’s to have an impact on the market ...
Eizo is attempting to tackle death of the CRT with its latest ColorEdge monitor for designers, the CG220. It offers the same focus on colour – being the first LCD monitor capable of displaying the whole gamut of the Adobe RGB colour space – and has an inevitably high price.
The update to Canon’s EOS-1Ds hardly comes as a surprise. It’s the studio-&-location version of the sports- and press-oriented EOS-1D, which was updated last year. However, the timing of the EOS-1Ds Mark II’s release is surprising – Canon announced it just days after Nikon announced its 12.4mp challenger to the original 1Ds.
Boujou has always been an expensive package. At $10,000 it’s probably the costliest matchmoving solution available. For that kind of payout, you’d expect it to deliver something special. It doesn’t disappoint – the software will save you a huge amount of time, and spare you from the ravages of matchmoving boredom.
Epson’s 6mp R-D1 shares some features with the recently announced R3A. It includes the same bright, life-size finder magnification, and aperture priority exposure control. Its big attraction, though, is the compatibility with loads of Leica M bayonet and L mount screw lenses. It also fits a wide range of other brands – such as early screw thread lenses from Canon and Nikon – with the help of ...
This application creates camera-tracking data to help match 3D objects into the movement of standard definition (SD) video sequences. The price is attractive to new users, the interface is friendly, and there is a wizard for guiding you through the initial stages.
MojoWorld is a 3D virtual scenery generator with a twist. It was invented by Dr F Kenton Musgrave, one of the original pioneers of fractal landscapes. It’s like a beefed up Bryce, but instead of Bryce’s infinite flat planes, MojoWorld creates whole spherical planets at a time ...
Sony’s HDR-FX1E is the first HDV camcorder to record in 1080i, the interlaced variant of HDV that records at 1,440-x-1,080 with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. This means that 1080i picture has 70 per cent more pixels than the 1,280-x-720 720p format used by ...
MotionBuilder was recently acquired by Alias, and it’s been given a slight makeover to go with the new family name.
With the E-300, Olympus has lowered the entry price into the digital SLR market even further, creating a hi-tech, high resolution and very compact camera with a list price that undercuts many of the less well-specified compact cameras.
I’m going to have to admit an initial bias against Visual Communicator. It’s a production system designed to make creating video-based corporate presentations – such as sales pitches and in-house training – easy enough that a marketing or sales department can do it itself.
StoryViz is not really aimed at mere mortals. It’s intended for those who need to illustrate and previsualize a movie or commercial before shooting – directors, visual effects supervisors, production directors and 3D animators, for example. As such, it’s up against that other new pre-viz product, Antics from Kelseus.
Discreet is obviously banking on the success of the next generation games consoles to drive software sales for 3DS Max 7, while another key market seems to be character-based film effects. The evidence for this comes from the serious enhancements to character animation as well as a new process for faking depth and ...
Continnum 3.0 is a massive set of video plug-ins. The collection runs with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or After Effects, and there’s a Continuum AVX version for Avid Xpress. Over 40 plug-ins have been brought into the mix since version 2.0, which brings the total number of plug-ins to around 150.
ImageModeler extracts 3D data from a series of photographs using technology similar to that used in matchmoving software. By placing markers on corresponding locations in different images it can plot the points in 3D space
Liquid Edition is one of those pieces of software that ‘coulda been a contender’. A few years ago, when Premiere 6.5 seemed on its last legs, Pinnacle bought what would become Liquid Edition and its developer, FAST, to try to wrest the market from Adobe.
Over the past three years, more film and even flatbed scanners have appeared with Digital ICE, based on proprietary hardware and software developed by Applied Science Fiction. Kodak has taken over the company and renamed it Kodak ADC.
Au Naturel is an After Effects plug-in that restores a more realistic gamma curve to video footage, instead of the one imposed through your camera or MPEG compression. It allows you to manipulate footage in a 32-bit per channel, floating point linear RGB colour space.
That Canon produced a PowerShot G6 at all comes as something of a surprise. The introduction of the 8mp Pro1 model earlier this year appeared to be the next step up from 2003’s 5mp G5 model, and seemed to spell the end of the well-regarded G-series of semi-professional digital compact cameras.
The Exilim Pro is Casio’s first foray into the burgeoning prosumer digital compact market, and the company seems to have succeeded at the first attempt.
