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Nov. 3, 2011 New Canon C300 Announced
Canon announced 4k camera to be available in early 2012, priced in the range of 20k. It looks like a contender against the Red Scarlet.
DSLR video will likely to still be around due the affordable pricing, making it a different market at under 2.5k.
More spec coming soon.
Image sensor sizes comparision
November 3rd 2011 — mark your calendar
Camera and gadget geeks, mark ze word 11-3-11 — Rumors are making its way thru the grapvines.
Both Red and Canon seems to have chosen the 3rd day of the Thanksgiving month as the day for a “major” announcement.
I’m just a modest-budget-media-maker, but this is interesting news. Canon was the establish company, then out of no-where Red delivered the Red One and the Epic, somewhere in between Canon took the dslr market. The technology is out of the bottle sort-to-speak. Canon has the full frame chip on the 5Dmkii; I think they could easily merge their pro camcorder line with their dslr line. Red, on the other hand, re-thought their Scarlet line, proved that 5k vid was possible with the Epic ($58k without accessories) — really puts a challenge to all.
Anyways, I’ve no idea what it will be, like you I’ll be tuned in.
Wildlife
Over the last few days, with good weather and such, I was fortunate to capture some wildlife footage.
Photography
A hybrid style of showing photographs.
The UI / UE / gets to decide on playing and pausing, scrolling back and forth, music volume or to mute it, which is a needed choice at times.
Credits
QiPao, also known as Cheongsam, is one of the many designs of clothing that are representative
to traditional Chinese cultures. Its form accentuates women’s charm, charisma, and temperament.
Its design emphasizes the female body’s charm, grace, and elegance. In order to preserve this
enchanting fashion style, “Self-Help for the Elderly”” and “LingLing Chinese Dress Professional
Design Center” have decided to co-organize “Ms Chinese QiPao Beauty USA 2010.” All income, net
of expenses, will be donated fully to “Self-Help for the Elderly” to provide aid for needy elders.
Gigi Guan, Anni Chung, Josephine Ma, Sandy Guo, Claudia, Vivian, Linda Lai, Ting Zhuang, Yau
Kung Moon Kung Fu, and more.
STYLISTS: Marie Fiorita | Dahae Kim | Robert Shabazz | Jenna Drobnick | Christopher Abat |
Roxanna Estrada |
MAKE UP: Emily Sims | Janet Mariscal | Kimberly Merrill | Tunbeela Shaikh | Sara Dashty |
HAIR: Kristine Burge’t and team @ leburget.com
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Jennifer Barich | Simone Tolifson | Janice Bailon | Emily Anne |
Christina Her | Jesus Mondragon | Melissa Dajani |
MODELS: Sarah Abney | Linda | Kristy | Alexis Hutt | & David Greene |
Troy Castaneda | Johann Zaroli | Jared Brainerd | Lauren Fletcher | Lisa Yun Chen | Faustino
Lizola | Lanisa Buenavista | Veronika & Svetlana Kolesnikova | Eileen Marie | Mirela | Sabrina Signs |
Shai | Kara Emily |
SLIDE into FASHION & MUSIQ this Columbus Day weekend on SUNDAY, October 10th, 2010 as San
Francisco’s very own DJ/Promoter Chris Hope and VIP SOCIALITE Fashion Producer Stylist Shae Lynn
bring HOLLYWOOD TO SAN FRANCISCO for ONE NIGHT ONLY at SLIDE Lounge!
HAUT’E MUSIQ: A Night of Fashion, MusiQ & Champagne for AmericanRed featuring DARK GARDEN
CORSETRY & COUTURE, PHUONG MY, KAATJE DESIGNS & PACE CLOTHING!
For those of you unfamiliar with DARK GARDEN, you may have seen their
beautiful works of art on Hollywood’s Red Carpets. They’ve dressed a bevy of
stars, including CHRISTINA AGUILERA, PAMELA ANDERSON, KELLY OSBOURNE and DITA VON TEESE
Tessa Taj Verhoef, Shannon Noel, Christina Bailey, Lula May Robinson, Havsa H Burt, Sarah Mock, Laura S., Eileen Wong, Bianca Beatrice, DJ Prestige, Melissa A. Bolin, Patty Rock, Carlos Juarez.
Pops n’ beats
I acknowledge my hyperbole — :).
Jan. 2011, making pops and beats. Vocal styling by yours truly.
New Reel – coming soon
Online Media
There are evidents that companies are spending more on advertising on the web.
THM Files
THM by Impulse Photo Guy
What are THM files?
THM files are THuMbnails that are automatically generated alongside certain larger photo and video file types, such as Canon’s RAW (.CRW) and movies (.AVI). The THM file format is essentially identical to the JPEG File Format (JFIF) — in fact, renaming a suitable (i.e. small) .JPG image file to .THM effectively creates a THM thumbnail. Similarly, renaming a *.THM file to *.JPG will allow you to double-click and open in a photo viewer.
In addition to the compressed image data, a JPEG file contains a series of markers that carry useful metadata — details about how the photo was taken, camera settings, etc. While most of this metadata is written by the camera itself, some items are done by the user by a catalog / photo browser program. These details include titles, descriptions, keywords and many other fields (even GPS coordinates!).
The specification of the JPEG (or THM) file format is openly published, and so inserting in additional metadata into a file is generally no problem. Unfortunately RAW file formats (e.g. .CRW or .CR2 in the case of Canon) are proprietary and not published. Therefore, it is very difficult (or risky) for a third-party program to make modifications to these files, such as the addition of metadata content.
Since Canon (and other manufacturers) realize that a) they want to keep their RAW format secret and b) they must allow some means for people to annotate the metadata, the solution is to create a “buddy file” mechanism. THM files are the buddy-files associated with Canon RAW files.
A .THM file is simply a small JPEG preview image that is used to house all of the writeable metadata content that would otherwise be written into the associated RAW file. The THM and RAW file must have exactly the same name, and any file operation (copy, move, delete) must be done to both in order to maintain the link.
Therefore, you might find a 20061015_1234.CRW along with a 20061015_1234.THM file in your image directory.
Why do you need to write metadata?
Ideally, you would have a writeable metadata format associated with all images in your database. This allows you to associate metadata (e.g. IPTC) with each image.
Advantages of being able to write the metadata:
- Allows rebuild of catalog database categories should the database get corrupted
- Allows export to another catalog program
RAW files require a buddy .THM file to accomplish this update with third-party utilities.
Can I delete THM files?
While these THM files might appear to clutter up your image directories, try to avoid the temptation in deleting them! Eventually, you may run into problems when managing the RAW files within a digital asset management program (photo catalog database), where you may want to associate additional metadata with the images.
If you did delete them, then please check out the article: recreating THM files from RAW.
Unfortunately, it’s easy to accidentally delete these .THM files when you are working in an environment that isn’t buddy-file aware (such as Windows XP). Most aware environments will perform the same operation on the original and associated buddy file (rename, copy, delete). Doing this outside such an editor can cause the association to become broken.
I discovered that a number of my older RAW files were missing the associated THM file, which was immediately flagged by catalog program as soon as I tried to open up an IPTC editor window.
Music Fest
Going to concert in the park.
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