Audio and Video

Smart phone lens set

Smart phone cameras are useful in many ways. Smartphone cameras are great, or at least close enough to great that you don’t notice the difference in many cases to traditional camera.Compared to a DSLR, smart phone cameras are still pretty lame. But the camera in your pocket is crazy good considering the limitations manufacturers work →

Microphones and their use

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. Electromagnetic transducers facilitate the conversion of acoustic signals into electrical signals. Most microphones today use electromagnetic induction (dynamic microphones), capacitance change (condenser microphones) or piezoelectricity (piezoelectric microphones) to produce an electrical signal from air pressure variations. There are many different →

360 degree videos craze

Remember when 3D TV was hot some years ago and then interest in it faded. Now we have a new craze: virtual reality glasses and 360 degree video on then. YouTube Developing Live 360-Degree Video Capability as it seeks to extend its lead in virtual reality with live immersive broadcasts. The virtual reality video production →

NASA spools up ultra-high def aurora movie

NASA spools up ultra-high def aurora movie  article tells that  NASA has released an illuminating ultra-high definition (4K) video featuring the Auroras Borealis and Australis as seen from the International Space Station. Harmonic produced this show exclusively for NASA TV UHD, using time-lapses shot from the International Space Station, showing both the Aurora Borealis and →

Light field video camera

I have earlier written about light field photography and related new camera technologies earlier in this blog.It has been somewhat silent on this market for some time, but now something interesting happens – Lytro (best known maker of light field cameras) has released Lytro Cinema camera for professional video and digital film production markets. Lytro →

Hello p5.js

p5.js is a new interpretion of  Processing – an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, nd reinterprets this for today’s web – it it you are not limited to your drawing canvas, →