SpaceEngine - is a free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by human astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets!

http://www.spaceengine.org/

PC version available. Uses mostly OpenGL, so there might be hope for Linux and OS X (if they update their OpenGL version) front-ends in the future as well.

Usage example:

Original Video from Festo: http://www.festo.com/net/de_corp/SupportPortal/Downloads/148243

DNews report: http://videos.revision3.com/revision3/web/dnews/0117/dnews--0117--dnews-117-robotic-bird-takes-flight--hd720p30.h264.mp4

I wonder if such a robot could be used to shoot some impressive close-ups of living birds - but then again, Winged Migration contained such already without requiring a robot :-)

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/index2.html

Notes:

1. Connecting to PC via Wi-Fi by inputting the computer name (the NetBIOS name for Apple Mac computers) is enabled.
2. 1920 x 1080, 60p[NTSC]/50p[PAL], 28Mbps mode is added in the video recording option of [MP4].
3. Speed of AF, consecutive shooting performance of AFC is enhanced in use with H-PS14042 and H-PS45175. *Please update the firmware of the lens to its latest version.
4. The monitor continues to display images during HDMI output even while [Auto LVF/Monitor OFF] is set.
5. Instability of shutter interval during interval shooting is improved.
6. When [Shutter AF] is OFF, operation is changed not to enlarge the image while using [Pinpoint AF] when even if shutter button is half-pressed.
7. Performance of image signal processing is enhanced during video file playback.

http://www.eoshd.com/content/9869/will-we-see-a-new-professional-panasonic-gh-series-camera-at-nab

Since today we are going to directly participate in design and development of system cameras firmware for selected cameras produced by Panasonic Corporation, and DSC Business unit specifically.

Such progress had become possible due few key decisions made by Seiichiro Sano, Shiro Nishiguchi and other top managers in February 2012. We had been in touch whole March and information obtained during this period, as well as new direct communication that we had, are really invaluable. I want to express my special thanks to Ichiro Kitao and Michiharu Uematsu.
As well as to our direct contact and lead of Venus Revolution team - Yukio Ito.

I could hardly wait last days, but announcement could be made only today, due to the starting of new financial year for Panasonic Corporation and Senior Management changes completion.

Feel free to ask me questions and I'll try to answer them as good as I can (taking in account signed NDA).
Yukio Ito will join me here, answering questions, on Monday.

P.S. Jump to pages 6 and 7 and look at videos for more details.

What lens did you use? SLR Magic 25mm? Nokton? What patch? Blue Moon? Green Diamond?

Thanks for any advice.

http://www.itaktech.com/

FB:

http://www.facebook.com/iTakTech

I'm planning on shooting a feature on a Red One MX I already own but when I watch this show, it makes me second guess the Red. I know the locations and the lighting, and the grading have a big part in this, but... still even the motion has a very filmmic quality. Can anyone tell what kind of Panasonic that is on their facebook video or know first hand what they're using? I wish I could talk ot the Dp's and find out the exact specs, lol, shutter speed, lens choice, iso... everything.

“If you want some trivia, some TV show uses the Lumix GH2

My main videos with most plays was the anamorphic project, neatvideo tutorial, super8 telecine tutorial, also lenses tests.

Please share your feedback about Tip Jar, did you get something?

and what do you think can motivate people to send Tip Jar to a video?

30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, the baby’s face blinks crimson with each tiny heartbeat.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video/

Accurately measure someone's pulse with just a video of their face.

Im from Perú, and im very concerned. Im worried about the united states. 5 Presidents from South America have cancer, all 5 are against the obama rule.

Lula da Silva, Hugo Chávez, Fernando Lugo ,Dilma Rousseff, Christin Krishner.

Im worried, I have a theory.

Ecuador is paractically from North America, they use Dollar as national trade currency and they have a massive amounts of military bases in there. Venezuela is going to be bought by americans now that that Chavez is dead, they are going to give social incentives, and bring "american tech and industry and comerce" to make more presence. Thay are going to buy the oil, the deabt, the country, they will make " A false F.A.R.C" attack from colombia to venezuela, Ecuador will bring it on from and attack from there to colombia ( all this american military bases) and will begin "NEW WAR ON TERROR AND DRUGS LATIN AMERICAN VERSION 1.0 "

Chile HATES Perú, we allways had war with them, they regitered native peruvian drinks like Pisco, natural products like maca and quinua like it where from them, its long story, and we all know Chile sucks USA dick big time. So Peru have massive Terrorism and narcotrafic problems, we make the finest cocaine with colombia and bolivia, USA will make another "TERRORIST ATTACK " to chile from peru and a war that is allready in its making from our problems with the sea and the 200 miles ( there is a massive debate in the HAYA court right now ) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/03/uk-worldcourt-peru-chile-idUKBRE8B210C20121203

USA allready own this countries BY DEBT or interests.

