Posts Tagged ‘ipad’

Mar
9
2015

Nail in the Coffin? Apple Patent for Zoom Lens Inside iPhone and iPad

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…
Read More
Feb
24
2015

Canon? Sony? Feh. Apple’s the One to Watch. Proof #1: Their Oscar Ad

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…
Read More
Jul
8
2014

planet5D podcast #18 with Josh “thePadCaster” guy

Today we had Josh Apter - thePadcaster guy - with us on the podcast! It is great to be able to sit down with someone who's changing the world by creating devices that help people accomplish their dreams (and even make silly little videos)[adrotate group="6"]…
Read More
Jul
7
2014

iFilmmaking? Or, how to broadcast 2 days of live interviews on an iPhone

I was at cinegear this year (my first time ever) and had a blast meeting a bunch of people and making new friends. But I was also there to work with Michael Artsis again (we were on the teradek show at NAB last year and…
Read More
Jun
19
2014

pCAM - An Outstanding Use of $29.99 for Videographers & Photographers

Yes, I’m still an Apple fanboy (fanman?). Among many other things, their iTunes store continues to surprise and delight me with rich app functionality at accessible price points --apps which do what they’re supposed to do, as simply as possible, without the dreaded “functionality bloat.”[adrotate…
Read More
Jun
14
2014

Lighting Designer App for iPad

Sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of "apps" for my iPhone or iPad. I find many of them I install and then hardly use. It is because of this that I don't pay as much attention to apps unless I really…
Read More
Jun
7
2014

Coming Soon from Apple: MFi Specs for Lightning Cable Headphones

While we’re almost always talking about camera gear, I just ran into this article about Apple’s plans for new headphones which use the lightening plug as opposed to the headphone plug.[adrotate group="6"] Why’s this significant to our readers? Well of course not everyone is using…
Read More
May
2
2014

Brydge Keyboards Bringing iPad Keyboards to a Whole New Level

This is a way off topic follow up to our review of the Brydge a few months ago - turns out they've been bought out and are ramping up better customer service and new products as well... so I thought i'd just support them by…
Read More
Apr
11
2014

iOgrapher - NAB 2014 from Teradek

planet5D is very proud to be participating again in this year's NAB 2014 content being broadcast from the Teradek booth live on the show floor. We’re doing a “daily wrap-up” show, but we also want to make sure you see some of the other amazing…
Read More
Apr
9
2014

Touchcast App - NAB 2014 from Teradek

Michael Artsis and I are doing the Daily Wrap-up show in the Teradek booth, but he’s also doing insane amount of work at NAB doing interviews with market leaders talking about their new products and we’re happy to be able to share these as well.…
Read More