Blur hard edges with film lenses? It does depend on which lenses are used, this is the choice of the DP, however most are incredibly sharp. Are you thinking of depth of field? Most HD cameras are 2/3 or 1/2 inch sensors, compared to films 16 or 35 mm, as they have greater magnification, focal length, aperture, circle of confusion etc.
Film cameras (35mm for example) can resolve resolution far beyond 1080p, more like 6 to 12 thousand pixels horizontal can be scanned from the negatives with no worry about resolution.
Apple bent the rules on my iMac G5 that was three months over it's three year warranty. Power supply failed, they replaced the power supply and logic board for free. New power supply failed after 3 months, they ordered the part in to arrive the same day, it came by motorbike from Manchester UK to Solihull store, and my computer was fixed by 6PM that day.
I also suffered from the faulty NVIDIA 8600M GT GPU's that plagues the MacBook Pro, some Dell, Sony and HP machines. I required a new logic board on my . Metal around the screen was also scratched, so they replaced the whole entire screen (not just the LCD panel, but the whole thing) in with the repair.
Apple have also replaced my battery three times, it was holding 80% capacity after 9 months.
Never had a problem, I have used three Apple Stores for repair work.
On the other hand, I have had a to get a Toshiba and a Sony laptop replaced. Toshiba took three weeks and came back scratched, the Sony was took three months and returned without a battery.
I'm not an Apple fan in some respects, but their support is top notch.
Pages take as long as Gecko or other Webkit browsers to load here, however/. is slow when scrolling and causes high CPU usage. Hopefully a bug that will be ironed out.
Most of the spaced saved has come through per-file HFS+ compression. A simple zlib level 5 compression of the data. Reduces binaries from between 50 to 60 percent of disk space.
"exceptionally sharp sensor combined with Canon's unbeatable lenses"
I would not say Canon's lenses are 'unbeatable'. Most cinematography lenses are far better. Take Arri master primes, set you back £15k for each lens, a box of them can run well over £100k.
My Contax Carl Zeiss lenses beat Canon or Nikkor lenses.
Before the A series, ARM haven't really designed any new processors since Acorn Computers died in 2000/2001. The only development push ARM had is when RISCOS went to other manufacturers such as Castle. Now ARM needs to design new processors as their time has come where more powerful CPUs are needed in the mobile devices.
Acorn Computers tried in the 80's and 90's. The ARM processors were faster than their x86 rivals, and OS was years ahead of the likes of Windows and Mac OS. As you say, some monopolistic software company would never allow ARM to take off. Lucky ARM is now the most common architecture on the market.
It's sad x86 is still here, the platform should have been done away with years ago.
I have had 4 digital cameras that have failed after a couple of hundred insertions using mini-USB. I know people who have gone through 3 or 4 Playstation Dualshock 3 controllers as the socket damaged in the same way. The pins usually bend downwards.
Apple have already signed an agreement and stated they will be using a standard micro-usb socket on the iPhones in the future. I believe Apple will introduce this socket in 2010.
The Mini DisplayPort lets you connect an external display, including the Apple LED Cinema Display, to your iMac. On the 27-inch iMac, the same port offers input, too. So you can connect any external source that has DisplayPort output — including a MacBook or MacBook Pro — and use your iMac as a display."
OS X is not "UNIX based", it is UNIX Certified. The server version is quite good - performance is good (better than standard OS X for server jobs as it's optimised for server tasks), has a full set of tools, and as it is UNIX you can install almost any service you want.
Interesting to note, the new iMac's DisplayPort is also an input. Just switch to your server on your iMac if you need to, or use screen sharing over the network. Nice to use the Mac Mini as a dev machine, and use your iMac as a KVM.
I wish to disagree with you fridaynightsmoke. I live in Birmingham too, and I haven’t got a car. I do not really need one.
I usually have my laptop when I go to IMAX and Cineworld (most of my work is from television companies around Broad Street) as they are places I go to after work.
If I had a car and my laptop was stolen from the boot, more than likely the insurers would not cover it.
The smart-phone market is a horse race between RIM, Nokia and Sony. HTC and Apple trying to catch up from far behind. That's what it is like in the EU.
I have never known why industry standards such as HD-SDI have never made it to the consumer market. Single coax cable terminated with BNCs that can deliver 4k (four times the resolution of 1080p) or higher with 16 channels of audio, all uncompressed, at a length of over 100m.
However, most people will have 8x speed on their DVD-ROM drive. That's a theoretical transfer rate of 10.57MB/s, but in real world more like 3-4MB/s. Seeks speed also makes DVD-ROM's slow.
I prefer to use a USB powered 2.5inch drive caddie for portability. 500GB hard drive, maxes out the USB bus and seek time isn't really a problem.
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Blur hard edges with film lenses? It does depend on which lenses are used, this is the choice of the DP, however most are incredibly sharp. Are you thinking of depth of field? Most HD cameras are 2/3 or 1/2 inch sensors, compared to films 16 or 35 mm, as they have greater magnification, focal length, aperture, circle of confusion etc.
