Best Picture
12 Years a Slave

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

Best Animated Feature
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)

Best Cinematography
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Best Costume Design
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)

Best Directing
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)

Best Documentary Feature
20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers)

Best Documentary Short
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)

Best Film Editing
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)

Best Foreign Language Film
The Great Beauty (Italy)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)

Best Original Score
Gravity (Steven Price)

Best Original Song
Let It Go - Frozen

Best Production Design
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)

Best Animated Short Film
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)

Best Live Action Short Film
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)

Best Sound Editing
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)

Best Visual Effects
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)

Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)

Best Original Screenplay
Her (Spike Jonze)

Avid(R) announced that as expected, it received a notification letter from NASDAQ on February 21, 2014 indicating that the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Hearings Panel had determined to delist the shares of the Company from The NASDAQ Stock Market and, accordingly, suspend trading in the Company's shares effective at the open of business on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.

Company has accelerated losses: -$7.55 million to -$17.39 million (year over year) and negative cash flow: -$1.38 million “net operating cash flow,” a stunning year-over-year 1167.44% drop.

In 2012, the total shipment quantity was 20 million units.

DE: 20 million total interchangeable lens cameras?

Ogawa: Yes, including mirrors. [Ed. note - that is, including both mirrorless and DSLRs] Now, the average age is mid-40s and the percentage of females went up to 30%. This is thanks to, we believe, Olympus introducing the Olympus Pen. That contributed to the significant change in the demographics. (By the way, out of 20 million units, four million units were mirrorless or CSC.)

DE: Four million, out of 20?

Ogawa: Yes.

DE: Ah, so about 20%.

Ogawa: Yes, the rest, over 16 million units, were mainly SLR.

........

Ogawa: With the development of output devices like 4K TVs, we probably could say the same thing about movies as well, for the future. We are also preparing for that future as well, specifically movies. I believe that the TruePic VII processor we’ve newly developed for the E-M1 will have much better quality and performance than the competition.

Now we’re working on the next generation engine as well. For that next generation engine, we are expecting that movie sharing will be the new demand coming. So we are prepared for that.

When we look at today’s movie sharing, social networking or websites like YouTube and some others, perhaps today's OM-D movie quality is good enough. So I believe that movie quality will matter more when 4K TV penetration becomes really high. Then we have to have our device ready for it.

DE: Mr. Ogawa mentioned that contrast detect is more accurate than phase detect. That’s certainly the case when you have a separate phase detect sensor, and the PD sensor might be out of position. But I was surprised that when you have phase detect elements on chip, PD is actually still less accurate than contrast detect even though they’re right on the same chip as the imaging pixels.

Shirota: Yes, comparing contrast auto focus and phase detection auto focus with a separate sensor, the phase detection is inferior in terms of accuracy. However, with on-chip phase detection, that inferiority will go away. It’s better in terms of accuracy compared to this conventional way.

Check the rest at http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/10/24/qa-with-olympus-president-haruo-ogawa-and-planning-manager-eiji-shirota-as

Terms

1. You can submit any ONE video clip made by you personally using any camera. Just post it in this topic.
2. Priority will be given to new videos, made specially for contest.
3. Video themes with top priority: Christmas, videos about local firms making real products
4. You clip must have some story to tell, not to be just pretty video.
5. Clip must reside on vimeo or youtube video hostings and must have "personal-view contest" in description text (for contest time).

Contest ended!

Main prize for Black Magic owners - Skier Premium Cage for BMPCC

Main prize for owners of other cameras - Varavon 1m SlideCam V medium slider

http://vimeo.com/blog/post:606

Via: Pentax Forums

This looks pretty interesting. It's got a fast wide lens and with 120fps at 720p it could be a great camera to have around on shoots. I want one if the image quality is good.

