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It looks like they are chasing this:

He was quoted in a TechRadar article recently stating: “Of course the faster your decoder is, the smaller the latency becomes. So it is possible to build a better device to receive GeForce Grid but almost every single device can do it; cable set-top box, iPhones, any Android device, PC, Mac…”

Was waiting for the “… call me. CALL NOW!” bit.

2nd video. 1:50 gasps you’re fuckkkkkking kidding me!!!! :O

I really don’t know what to make of the screen.
At 720p resolution or higher, does it really matter about scaling? Keeping in mind that down the line we are probably marching towards screen densities that are effectively so high that any scaling imperfection is anti-aliased by our own eye’s inability to discern indivndual pixels.

I would have expected the iPhone 5 to be a 4 to 4.5 inch device, perhaps almost all screen with some new tech/software that has extra touch panels around the sides of the phone so that the phone “knows” where you are holding it so it doesn’t record those parts of the screen presses as gestures.

This feels like Apple is slowing down… but then again I have no idea how they plan to use that screen real estate so it may end up being a good thing. Only time will tell.

That all looks quite reasonable. His success is tied to that of Apple and the lucrative position ensure that the best talent around the world vyes for those top positions.

You sir are one lucky guy! I oogled one for 5 hours at a shoot. I was filming behind-the-scenes and the photographer was kind enough to give me a good rundown of the setup as I had no idea what it was. I was filming with some Canon gear, a wide-angle with slider and a run-and-gun prime…… but after seeing it in action it made my own gear feel like I was shooting with a pair of iPhones. The shots coming out of that thing were incredible.

Awesome… but these are 2001 A Space Odyssey quotes. It’s “HAL” not Siri :)

I suspect he’s covering all his bases and he needs the lenses to be quite fast for video work. He has a rectilinear wide-angle, a prime, a macro and a telephoto. The only thing he’s missing is a curvilinear wide but I don’t suppose fisheye is used that often anyway.

If he chucks, say, the 135 and the 50mm for the 70-200, he’d have lost his fast lenses and low-light advantage. I’m just guessing but the 50mm will be used around f2.0 for sharpness and the nice creamy bokeh and the 135 has a good reach and is still pretty fast.

You have the king of the bokeh! I’m jealous! Well I got the 50mm f1.4 and as Jordan says it does a pretty good job.

Hopefully by next week, the computer’s tune would have changed to: “I’m completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly”.

Sorry my mistake. I didn’t mean to imply that.

Ok well I really didn’t mean to imply that is the reason why they are great, I just commented on the shoot setup.

Very interesting. I couldn’t help but look into this and I found some information that may be interesting to note:

:( touche

they say that they lower the temperature of the sensor, presumably to reduce “something” that increases the apparent noise. perhaps vibration on the surface of the sensor itself due to heat? perhaps they get another dozen bits from doing that. That coupled with a very long exposure. Perhaps some sort of software fuzzy AI interpolation too. I guess we’ll all find out eventually. Someone’s going to release a whitepaper.

I’m sorry but that’s not a fact. At least, not in 2012.

While I must say that no DSLR holds a candle to the sheer marvel that is the human eye, with respect specifically (and only) to light sensitivity, over the past few years, full frame DSLR sensors have well exceeded the human eye’s low-light sensitivity by almost an order of magnitude. The Nikon D3S for example has a sensor 7 times more sensitive to low-light than the human eye.

That may have been a cool fact to know a few years ago but technology has moved on and it is no longer so.

Steve Jobs always, and I mean ALWAYS had a nemesis. It is what he used to drive not only himself but his company. First, it was IBM. Then it was Microsoft. Finally you could say it was Android. In any case, there was always something that Steve would polarize himself with completely and utterly at every point in his amazing career. So hopefully he shouldn’t have too much of an issue ironing out an engaging story arc for the film. Good luck to him!

Wow. It puts a Hasselblad to shame… and I’ve seen those in action. They are no slouch!

Past tense: The consoles “sold” at a loss. They will be sold at a loss initially in order to future-proof them to some extent, giving the platform the necessary breathing room to expand and make money on other fronts like gaming and accessories over a 5+ year period.

The only exception is Nintendo in this regard. Both Microsoft and Sony do this.

It would be interesting to see this vs a Canon T2i aka 550D. Specs and price point seem similar.

Yeah that was a great interview. I sometimes wonder if, in 10 years we are to have a pocket device that has perhaps a terabyte of storage, perhaps 32 gigabytes of ram and perhaps a dozen or more cores. What on earth would be driving the consumption of these things?

Then I realise that, by then, we’d be probably capturing 3D 4k hd video at 60fps, taking photos of say 40 megapixels with not only the one viewpoint but with hdr and perhaps several actual images at various d.o.f, focal points. So we’d be comsuing 50MB of storage space a pop per photo and perhaps 1GB of video per minute of recording… not to mention all the crazy kinect-esque sensors on the device that could be analyzing the world around it and interfacing with our (by then) computer-geek-but-stylish- glasses.

Yeah, I think the hardware needs to be pushed. 2Gb on a phone is seriously nothing.

I agree about giving formal and proper feedback / criticism to companies. I did read somewhere (can’t remember where) that with all the pervasive social networks like facebook and twitter, the “spats” of anger actually do make a difference in this day and age. You could tweet terrible things about a product and even if it doesn’t affect the company directly, it can affect your followers and in turn their friends etc, etc. Companies can also mine the social networks for such information. Mass Effect 3—- ohh yes I think I remember now, it was something about ME3 and how even the most trivial rant on a forum or a tweet can create company-wide fallout. So now, I think that any form of negativity, once it gets online, really can influence the target company.