yay! they found her bag and delivered it!

Bret

well, it's just damned cold here.... my track should be booked tomorrow so the the Germans can come and learn how to drive sideways

Now, if only Finnair could find my wife's bag, I think things would be pretty good right now...

Bret

the car now says -15 and I believe it. Was just out dropping the little monster off to swimming and it's dark at four o'clock such that I need to use headlights.

Will be like this for another two months......

Bret

-12, brilliant sunshine and -20 forecast for tonight....

nice. Good to see the lens is getting some use

Maybe a longer exposure for smooth water on the waterfall next time?

Bret

-whatever and it's snowing (again). Only what... four-five inches here, too, but it's already started to compact and the roads are great fun.

-24 forecast for early next week, which is a bit much, even for here, this early in winter.

Bret

GIMP / UFRaw. It's free and usable and effective.

A quick comparison with a shot I took a couple of weeks back... one is out of the camera with the in-cam processing, the other uses auto WB, a minor curve change, Blackpoint increase and saturation is +0.2.

Spot which one's which?

Bret

The in-cam processing will essentially give you a JPEG as the camera would have shot it.

COnsidering the main advantage of RAW is the ability to change exposure, white balance, bring out shadow detail and adjust levels, using the in-cam stuff other than to create a quick full-size check shot is a bit pointless IMO.

Bret

won't work as it's in shadow and if you sort the WB for the sun, you'll get blue snow; if you sort for shadow, you'll get orange(?) sun.

sorry, no can do. Increase the saturation maybe a tad (1.1-1.2) and maybe adjust WB by hand, but keep an eye on the house.

Bret

... the battery life on any dSLR when running video is truly awful. We had two 7ds on set last week and always one battery was on charge, another cam was using mains power and then we scraped through.

Next problem: Atom isn't fast enough to show Full-HD, never mind play with it. An ion chipset mini-itx box is getting there, but still is too slow. At least a Dual core at 2GHz with 4GB RAM and a *shitload* of diskspace (we filled three 32GB cards with two days' worth of shooting without trying and half the time only one cam was running); I worked it out to be 40MB/sec --> 2GB per minute of video. Do the maths...3G is not fast enough, no network is. 1Mb means 100MB / hour. A real upload speed on HSDPA might hit double that - there's no point.

I think our solution will be out to a relatively high-res monitor (full-HD capable laptop, maybe, or 1440p capable) and then an external disk or two for multiple copies on-set.

Bret