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/shimano-cm-1000-sport-camera-first-look-39793/?CPN=RSS&SOURCE=BRROADNEWS

At least 20 new 4K cameras will hit the market between now and NAB 2014, according to Jeromy Young, CEO and founder of production technology developer Atomos. Some can be expected to be announced at IBC next month in Amsterdam.

...and he's getting earlybird news to research his products !

By early next year there will be a plethora of 4K cameras at affordable prices,” said Young. “We believe the true catalyst for 4K will come when people are using Sony Handycams and DSLRs from Nikon and Canon in 4K on a regular basis.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/market-readies-flood-4k-cameras-599612

http://www.esurveyspro.com/App/Polls/DirectPoll.aspx?id=22904

In terms of transpo, like I said before, there's two lots right across the street that charge $6 on the weekends and @Shian said the Metro let's off a couple blocks away which is pretty convenient.

Like we said before, if anyone wants to bring some gear that others might be interested in trying, go ahead and let us know. I'll bring my SLR Magic Cine set and Rokinon Cine set, though I just did sell the 14mm to one of our guys here. Maybe he'll bring it if anyone wants to try it. Thanks again and see ya'll on the 13th of JUL!!

Links to more detailed topics about products announced at CES:

• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9275/2014-panasonic-camcorders-with-1080p120-slo-mo-50mbps#Item_14
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9276/sony-fdr-ax100-4k-camcorder-for-the-masses-#Item_33
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9272/2014-ultrazooms-topic#Item_3
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9274/panasonic-tz60-aka-zs40-compact-with-30x-zoom-evf#Item_1
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9277/nikon-d3300#Item_8
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9246/samsung-nx30-topic-first-camera-made-for-video-shooter#Item_15

Added support for wide gamut color spaces (JFIF version 2). Improve clarity and accuracy in color conversion modules

Extend the bit depth support to all values from 8 to 12 (BITS_IN_JSAMPLE configuration option in jmorecfg.h). jpegtran now supports N bits sample data precision with all N from 8 to 12 in a single instance.

Enable option to use default Huffman tables for lossless compression (for hardware solution), and in this case improve lossless RGB compression with reversible color transform.

http://www.infai.org/jpeg/

what's your impressions?

With a half-dozen local friends/videomakers RSVP'd to join us throughout the day and an open call to all P-V members, we set up under some shade with snacks and drinks around 1:30PM.

The event was attended by only one member who wasn't already a part of our videomaking circle. He is Korean, and an associate professor at a local graduate school of "Cinematic Content". He brought his teenaged son and GH3, seeking technical advice for an upcoming documentary production in northeastern China. For three hours or so we discussed classic films from Japan and Europe, the film-school bubble, professional and artistic aspirations, and the GH cameras.

He left, and then the local expat filmmakers arrived. Some are P-V members, some are not. We shared and critiqued content we've been working on, discussed short and medium term plans, and had fried chicken and beer.

Though it was a fine day, this wasn't the P-V meetup we hoped for. The scheduling was short notice, and the following day was a work day; these factors probably affected the turnout. Apparently over 250 PV members live in Korea. Next time we hope to get a few more of them.

Adobe will soon make the iPad an even more viable solution for mobile content creation: the company will soon unleash a version of its popular Lightroom photo editing suite that is optimized for tablets. References to Lightroom for Mobile appeared on Adobe’s official website earlier this week, but they were immediately removed when we contacted Adobe for comment on the yet-to-be-announced product.

Adobe’s tagline for the product is “Take Lightroom anywhere”. One-year subscription will be $99.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/17/lightroom-for-ipad-briefly-appears-on-adobes-website-coming-soon-with-99year-cloud-subscription/

Of course it'll be massively restricted version, so best idea is to get proper Windows tablet if you need such functions.