MEXICO GUATEMALA HONDURAS SALVAROR NICARAGUA PANAMA ECUADOR CHILE

The next is Venezuela via Money, Colombia via venezuela and ecuador, and Peru via chile. In some years the world will not have the amazon forest for the world and clean water, and good living, cos it will be all from USA.

Look at this mother fuckers: http://www.diaplous.org/amazo.htm whant to internationalize the amazon rain forest. Fuckers.

Im worried cos USA allways invade and make shit anything outside its country. We leave in peace here, and have REAL freedom. The other day a begun to see chem trails in our sky, i have 30 years old and i know here we never had that shit.

Its my hipotesis, but you just see what did happen with irak and all that.

Here’s how sensitive the new sensor is: it will reportedly be able to see meteor shows, rooms lit with incense sticks, and scenes lit only by moonlight.

IMO this would be a very interesting development and possibility for product differentiation. Could be something for panasonic to pursue?

Clive Palmer, and Australian billionaire who made his money mainly through mining operations, has announced he intends to enjoy the money he has earned over his life by spending it before he dies. His first big investment? Building a new cruise ship that will be a replica of the Titanic. The announcement was made and a blueprint of the ship released on board the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. It’s called the Titanic II and is set to be constructed in China at the CSC Jinling Shipyard over the next 3 years. Passengers are expected to be using it to cross the Atlantic beginning une 2016. The ship is a replica of the original, but the design actually makes it 3-inches longer than the 1912 version at 883 feet. Anyone enjoying the luxuries of modern cruise ships will be disappointed, though. To keep things “real,” the Titanic II won’t be outfitted with access to the Internet or even a TV. Your entertainment looks likely to be whatever was on offer in the early 1900s. Who knows, they might even ask for your gadgets to be handed in before you are allowed to board. Despite that, Palmer says he’s already had a lot of interest and over 40,000 people sign up for tickets. That’s good news as he needs 2,435 passengers to fill it and 900 crew members to keep the ship running during its 5 day trip across the Atlantic. The worry is that after the excitement has died down there won’t be much interest on using the ship to travel. Some have even said it’s a bit tacky recreating the ship that 1,500 people died on when it hit an iceberg. There’s also the issue of cost, with Palmer quoting $750,000 to $1 million if you want to secure one of the cabins on board. Looking on the bright side, even if the Titanic II does fail it will still be able to act as an almost perfect recreation of the original ship and could become a museum attraction once it stops sailing.

"Since we’re talking about a smartphone we must understand the imaging chain, and thus block diagram, and how the blocks work together. There’s a multiplicative effect on quality as we move through the system from left to right. Good execution on the optical system can easily be mitigated away by poor execution on the ISP for example. I put arrows going left to right from some blocks since there’s a closed loop between ISP and the rest of the system."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6777/understanding-camera-optics-smartphone-camera-trends

In a statement, Olympus Japan confirmed that, from today, Sony Corporation is the largest shareholder, holding nearly 35 million shares and giving Sony 11.46% of overall voting rights.

Speaking in September 2012, Olympus president Hiroyuki Sasa said the agreement would give Olympus 'greater business synergy in the core business domains of medical and imaging'.

He added: ‘In the field of digital cameras, we will seek to achieve collaboration in a manner that further improves the competitiveness of the two companies.'

Cool 3d pen: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/75-3d-printing-pen-20130219/

Man, I would have had fun with that in High School! Anyone ordered one of these?

not sure why the embed isn't working properly.

http://ahprojects.com/projects/stealth-wear

There is also a phone OFF purse that blocks all radio signals from/to the phone

On behalf of the Gaffa Group, I am proud to announce that we beat the Personal-View.com team to the first proper, official GH3 hack. Our team has now been testing this hack extensively, with some really exciting results. We estimate that the chance of bricking the camera by applying this patch is less than a tenth of a percent, and therefore feel that it is finally safe to let it out to the general public.

