I have been looking for a replacement for my old Pentax Optio. I loved mine but haven’t heard great things about some of the later models. I love the pix and particularly the video quality of my Panasonic LX3. If this has the same video quality of the LX3 in a waterproof form factor will have to pickup one for use as my take everywhere, no really everywhere camera. The LX3 is great but can be a bit bulky and I wouldn’t want to take it to the beach. I took it skiing last week and got some great video but I was a little nervous I would break it. It made it home just fine but I wouldn’t want to take it to many more times and expect it to work. I like the idea of using a camera like this as a video camera.
Coming in April Panasonic will be releasing the Lumix DMC-TS1D. It features a LEICA lens with 4.6x optical zoom (28mm-129mm). The camera body is waterproof to 3 meters. It can shoot in temperatures as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit and it has passed drop tests at a height of about 4.92 ft.
The camera shoots in AVCHD format – lets you shoot HD motion images for a longer time The TS1 records HD motion images at a smooth 60 frames per second with 1280 x 720-pixel resolution. It uses the AVCHD (MPEG-4/H.264) format, which stores less data than other formats and thus lets you shoot more minutes of HD motion images before running out of memory. Here are some pix. Head over to Imaging Insider or Panasonic for more details.
According to the banned Super bowl ad they do. I am holding back all kinds of jokes here. The commercial was banned so it may not be safe for work. I am not sure I get the point of the campaign. I watched that ad numerous times and it doesn’t make me want to become a vegetarian.
Panasonic today updated the firmware for the LX-3 camera. The new firmware fixes include the following.
The instructions make updating seem harder than they are. Download the firmware. Unzip it. Toss the file called LX3__120.bin on to an SD card and pop in the camera. When you start the camera it will ask you if you want to update to the new firmware. Say yes, wait 2 minutes and you are done. There that didn’t hurt much did it? Don’t have the camera? Get it here.
I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
Nice to see someone besides Apple actually developing their own PC and not just slapping a bunch of components in a box and putting their logo on the outside. No pricing listed yet but I would get it would be closer to Apple than Dell.
Not happy with iphoto? Take a look at Picasa from Google, now available for the Mac. This and/or Adobe Lightroom is what I recommend to all my PC using friends.
The numbers weren’t expected to be good and they lived up to expectations. Take Chrysler out of the mix and the big 3 don’t look that bad compared to their foreign competition.
About the Film Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Here is the LX3 video from my ski trip for reference. Click here then hit the watch in HD to see a better version.