Fujifilm has filed a patent application, which describes the image sensor, markedly different from the existing ones. In the structure of the sensor into account peculiarities of the human visual sensitivity. As is known, the eye is most sensitive to the green portion of the spectrum and the noise easier to allocate the luma than color.In the diagram it is evident that the elements corresponding to the green and white channels have larger dimensions

http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2014-01-06

http://yournewsticker.com/2014/01/fujifilm-specialists-developed-image-sensor-rgbw-pixels-enlarged-green-white-channels.html

The data breach at Target was significantly broader than originally reported: The company said Friday that 70 million customers had information such as their name, address, phone number and e-mail address hacked in the breach. Target said the personal data stolen could affect its past shoppers -- not just those who have visited the store recently.

Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed.

Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target, according to the people familiar with the attacks. Those breaches have yet to come to light. Also, similar breaches may have occurred earlier last year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/12/us-target-databreach-retailers-idUSBREA0B01720140112?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Sony is the world's No. 1 manufacturer of image sensors for digital cameras and video recorders (based on Sony research from April 2012 to March 2013 that shows Sony has a 50% market share).

Via: http://discover.store.sony.com/sony-technology-services-apps-NFC/tech_imaging.html

I am sure upcoming year will be better, more interesting and full of surprises.

Panasonic Corp. (6752) is in talks to sell majority stakes in three chip factories in Japan to Israel’s Tower Semiconductor Ltd. Final decision may come as soon as next month. Most of the 2,500 workers at the factories will move to Tower, while the rest will switch to other roles at Panasonic, the person said.

President Kazuhiro Tsuga is seeking alliances for the Osaka-based company’s chip business as he continues restructuring its consumer-electronics units, including ending production of plasma televisions. The company plans to cut as many as 7,000 workers in the semiconductor business, or about half of the staff.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-27/panasonic-said-in-talks-to-sell-three-chip-plants-to-towerjazz.html

From a technological perspective, Fujitsu thinks the semiconductor business consists of architecture, layout design and fabrication. Whereas Fujitsu will retain the architecture function at its headquarters, it will transfer layout design to a new fabless company and fabrication to a new foundry company. Once the two new companies are established, Fujitsu will entrust them with the job of materializing its architecture. Nevertheless, Fujitsu will be free to use other fabless and foundry companies, according to Yamamoto.

We are now going to Italy through France and then — Greece.

If you guys have time/ideas and enthusiasm please don't hesitate to contact our crew.

As our previous experience showed nobody knows the situation better than the folks on the ground.

What we are looking for are people's stories, characters, plots, stories which can tell us something new/unusual about the current crisis.

Use this chance!!!

You can reach me here or through ksyomin @ gmail.com

Peace to the GH2 world dwellers!

We had some very good meetups in summer and want to continue this tradition.
You could meet other members, check different cameras and optics, just talk and drink a little. :-)

Below are cities with big amount of members and visitors.

As we are searching for organizers, let me know if you want to be organize one.

Also, if you are just visitor and not registered member, register to be part of the meetings.

First, check all existing meeting topics - http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/meetup

If you are making topic for your city meeting it must look like:
Meetup: City, Personal View winter meeting

US

• New York Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Austin Washington/DC, Baltimore

Other countries

London, Sydney, Melbourn, Singapore Hong Kong Toronto Paris Moscow Helsinki Seul Berlin, Athens, Monreal, Stockholm, Barcelona, Rome, Vancouver - ..

P.S. You can ask me how many members are present from your city.

CALABASAS, CA – 20.Dec 2013 - Yamaha Corporation and Line 6, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement for Yamaha to acquire Line 6, a leading manufacturer of innovative solutions for musicians. The acquisition expands Yamaha’s portfolio of modeling guitar processing products as well as pro-audio equipment, and offers new and exciting opportunities for accelerated growth for both companies.

Line 6 products have been at the cutting edge of digital audio development for musicians and audio professionals since the company pioneered the digital modeling guitar amplifier in 1996. Line 6 continues to deliver innovation and excellence across its industry-leading portfolio, including POD® multi-effect processors, digital effects, guitar amplifiers, modeling guitars, a range of professional instrument and microphone digital wireless systems, digital live sound mixers, speakers, as well as iOS interfaces.

