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HDR Video Exists
Sep 10
HDR video accomplished with two Canon 5d Mark II’s and alot of video editing.
(I think when the Mk III’s come out, I will have a hard time resisting)
HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II’s from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.
www.sovietmontage.com
EDIT: Thanks for the comments! Please LIKE the video to bookmark it–and so you can see the upcoming film!
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This video highlights several clips we’ve made using our new High Dynamic Range (HDR) process. Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above.
HDR Video provides filmmakers with many exciting new opportunities. Not only can HDR video create interesting effects, it can also allow for even exposure where artificial lighting is unavailable or impractical. For example, when a subject is backlit, one camera could be set to properly expose the subject, the other the sky, resulting in video with perfect exposure throughout.
We will continue to develop and improve the HDR video process for better results and efficiency. For more information, check out our website www.sovietmontage.com.
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Opus 40, Number 9
Performed by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed Under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″
Star Wars Trek
May 18
old.
I still get that twinge of jealousy with all his equipment that would have cost a pretty penny back then. Not to mention his parents never seem to care about him wardialing thousands of calls on their line. My parents freaked out everytime a computer would dial me. But how else would I join those wionderful BBSes and get my TradeWars on?
WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
Wiki Articles of the Day. My attempt at making the wikipedia chain addictions into something (anti-)productive for you, the reader! (Henceforth tagged as WAOTD.)
Hedy Lamarr – Talk about a Renaissance woman. Not only a gorgeous and celebrated actress, but also an award winning scientist.
Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum encoding, a key to modern wireless communication.
I may slot these into the extrinsic posts instead.
Tron via cardboard
Mar 28
Yes, this is quickly developing into a Youtube meme, but that is because it is good.
A 3-year-old girl explains Star Wars succinctly, in less than 2 minutes:
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.
Now we can finally all go buy a damn movie player. Even though we won’t notice that much difference over regular DVDs. And now Microsoft can scramble to change their XBOX360, or not.
click the link at the top or the link below to see the full press release. Read the rest of this entry »
Abandoned AT-AT wreck wins
Dec 29
A model that became one of my favorites the instant I saw it. This is a custom model entered into a contest on starshipmodeler.com called “Wrecks”. And, while there are many great entries, there is no doubt why it won.
It even won my heart :snif:
This is so wrong, but oh so right.
Cinematic Titanic
Dec 2
Joel Hodgson and some of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew have set up a website for a new show they are making: Cinematic Titanic.
Fromt he blog/description, it sounds like it will be in the same format as MST3K, with B-movies and silhouettes and all. J. Elvis Weinstein and Trace Beaulieu are also in on the project, and the three of them happen to be the original cast of MST3K.
Interesting at least. I’m not sure why they are going back to old roots, but I hope its from inspiration and not from lack of living expenses. Mike Nelson’s Rifftrax were mildly funny to me, but nothing that made me laugh as much as MST3K. But I wonder if this project is in response to Rifftrax’s apparent success.
The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom
The Secret of Star Wars Fandom
If you run into somebody who tells you they thought the franchise was quite enjoyable, and they very-much liked the originals as well as the prequels, and even own everything on DVD, and a few of the books, these imposters are not Star Wars Fans.
Star Wars fans hate Star Wars.
The King of Nerds
Jul 7
Not me, I am merely a pauper among nerddom, although I do my best. I heard about a movie called King of Kong that made a splash at Cannes or Sundance or somewhere a few months ago. It’s a movie about old arcade game champions and how they still compete today. I searched all over for a trailer of preview or something back then, and couldn’t find anything.
Fast-forward to today, where I caught Sicko at the Alamo, and one of the quirky trailers they showed was for the King of Kong movie.
I never realized that the world champion was so arrogant about being good at old arcade games. He literally sounds like Walken in his “When I put on my pants, I make gold records” form.
