This isn't true anymore. The current crop of DSLR's surpass 35mm film in every way. In every way. No, you don't have to spend hours in Photoshop to get some nice effects either.
We're not talking about just ease of use or a nice work flow with digital anymore, which used to be the main draw for many pros. We're talking about better quality of the image also. No, not every digital camera is going to be better than 35mm film. But some are. The EOS 5D is one of them. Yes, it's 3000 bucks so you'll have to pay for it, but it's there. I'd like to see you test it out against your OM-4 (great camera btw...especially the OM-4ti, built like a tank).
If you're looking for more detail and color range, then you have to move upwards to the medium formats, though I just recently did a test against the 5D and a Hassy 501 with a 80mm Planar. You'd be surprised at how much the 5D came close to the Hassy. But again, you're paying the price for the 5D.
Tests though are one thing...you can shoot tests all day long and it really doesn't mean anything. It's the real world situations where it matters. Never have I been on a shoot and thought to myself afterwards "wow, I wish I had used film instead". But this is a recent thing. 4 or 5 years ago I was whistling a different tune.
But hey, it's whatever works for you. Hey, good times right?
And if you're really trying to compare it to a pin-hole lens....I honestly don't know what to say to that but...wow...just wow.
Lol, who was crying? I'm looking to possibly cross-grade, that's all. I was going to go for an Intel Mac, but now I just might wait. Wasn't crying about it, just stating a fact. And as I said, perhaps the Intel based makes and OSX will get a better "shake out" by the time I get around to actually cross-grading....if ever.
Not sure if you're trying to be funny or what, but in case you didn't already hear, Steve Jobs singled out Quark in his keynote as already having a Universal Binary for QuarkXPress.
This is kind of a deal breaker for me, as I make my living using Photoshop to a VERY large degree. Using it with Rosetta may be "passable"...it's just not going to cut it in the long run. I was hoping that Adobe would have an upgrade for existing customers, but I guess not.
Though they may change their minds, who knows. So much for upgrading this year. I suppose this will work out better in the end, as the Intel Macs will get a chance to mature a little more.
Toy Story 2 was all Pixar...this wasn't Disney. No Pixar movie so far was Disney. They may have distributed it, but they were all written, produced and directed by Pixar.
Since John Lasseter co-wrote and co-directed Toy Story 2, it was hardly the "Pixar didn't want a part of it" deal. And arguably it was even better than the first one. Now, Toy Story 3 was different altogether. That WAS going to be only Disney doing it, not Pixar. That was going to just be to cash in on the characters etc etc.
For the most part, sequels really suck...only on very rare occasions are they good. So let's hope the new people taking over Disney Animation will come up with original ideas instead of recycling things over and over and over.
It's the first thing I fire up in the morning to get up-to-date with the world. I scan it, look at the sources for the stories of course, and read what intrests me. Then I head to CNN.com and the NYTimes website. I don't have a TV, so these are my main sources for news.
Then and only then do I head to Slashdot. Unless I've left a comment recently and I rush to see if I was modded a troll. It's really my only purpose for waking up, to see what I was modded as.
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Well, I did it for the effect. I was hoping it was torture for the reader not only for reading it, but what it implies about the "pitch men" of Hollywood. I've actually sat in on meetings where these idiots come in with "it's like "The Bad Lieutenant" meets "The Little Mermaid"...only done in CG! CG man, that's what everyone wants to see".
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Is Disney going to keep selling PRman and PRman for Maya plug-ins? Will Catmull continue on with them? What's this all mean for Renderman? Will the software side split off into their own business?
I should say that the golden age of CG movies are now over. Now come the crap movies...the "me too" movies.
Honestly, has anyone really seen anything coming out that even remotely looks interesting? Chicken Little(already out last year)? Ice Age 2? Cars? Open Season? Over the Hedge? Any of these really grabbing you? How about Valiant(also out I believe...or did it go straight to video)? Or The Ant Bully? These are all coming out in the next few months. Have I missed any? Oh, forgot Hoodwinked, and Monster House.
