And the immediacy of the Internet grows

Mobile live streaming backpack for video...Who needs a live truck anymore?

Sell your own photos on your site

A pretty smart photog I know, Gerik Parmele, shared this link on his FriendFeed a few days ago. Still need to investigate it a bit more, but I'm thinking it may just work for someone with a niché market and audience.

Simple Slideshows App for Mac

If you don't have Soundslides or Final Cut and don't like iMovie you can use this free program, Slideshowmovie, to build quick and easy slideshows to be exported as a video file.

There's a ton of free apps on the Apple Downloads site.

Told you photo/video convergence was past tense

They used the RED One to shoot the cover of Esquire magazine.

Bring on the Scarlet!!!

Tools for News

A pretty good beta database for all kinds of journalism tools to use. Register and you can add to the growing list. 

Anyone have $30K I can borrow?

RED's Scarlet has been unveiled. As were several other versions of the high-end digital video cameras. It will be a few months before the culmination of video capture rates at pro-DSLR resolution goodness arrives on shelves. But I don't care, I just need to find someone with some investment capital.

There's a lot of possibilities coming very soon. Very soon...

A digital stereo camera

Fuji has come up with a two-lensed 3-D camera.

I'm sure the camera is cheap, but the headset player will probably cost a fortune. It'll be interesting to say the least. Maybe someone will be able to hack it and use it for visual storytelling in a new way. Curious...very curious.

Convergence might as well be retired as a word

Power photographer Vincent Laforet was tasked with putting the new Canon 5D MkII through its paces earlier this month. Well, this video nearly made my soil my pants. The rich visuals and complete command of the lighting are something dreamlike. Then we can talk about the camera and the absolute thrashing of the notion of a DSLR.

Also check out the behind-the-scenes video.

Nikon better react very very fast with an upgrade on the D700 –the D90 was going to be good until Canon did this– or they will be stuck at the back of the pack with Olympus, Sony and Fuji in the digital camera market.

All this being said, I'm still waiting for Scarlet. With the announcement of the 5D MkII it looks like the Scarlet will also be radically different.

All of this rapidly changing technology is just getting rolling. Hold on tight, just like Miss Budweiser it's going to get fast and rough.

Red is going hunting

Nikon has announced the release of the D90, which is a DSLR with video capability. Well RED has already been turning the motion picture world on its head with his proposed 5K RED Epic camera and now plans on snaring the DSLR world in his spiderweb. 

I may just wait another year to buy any kind of camera.

Wired article on the RED

Wired piece on the 4K RED HD video camera. Convergence progresses...

What's after convergence? Mobile Media

1 million iPhones sold over the weekend. I'm planning on picking one up myself in September. Too bad Apple went with AT&T, but I can't wait until 2011 for the market to open up. The media landscape will be vastly different by that time.

Casio's attempt to kill the concept of a photographer

Casio released the F1. It can shoot 60 frames a second. Yes, still frames. There's also the ability to pre-capture history, shoot video at Godly frame rates and might even walk the dog.