Advertisement with your own image, what the heck? Photoshop Live – Street Retouch Prank does that. Cool. Good idea and nice implementation. Is this the future of advertisement? In the video the people waiting for bus are immersed in the advertisement with help of image editing software and image editing artists. Victims of reactions ranging →
I own Fujifilm HS20EXR digital camera that use to take photos for this blog. One day I thought I wanted to have a wired external trigger. The ready made cables seemed to be expensive and/or hard to find. So I used the DIY approach: search for needed details from Internet and then build my own →
Over the last decade the way we find, store, and listen to music has undergone a huge change. Online media has changed many aspects of the audio industry, but some things just don’t change. The debate over audio quality still goes on. Ethernet AVB, USB Audio Class 2.0 aid audio quality article discusses on some →
Are you interested in seeing how light propagates? Filming light reflecting off objects article tells about a method for capturing “light in flight”. Making videos of light passing through and around objects has been done before, but this system is much cheaper (few hundred dollars) than those earlier systems ($300,000). Light-in-Flight Imaging page on that →
Some days ago I had to help a friend to interface several microphones to a Canon camcorder microphone input. I had interfaced earlier years ago microphones to several prosumer and professional video cameras, but I though it would be a good idea to do a Google search to check what is said on interfacing to →
News on the the Raspberry Pi camera module (5MP sensor at $25) has been around since earlier this year. Raspberry Pi camera module goes on sale article tells that THE CAMERA MODULE for the Raspberry Pi pocket computer is now available for order through RS Components and Premier Farnell/Element14. Documentation on how to set up →
I was an interesting article (written in Finnish) on AV-Visio 2/2013 on-line magazine about EBU – Recommendation R 128. In Finland the public broadcasting company YLE and biggest TV companies start to use that new practice this year on their channels. Similar standards on subjective audio volume control is in use USA and Canada. EBU →
I had been getting some intermittent noise from my Panasonic PT-AE900E video projector after some years of usage. It sounded like a dry bearing on a fan, but it turned out that it was iris that caused the problem. I decided to take a more look at this problems when I had time to change →
I just accidentally found my way to Super cool video hack: DIY Olympics virtual lane markers page that looked interesting. It says that a student, Xiaoyang Kao, recently figured out how to make his own Olympics-style lane markers. The virtual lane graphics for swimming with css3 page tells how this video effect was done. Instead →
I wrote few years ago blog article Unshielded RCA cable is bad design. I just received yesterday a comment on it: “It’s not always that simple. There are equipment combinations which REQUIRE twisted pair RCA. Here’s explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOagVDZLQnA” So I watched this Truth about RCA signal cables video mentioned on this comment: The video was →