Film cameras (35mm for example) can resolve resolution far beyond 1080p, more like 6 to 12 thousand pixels horizontal can be scanned from the negatives with no worry about resolution.
So does Betamax...
Just black holes.
You learn about these things in secondary/high school my friend.
I should also proof read. Apologies. :D
Apple bent the rules on my iMac G5 that was three months over it's three year warranty. Power supply failed, they replaced the power supply and logic board for free. New power supply failed after 3 months, they ordered the part in to arrive the same day, it came by motorbike from Manchester UK to Solihull store, and my computer was fixed by 6PM that day.
I also suffered from the faulty NVIDIA 8600M GT GPU's that plagues the MacBook Pro, some Dell, Sony and HP machines. I required a new logic board on my . Metal around the screen was also scratched, so they replaced the whole entire screen (not just the LCD panel, but the whole thing) in with the repair.
Apple have also replaced my battery three times, it was holding 80% capacity after 9 months.
Never had a problem, I have used three Apple Stores for repair work.
On the other hand, I have had a to get a Toshiba and a Sony laptop replaced. Toshiba took three weeks and came back scratched, the Sony was took three months and returned without a battery.
I'm not an Apple fan in some respects, but their support is top notch.
You obviously haven't seen parking inspectors or clampers in the UK at work.
Pages take as long as Gecko or other Webkit browsers to load here, however /. is slow when scrolling and causes high CPU usage. Hopefully a bug that will be ironed out.
Most of the spaced saved has come through per-file HFS+ compression. A simple zlib level 5 compression of the data. Reduces binaries from between 50 to 60 percent of disk space.
"exceptionally sharp sensor combined with Canon's unbeatable lenses"
I would not say Canon's lenses are 'unbeatable'. Most cinematography lenses are far better. Take Arri master primes, set you back £15k for each lens, a box of them can run well over £100k.
My Contax Carl Zeiss lenses beat Canon or Nikkor lenses.
Red One only outputs 720p, so they are not going to use the full 4k resolution while previewing.
I have worked with Red One many times. Somewhat buggy software, camera crashing mid turning over.
Before the A series, ARM haven't really designed any new processors since Acorn Computers died in 2000/2001. The only development push ARM had is when RISCOS went to other manufacturers such as Castle. Now ARM needs to design new processors as their time has come where more powerful CPUs are needed in the mobile devices.
Acorn Computers tried in the 80's and 90's. The ARM processors were faster than their x86 rivals, and OS was years ahead of the likes of Windows and Mac OS. As you say, some monopolistic software company would never allow ARM to take off. Lucky ARM is now the most common architecture on the market.
It's sad x86 is still here, the platform should have been done away with years ago.
However, have a look at how many others are dying from other strains of flu.
I have had 4 digital cameras that have failed after a couple of hundred insertions using mini-USB. I know people who have gone through 3 or 4 Playstation Dualshock 3 controllers as the socket damaged in the same way. The pins usually bend downwards.
Apple have already signed an agreement and stated they will be using a standard micro-usb socket on the iPhones in the future. I believe Apple will introduce this socket in 2010.
Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE55S1XZ20090629
http://www.apple.com/uk/imac/features.html#ports
"Mini DisplayPort.
The Mini DisplayPort lets you connect an external display, including the Apple LED Cinema Display, to your iMac. On the 27-inch iMac, the same port offers input, too. So you can connect any external source that has DisplayPort output — including a MacBook or MacBook Pro — and use your iMac as a display."
OS X is not "UNIX based", it is UNIX Certified. The server version is quite good - performance is good (better than standard OS X for server jobs as it's optimised for server tasks), has a full set of tools, and as it is UNIX you can install almost any service you want.
Interesting to note, the new iMac's DisplayPort is also an input. Just switch to your server on your iMac if you need to, or use screen sharing over the network. Nice to use the Mac Mini as a dev machine, and use your iMac as a KVM.
I wish to disagree with you fridaynightsmoke. I live in Birmingham too, and I haven’t got a car. I do not really need one.
I usually have my laptop when I go to IMAX and Cineworld (most of my work is from television companies around Broad Street) as they are places I go to after work.
If I had a car and my laptop was stolen from the boot, more than likely the insurers would not cover it.
This is SSL http://www.solid-state-logic.com/
Most pro's have never used one.
If it helps, in the UK we have around 52,000 3G masts across four carriers (most are shared masts), and we're a far smaller country.
http://www.mobilemastinfo.com/information/fact_sheets/third_generation.htm
The smart-phone market is a horse race between RIM, Nokia and Sony. HTC and Apple trying to catch up from far behind. That's what it is like in the EU.
I have never known why industry standards such as HD-SDI have never made it to the consumer market. Single coax cable terminated with BNCs that can deliver 4k (four times the resolution of 1080p) or higher with 16 channels of audio, all uncompressed, at a length of over 100m.
However, most people will have 8x speed on their DVD-ROM drive. That's a theoretical transfer rate of 10.57MB/s, but in real world more like 3-4MB/s. Seeks speed also makes DVD-ROM's slow.
I prefer to use a USB powered 2.5inch drive caddie for portability. 500GB hard drive, maxes out the USB bus and seek time isn't really a problem.