Ah, the old Hollywood adage. If you can't make a buck with quality, then make it with quantity. "Teh peoples want teh CG! We gives them teh CG!"
No, I think they're overjoyed and saying "wow, we actually made something that frickin worked for a change instead of either burning up in the atmosphere or cratering straight into the ground!"
Let's hope this is the start of a "winning streak" for NASA.
The anonymous poster was just commenting on how much Dave Winer complains. And he does. All the time.
Sure, it didn't have anything to do with Apple mucking up the RSS thingy with the photo dealie they have now, but I got a chuckle out of it because I've been on the tail end of a Winer rant.
Steve Jobs said that he was talking about the processors being faster...and he specifically said not everything is going to be faster like the hard drives and memory etc etc. Just the processors which is why he showed the SPECmarks or whatever this phantom benchmark that, to my knowledge, isn't a free download from anywhere. Or was I the only one that heard him prefacing the results?
Oh well, let the Mac bashing continue, blood is in the water.
hehe, exactly. That's what I mean. Howard asked all these really dirty, personal questions and George didn't even flinch and answered everything Howard dished out. Now, maybe he was a little TOO open and forthright really, but he was a good sport about it all.
Could be the age thing then...my kid's only 12 and so are all his friends. I don't see the DS as a teenagers or adults game console really and honestly, I don't see what the draw is. But hey, he's happy with it.
My kid wanted one....all his friends wanted one. All his friends are playing DS Wifi games. The McDonalds here is a Wifi hotspot for the DS and they go over there to play and I counted 11 people in there one day with DS systems. They're all over the fricken place!
Where do you live, out in a corn field or something? Or maybe the "fever" just hasn't hit your neck of the woods yet.
Yeah, I was pretty impressed also with George. He can certainly take a joke and that laugh of his is totally infectious.
He was also very forthright and VERY open about his personal life. Something you just don't see in other actors much. You could tell that Stern was trying to rattle him with all kinds of questions, but George didn't falter at all. Good for him.
Actually, kind of sad news. I'm a photographer and when I was 13 I got my very first SLR. A Minolta 201 with a 50mm f1.7 lens. I shot more rolls of film through that thing and it kept chugging right along. I would still have it if it didn't get stolen along with just about everything else I owned about 20 years ago.
But hey, they need to move on. It's a different world now.
well, that's all fine and good. But if they wish to poor over BILLIONS of searches to track down my little IP number that....over the past couple of weeks were like "dell 2405fpw review" or things of that nature, go right ahead.
Oh, I take that back, they were talking on the radio yesterday about Drew Barrymores dress at the Golden Globes (in which the dress showed her golden globes...not that the world hasn't already seen them, I was curious...so shoot me) and I googled for that...but didn't find anything.
Maybe the White House, when they review my search records, can steer me to a site that has that.
I use Google mail, I just don't search "logged in". In fact, I just don't have it set to auto-login and when I actually need to use the web-mail part (I actually use POP access to gmail), I'll just log in normally.
There is hardly anyone playing America's Army anymore. At least I couldn't find any servers playing it. VERY small numbers. And it's a great game too.
Same with UT2004. Hardly anyone playing that either. It's either the morons over playing Battlefield 2 (which I've taken off my HD in frustration to the rampant tardism there), or one of the newer games. Some of these things just fall through the cracks and you never see them again. Yet there's still people playing Team Fortress Classic on the old Half-Life.
I have to admit, the only time I've ever seen a computer with a computer virus was on the Macintosh. This was back in the System 8 days though. It was a nasty one that spread through the use of Syquest disks and would infect a computer just as soon as the Syquest was loaded up.
Other than that though, I've yet to see an actual Windows virus personally. Guess I'm lucky. Or maybe I'm not an idiot when it comes to these things. Who knows.
My god. Is this what has become of the Apple crowd? Braindead fucks like this clown?
So Steve told you to hates teh IBM, and now you hates teh IBM.
