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valleylist(sm) v163 r.1 thursday 06.16.2011
high tech products companies consumers
+ macworld digital photography superguide + are dvrs worth the energy they waste?
+ twitter announces photosharing service
+ new macbook air to ship next month
+ facebook new photo sharing app
DIGITAL CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHY come from an elite tradition. portraits of important people and politicians eventually gave way to pictures of back yard barbeques. a real family portrait still requires a visit to a professional portrait photographer.
george eastman inventor of roll film and founder of the eastman kodak company is the valleylist” avatar this week. the self taught eastman perfected roll film [1884] then commercialized the kodak camera[1888] for mainstream america. eastman kodac [1894] was the first company to manufacture motion picture film. eastman kodac was mass marketing consumer pocket cameras by the end of the 19th century. photography became an everyday experience. eastman sold motion picture film to edison and the lumiere brothers eastman was also a devoted philanthropist and set up endowments at the mechanics institute the eastman school of music and the university of rochester.
top 10 digital cameras
[based on amazon.com best selling digital cameras]
1.canon powershot a3000is 10 mp digital camera
2.canon powershot sx210is 14.1 mp digital camera
3.canon powershot elph 300 hs 12 mp cmos cigital camera
4.nikon coolpix p500 12.1 cmos digital camera
5.nikon d3100 14.2mp digital slr camera
6.canon eos rebel t3i 18 mp cmos digital slr camera
7.canon powershot s95 10 mp digital camera
8.canon powershot a490 10.0 mp digital camera
9.sony cyber-shot dsc-hx5v 10.2mp cmos 10x wide angle digital camera
10.canon powershot elph 100 hs 12 mp cmos digital camera
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source: amazon.com electronics digital photography top 10 point and shoot
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according to cnet cannon leads digital with sales equal to top 3 competitors combined. digital camera are sales expected to continue to grow at 15%to 20% a year. digital cameras began outselling traditional optical cameras around the year 2002.
wikipedia says the first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was the fuji ds-1p [1988]. digital formats were helped by the formation of jpeg and mpeg standards.
analysis. digital cameras use an image sensor. a ccd or cmos sensorchip turns light into discrete signals actually replaces film in traditional photography. the sensor counts the number of photons so that the brighter the image the larger the value for that pixel. a color filter arraymay be used that requires a demosaicing/interpolation algorithm. the resulting pixels determine its “pixel count“. for example a 640×480 image would have 307,200 pixels or approximately 307 kilopixels a 3872×2592 image would have 10,036,224 pixels or approximately 10 megapixels.
digital photography vs. optical photography. the cost make model and year of the camera are the decisive factors. add type of display device or printing medium and you find that ordinary consumers are very happy with digital photography.
professional level optical photography has upwards of 20 million pixels. optical is still the preferred camera for top-of-the-line picture taking.
ads on images is the latest frontier. rollover an internet picture or advertising image and a pop-up or pop-under ad pops up. supposedly the last advertising frontier from a technology revolution that created photo sharing sites like flicr and picasa and specialized photo albums ranging from facebook to the ipad to camera-equipped cell phones that email new images just a few seconds later. the internet is a digital photography sensation. add apps that use camera phones to capture important documents and signatures and you have camera phone based banking like the chase app. futher out. 3d and megapixel camera phones that produce photographs better than standard optical cameras.
what else?
“valleylist” electronic publishing is online.
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“valleylist” planned titles – - people who lined it up
planned new titles and sponsorship online
actual publishing schedule online at http://calendar.yahoo.com/g_mcpaul
pub date - – - # title - – - – - – - - [avatar] - – - - version
thursdays
05.19.2011 – - 11_movies film & video [louis lumiere] v159
05.26.2011 – - 12_digital hollywood [george lucas] v160
06.02.2011 – - 13_youtube and internet movies [chad hurley] v161
06.09.2011 – - 14_digital video and television [sony d-1 format] v162
06.16.2011 – - 15_digital cameras and photography [george eastman] v163 <- – current edition
06.23.2011 – - 16_digital television [fcc chairman julius genachowski] v164
06.30.2011 – - 17_cable television [gerald levin] v165
07.07.2011 – - 18_television networks [william s paley] v166
07.14.2011 – - 19_television and cable news The TED video could not be loaded. v167
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planned titles and sponsorship is online. “valleylist” remains focused on movies film and video. new sponsors needed. cash only.
publishing schedule includes all editions through the end of the year. in between try free museum and art events. latest is the frameline lgbt film festival leading up to the san francisco gay pride parade.
what to do when off the schedule.
david chiu campaign headquarters opened sat 6.10 location 1800 van ness avenue. open 7 days a week and counting on the neighborhoods to win the mayoral election. also accepting artwork donations.
jeremy noby stencil making workshop at 1am gallery san francisco happened later that same day. i learned how to produce a real stencil spray paint artwork in just a few minutes. lesson learned. don’t let mistakes get you down.
one nation under a groove. “valleylist” people for the future. high tech pop culture politics all digital under all roof. internet publishing top10 everything cell phones computers tablets internet connectivity universality camcorders digital cameras. ipods. mp3 players.
all under one roof.
digital cameras and photography.
very popular. not really a necessity. the compulsion.
eastman would say “you push the button we do the rest”.
greg mckenna
publisher
valleylist
valleylist_news@yahoo.com
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