This little film test from Kodak is a sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film. For some reason, I couldn’t help but smile as I watched it.
“First tests on the Two-Color Kodachrome Process were begun in late 1914. Shot with a dual-lens camera, the process recorded filtered images on black/white negative stock, then made black/white separation positives. The final prints were actually produced by bleaching and tanning a double-coated duplicate negative (made from the positive separations), then dyeing the emulsion green/blue on one side and red on the other. Combined they created a rather ethereal palette of hues.”
At Canon EXPO 2010 in New York, Canon displayed a 4K concept camera, which Canon describes as “lightweight and compact, Multipurpose Camera that supports both video and still image capture with ultra-high definition 4K resolution and a newly developed CMOS sensor that enables video shooting at high frame rates in excess of 60 frames per second.”
The new Canon 60D, XF105 and XF100 camcorders and plenty other gadgets that have yet to be released were also on display at Canon EXPO 2010.
Philip Bloom has a nice little rundown of the the show floor here. Also, get more details in Canon’s official press release below. [click to continue…]
Tamron has developed an aperture correction plug-in for use with RAW image workflows in Adobe Photoshop CS5, Camera RAW and Lightroom 3. The new plug-in is designed for a number of Tamron lenses.
More details on the plug-in, including a full list of lenses, in the press release below. [click to continue…]
Carl Zeiss has announced a 35mm Distagon T* f/1.4 lens for Canon and Nikon DSLRs. The new lens should be available in early 2011. More details in the press release below. [click to continue…]
In Part 1 of this series, I provided an introduction to this autofocus evaluation, as well as a brief overview of the Canon 1D Mark IV AF system. If you have not read part 1 of this series, you can do so now by clicking here:
![Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF] Lens](http://www.ericreagan.com/photos/638057096_2BJtn-M.jpg "Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF] Lens")