Well guess what punk? You're going to be getting the system retards of your magnitude deserve this year from Intel.
Actually, I don't own a Mac nor have I even touched one in almost 5 years, so I'm not part of the Apple crowd. Guess I'm just a normal braindead fuck. Also, I try to respond in a controlled manner and try not to let these things...computers...upset me so much. You obviously define yourself and others by what computer platform you run for some strange reason. Interesting.
But would you care to elaborate on how what I said was braindead? Back it up with actual facts instead of so much insane emotion on your part? Share with us something of substance instead of something like "G5 kicks ass man". Care to share with us what Apple will actually be coming out with to replace the current PowerMacs because you act like you already know. Also, why hide behind an anonymous coward post? If you really believe what you're typing, you would actually stand behind it and not care one iota what someone mods you.
Other than IBM having no interest in making a mobile 970 chip for Apple, IBM has been destroying Intel and AMD on price and performance. The quad G5 from Apple is so far ahead of anything even built from scratch with AMD or Intel chips.
I can't believe that technological lead Apple has is all going away.
"Hail to my new athlon-64 pc:)"
Exactly. No one but stupid, diehard Mac nuts are going to waste money on these new Intel systems.
Yeah, the Quad G5 was not bad...but hardly a tech leader. They're kind of lagging behind. Take a look at Boxx Technologies which is a leader in high-end 3D and editing:
Apexx 4 Specs: 4 Dual AMD Opteron dual-core processors; Integrated DDR Memory Controller Up to 64GB of DDR400 Memory Dual PCI Express graphics; Supports two NVIDIA SLI-ready Quadro® cards Windows Server 2003(64-bit); Red Hat or SUSE Linux SLES 9 pre loaded Up to 15, 3.5", hot-swappable drives for up to 7.5TB total data storage
How much for a full beast? I have no idea! I bet it's quite a bit though.
But to be fair, this is a very high end workstation, so it's not fair to compare it to the Quad G5. As far as abandoning the G5, I think it's the best for Apple. It's a dead end for them....IBM is TOTALLY slow in dragging these things out.
Apple was being held hostage by IBM and their chips, and IBM didn't seem all that concerned. Switching to the x86 world, Apple has options now. If things do go sour between Intel and Apple, there is always AMD to pick up the pieces! There are many more choices now instead of being tied to only one company, IBM.
But hey, you were SO close to saying "Apple is doomed" or "Apple will finally die now" in your post...you just needed that extra little push to put you square into the stereotypical troll. Try harder next time!
How has it impacted me in the last decade? Well, in the last 2 weeks it impacted me when I was at the checkout at a supermarket and my bill was $115 and I handed the cashier $120...only thing is there was a $50 in there and 3 $20s and a $10.
She spent a good minute trying to figure out how to count them...I kid you not! She even tried to get the bag guy to help. Finally I showed her how to count them out to show it was $120.
I didn't even know how to feel. A little shocked I suppose.
Where on Newegg are you seeing a wide-screen, 20" LCD monitor for $400? The only one that I found was the Acer Ferrari with the same resolution as the iMac at 1680x1050 for $589.
And the cheapest 20" LCD screen there was $469...not just $400.
So you're figures are a little off. If you went with my first requirement for a 20" wide-screen LCD monitor you'd be paying $1178 for two...not $800. But even using the non-wide-screen monitor you're still paying $938...not $800.
Again, my point was you can make a REALLY cheap PC and make 3 of them cheaper than the iMac, but what are you really getting? I could buy 3 Mac Mini's for the price of one iMac...but it doesn't compare does it? And of course, you're totally missing software that equals what comes with each iMac such as all the iLife stuff. I suppose you could put Linux on it all, but you're still not getting the Mac equiv for the software.
I'm being honest here also. I'm not a Mac fanatic as I don't even own one. I myself build my own systems from scratch The last one I built cost me over $3000 bucks...but then again it was a graphics workstation so I went overboard a bit.
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This isn't true anymore. The current crop of DSLR's surpass 35mm film in every way. In every way. No, you don't have to spend hours in Photoshop to get some nice effects either.
