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I like to bike, snowboard, take photos, and think about UX stuff.
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Life is Better in Slow Motion - Creative Vado HD vs Casio Exilim EX-FC100 vs VholdR Contour HD
via Gizmodo
I was pretty set on getting the Creative Vado HD, or the VholdR Contour HD for my new video hobby, mainly because they're both relatively portable, and have a wider angle lenses which helps keep the video look less jerky, and makes it easier for me to frame stuff when filming while snowboarding. I already think it's annoying carrying a phone and a point-and-shoot camera while snowboarding, so it's very unlikely that I'll carry even a small sized conventional camcorder.
The VholdR Contour HD sounds interesting because it's designed for how I want to use it. It's user interface is large glove compatible, and doesn't require you to look at it, which is good since it's intended to be mounted on a helmet. The downside is that it doesn't have a built in display. I can't watch something I just did to see what I did wrong until the end of the day, or possibly not until I make it back home to San Francisco.
All the while, I kept going back to the reviews of the Casio EX-F1 on Gizmodo and thinking, "wow, slow motion is so awesome... I would get that, except that it's so huge." Looks like they heard and created the Casio Exilim EX-FC100. The video quality looks better than both the Vado and Contour, which isn't surprising since it has better glass. The still shots are passable, better than my iPhone, worse than my current point-and-shoot the Ricoh GRD.
It's $305 online now, tempting... I know it's gimmicky, but after all, doesn't everything look better in slow motion?
A random video actually shot on the Casio EX-F1. It looks a lot more processed and compressed than others:
If only these cameras also had Auto-Tune (TM) built in... slow motion autotuning... mmm... viral video for sure.
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SuperNews! Twitter
The last few days while recovering from my wisdom teeth removal, I've been practicing polyphasic sleeping. Except, instead of sleeping multiple times a day for 20 minutes, and being awake for 3-5 hours, I am awake for about 20 minutes, and then sleep for about 3-5 hours.
During those 20 minutes, I've started twittering like a madman. It's completely ridiculous, but I've been hooked. Since not too many of my friends twitter, I actually find it most interesting to follow companies and products I like, like balsamiq, box dog bikes, OmniGraffle, posterous. It's just like these videos, which I found out about through twitter of course.
Lock in, and follow my tweets!
Twouble with Twitters:
The sequel, Celebrity Twitter Overkill:
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Super Slo-Mo Surfer
Surfing in slow mo shot by a $100k camera, shoots HD at 240fps, it's pretty amazing, watch it in HD.
Via Norman Hsieh.
Wow. It makes me more interested in this camera:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/02/snowmodo_in_slow_motion_the_casio_exilim_exf1_makes_snow_even_more_beautiful-2.html
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Last Day at Kirkwood (part 2)
Here are the rest of the videos, continued from part 1. I mistakenly thought I could copy and paste the posterous-content markup and paste it in another post. It just shows up as text even though the HTML editing view shows the same markup. *shrug*
I'm also looking for a way to combine two of the automatically generated galleries in to one. Because of the order the files were attached in the email, with a video in the middle of the list, posterous created two galleries in a single post.
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Jon going down the chute. Taking these videos is a learning experience. One, with the wide-ish angle lens, I need to get closer. Two, most of these videos are pretty boring, even to me. I think it would help if I chased him down the chute.
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(download)Jon. FS boardslide. Another learning opportunity. Sidney was figuring out how to take videos on my camera and accidentally ended it prematurely. The Ricoh GRD has great physical UI controls... but only for still pictures. The video capabilities are definitely a second class citizen on the list of features.
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(download)This is lame because I knew I was leaning too far back first thing, but couldn't correct it. Why couldn't Sidney have cut off the end of this one instead of Jon's? heh. After this video, I was so frustrated that I straight-lined the next two jumps in a row and finally got enough speed for a decent shifty+stalefish. You'll have to trust me :p There no evidence, naturally.
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