Photos by Billy Song and Bob Geile
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Fire Alarm Clock
At 8:30 we were a woken to what sounded like people shooting glassware with pistols in the next. I jolted out of bed but thought it was someone watching a gangster movie until T came out of his room and said there was a fire and that sound was the NYFD smashing out windows.This picture was taken when the fire was relatively small and eventually it spread and started burning in the appt. directly above. B & T tried to leave the house but there were medics, firemen, and bodies outside the door. We had nothing to do but sit and watch as the fire got bigger and be shaken.
All of us still have our shoes on, ready to flee but they got the fire out, and we figure if the people on that floor are still hanging out their balconies we are OK. Plus, we are one floor down so the smoke won't be coming down to us, especially with 15 stories of windows busted out.
So much for waking up at 10. Hope everyone is alright.
-Idaho Bob-
Friday, February 6, 2009
Christians Trying to Ride my Coattails
Apparently, Idaho Bob is getting so popular that people are trying to cash in on the misspelling of going to my blog. Just look what happens when you remove the "s" from "blogspot" and try to get to me.
WTF is this: MEGA-SITE of Bible, Christian, church & religious information, sermons & studies. !!??!!
This is as bad as the www.yaho.com or www.googgle.com people (neither of which still exist as Yahoo and Google bought them out for a pretty penny I'm sure). Well, that's the price you pay for fame, eh?
-Idaho Bob-
*Yes I know that any blogpot.com goes there, but indulge me alright.
HVX200 vs. HPX170
HVX200 HPX170
Dec 2005 Summer 2008
1920 x 1080 Resolution 1920 x 1080 Resolution
480i/p, 720i/p, 1080i 480i/p, 720i/p, 1080i/p
ASA 320 ASA 500
82mm Leica Lens 72mm Leica Lens
4.2-55 zoom 3.9-51 zoom
*widest of any prosumer out now
Tape Deck & P2 P2 Only
Sharp LCD Sharper LCD
*Easier to Focus
N/A Waveform Monitor
N/A 3 Second Pre-Roll
N/A DRS Control
Little Image Trails Less Image Trails
Noise at +3-6db Noise at +6-9db
5.5 lbs 4.1lbs
In Conclusion
The HPX170 is noticeably lighter with more solid connections in and out of the camera, a big problem with the HVX200. The new features such as the WFM, advanced focus assist, and DRS controls are a huge plus but only in function not performance
The real difference is the wider lens but at the cost of having less telephoto. The improved DSP gives the HPX a half stop brighter chip, less noise in the blacks, and a smoother (less trails) image. However, these are almost unnoticeable unless scrutinizing the images side by side. The addition pf 1080p puts the HVX up with any other prosumer camera on the market and was a pitfall of the HVX200. The DVCPRO codec delivers 4:2:2 color sampling at a 100mb/s data rate as opposed to SONY’s HDV codec at 4:2:2 but only 25mb/s. That gives Panasonic the advantage with less compression of the image but more data to handle. Despite the 1080p addition, 720pn is still the most versatile shooting standard and looks almost identical to 1080p footage when uprezed.
HVX
HPX
You can see the more realistic color rendition and less green in the overall image. Also, there is a lot more detail in the darks with the 1/2 stop brighter HPX. If you look closely you can see a bit more detail in the HPX still, but it’s almost imperceptible on a moving image.
HVX
HPX
Most noticeably is the green in the HVX still, and the HPX image looks slightly more washed out and less contrasty. This is easily fixed in your NLE by adding a bit more saturation and crushing the blacks, and unlike the HVX image, which would need to have green removed and thus adding red, the HPX image will have more accurate color after color correction. I, and most colorists, prefer a clean colored image with more data to work with in the darks. The HPX, although seeming inferior in the still, delivers more control in post.
Mega Thanks to: Dan Brockett for the stills
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Fun at Salvor Studios
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
The First Woman To Have Sex w/ Her Own Kidney
We've all heard about the urban legend where a person wakes up in a hotel bathtub with a scar across the abdomen, one kidney lighter.
However, a new surgical procedure could make donating a kidney nearly scar-free - at least for women. For the first time, doctors extracted a kidney out of a patient's vagina for the purpose of organ donation.
A 48-year-old woman donated the organ to her niece.
Doctors have previously extracted cancerous kidneys using a similar technique, as well as appendixes and gall bladders.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins University Medical School performed the operation using two wands inserted through small incisions in the patient's abdomen. They tracked their movements with a video camera inserted through her navel.
Meanwhile, the surgeons cut an incision into her vaginal wall and put in a small plastic bag to hold the newly freed kidney. A string attached to the bag allowed them to pull the bag and kidney out of her vagina.
Though this may sound more invasive than extracting a kidney the traditional way, lead surgeon Robert Montgomery says the procedure could encourage more women to donate their kidneys.
Natural orifice surgeries are "the final frontier to explore in making surgery scarless, less painful and, for obese patients, much safer," said colleague Anthony Kalloo in a press release. "An organ donor, in particular, is most deserving of a scar-free, minimally invasive and pain-free procedure."
-From New Scientist-
-Idaho Bob-
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