We're not talking about just ease of use or a nice work flow with digital anymore, which used to be the main draw for many pros. We're talking about better quality of the image also. No, not every digital camera is going to be better than 35mm film. But some are. The EOS 5D is one of them. Yes, it's 3000 bucks so you'll have to pay for it, but it's there. I'd like to see you test it out against your OM-4 (great camera btw...especially the OM-4ti, built like a tank).
If you're looking for more detail and color range, then you have to move upwards to the medium formats, though I just recently did a test against the 5D and a Hassy 501 with a 80mm Planar. You'd be surprised at how much the 5D came close to the Hassy. But again, you're paying the price for the 5D.
Tests though are one thing...you can shoot tests all day long and it really doesn't mean anything. It's the real world situations where it matters. Never have I been on a shoot and thought to myself afterwards "wow, I wish I had used film instead". But this is a recent thing. 4 or 5 years ago I was whistling a different tune.
But hey, it's whatever works for you. Hey, good times right?
And if you're really trying to compare it to a pin-hole lens....I honestly don't know what to say to that but...wow...just wow.
Lol, who was crying? I'm looking to possibly cross-grade, that's all. I was going to go for an Intel Mac, but now I just might wait. Wasn't crying about it, just stating a fact. And as I said, perhaps the Intel based makes and OSX will get a better "shake out" by the time I get around to actually cross-grading....if ever.
Calm down sparky.
Not sure if you're trying to be funny or what, but in case you didn't already hear, Steve Jobs singled out Quark in his keynote as already having a Universal Binary for QuarkXPress.
Yeah, I was shocked as well.
This is kind of a deal breaker for me, as I make my living using Photoshop to a VERY large degree. Using it with Rosetta may be "passable"...it's just not going to cut it in the long run. I was hoping that Adobe would have an upgrade for existing customers, but I guess not.
Though they may change their minds, who knows. So much for upgrading this year. I suppose this will work out better in the end, as the Intel Macs will get a chance to mature a little more.
Toy Story 2 was all Pixar...this wasn't Disney. No Pixar movie so far was Disney. They may have distributed it, but they were all written, produced and directed by Pixar.
Since John Lasseter co-wrote and co-directed Toy Story 2, it was hardly the "Pixar didn't want a part of it" deal. And arguably it was even better than the first one. Now, Toy Story 3 was different altogether. That WAS going to be only Disney doing it, not Pixar. That was going to just be to cash in on the characters etc etc.
For the most part, sequels really suck...only on very rare occasions are they good. So let's hope the new people taking over Disney Animation will come up with original ideas instead of recycling things over and over and over.
It's the first thing I fire up in the morning to get up-to-date with the world. I scan it, look at the sources for the stories of course, and read what intrests me. Then I head to CNN.com and the NYTimes website. I don't have a TV, so these are my main sources for news.
Then and only then do I head to Slashdot. Unless I've left a comment recently and I rush to see if I was modded a troll. It's really my only purpose for waking up, to see what I was modded as.
Well, I did it for the effect. I was hoping it was torture for the reader not only for reading it, but what it implies about the "pitch men" of Hollywood. I've actually sat in on meetings where these idiots come in with "it's like "The Bad Lieutenant" meets "The Little Mermaid"...only done in CG! CG man, that's what everyone wants to see".
Is Disney going to keep selling PRman and PRman for Maya plug-ins? Will Catmull continue on with them? What's this all mean for Renderman? Will the software side split off into their own business?
I should say that the golden age of CG movies are now over. Now come the crap movies...the "me too" movies.
Honestly, has anyone really seen anything coming out that even remotely looks interesting? Chicken Little(already out last year)? Ice Age 2? Cars? Open Season? Over the Hedge? Any of these really grabbing you? How about Valiant(also out I believe...or did it go straight to video)? Or The Ant Bully? These are all coming out in the next few months. Have I missed any? Oh, forgot Hoodwinked, and Monster House.
