Sony teases a 4K camera

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Engadget HD has the info on this tease of a new Sony 4K camera, being announced on the 30th.

It will be 4K, with broadcast quality 50Mbps data rate and a 4:2:2 color space and high frame rates and likely in the CineAlta PMW-F3 range. And that is an amazing camera, so this will likely be too, though that is still some serious compression for 4K.

PC World on Windows 8 Improvements

PC World has a good article on improvements in Windows 8 over Windows 7. This is needed, as mostly I am hearing complaints about windows 8 and it’s Metro style, which is great for touch screens, but awful for desktops (I mean getting rid of the Start menu, WTF Microsoft).

And it is great that Microsoft has looked at Apple and brought down the price of Windows 8, but I think I will stick with 7 in my Parallels Virtual Machine for the time being.

New Canon EOS Mark III Firmware will have uncompressed HDMI out!

Planet 5D has the news on this new firmware update, which will skip the terrible h.264 compression we have all gotten used to with DSLR’s and have uncompressed HDMI out. I know it will never happen for my 60D (unless someone reverse engineers it), but this is certainly exciting.

The update also includes upgraded autofocus. It will work better with extension tubes and at a distance, which will be great for sports and nature photographers.

Was having a slow finder on my MacPro

Managed to fix it though. I carbon copy cloned my main hard drive to make a new, then did a clean install of Mountain Lion. This took a download of Mountain Lion from the app store and Lion Diskmaker 2, which installed a full version onto a USB stick. I then did a clean install. This is of course after de-activating Adobe CS6, Final Draft and AVID Media Composer.

Just to try it, I had it import my User and Applications from my carbon copy cloner version (thinking this would bring over the problems, whatever they were), but after the import I had a system that was working fine, with all of my applications installed. Sure I had re-install a few, but overall everything worked just fine and my computer is back to speed!

I am glad there is still a way to do a clean system install, since Apple removed the Archive and Install option a while back. Still it should be easier than it is (IE the option given from Apple). Glad it is working though.

Now just really need a bigger hard drive so I can get my Time Machine going again (had to do a bunch of moving of files to get an extra drive for the Clone procedure).

GoPro has announced the upgraded Hero3

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GoPro has announced it’s new high end Hero3 for $399. It is 25% Lighter and 30% smaller, with built in Wifi and included Wifi remote (and so it works with iPhone or iPad out of the box) and 2x faster video performance, including 2.7k 24fps and 4kp-12fps Protune Video Modes, improved sharpness with a better lens, and a rededigned audio system.

Very very cool! There have been great alternatives to GoPro out, but GoPro has raised it’s game once again!

After Effects Updated to 11.0.2

Todd Kopriva has the announcement at his blog. Looks like Ray Tracing fixes, and Kepler updates. Wonder if those would translate to a Mac with a Kepler card in it? Anything with CUDA updates is good in my opinion.

Actually reminds me that I need to replace my Quadro 4800 with my GeForce GTX 285, which the recent NVIDIA update should have helped with the crashing issue I was having.