Prerequisites:

First you have to make sure you have one of the compatible firmwares for your GH3. The list of compatible firmwares are:

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 preproduction firmware v0.4
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 firmware v1.0

Check in the camera menus and make sure your firmware is one of those. We also believe there is a good chance the hack will continue to work, as is, with Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 firmware v1.1 when it is released. Beyond that it is hard to predict to what extent Panasonic will try to hinder this hack from working.

Problems this hack addresses

• sloppy SD-card bay door

Installation

We threw everything we had on this problem to find a way to install this hack with the regular PTool method and using SD-cards, but all work was to no avail. The breakthrough came when we saw we could go back a few generations of technology, all the way back to tape, and install this hack through the use of one of the GH3s many cleverly hidden tape decks.

See video:

First you have to go to the hardware store and get some black electricians tape for the installation. While you are there, also pick up taPTool v1.0 for your system if you don't have taPTool already. Now, since the electricians tape is for full-frame systems, you need to cut it down to the GH3 standard MFT crop-factor of two, like shown in the video. Now, the best suited tape deck on the GH3 is for some strange reason placed right on the outside of the SD-card slot, uncomfortably close to the opening. Just pin the cropped tape down over the crossing ridges, apply some light pressure, and then close the SD-card slot cover door. Wait about one second and check if the patch was installed correctly. You should notice if everything went well almost immediately.

Future plans

• Fix for floppy camera strap ends
• Continuous EVF mode
• Additional on-lens letterbox formats, (CinemaScope 2.35:1, ++)

Final note

We would love to hear back from you guys on your experiences with the "Electricians Bliss" patch, and if you want us to continue with hacks for the GH3, remember to donate! To keep things simple, the Gaffa Group has joined forces with Personal-View.com, so just donate using the regular channels.

a pen to describe the peoples face inside the bus in the way to work... each expression, the sadness in the eyes due to life is not the way they would like it to be... the lines drawn in their face by the bus motor noise everyday hurting their ears made to listen birds singing...

a pen to expose my emotions when everybody tells me to hide them...

I would like to downgrade my pen sometimes for a pen-cil to have the option to rub the paper vigorously after write a mistake in my life, erase the missed opportunity and rewrite it into an orgasm of happiness

I would like to have a pen-is not to cum for porn dreaming about girls I will never have, but a pen-is to write in my girlfriend's skin how much my heart pulses for her... hoping the ink cum would last forever... just like a tattoo...

I would like to have the courage to exchange my beloved DSLR for a hacked pen in which the ink would be automatic multicolored changing taking into account the the meaning hidden between the text lines...

I would like to have a pen which could draw a movie in an electronic paper to avoid me the hard work to turn my ideas into a feature film and this way I could celebrate my sinful sloth

I would like my pen to be a sharp knife to hurt the film emulsion just as the film emulsion sometimes hurt us and make us cry inside the movie theater... and this way my sharp knife pen would write the story direct into movie images just like Norman McLaren did.

I would like to have a pen and some pieces of paper to make this writing task my lonely work to avoid the need to beg people to help me mainly when my sweaty money is not enough to pay for their willing

I would like to have a pen to tell how much Mary waits for John everyday in the bus station twisting her hopes for he to stop just looking and take the action

So my pen could tell that John can't imagine Mary looking to her mirror to perceive if her beauty is enough to make him overcome his shyness and make the move

And my pen would find the words to make people imagine that mid age woman with her shining eyes in a hopping face when she sees the young lawyer inside his black suit up the bus stairs and stand by an old washed out advertising of the Nothing Hill movie.

My pen would have the power to describe the angels taking care of us hidden against the sunlight in the sky where the DSLR poor dynamic range could never see them... and they just laugh about the joke God always do not giving each one of us our operating instructions when we was born

So my pen could write the second life many people would like to have forgiven the beloved partner instead of breaking up...

I hope my dreamy pen do not stop taking the virginity of paper and makes me more happy than my never perfect DSLR

and I also hope I do not upgrade my pen into other tools to avoid turning myself into a forum member to discuss voice recorders, computer keyboards, writing softwares and printers.

Adriano Apefos

"Eu amava como amava um pescador, que se encanta mais com a rede que com o mar." (Oswaldo Montenegro)