TED Talks-Peter Gabriel on Witness Human Rights Program 1/2

ted.com - Musician and activist Peter Gabriel starts his talk by sharing the painful, personal story behind his own investment in human rights causes. He relates some of the terrible stories he's encountered throughout his extensive travels, and explains how these stories inspired him to create the human-rights watchdog group WITNESS, which distributes digital cameras to ordinary citizens so they can document injustice and abuse.

Blu-ray Video Camera - 2008 Hitachi Woo Camcorders : DigInfo

movie.diginfo.tv At a press conference in Tokyo on the 31st of January, 2008, Hitachi announced the release of their latest line of Blu-ray and HDD based video cameras. Improving on the DZ-BD7 and 7H which were released in japan last year, the new DZ-BD9H features a 60Gb HDD which can store up to 9 hours of full 1920 x 1080 HD footage and can also store 1 hour of footage on 8cm, 7.5Gb blu-ray discs. Kazuto Shimagami, Senior Manager, Digital AV Products Division, Hitachi "We released the worlds first Blu-ray based camera last fall, and these cameras are a development from that. We have improved the storage to 60Gb so users can shoot and store a lot of footage. Compared with the previous models it has 1000 scanlines and a higher resolution. It also includes a Blu-ray Disc menu with other accessories, in addition to this we have also developed HDD only based cameras." The DZ-BD9H features an improved image processing system consisting of a new lens which allows for higher frequencies of light to be passed to the CMOS sensor, a 5.3 Megapixel CMOS sensor with a redesigned primary color filter for a higher signal to noise ratio in low light situations, reducing the minimum light requirements from 24 to 15 lux, and the optimized Picture Master Full HD image processing engine for more detailed crisper images, more vivid colors and less noise in low light situations, the processing engine can also compress the data by 1.5 to 2 times. These features combined allow for an improved ...

Canon EOS - Integrated Cleaning System ICS

Canon has developed a comprehensive approach to deal with the potential problem of dust on digital SLR camera sensors, based on the three concepts of Prevent dust generation, Prevent dust adhesion, and Remove adhered dust. In addition to using dust-resistant materials and mechanisms that prevent generation of dust within the camera body, anti-static treatment also prevents dust from adhering to the sensor. And if any stray dust should adhere, Canon has developed a self-cleaning sensor unit that produces ultrasonic vibrations to remove dust from the filter protecting the CMOS sensor.

NN180 - How It Works

Fanotec is proud to announce a new entry into the product line - the Nodal Ninja 180 (NN180). The NN180 will support camera/lens combination's which NN3 and NN5 do not support. They include stops for dual shot spherical panos when using lenses such as Nikon FC-E8/E9 and the Sunex 5.6mm Fisheye. Also supports long converter-camera combination's such as the earlier mentioned FC-E9 and also Raynox DCR-CF185 Pro when using with long prosumer or point and shoot Digital Cameras. NN180 is also intended to simplify pano taking for certain camera/lens combination's by allowing single row shooting instead of multi-row shooting. They include cameras with circular fisheye lenses such as the Sigma 4.5mm, sigma 8mm on full frame cameras, Sunex 5.6mm, and Nikon FC-E8/E9 for making spherical panos, also wide angle lenses for making cylindrical panos. Lenses such as shaved Nikon 10.5mm on full frame sensor and Sigma 8mm on cropped sensor can be supported by using a L-bracket and slanted adapter (to be released later) for making spherical panos.