>> ^Raaagh:
is it just me or is 399 quite a premium?


It's a fair bit, but way less than I would have expected for the FIRST of this type. The price is only going to come down from here. Usually the first with some leading edge tech is ludicrously expensive... this is only expensive in my eyes, not crazily so.

>> ^blankfist:
When someone says things like "steal" and "always" they have very specific meanings.

I think you're taking it more seriously than it was intended. I think he's just saying we're very good at coopting the ideas of other countries; that's not necessarily a bad thing. Unfortunately I don't think it's true. If you look at some of our most relevant inventions today (car, transistor, microchip/microprocessor, telephone, mobile phone, hard drive, LED, CD/DVD, digital camera), most of them are made better and/or cheaper by Germany, Japan or China. It seems if we can't kill people with it, we lose interest.

I'm sure some murders are done without malice aforethought and done so "on the fly"; doesn't make them less wrong.

Murder is premeditated by definition. Killing someone "on the fly" is manslaughter and is considered less wrong in our legal system, hence the lower penalties.

This is actually fake. The machine pictured would require a USB-A to USB-A cable, which does not exist. All USB devices are either USB-A to USB-B (your printer for example) or USB-A to some form of Mini USB (e.g. your point and shoot digital camera). The picture at the bottom of the page labeled "USB cable included" is a doctored picture of a cable that does not exist and will never exist. You will also notice that you never see it tethered to a computer in the video, which is because it cannot actually be plugged in to anything with a USB-A port.

In other news, I am a gigantic nerd.

so, the first video you post was something 'I made this film with samsung digital camera IT100!!!'

and there's this blogger account:

http://handmade-diy-lovely.blogspot.com/ with the posts being written by a patrickdun9, full of samsung promotion

very suspicious, selflink and/or spam

*discuss

Ya, I don't know why anyone would do this. Chances are the digital camera should hook up to the tv and record no problem so there is no reason to do this BUT I couldn't find another version of this in a better format so you sift what's available.

If anyone finds a better version, let me know!

I call fake.
That ball is actually a moving pivot point in a gigantic rotating mock-gymnasium.
The actors in the background are all highly skilled wall climbers, and are pretty good at holding on in a giant spinning room situation.

The dude just followed the pivot and jumped over it as it spun, giving the illusion (well pulled off I might add) that he was actually just performing a neat acrobatics trick. Its not possible to do that IRL, its all trickery, thank you modern digital cameras and editing suits.

Brilliant viral ad for fitness balls (which can NOT be used to actually perform this "trick")

Ammetures.

If this actually worked, they would have stopped making digital cameras with more than 1 megapixel.

I find it humorous that it implies that a PC would NOT be able to use the "new digital camera from Japan."

The only people I can think of stupid enough to actually believe something like that would be... oh, right: Mac users.

>_>

That's TOTAL bullshit -- they didn't have digital cameras 9,000 years ago!

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I don't know what kind of budget you have or if you're even in the market for a good lens, but Sigma makes a GREAT 30mm f/1.4 lens.
I have one for my Cannon and it's just an awesome glass.
They're kinda spendy though, at about $450.


I picked up a Nikon equivalent lens today, and did a quick test with the correct settings for low light, lets just say it's the difference of night and day. I'll post the test vid later.

I don't know what kind of budget you have or if you're even in the market for a good lens, but Sigma makes a GREAT 30mm f/1.4 lens.

I have one for my Cannon and it's just an awesome glass.
They're kinda spendy though, at about $450.

This is the Casio I was talking about. Is that the same one you were thinking of, YouDie? The D90 looks awesome. Keep shooting stuff and keep posting it here!

>> ^hueco_tanks:
This is off topic, but I started a strand of this discussion so I feel the need to explain myself...
1. Militant Atheism.
As an agnostic, my position is not that I don't know, but that I can't know whether God or gods exist. This includes anything that could be described as a universal power that cannot be understood by man and science and which might conceivably be considered 'God' (I am not professing to believe in such a force, but mere possibility of such a 'higher power'). Friends of mine that I consider militant atheists are those who profess to 'know' that there is no God, and believe that anyone who feels otherwise is an idiot. I do not believe that one can 'know' that there is no God, rejecting even the slightest possibility that there are unknowable powers at work in the universe that could be considered 'God' is a lie on par with those who claim to know God exists (not on par with those who believe Noah built an Ark). Similar to christian evangelists, militant atheists campaign for atheism. I am happy to let people know what I believe, but I don't have much interest in converting lost Christian souls and prefer it when they leave me alone as well.


What you are describing as "militant atheism" is actually just "atheism". You don't have to claim absolute truth on the existence of god to be an atheist, all you need is to evaluate a probability to declare you "know" something doesn't exist. You probably "know" that zeus, unicorns, man-bear-pig, and talking teapots don't exist--and the principle is precisely the same. If so, you are an atheist with regards to these mythical creatures,--so why not take it one god further?

I "know" that if I run into a wall it will hurt. But quantum mechanics shows us that this is not "true"--there exists a finite, albeit infinitesimally small, probability that every particle in my body will "tunnel" through the energy barrier and I will arrive, unharmed, on the other side of the wall. If you think this is impossible, you will have to throw away your ipod, digital camera, and phone because the flash cards inside all these electronic devices perform this very same feat on a daily basis.

>> ^SaNdMaN:
^ What the heck are you talking about? The whole point is to surprise people that the person they've just seen explaining the technology is actually CGI. Did you think that the CGI demonstration was just the face turning red and black? That would be stupid and pointless.


The demonstration was showing that THE FACE was CG for the whole video.

Geebus.

They are showing that their motion tracking system is really great at FACES.

The rest is REAL.

You want proof? how about this?:

Using (USC's) Institute for Creative Technologies' special scanning system that can capture facial details down to the individual pore, the face of actress Emily O'Brien was transformed into a digital representation of herself, which could then be entirely machine-manipulated. A special spherical lighting rig captured O'Brien in 35 reference facial poses using a pair of high resolution digital cameras. The facial maps were then converted into 3D data using Image Metrics' proprietary markerless motion capture technology.

Upon a second viewing it might simply be the case that the assaulted was near the back of the pack, and had no video camera person biking behind him (nearest one can be seen at 14sec).

Unfortunately for the assaulter, it was in Times Square, America's tourist Mecca, where every third hand grasps a digital camera to soak up the visual violence.