Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Holy crap. The Apple patent is mostly about the mirror, prism and image stabilizer that allow one to rotate the lens elements 90°, but it’s that 90° -- and the accompanying drawings which show an internal zoom lens – that mean point and shoot cameras…

The surest test of any moviemaking software or hardware product is in using it throughout the making of a major motion picture. Final Cut Pro X was put to the test doing exactly that in the latest Will Smith star vehicle, Focus, and Apple’s sometimes…

Samsung is pulling out all the stops to take on Apple (and increasingly, everybody else), but as the ads shown by both companies during the Oscars prove, it’s hard -- to mix metaphors – to hit a moving target. Let’s place the Apple ad in…

Compressor now offers Terminator/SkyNet-level computing in the form of a render farm: the ability to harness the power of multiple networked computers – not just drives – to parallelize CPU-intensive tasks. Yeah, OK: maybe not exactly SkyNet. Yet.[adrotate group="6"] Hawaii filmmaker and planet5D reader Jeff…

Apple is finally showing off the new photos app that will be replacing iPhoto and Aperture. This is one of the first many previews I've seen and so I wanted to get it out to you guys ASAP [adrotate group="6"] For those of us who…

OK, reading patents is like reading riders to bills passed by Congress these days: impossibly dry, boring beyond belief and purposely inscrutable to all but the select few who will benefit from it. Good thing we have people like Patently Apple and Wall Street to…

And maybe coming soon: Apple vs. Samsung? 2014 stats from photo sharing site Flickr confirm what we already knew: the photo world is changing BIG TIME.  Told you so. Top Brands Overall[adrotate group="6"] It’s not just that Apple supplanted Nikon as the #2 camera brand…

planetMitch note: This is great DSLR Video history written by Hugh - I'll have a post on Monday with more details about the planet5D history... Cue up the opening seconds of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: “It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the…

What happens when you ask “How does the Canon 5D Mk III compare to an iPhone 6 Plus?” You get smarter. I’ve never met nor read any previous work by Lee Hutchinson of Ars Technica, but I already like him. How can you not like…

I rely so much on stills camera app developer Mike Hardaker's 645 Pro that it takes pride of place next to Filmic Pro on the dock of both my production iPhones. 645 Pro is my go-to for stills when I want to take a little…