The Motion League launches

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The Motion League launched today. It's a new website with articles and forums, and seems to be oriented toward After Effects, Cinema 4D, and design issues. “The blog features (or will feature) original articles, interviews, and tutorials; links to inspiration from around the web and beyond; and showcases great talent that doesn't normally get seen. […]

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NAB 2011 – Odds ‘N’ Ends

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Chromaticity plot of NorthernLights LEDs. Triangle is Sony F23’s gamut. The chart at the top of the page shows the chromaticity coordinates of the wide-gamut LEDs used in the DSC Labs NorthernLights chart at the end of this video clip. The LEDs get around the problem of making highly-saturated reflective patches and allow you to […]

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NAB 2011 – Plasma Lights, and The Problem With LEDs

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The Photon Beard Nova, and what’s at its heart. Here’s the coolest “new thing” in lighting I saw at the show: Photon Beard’s Nova, a focusable Fresnel-type instrument using a LEP (light-emitting plasma). It’s unlike any other lighting instrument we use—other than the sun—in that it doesn’t pass electricity directly through the light-giving element (tungsten […]

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Mike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRx

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This week my friend Eric Ulbrich that I met while working on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) got his Epic-M. He was nice enough to invite me over to play with it on Friday, here’s some first impressions on the camera and its HDRx mode. Notes and pics follow. So my friend Eric Ulbrich […]

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