Panasonic AF100 Micro Four Thirds video camera ships today, right on schedule
December 27, 2010 No Comment
As you probably know, we’re big fans of DSLR video around here at Engadget. From shooting product demos , to producing the Engadget Show , if we shot the video, it was likely done with one of these single-lens cameras: they’re convenient and capable of beautiful moving images but often leave much to be desired by way of form factor when it comes to video . While Canon and Nikon are slapping on articulating LCDs and calling it a day, Panasonic has upped the ante with its new AG-AF100 camera. Teased way back in April , Panny just dropped a press release announcing that its newest piece of video hardware is now being delivered, making a nice late holiday gift for any wannabe filmmakers that you really, really like. Basically, the AF100 is what happens when you stuff the innards of a DLSR into the body of a video camera and slap some interchangeable lenses in front of it. Listing at $4,995, the AF100 rocks a Micro Four Thirds sensor that records to dual SD cards in AVCHD and outputs 8-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 video to an external recorder via an HD-SDI connection. It also attempts to solve the audio issues plaguing DSLR video shooting (namely, the difficulty of getting pro-level audio to play nice with a camera designed only for imaging) with its two phantom-powered XLR audio inputs and built-in stereo microphone. Panasonic is also claiming to have lessened aliasing and the dreaded “jellycam” found in DSLR video with an optical low pass filter and faster scanning, while still boasting the wide viewing angle and shallow depth of field that movie-makers (and Vimeo users) know and love to death. We’ll be doing a full review of the AF100 as soon as we can get our hands on it; in the meantime, head on past the break for the full PR. Continue reading Panasonic AF100 Micro Four Thirds video camera ships today, right on schedule Panasonic AF100 Micro Four Thirds video camera ships today, right on schedule originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …In Show-Ending Poem, CBS’s Schieffer Spins Christmas Classic Into Critique of Tea Party, AZ Immigration Law
December 27, 2010 No CommentEnding Sunday's “Face the Nation” in poetic fashion, CBS's Bob Schieffer gave a year-end commentary where he portrayed John Boehner as the flustered “orange-faced” leader of a divided House GOP. Schieffer also snidely criticized the Arizona immigration law. “His face was bright orange, a sun-tan hall-of-famer. / I knew in a flash – it must be John Boehner,” spoke Schieffer, painting the soon-to-be Majority Leader as the head of a herd of reindeer, the House Republicans. “He hollered, cajoled, oh how he did plead, / But the deer wouldn't listen, each wanted to lead.” Composing his end-of-show commentary to verse, Schieffer summarized the 2010 political scene and provided some insight of his own as to how the next two years in Washington will unfold. Though Democrats met a bitter fate this November, Schieffer implied a possible downfall for the GOP with a split between Tea Partiers and incumbent Republicans.
Continue reading …Sarah Palin Tells Americans Who Care About Conservation to Shut Up (video)
December 27, 2010 No Comment
Proving that Facebook alone is not enough to share her deep and carefully argued opinions and thoughts on pubic policy, Sarah Palin now has her own reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” to spread her good cheer. She’s used the platform to taunt Michelle Obama for her work on ending childhood obesity and shown America how to shoot a moose for sport . Now Palin is going after conservations, who don’t seem to understand how the world really works. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Director Mike Leigh’s new film ‘Another Year’ follows a couple and their friends through four seasons – telling a story of love, loss and what it really means to live. (Dec. 27)
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Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd reveal the excitement they felt when they found out that they would be working with Jack Nicholson on their movie ‘How Do You Know.’ (Dec. 27)
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A new year is nearly upon us, and it will likely be a yet another year in which we see slowly increasing average global temperatures. With 2010 likely to be the hottest on the temperature records yet , the trend is only projected to continue. Unfortunately the consensus among
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Singer Alexandra Burke talks about her latest single ‘The Silence,’ and life after winning Simon Cowell’s TV singing contest ‘The X-Factor’ in 2008. (Dec. 27)
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We’re not sure how many more times it must be said, but seriously people — stop texting on your cellphone while operating a gigantic vehicle at high speeds. If you’re not already convinced that driving a car and trying to tap out a message on a tiny keyboard (or heaven forbid, no keyboard at all) is a poor match, perhaps the short documentary AT&T has just released will convince you otherwise. The carrier is launching a campaign geared towards teens over the holidays leading up to New Year’s Eve in the hopes that the youth of the world will be slightly less sure of their invincibility — at least where car driving and text messaging is concerned. Sure, the video (located after the break) borders on sentimentality at times, but we’ll take a little heavy-handedness over the injury or death of human beings simply because someone couldn’t wait to tell someone else that they’d be there soon. Trust us, your friends aren’t that worried about punctuality. Continue reading AT&T releases dramatic anti-texting while driving documentary AT&T releases dramatic anti-texting while driving documentary originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Things are looking up for Gov. Mark Sanford as he prepares to leave office on his own terms more than a year after the international affair that derailed his once-promising political career. (Dec. 27)
Continue reading …Rare Video of Wild Cambodian Elephant Released by Wildlife Conservation Society
December 27, 2010 No Comment
There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia’s Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The short video, a screengrab of which is above ( here’s the original footage ), taken back in August by Allan Michaud shows a male elephant feeding on grass. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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