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Dear Steve,
The MacBook Air is cute. The iMacs are cute.
The Mini is cute. iPods, cute again.
But the Mac Pro is an expensive behemoth.
You see, I’m one of those “Pros” that you target your $1300 software to…
I’m not looking for “cute.” Nor am I looking to get screwed.
So, I’d like you to make a Mac Mini Pro.
Continue reading “Open letter to Steve Jobs. Re: Mac Mini Pro.”
Admittedly, it’s not Final Cut Studio.
It’s not Final Cut Pro, or Premiere Pro.
Okay, it’s not even Final Cut Express.
But it’s only 24 Euro and it offers real-time editing!
Continue reading “Final Cut Studio too onerous? try FastCut RT for €24.”
Panasonic and Sony aren’t the only ones with flash media in their camcorders. Thompson / Grass Valley partnered with Iomega a couple years back to bring us non-tape recording that was far cheaper than comparative products. The Infinity line of camcorders was born.
Now, Flip4Mac brings us the tools (the glue) that lets you “stick” your Infinity footage into Final Cut Pro.
Continue reading “Flip4Mac Does Grass Valley Infinity – REV or Compact Flash”
CancorderInfo has reviewed the HV30- the newest HDV camcorder from Canon that makes a few improvements on the HV20 that has garnered plenty of praise and quite an industry of people making it work as a “pro” camera by working around its consumer camcorder limitations.
Personally, I didn’t see much in the HV30 to warrant jumping at it, but after reading CamcorderInfo’s normally exhaustive hands-on testing, I’m prepared to rethink myself on the HV30.
Continue reading “Canon VIXIA HV30 vs venerable HV20? Review is in!”
It’s Canon’s new Vixia line.
This is the HV30. Look familliar?
It looks a whole lot like the HV20 we’ve already grown to love. But with a slightly higher price, manual exposure, and a black case.
How does it compare, feature by feature with the HV20?
Lets go through the rundown and find out.
Continue reading “Canon improves HV20- Now: “Vixia” & HV30!”
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As the Bloggies itself says:
Honor. Prestige. Wealth. These are some of the things that a Bloggie won’t bring you. But that won’t stop the Web from voting…
So vote for TechThoughts.org, maybe as “Best-Kept Secret” or “Best New Weblog” or “Best Computer & Technology” or wherever you see fit.
There’s no physical award or big prize, but if advice or information here has helped you, then it costs you nothing to nominate TechThoughts.org for a Bloggie. Thanks for your support.
Thanks!
I had an opportunity to photograph the menus on a working HVR-S270U (preliminary US model). I’ve exported these as a movie so you can go through each frame, back and forth, and reference different menus.
Today, we’ll look at the OTHERS menu and the various settings users will have access to on these new camcorders. The HVR-S270U and the HVR-Z7U are very, very similar camcorders so almost all of the menus will be identical.
However, these images are of the S270U…
I had an opportunity to photograph the menus on a working HVR-S270U (preliminary US model). I’ve exported these as a movie so you can go through each frame, back and forth, and reference different menus.
Today, we’ll look at the OTHERS menu and the various settings users will have access to on these new camcorders.
The HVR-S270U and the HVR-Z7U are very, very similar camcorders so almost all of the menus will be identical.However, these images are of the S270U… Continue reading “The HVR-S270U HVR-Z7U OTHERS Menu”
Here’s a close up of the lens on the new HVR-S270 and HVR-Z7U. You can see how the focus pops in and out of auto focus (IMHO somewhat more cumbersome than a single small button, but this way, your fingers never leave the focus ring).
The focus ring features distance markings. The zoom ring features markings as well. Both lenses offer dependable, repeatable focus and zoom control based on the markings on the lens. Click through for the video… Continue reading “Sony HVR-S270 & HVR-Z7U lens operation”
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