MSI Wind/MacBook Nano as it appeared on eBay as I sold it.
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Never mind the fact that I have a perfectly good aluminum unibody 2.4Ghz MacBook that is slim, lightweight and infinitely portable, or a work-assigned 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro, not to mention the beasty quad-core 2.66Ghz Mac Pro desktop that I have at home for real work or the Asus eeeBox running OS X (but soon to be replaced by a Mac Mini) attached to the tv in the living room, or the perfectly capable iPhone for internet anywhere—adding another computer to my life seemed perfectly logical. (more…)
Philip Bloom, who I must assume is some sort of (Wedding?) videographer, posted some sample footage from the Panasonic GH1 camera that is being released in June sometime. The GH1 has been getting some press lately as a viable alternative to Nikon’s D5000 and Canon’s EOS Rebel T1I, two sub-$1000 shooters that shoot HD video (Nikon at 720/30p and Canon at 1080/20p) through whatever arsenal of fast 35mm glass you have lying around, which for people invested in said glass, is a big deal. What the Panasonic is able to do vs. these cameras is utilize it’s full range of manual controls, (i.e. iris and shutter) while shooting as well as Autofocus while you are shooting. Yep, once you hit “record” on the Nikon and Canon, you’re sort of stuck with whatever exposure you started the shot with (so, say moving from dark to light will cause some overexposure), and then you’re probably not in focus anyway because then you’re moving and trying to focus properly at the same time.
Am I becoming some sort of Panasonic Lumix fanboy? I know I have been shilling for them for years (come to think of it, I even have a Panasonic Viera plasma), maybe I should have my agent give them a call.
I am crazy on cold/flu medicine (no swine flu jokes please, I not only was hanging out with someone from Queens the on Saturday, I also sat next to someone at dinner who had just got back from Mexico City). At first glance, I was all over these renderings, but on second glance, they start to remind me of Ford’s Thunderbird remake, and now terrible was that?
