On paper the specifications and level of A6000 seems better. However in my experience with the NEX-5N even consider Sony in color reproduction is some steps below respect to M4/3 (in FF is another story), the A6000 has greatly improved with colors, but I dont have seen a video that me is convincing in paragraph colorful as offering GX7, which seems a kind of mini GH4, si I do not understand that the manufacturer block the HDMI output when recording video.

If you were to stay with one camera between these two, with which you stay?

Anyone out there happen to have any dealings with them recently? Or possibly know of another place one could send a lens mount like this to get repaired?

Thanks guys!

If this material ever escapes into the wild it could improve the performance of our lenses and cameras.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2690424/Scientists-discover-new-black-British-researchers-devise-material-dark-looks-like-black-hole.html

Any answers, including specific things or just gear categories are ok.

Me? Not so interesting- Glen Rock, NJ, USofA

We are sharing another post this year with over 130 more FREE eBooks, Step-By-Steps, Resource Guides, etc., for your enjoyment. Plus we also include links to the free eBooks I shared in the past so you have all of them here in one single post, making this my single largest collection EVER (Almost 300 total)!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2014/07/07/largest-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-ever-including-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-office-2010-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-cloud-sql.aspx

Anyways, here are the specs:

Display - High resolution display is the equivalent of a 25 inch high definition screen from eight feet away.

Camera
Photos - 5 MP
Videos - 720p

Audio
Bone Conduction Transducer
Connectivity

Wi-Fi - 802.11b/g
Bluetooth
Storage

12 GB of usable memory, synced with Google cloud storage. 16 GB Flash total. Battery

One day of typical use. Some features, like video recording, are more battery intensive.

They also made a shorter series El viaje de Peter McDowell prot. by a british visiting south Spain and his adventures while getting acquaintance with its peculiarities.

http://malviviendo.com - HOMEPAGE
https://www.youtube.com/user/malviviendo/videos

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Until now, HUD displays in cars looked like text sitting on the windscreen. Now it appears to float in front of the car.

The head-up display, which Mercedes-Benz is introducing into its first vehicle model as of 2014, takes this to a higher level. The system provides data on vehicle speed and speed limits, and issues navigation instructions and warnings from assistance systems. The ‘head-up display’ supplements the information in the instrument cluster. As in modern day aircraft, important information is reflected onto the windshield, directly in the driver’s field of vision, ensuring drivers are less distracted away from what is happening on the road ahead. Furthermore, the eyes do not have to adjust between distance vision and short-range vision, because the information seems to hover above the engine hood some two meters in front where drivers can absorb it without having to avert their gaze or make optical corrections.

Perhaps with similar but wearable technology (a la Google Glass), city streets will no longer be filled with pedestrians looking down at their phones?

http://technicity.daimler.com/en/hud-en/

Same thing apply for any big item you sell or just ship.

The patches Driftwood manage to make, how he handled the matrices 4x4 no 8x8 matrices...dammnit even 2x2 if its possible on h264, the difference its clear. The looks is clear.

Please vitaliy, opening a film stock world again by hacking this Gh4 beast is something good for the masses.

Its not about performance any more, its about better image.

Of course if you have a hungry amount of clients which needs the up to date quality then you will make enough money to pay the investment, but if you are in a not so high end market then you can survive with average gear.

a7s and gh4 with small improvement in dynamic, range bitrate and codec, raw cameras with headaches workflow, flat images with difficult grading in post... rolling shutter in a 2.5k usd camera!!! fixed pattern noise in cmos sensors... so why not stop buying new cameras and try to extract the best possible from old dslr and mirrorless until a great tool comes to the market? this is what I am trying to do, to hold down my excitment about gear and focus in other things... I believe in a great audiovisual job with humble gear instead of expensive gear and so so results in terms of what is going on in the screen and audio.

there will be the moment when 4k retina displays will be popular, 4k streaming will be spread over the world with fast internet connections for everybody, 4k projectors in all theaters instead of 2k cinemas. 16 fstops dynamic range will be default, so it will be the time to get a powerfull camera with new sensor technology.

the sensor technology we have today cannot deliver so much dynamic range. it is a waste of time to try to get enough DR from silicon cmos without two streams merged or without the promissing quantum dots or organic sensors. in soccer broadcast we can see the stadium with sun and shadow in the grass and the high end cameras cannot show both with enough dynamic range... So the manufacturers try to implement gamma profiles to improve DR but the post grading will not be capable of recover gamma and contrast and keep so much fstops at same time... oh my god, do not ask me to work with raw workflow, it is a headache...

It is time to extract milk from the rocks, to deal with limitations. to put the camera on tripod to avoid aliasing, moire and rollling shutter perceiving, or to use a camera with good enough capability to a handheld job without showing so much artifacts...

I perceived that the old T3i with the vaf filter is good for camera movements because the aliasing in power lines is almost unoticeable, the magic lantern hdr is better dynamic range than all new cameras in the market. it is a matter of how to use it avoiding the motion artifacts and doing a careful sharpening and upscaling in post. the gh2 still rocks for resolution and all you need to do is to add light or reflectors to the shadows, old sony nex are amazing with focal reducers for wide angle and DR is good enough for a low budget camera.

