Yosemite National Park. . .in High Definition 3D By John Virata While 3D films have been around since at least the 1950s, the technique of creating 3D movies gets revisited quite often. Back in the mid 1990s at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Sony showed a 3D film at one of its after hours parties at the Aquarium, to the delight of all who were invited to screen it. At this year's NAB trade show in Las Vegas, all the major camera manufacturers were showcasing 3D displays and some had 3D camera demonstrations in their booths. ...Read More »

2008 Holiday Gift Guide By Heath McKnight It's that time of year again: the leaves change color, the temperature drops, and your wallet is feeling just heavy enough to drop a few bucks on gifts for friends and family. I'll help walk you through some of the hottest tech gadgets, for both the consumer and professional in your life. Let's get started! ...Read More »

NAB 2008: Canon`s new HD lens system is a hit By David Basulto Just like clockwork, my trip to NAB always includes a wonderful dinner with the folks at Canon. I am lucky enough to be invited and to try out Canonâ??s amazing new cameras. At this yearâ??s event Canon introduced a new line of HD lenses for broadcast. ...Read More »

NAB 2008: Supersession By Ko Maruyama While there are several companies who are attending NAB with deep pockets and massive budgets, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're allowed to spend that money on production. In the supersession with keynote by Stu Maschwitz, the panel discussed what they thought about the future and how to stretch the production dollar. ...Read More »

Canon shows range of camcorders at CES 2008 By John Virata Consumers are ingesting video more than any other form of media. The major consumer electronics manufacturers have answered with new camcorders that capture to a variety of formats. Tape based camcorders are slowly giving way to tapeless camcorders due to reliability and convenience. Let's face it, there is really no reason to fumble with switching out a video tape when you can easily continue to capture using one of the tapeless-based camcorders. ...Read More »

PXC MEMBER PRODUCES HIT OUTDOOR PODCAST By Ko Maruyama Avid outdoorsman and PixelCorps member, Tony Farley shares some of the great outdoors with some great HD footage in a podcast appropriately named "Beautiful Places" ...Read More »

Beautiful Places HD By Ko Maruyama The Golden Nut Award is awarded to Mission Project winners by an esteemed panel of Mountain Hardwear judges. This month, the award went to Beautiful Places' Tony Farley for his creation of a podcast which celebrates beautiful hikes through all kinds of different parks, and along multiple trails. ...Read More »

A Photographic Tour of the waters off of Maui By Kelley Kuhlman Last time I declared that I would share common seasonal photo opportunities and realized as I re-organized my photos that if the truth be known, there are so many similarities in seasons that it could be redundant. ...Read More »

THANK YOU COME AGAIN By Ko Maruyama I sent up the signal for the Flying Hellfish, and my buddy Rob was on his way... We both trucked down to the Burbank 7-11 store which has been converted (during the month of July) into a KWIK-E-MART. This has nothing to do with the regular software stuff I write about, but it's an EVENT! ...Read More »

Photography in the Park By Ko Maruyama When my dad got me my first SLR body, the camera shop hosted workshops and gave free processing vouchers. Hobbyists got together and compared nature photos that summer, and we learned about our new cameras. Canon wants you to learn about your camera. Because digital photos requires no negative processing, giving away vouchers is ho-hum. How about winning some cool cameras and printers? ...Read More »