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Coursedesign wrote on 6/1/2011, 4:54 PM
"Big Brothers" come and go.

Today HP announced that they would soon ship 100 million computers per year running webOS, with a chunk of those replacing Windows.

I really don't care about the success of one company or the other, I just buy whatever products serve ME best from time to time.

For the moment, that means sitting in front of an HP workstation running Windows 7 next to a Mac Pro running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

They both do great things, but there are a number of things on the Windows side that are not well designed (a few things were better in Windows XP), and a few things in OS X that are goofy.

But on Tuesday we'll see OS X 10.7 Lion, and the world will be different again :O).

Philip Hodgett talks about how great it is that Vegas provided a different paradigm for video editing in this blog entry.

There is obviously room for both Windows and OS X and webOS and a few more, and that's how progress is made!

As for "Big Brother," there were many Android users longing for a walled garden this week, after a good bunch of ordinary Google Android Market apps were found to be serious malware, with some of them being able to do malice without even having to be manually launched.

The "walled garden" security inspection has been very good so far.

farss wrote on 6/1/2011, 6:33 PM
"The "walled garden" security inspection has been very good so far."

So long as you're running Mac Defender you'll be safe :)

Bob.

Coursedesign wrote on 6/1/2011, 7:00 PM
:O)

There's gotta be a first for everything!

After 10 years of OS X, someone wrote a social Trojan, sending messages like this:

From: Bob Farss

Inevitably there will be a few suckers who think that their friends are sending them free software to install, and they click "YES!" to everything.

If they authorize an install, the result will be the same on Hardened Unix as on Windows or OS X.

I don't know anyone who is actually using antivirus software on a Mac, and I haven't seen any viruses in the wild either.
Rory Cooper wrote on 6/2/2011, 2:48 AM
Thanks for the links and info Coursedesign

The neg comments for the FS100 kit lens is spot on. It is very tight and too much play, but ok on a set up shot . I prefer shooting with my older lenses as they are much smoother and quicker, Buy the body and spend the rest of the tom on more usable lenses.

The firmware update ver 2 and LA EA 1 adapter doesn’t work on all zoom lens for auto focus, in fact it didn’t work on ANY of the zoom lens I tried out at Sony Centre

Philip Hodgett had some interesting things to say about 709 / 601 sRGB.
Serena wrote on 6/2/2011, 4:40 PM
It is hardly surprising that the kit lens is bad; it's very cheap.
farss wrote on 6/3/2011, 1:52 PM
Very impressive results with high gain: http://vimeo.com/24139471

The bad news that's no so easily apparent. The FS100 uses a different DSP to the F3 and limits dynamic range to around 10 stops according to Abelcine's tests

Bob.

Randy Brown wrote on 6/3/2011, 2:36 PM
The least expensive one is the BMD HyperDeck Shuttle which records 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed SD or HD video to plug-in 2.5" SSDs from HDMI and SDI (with pass-through of course).

I have a feeling this is a dumb question but could one get uncompressed HD from an HDV cam (specifically a Canon XHA1) using this?
farss wrote on 6/3/2011, 2:49 PM
"I have a feeling this is a dumb question but could one get uncompressed HD from an HDV cam (specifically a Canon XHA1) using this"

Your best shot would be from the component outputs of that camera. Unfortunately the BMD Shuttle recorder lacks component inputs so you'd need to add a component to HD SDI converter which would add significantly to the cost.
Ideally you need a camera with a HD SDI or HDMI output.

Bob.
Randy Brown wrote on 6/3/2011, 3:09 PM
Oh man, I was thinking there was an HDMI out on my XHA1...but my little HV40 has one....would it actually capture uncompressed HD?
Thanks Bob,
Randy
John_Cline wrote on 6/3/2011, 5:00 PM
"would it actually capture uncompressed HD?"

Yes, but only using the camera live, anything played back from tape or SD card will be compressed and the damage will have already been done.
Randy Brown wrote on 6/4/2011, 6:13 AM
Yessir, I did notice the "pass-through" part that Coursedesign mentioned.
I have a Datavideo DN-60 that I do the pass-through thing and don't even use tapes anymore (via firewire) but the best it captures is HDV...it seems the Hyper Deck Shuttle could be good news for a lot of people that have a HDMI out.
Serena wrote on 6/12/2011, 10:12 PM
>>>>dynamic range to around 10 stops<<<<

Abel Tech says 11.5 stops on the production version of the camera.