Yesterday I taught a small seminar for the Photoclub at Delft and during a few of the conversations the idea for this blog post grew.
Today we almost all have a telephone with a camera, when you are using an iPhone4 you are even one of the lucky ones that have a rather good camera and a great videocamera, but how can we use this to improve our own photography and video capabilities ?
We all know the problem with speed, we never have enough of it.
Well at least it’s always nice to have more.
At the moment I’m using an end 2008 Macpro 8 Core and I was planning on upgrading this year to the 12 Core but to be honest when I saw the price and when I realized that I actually don’t really need it that much I decided to see what we can do with the Macpro we are using now.
The first upgrade was the videocard, in came the ATI 5770 and out went the 3870, I love to use 3 screens so I could now also loose the original ATI card. The speed increase is noticeable but not spectaculair (as expected), the main thing I’m happy with is that I can now use my preview monitor again in Final Cut pro the way it was before I by accident switched around my videocards and never got the right monitor working again after that, according to Apple it could have never worked in the first place (but it did for over a year :D)
But my search was not over and the next upgrade REALLY makes a difference…
Well you all know I’m a huge fan of Medium Format cameras and use several on a daily basis. I also own the 5DMKII but that’s for me only used in situations were the MF is simply not working well enough. There always is a lot of controversie about DSLR versus MF and most of the time it’s just people not understanding that there are horses for courses. Both systems are different and can be used next to each other of course.
However this video really cracked me up, with thanks to my good friend Brendan from Boston.
What a date to organize the Dutch Heaven meet and greet day in 2010.
At least no one can say they forgot the date…..
For me days like these are fun to visit and because I strongly believe in the approach to give back also this day I was scheduled to teach an one hour seminar, for me the perfect time to testdrive the new “inspiration and creation” seminar (worktitle)
