RED Dragon sensor has 20 stops, but loses Scarlet Upgradability!

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Cinema 5D has the announcement which was made at reduser.net and leaves all Scarlet users out in the cold. 20 Stops in unbelievable, especially considering the market leader, the ALEXA has (only) 14 stops! Now if this is true, it will be phenomenal. 20 Stops and 6K!

What will not be so phenomenal is that the Scarlet X will no longer be able to use the dragon as it will no longer be able to be used in the Scarlet, which was previously announced. So I bet they will have some upgrade path to epic for disgruntled scarlet owners.

Parrot AR Drone gets GPS with 4GB of memory and new battery!

CNET has the news, that the awesome Parrot quadcopter, the Parrot AR Drone which is controlled from your iPhone or iPad is getting a new GPS add on which goes into the GPS port (and includes 4GB for memeory) can then use GPS maps to program it’s moves.

They are also adding a new battery that will last 50% longer, and are updating their app with new commands and ways to improve the video including lens correction and image stabilization!

2012 iMac faster than Mac Pro with Radeon HD 5870 in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro CS6

Bare Feats has run the tests, and the 2012 iMac 27″ 3.4GHz Core iMac with 32GB of RAM and the GeForce GTX 680MX GPU actually does beat the MacPro in Resolve and Premiere Pro, but that is a MacPro with the Radeon HD 5870 GPU. Not really a fair test unless you have an NVIDIA CUDA card in the MacPro. As the MacPro still beats the iMac in 2 out of 3 CPU tests.

I have a feeling my non Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4096 MB would slaughter the iMac in anything CUDA aware, which would be Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve.

Canon 6D has Moire issues over 5D Mark III

Petapixel has an article and video that show the moire issues. Looks like the 6D is great for stills, but not so great for video, especially as an alternative to the 5D Mark III.

My 60D and the 7D already have the moire issue, so it still would be an improvement over them, but it sucks that they didn’t put the downsampling of the 5D Mark III, and instead went back to the cheaper and easier Line skipping which causes the issue to begin with.

25% off Launchbar at MacGasm

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MacGasm is currently selling my favorite productivity app LaunchBar for 25% off, only $26.

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LaunchBar is a powerful keyboard based launcher program from Objective Development, that speeds up every aspect of using your computer.

A description from ObDev:

LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.Get instant access to applications, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, media libraries, search engines and so much more – just by typing short abbreviations.It’s a file manager, a web and desktop search tool, an app launcher, a clipboard manager, a jukebox, a calculator, an information browser, … or quite simply a tremendous time saver!



Here is a review from MacLife, Part 1 of a Macworld Article, and part 2 of said article on increasing your productivity with LaunchBar, and a MacWorld on the awesome program from 2005.

This is a must have program for any power user who spends a lot of time on their computer, so a discount is a great thing! Check it out!