Look baby 13 stops dynamic range! get that red one outa my face!

In an interview with FreshDV a sony interview revealed that Sony's F23 has a whopping dynamic range of 13 stops.
And those red guys where excited about RED one having 11 stops! holy crap!

"Most of the HD cameras on the market will provide you with about 9 stops of dynamic range, this camera actually gives you 13"
- Jeff Cree

In the commentary for Deja' Vu Tony Scott commented on Panavisions Genisis camera saying that it performs amazingly at night but HD isn't quite there when it comes to dynamic range so it's not as good for a day light shoot as film.

In the reduser.net forums is was said that film has a dynamic range of roughly 13 stops so this puts the F23 in very favorable eyes for a cinematographer I think.

3. Dynamic Range- advantage 35mm film
Film is roughly 13 stops. The RED camera is currently 11.3 (although we are working on improvement in this area).

Time will tell if Red one is able to match this but for the time being Red one fans have one less thing to rag on Sony about.

Update Heres the interview right here.

New Macbook Pros from apple

With WWDC Less than a week away apple has Just announced an update to their Macbook pro line which has proven to be a very exciting update.
Although there is still no Blu-ray drives on these computers an update to the DVD player software could quickly make the 17 inch Macbook pro a decent option to go along with an external drive.

Along with a new Geforce graphics chip, Display upgrades including LED backlighting for 15 inch models the Macbook pro also sees a small boost in processor speed and a 4 GB memory limit up from 3 GB.

The 2.4 GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $2,499 (US), includes:


15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440-by-900 LCD display;
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
160GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory;
DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
built-in iSight video camera;
Gigabit Ethernet port;
built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, and one FireWire 400 port;
one audio line in and one headphone out port, each supporting optical digital audio;
Scrolling TrackPad and illuminated keyboard;
the infrared Apple Remote; and
85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.
The 2.4 GHz, 17-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), includes:


17-inch widescreen 1680-by-1050 LCD display;
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
160GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory;
DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
built-in iSight video camera;
Gigabit Ethernet port;
built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, and one FireWire 400 port;
one audio line in and one headphone out port, each supporting optical digital audio;
Scrolling TrackPad and illuminated keyboard;
the infrared Apple Remote; and
85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.

introducing itunes plus... from apple

itunes plus is apple's new DRM free high quality music format, The lack of DRM on the files will essentially allow users to do what ever they please with the music.
Even if they want to put it on their new Zune or PSP for example, granted they may have to convert the format a little.

This announcement comes about with the release of itunes 7.2 which is available for Mac and Windows on apple.com as usual.
Currently only EMI is bringing out DRM free music this way however high sales may prompt other record labels to follow suit.
We may still see DRM in our lives for years to come but this could potentially be the beginning of the end of DRM.

Lets hope the Movie industry does the same these Dinosaurs are going to make themselves go under if their not careful.

48 hours is over!

And Team Spielberg, my team has finished on time.
I had my camera a spare tape and a full tape come time to deliver so what do I do?
I take the camera along with me baby! Heres a look at what happens in the final moments of the competition.
One dude showed up with a laptop Avid running trying to borrow a camera and buy someone's mini DV tape.
I assume he had a finished film on there to dump onto it or something but even if the man had succeeded he had no envelope or finishing documents.

No dice