Ah, the old Hollywood adage. If you can't make a buck with quality, then make it with quantity. "Teh peoples want teh CG! We gives them teh CG!"
No, I think they're overjoyed and saying "wow, we actually made something that frickin worked for a change instead of either burning up in the atmosphere or cratering straight into the ground!"
Let's hope this is the start of a "winning streak" for NASA.
Making a mountain out of a molehill.
The anonymous poster was just commenting on how much Dave Winer complains. And he does. All the time.
Sure, it didn't have anything to do with Apple mucking up the RSS thingy with the photo dealie they have now, but I got a chuckle out of it because I've been on the tail end of a Winer rant.
At the moment I think they're using gcc.
Steve Jobs said that he was talking about the processors being faster...and he specifically said not everything is going to be faster like the hard drives and memory etc etc. Just the processors which is why he showed the SPECmarks or whatever this phantom benchmark that, to my knowledge, isn't a free download from anywhere. Or was I the only one that heard him prefacing the results?
Oh well, let the Mac bashing continue, blood is in the water.
hehe, exactly. That's what I mean. Howard asked all these really dirty, personal questions and George didn't even flinch and answered everything Howard dished out. Now, maybe he was a little TOO open and forthright really, but he was a good sport about it all.
Could be the age thing then...my kid's only 12 and so are all his friends. I don't see the DS as a teenagers or adults game console really and honestly, I don't see what the draw is. But hey, he's happy with it.
My kid wanted one....all his friends wanted one. All his friends are playing DS Wifi games. The McDonalds here is a Wifi hotspot for the DS and they go over there to play and I counted 11 people in there one day with DS systems. They're all over the fricken place!
Where do you live, out in a corn field or something? Or maybe the "fever" just hasn't hit your neck of the woods yet.
Yeah, I was pretty impressed also with George. He can certainly take a joke and that laugh of his is totally infectious.
He was also very forthright and VERY open about his personal life. Something you just don't see in other actors much. You could tell that Stern was trying to rattle him with all kinds of questions, but George didn't falter at all. Good for him.
Actually, kind of sad news. I'm a photographer and when I was 13 I got my very first SLR. A Minolta 201 with a 50mm f1.7 lens. I shot more rolls of film through that thing and it kept chugging right along. I would still have it if it didn't get stolen along with just about everything else I owned about 20 years ago.
But hey, they need to move on. It's a different world now.
well, that's all fine and good. But if they wish to poor over BILLIONS of searches to track down my little IP number that....over the past couple of weeks were like "dell 2405fpw review" or things of that nature, go right ahead.
Oh, I take that back, they were talking on the radio yesterday about Drew Barrymores dress at the Golden Globes (in which the dress showed her golden globes...not that the world hasn't already seen them, I was curious...so shoot me) and I googled for that...but didn't find anything.
Maybe the White House, when they review my search records, can steer me to a site that has that.
I use Google mail, I just don't search "logged in". In fact, I just don't have it set to auto-login and when I actually need to use the web-mail part (I actually use POP access to gmail), I'll just log in normally.
There is hardly anyone playing America's Army anymore. At least I couldn't find any servers playing it. VERY small numbers. And it's a great game too.
Same with UT2004. Hardly anyone playing that either. It's either the morons over playing Battlefield 2 (which I've taken off my HD in frustration to the rampant tardism there), or one of the newer games. Some of these things just fall through the cracks and you never see them again. Yet there's still people playing Team Fortress Classic on the old Half-Life.
Oh well...
I have to admit, the only time I've ever seen a computer with a computer virus was on the Macintosh. This was back in the System 8 days though. It was a nasty one that spread through the use of Syquest disks and would infect a computer just as soon as the Syquest was loaded up.
Other than that though, I've yet to see an actual Windows virus personally. Guess I'm lucky. Or maybe I'm not an idiot when it comes to these things. Who knows.
Weird huh?
My god. Is this what has become of the Apple crowd? Braindead fucks like this clown?
