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CES 2015 Preview

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CES 2015-6

Holy cow! 2014 blew right by us. There were so many great new cameras and photo gear accessories released in 2014. Just a couple that stick out are the Sony A7S and Panasonic GH4, which were the first two real 4K-capable prosumer cameras to hit the market. Then Panasonic stepped up the 4K game with the pocketable LX100 and the superzoom FZ1000. [Read more…]

CTRL+Console Turns Your iPad into a Video Editing Control Surface

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CTRL+Console with MacBook

A couple days ago, I randomly got a download code for the CTRL+Console app and a couple modules because I went to the Supermeet at NAB this year. I don’t even remember seeing it there but I thought I would check it out because the demo video looked pretty slick.

I have been using it as a control surface for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro for a day or two now.

It is a very well designed app that allows your iPad to connect via Bluetooth to your Mac or Windows machine and serve as a control surface, complete with a jog wheel. [Read more…]

Check Out This Awesome Visualization of a Camera Capturing Light

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This is promo video that shows off a very cool visualization of the camera inside the 41MP Nokia Lumia 1020. Featured in the segment is Nokia’s PureView technology, Backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, 6-element lens optics, 3x zoom, ball bearings from the OIS and the PureMotion HD+ display.

I think we need more ads like this in the camera world.

[via Gizmodo]

Lytro Illum Hands-On

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Lytro Illum

The Lytro Illum is the first serious take on the “focus later” design initially introduced with Lytro’s basic Light Field Camera.

While the camera somewhat resembles today’s traditional, APS-C format mirrorless cameras, it is anything but traditional. The sensor is a 40-megaray Light Field CMOS sensor, which produces infinite focus points of each image captured. [Read more…]