Disney picks up Pixar?
If the Telegraph is to be believed then the Disney is about to get Pixar for $7 billion dollars in stock making Jobs’s 50% share in Pixar the single largest shareholder in Disney. Wow!
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Fake or Photo fun
A fun discussion on Flickr pointed me to this site that contains a quiz where you guess images as “fake†or “photoâ€? The site is sponsored by Alias, they have been the king of 3D graphics for many years now. I remember visiting my friend at Alias/Wavefront’s offices in Santa Barbara (back when they were […]
Canon’s 30 millionth
DPReview posted that Canon built their 30 millionth EF lens. This is quite a feat since they only introduced the mount in 1987 (a new mount to go along with a new “EOS” body which added Minolta’s auto-focusing ideas into their previous auto-exposure (AE) design), just under twenty years ago. This is great stuff! “Canon […]
Scanning resolution…
Here is a question I received today: We’re planning to buy the 35mm film negatives from our wedding photographer, and we would like to have them scanned into digital format (as a back-up, and so friends/family can order prints). A friend of a friend offered to help us out—and “scan them at 16-bit resolution†for […]
Moving to the Front Row
I’m always amazed that so many Mac users haven’t seen Front Row just because it is installed only on an iMac (G5 and Core Duo). Now that the MacBook Pro is out with the Front Row installed, I recalled that there was some way to hack other Macs to run the software. I wondered what […]
Year of the Dog
“Dog ’06†by Mnemonix Michael Rowley whom I know from work designed some kick butt Chinese New Year images for Plaxo eCards. You can check them out here (they’re the one’s marked “newâ€). He uses his mad pict-o-graphics skills on one of them. There is another clever one from with an image kindly provided by […]
Feeding the Canon trolls
I hate how nearly every discussion that mentions Canon and Nikon in the same breath degenerates into a pissing contest. Yes, I’ve been guilty of this myself, but I like to think my rants are of a different quality than mindless cheering of “my team.†Having said that, I wanted to piss on another troll […]
ZF lenses
Zeiss today announced the much rumored foray into Nikon SLR cameras with the ZF lens series for the Nikon F-mount. (Previously Zeiss only made interchangeable photo lenses for Contax.) These lenses are manual-focus prime lenses. In particular a 50mm (Planar T* 1.4/50 ZF) and 85mm (Planar T* 1.4/85 ZF) lenses. Probably much better constructed than […]
Gore on W
On Martin Luther King Day, Gore delivered an extremely well-written bi-partisan speech indicting the Bush administration and attempting to deliver us from the precipice. I’m certain that the Right Wing will not debate the merits of this speech but simply say, “Gore? Who dey?” or some such. A pity.
MacRumors MacWorld roundup
Arn posts a roundup of the Macworld 2006 rumors. I have always loved the work he has done there, even though MacRumors is an aggregator of rumors, not a news site itself, he seems to have a “taste†for what is good Mac news and what isn’t living up to his tag-line: “news and rumors […]