Monday, October 24, 2005

"The driving force of QuickTime 7 is an H.264 codec which delivered vastly improved quality over Apple's MPEG-4 technology and Sorenson Video 3, the previous gold standard for most movie trailers and other QuickTime web content. Publishers will likely switch adopt H.264 en mass, as will most Mac-based consumer editors producing their own videos, and since you can't play H.264 video on any pre-QuickTime 7 players, those who want to view the content will have to download the new player." via PCmag 7:02:06 AM

Rethinking Digital Photography: " As the Digito Society blog points out the qualities of images produced by different cameras vary in subtle ways - whether it is saturation, sharpness, contrast or in colour range. Is this down to the way that Photoshop converts the image or do digital camera sensors have distinct qualities that maifest themselves in subtle ways? Such variations use to be down to the film stock used but in the digital age is the camera replicating such subtle qualities. John Dvorak puts this to the test in an article on PCMag.com. He concludes that ‘most photographers, whether pros or hobbyists, will eventually have numerous cameras, not the one lone Nikon with the lens collection. ’ (Via The Digital Photography Weblog.) 6:58:05 AM

Making JPEG Images for Web and Email: "Photoshop gives you two ways to create a JPEG to be posted on a website or sent by email: 'Save As...' and 'Save for Web....' Both are found on the File menu and they have a lot in common, but also a few significant differences...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 6:57:33 AM

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