So Steve told you to hates teh IBM, and now you hates teh IBM.
Well guess what punk? You're going to be getting the system retards of your magnitude deserve this year from Intel.
Actually, I don't own a Mac nor have I even touched one in almost 5 years, so I'm not part of the Apple crowd. Guess I'm just a normal braindead fuck. Also, I try to respond in a controlled manner and try not to let these things...computers...upset me so much. You obviously define yourself and others by what computer platform you run for some strange reason. Interesting.
But would you care to elaborate on how what I said was braindead? Back it up with actual facts instead of so much insane emotion on your part? Share with us something of substance instead of something like "G5 kicks ass man". Care to share with us what Apple will actually be coming out with to replace the current PowerMacs because you act like you already know. Also, why hide behind an anonymous coward post? If you really believe what you're typing, you would actually stand behind it and not care one iota what someone mods you.
Other than IBM having no interest in making a mobile 970 chip for Apple, IBM has been destroying Intel and AMD on price and performance. The quad G5 from Apple is so far ahead of anything even built from scratch with AMD or Intel chips.
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I can't believe that technological lead Apple has is all going away.
"Hail to my new athlon-64 pc
Exactly. No one but stupid, diehard Mac nuts are going to waste money on these new Intel systems.
Yeah, the Quad G5 was not bad...but hardly a tech leader. They're kind of lagging behind. Take a look at Boxx Technologies which is a leader in high-end 3D and editing:
Apexx 4 Specs:
4 Dual AMD Opteron dual-core processors; Integrated DDR Memory Controller
Up to 64GB of DDR400 Memory
Dual PCI Express graphics; Supports two NVIDIA SLI-ready Quadro® cards
Windows Server 2003(64-bit); Red Hat or SUSE Linux SLES 9 pre loaded
Up to 15, 3.5", hot-swappable drives for up to 7.5TB total data storage
How much for a full beast? I have no idea! I bet it's quite a bit though.
But to be fair, this is a very high end workstation, so it's not fair to compare it to the Quad G5. As far as abandoning the G5, I think it's the best for Apple. It's a dead end for them....IBM is TOTALLY slow in dragging these things out.
Apple was being held hostage by IBM and their chips, and IBM didn't seem all that concerned. Switching to the x86 world, Apple has options now. If things do go sour between Intel and Apple, there is always AMD to pick up the pieces! There are many more choices now instead of being tied to only one company, IBM.
But hey, you were SO close to saying "Apple is doomed" or "Apple will finally die now" in your post...you just needed that extra little push to put you square into the stereotypical troll. Try harder next time!
How has it impacted me in the last decade? Well, in the last 2 weeks it impacted me when I was at the checkout at a supermarket and my bill was $115 and I handed the cashier $120...only thing is there was a $50 in there and 3 $20s and a $10.
She spent a good minute trying to figure out how to count them...I kid you not! She even tried to get the bag guy to help. Finally I showed her how to count them out to show it was $120.
I didn't even know how to feel. A little shocked I suppose.
Where on Newegg are you seeing a wide-screen, 20" LCD monitor for $400? The only one that I found was the Acer Ferrari with the same resolution as the iMac at 1680x1050 for $589.
And the cheapest 20" LCD screen there was $469...not just $400.
So you're figures are a little off. If you went with my first requirement for a 20" wide-screen LCD monitor you'd be paying $1178 for two...not $800. But even using the non-wide-screen monitor you're still paying $938...not $800.
Again, my point was you can make a REALLY cheap PC and make 3 of them cheaper than the iMac, but what are you really getting? I could buy 3 Mac Mini's for the price of one iMac...but it doesn't compare does it? And of course, you're totally missing software that equals what comes with each iMac such as all the iLife stuff. I suppose you could put Linux on it all, but you're still not getting the Mac equiv for the software.
I'm being honest here also. I'm not a Mac fanatic as I don't even own one. I myself build my own systems from scratch The last one I built cost me over $3000 bucks...but then again it was a graphics workstation so I went overboard a bit.