Under the terms of the agreement, Yamaha will operate Line 6 as a wholly owned subsidiary to fully realize the compelling opportunities for the two brands with Line 6’s operations continuing as before and its management team remaining in place.

“I am very happy that Line 6, which has been creating innovative products and creating new market opportunities consistently over its history, will become a member of the Yamaha group. We look forward to accelerating our growth strategy by pursuing the beneficial effects from both companies and by utilizing Line 6’s core brand power centered on guitarists that is so highly regarded worldwide as well as its unique technology, planning and development capabilities” said Mr. Takuya Nakata, President of Yamaha Corporation.

“For over 30 years of developing products, and even further back to my earliest memories as a developing musician, Yamaha has been the brand for which I have always had the most respect,” said Line 6 co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Marcus Ryle. “Yamaha has consistently set the standard in our industry for quality and innovation, and I am very proud for Line 6 to now be a part of this incredible legacy.”

"Yamaha’s acquisition of Line 6 will help accelerate the realization of our vision to drive innovation for musicians across the globe,” said Line 6 CEO and President Paul Foeckler. “We’re proud that Yamaha recognizes the innovation and value in our people, IP and processes and we’re excited about the opportunities ahead to expand our reach”

Not good news. Line 6 made some good products and had very interesting wireless mikes, btw.

Panasonic - http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/interview/20131210_626875.html

Samsung Electronics integrated the Digital Imaging Business Division, in charge of cameras, with the Wireless Business Division. Samsung Electronics began to create synergies between smartphones and cameras in a bid to capture the largest share of the global mirrorless camera market in 2015. Also, earlier this year, the company created the Enterprise Business (EB) Team, and turned the global B2B Center into a quasi-business division. Its intention is to reinforce B2B sales as the consumer goods market is saturated.

Samsung Electronics executed reorganization on December 11.

Samsung Electronics maintained the 3-company business system: vice-chairman Kwon Oh-hyeon (DS: Device Solution), CEO Yoon Boo-geun (CE: consumer electronics) and Shin Jong-gyun (IM: IT Mobile). Global economic recession continues, but they performed excellently. We need to keep an eye on the IM Company during this organizational realignment. Samsung Electronics removed the Digital Imaging Business Division in charge of cameras. Samsung Electronics reshuffled it into the Imaging Business Team, and plans to make full use of the Wireless Business Division which has the leadership in the global market.

Samsung Electronics explained, “We will transplant the brand, sales networks, software competency and manufacturing competitiveness of the Wireless Business Division into the Camera Business Division, and integrate the technical know-how of the two business divisions into competency for differentiating our smartphones.” To increase its share of the camera market, it will take advantage of the networks and marketing know-how of the Wireless Business Division and enhance the camera competitiveness of smartphones at the same time. Under the Media Solution Center of the IM Company, Samsung Electronics created the Big Data Center. It looks like a measure to actively respond to changes in trends by means of Big Data analysis. Some business divisions, such as the Washing Machine Business Division, have already capitalized on the Big Data analysis technique to produce visible outcomes.

CSR, the Cambridge-based microchip maker (they got all Zoran developers and assets), has announced a retreat from the digital camera market as sales decline and amateur photographers increasingly rely on smartphones.

The company said it would take a $90m (£54.6m) one-off impairment charge, mostly attributable to goodwill, to shut down its camera-on-a-chip business.

Joep van Beurden, chief executive of CSR, said: "We continue to take a disciplined approach to capital allocation and cost control and have decided to withdraw investment from the COACH [camera-on-a-chip] platform due to weakness in the digital still camera market."

He said the company would redeploy some camera-on-a-chip engineers in higher-growth divisions. Some 200 jobs will be lost in the second quarter of 2014, however.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/electronics/10507743/Chipmaker-CSR-retreats-from-camera-market-as-smartphones-take-over.html