Nic Fillingham

Nic Fillingham

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Nic Fillingham's technology blog on Channel 10.
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Photokina 2008 - Drew Gardner shows us the 60MP P 65+

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Nov 20th @ 11:30 AM
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Renowned British photographer Drew Gardner was at Photokina 2008 this year helping demonstrate the 60.5 mega pixel, Phase One P 65+ digital back.
Phase One is a Danish company that specializes in high-end, medium format cameras, digital backs and RAW processing software.
For those of you (like me) unfamiliar with the term digital back, Wikipedia tells us that it is "a device which attaches to the back of a camera in place of a film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras which were designed to use film take digital photographs".
The sensor on the P 65+ is absolutely mammoth, and comes with a price tag to match, but as Drew explains (and shows us) the results are both spectacular and well worth it.

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Tags: photography, photokina 2008, ShutterSpeed

Channel 9 on Mars: A tour of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Nov 17th @ 9:57 AM
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Charles and I were lucky enough to get a tour of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasendena, CA last month whilst we were in town for PDC2008.
Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration (aka coolest job title evar!) granted us permission to film a portion of his awesome tour and spoke with Charles about designing and building robots for use on other planets.

"Tune in and learn about some of the challenges of developing autonomous machines that you will never get to touch again (think about the reduncancy requirements for a robot rover that is deployed 100 million miles away from Earth...)"

Check it out here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Channel-9-on-Mars-Inside-the-Mars-Exploration-Mission-Past-Present-and-Future/[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: jpl, mars, NASA, robotics

Photokina 2008 - Seitz 6x17 Digital, 160 Million Pixel Camera

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Nov 12th @ 2:11 PM
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One second,... That's the time it takes for the Seitz 6x17 Digital camera to capture 160 Million Pixels!

We checked out the Seitz booth at Photokina 2008 and got the man himself to give us a demo of this monster slit-scan panoramic camera, the largest and fastest in its class.

If you like the idea of medium format panoramic photography but don't have a spare 25,000 Euros you might want to check out Microsoft Image Composite Editor.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: photography, photokina 2008, ShutterSpeed

Windows Home Server + Live Mesh @ PDC2008

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Nov 4th @ 3:30 PM
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The Windows Home Server team were at PDC2008 presenting sessions on developing WHS applications and services which are now available for on-demand viewing over at Channel 9.

We sat down with Mark Pendergrast, Brendan Grant and Doug Berrett to chat about their PDC sessions and how Live Mesh is being integrated with Windows Home Server including a prototype demo of WebGuide running as a Silverlight application from the Live Mesh desktop.

Session links: Exposing Connected Home Services to the Internet via Windows Home Server (ES12) & Developing Connected Home Applications and Services for Windows Home Server (ES11)[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Live Mesh, pdc2008, WHS, Windows Home Server

Photokina 2008 - Minox Spy Cameras

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Nov 3rd @ 9:33 AM
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The Channel 10 cameras were in Cologne, Germany last month for Photokina 2008 and on display was the latest and greatest in digital photography and imaging products and technologies.
One of the companies that caught my eye was Minox - manufacturer of the original miniature spy camera - who had a new line of covert picture taking devices that look like they've come straight out of Q's laboratory.
Check out Minox.com for more info[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: photography, photokina 2008, ShutterSpeed

AC/DC 's Rock n' Roll Train Music Video,.. in Excel!??

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Oct 24th @ 5:21 PM
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Yep - AC/DC's first new studio album in eight years - Black Ice - is now out and to celebrate some clever fan has converted the music video for Rock n' Roll Train into ASCII format and stuck it in an excel spreadsheet!

What the video here or download and run the XLS yourself!

Link: http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel/
Tags: AC/DC, ascii, Excel

Duke Nukem 3D Available now on Xbox Live Arcade

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Sep 24th @ 10:20 AM
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Woot! For 800 MS Points you can now get your hands on Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox Live Arcade.

Duke Nukem, the politically incorrect action hero and ultimate alien ass kicker, defends Earth and its babes from alien invasion in Duke Nukem 3D. This is the award winning game that helped define the FPS genre, introducing unparalleled interactivity, and a main character that spoke. Take the fight to the aliens across 39 levels featuring Hollywood, Los Angeles, a moon base, and alien spacecraft. Innovative items like the Jetpack, HoloDuke, Shrink Ray, or Pipe Bombs allow you to fight the aliens in any style you want. Defeat the aliens, so Duke can get back to some R&R with a stogie, a warm belly, and a bottle of Jack.

Featuring: Eight-player cooperative and DukeMatch multiplayer, user clips, concept art galleries and Xbox 360 enhancements like controller vibration, bilinear filtering, motion blur and Xbox LIVE® Vision camera support.

More info: 3D Realms & Xbox.com

"Come Get Some!"

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Tags: Duke Nukem, gaming, xbox 360, xbox live arcade

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) Released (for FREE!)

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Sep 23rd @ 9:50 AM
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Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE), released today is an advanced, stand alone version of the panoramic image stitching feature found in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

From the ICE web site:
"...shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats,... like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom"

More info here: HDView Blog
Download: http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/ice.html[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: images, microsoft research, panoramic, photography, stitching

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2.0 Released

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Sep 19th @ 11:00 AM
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From the Pro Photo Blog:

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers allowing them to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, edit metadata, and organize your images by leveraging the power of Microsoft Live Local.

More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/prophoto/archive/2008/09/17/new-version-of-pro-photo-tools-released.aspx

Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/tools.aspx

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Tags: geotag, geotagging, Metadata, photographers, photography, pro tools

XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta Now Available

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Sep 17th @ 9:38 AM
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XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta is now available to download with tones of new features including support for the new Zune 3.0 firmware, Rich Presence and Invites.

Download here: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/3.0beta_mainpage

More info on the XNA team blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/09/16/xna-game-studio-3-0-beta-is-go.aspx[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: games, xbox 360, XNA
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