Thursday, October 14, 2004

Recently a company in the VR marketplace attempted to send me some swag. I politely declined, as I have with all such offers. I think accepting freebies or ads from manufacturers is incompatible with bringing you news and comments uninfluenced by the powers that be in the VR space. A reminder -- VRlog continues to publish news and analysis of the photographic Virtual Reality world, and appreciates your support. Contributions from you, the readers, pays the bills that keeps this site on the Internet. 7:30:29 AM

Questions have been rolling in about the location of the new masthead photo. It was shot from the Pacific Crest Trail between Burney and I-5, near Mt. Shasta. We didn't meet a single person along this section of the trail. The semi-invisible person in the scene is my friend David. View it as a QuickTime VR here. 7:26:10 AM

PAGEot: "PAGEot is an application which generates EMBED and OBJECT code for the QuickTime Plug-in. With a single click PAGEot allows you to add QuickTime movies (interactive videos, sounds, panoramas and objects...) to your HTML pages. It gives to advanced users an immediate access to the complex features of QuickTime plug-ins, and gives you the power to create interactive playlists and presentations. " 7:13:21 AM

Cinematize 2 extracts DVD video down to frame level: "San Jose, Calif.-based Miraizon has updated Cinematize, its tool for extracting audio and video from a DVD. With the release of version 2.0, users can now select video clips as short as a single frame, decode video to any QuickTime-supported codec, save multiple clips in a single file and control such output options as frame rate and decoding mode. In addition, Cinematize 2 automatically synchronizes audio and video as it captures a clip and features performance enhancements for Macs with G4 or G5 processors." (Via MacCentral.) 6:57:21 AM

Bibble Labs announce Bibble 4.0: "It's been a while since we had an announcement from Bibble Labs but I'm glad to see that the independent RAW conversion software is back and apparently stronger than ever. Bibble 4.0 has been re-written from the ground up and features better workflow and RAW conversion features including wider camera support, new work queues, automated renaming, web galleries and ICC profiling. Overall performance and more importantly RAW conversion speed is also said tobe improved. Bibble 4.0 is available for Windows, Mac..." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 6:55:27 AM

Will these fusion devices with camera, MP3 player, and other electronics be popular? Olympus MR-500i Digital Camera: "Fashionable Compact Design of MR-500i Puts 20 Gigabytes Worth of Music and Images At Your Fingertips With Unique "No Button" Touch-Screen Interface. Read More........" (Via Image-Acquire.com.) 6:55:12 AM

Novoflex Panorama-VR System: "With the arrival of digital recording and software-based post-processing, techniques for achieving perfect panning shots and 360° panoramic views are attracting a lot of attention in the photographic world. The new Novoflex Panorama-VR system perfectly meets the demands of professional photographers for an easy-to-use adjuster system to rotate a camera 360° around a nodal point." (Via Digital Photography Blog.) 6:49:54 AM

CrystalMaker 6.3.8: "CrystalMaker is an award-winning Mac program for building, displaying and manipulating all kinds of crystal and molecular structures - with real-time photo-realistic graphics and “out-of-the-screen” 3D stereo display. CrystalMaker has powerful input/output capabilities, with support for major structural database formats, export of ultra-high resolution graphics, QuickTime movies and QTVR objects - plus menu commands for simulating diffaction patterns (working with our “SingleCrystal” and “CrystalDiffract” programs)." (Via Mac OS X Downloads.) 6:48:36 AM

I hadn't noticed the last few releases of VueScan, which got the following improvements: What's new in versions 8.1.4 thru 8.1 Added support for Epson GT-15000 scanner Added support for Epson Perfection 4180 on Mac OS X Use "My Pictures" for default folder on Windows Improved quality when reading digital camera raw files Now remembers Guided/Advanced mode when re-run Added support for Epson CX-3600 Added support for Epson RX-420 Added support for Epson Perfection 4180 Improved user interface for new users Added guided tasks (i.e. Wizards) VueScan 6:48:20 AM

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