I am addicted to gear, I keep researching about all new camera release, but suddenly I perceived it is a waste of time... Just a new sensor technology will change the game. I think the thing to do now is to do something amazing with old obsolet gear.

http://newcameranews.com/2014/06/03/scoop-nikon-working-on-organic-sensors/

The lens is actually at a repair shop, which is how I know the flex is the problem.

But the repair person stumbled upon the problem that there is no orderable part number, and it is not showing on ebay.

So he basically told me that if I couldn´t find the part, he could not do the repair.

Panny already replied this lame answer:

npcparts@us.panasonic.com 3:37 PM (17 hours ago)

Dear Pedro, I am sorry the Flex Cable is not supplied as a service part.

Mike D11 Parts Data Coordinator Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company

Am I to assume that for an $20 buck part I will loose a $500 lens ? Remember I am in Costa Rica, son not many local or even regional options... please guys a little help!!!

Thanks!

According to USPS they delivered the package on May 5 , this is the date I have dont received the lens, as my freight forwarding company they have not been notified or received the package by USPS , the package seems if the zip code, but not delivered, in UPSPS site dont appear who signed the package delivery, I have written them for send me a scanned image or photo of the invoice and they dont have answered.

I reported to Amazon but as the package appears as delivered they are not responsible, equally USPS, equally my courier, the seller equally but I pay U$455 for an article I dont have.

I'm just shortening for give you an idea of the problem . This includes almost U$50 in international calls I made ​​to USPS without success.

I have thought about the possibility in demand to USPS and freight forwarding company in Miami, but I dont know if this is legally possible

I bought by amazon many times and never had this problem.

I still have my kit lens and my (dare I say, beloved) Panny 100-300. Not ready to upgrade to the GH4 yet.

Wanted opinions on what the cheapest replacement would be from the Lumix lineup? Would like 60p video, but not a deal breaker. Mostly for nature photography with that lens. Were any other camera's hacked besides the GH2?

thx

I'm gonna be a father, i have just received the grate news, me happy and wanted to share it with the community.

I'm very exited and nervous cos i never had children, and well, im the last of my family...so.... never carried even babys! maybe twice.

Any advice?, the deal is done!

 
Je je, whatzup guys?!!!

These are some shots (through a 3 days span in February of 2013) badly put together registering an idea we had at A Empresa de Limpeza (Cleaning Business): to read Henrik Ibsen's Vildanden (Wild Duck) outside in the streets.

At some point there's a tiny bit of Mr Jonathan Coulton's - Your brains live in L.A.

Camera was a P&S and I tried to keep it simple while experimenting on new visual approaches; dumping everything into premiere and grading (or conspurcating like @Alienhead likes ,-) with colorista and looks. Plus parts with a lighter tweak of Eran Stern’s false hdr tonning technique. I want to apologize beforehand to @jpbturbo and people with good eye-coefficient for any inconvenience or damage :P

gashô

Some pics during the process +)

Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to expand the breadth of and accelerate the rate at which it brings its Intel® architecture and communications-based solutions to market for a range of entry-level Android* tablets worldwide.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will deliver an Intel-branded mobile SoC platform. The quad-core platform will be based on an Intel® Atom™ processor core integrated with Intel's 3G modem technology.

Rockchip is one of a handful of fabless semiconductor manufacturers based in China, presently specializing in the development of ARM based mobile SoCs. Under today's announcement however, Intel will be leveraging Rockchip to bring a low cost (entry/value) Intel branded SoC platform for tablets (read: sub-$150 Android tablets with connectivity).

Intel first started talking to Rockchip about this agreement a "couple quarters" ago. There are two primary motivations behind the agreement: it gives Intel additional resources to bring products to the market, and it allows Intel to scale IA based Android tablets pretty quickly.

By the middle of 2015 Intel and Rockchip will launch a new SoFIA SoC, featuring four Intel Atom cores and an Intel 3G modem. From the text of the announcement, it sounds like Intel will be providing the IP for the SoC while Rockchip will handle the integration of the design itself

• http://www.anandtech.com/show/8061/this-is-huge-intel-enters-strategic-agreement-with-chinese-soc-maker-rockchip
• http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/05/27/intel-enters-into-strategic-agreement-with-rockchip-to-accelerate-expand-portfolio-of-intel-based-solutions-for-tablets

It is very significant thing, as Rockchip is good in entry segment.

They will have an aspherical design, also using extra low dispersion glass to improve edge sharpness.

Ffocal reducers will be 0.71x with 1 fstop increase in light.

Will be available in main mounts: Canon FD, Canon EOS EF, Nikon F or G, M42, MC/MD, OM, PK, Leica R, Yashica/Contax

Main problem of all focal reducers in market today is the edge blur, this is due to spherical lens design. Also some small amount of chromatic aberration is present. Someone will solve these issues using aspherical lenses and extra low dispersion glass.

This Apefos suggestion.