| Underwater camera comes with a bathing suit | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:48:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Enthusiasts of underwater photography will be pleased to hear that Sea & Sea has a new product on deck. Measuring just an inch deep, the slender 860G digital camera is the latest in the company's line of entry-level cameras for surveyors of all things wet. However, with a 2.5-inch LCD screen, a 3X zoom lens, and a 6.2-megapixel sensor, this is no crummy stocking stuffer. In fact, the 860G may be close to the perfect camera to take on that vacation to the Bahamas. It has plenty of resolution for the amateur photographer, comes with a smoky plastic housing for underwater use, and can even record 640 x 480-pixel videos with sound. You'll be able to pickup the blue 860G with the underwater housing on November 21st for about $462, although you might have to pick it up from Japan. A black version is slated for December 21st, just in time for any post-holiday getaways you may have planned.... | |
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| | | Boxing clever paves the way for Bluedelta | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:49:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | I don't know about you, but I've got a houseful of old tellies, analog relics which have made their way upstairs when a more handsome model has been brought into the living room. All are used from time to time, but it is only the main TV which has a digibox, that magical mystery tour of the channels. "I'll have one of those," I told Chris and Melissa Skelton of Bluedelta at Melbourn, when they showed me the gadget Chris has invented which enables all the relics to receive digital TV without the need to buy boxes for each or do anything complicated or expensive. For under £100 I can pop into Maplin and buy this wonderful little gadget, along with quite a range of other clever accessories developed by Bluedelta. Then there are the magic words from Melissa: "Our products are made for people who can't set their videos," a sad failing to which I have just admitted.... | |
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| | | Wilco Imaging Offers Tiny, Remote-Head, Waterproof Camera By Elmo | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:51:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Wilco Imaging, Inc., a supplier of advanced imaging products and solutions, offers the revolutionary new camera system from Elmo, the remote head SUV-Cam. Designed for recording professionals, the small (2 W x 4H x 1 1/8D), lightweight (130 grams with battery) camera system captures high resolution (480H x 420V TV lines) video that can be quickly viewed on the built-in 2.2 inch LCD display. Frame-by-frame instant playback with the handy bookmark function is easy to access with single-button operation. The system has an optional output for viewing footage via a TV monitor or any projection device with an AV interface. SUV-Cams -inch CCD remote head camera is housed in a waterproof, rugged stainless steel lipstick case. The standard 3.8 mm lens realizes 36.5 mm in wide angle field of view at 35 mm film camera conversion.... | |
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| | | Photographer catches actors inhabiting roles | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:48:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nestor Serrano plays macho guys in movies and on TV -- thugs, cops, corrupt prosecutors. In Howard Schatz's new book of photographs, "In Character: Actors Acting,'' he's a wrist-flapping gay wag, flirting, gossiping, flipping off his jealous boyfriend. "I tried to get them to do things I hadn't seen them do,'' says Schatz, a former UC San Francisco ophthalmologist who directed and photographed 100 character actors for this likable coffee-table book, his 16th. Pictures of each performer appear in two-, three- and four-face compositions that tell a little story or capture contrasting emotions. They're set off by the artists' comments on the craft of acting, the joy and terror of it, the electricity of live theater and the limiting aspects of film. Many of the images are on view at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum.... | |
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| | | British university developing camera for Indian satellite | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:52:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | An X-ray camera, being developed by a British university, will be used in India's first astronomy satellite the Astrostat to photograph exotic objects in space such as black holes, neutron stars and galaxies. The camera, which is "currently being built" in Leicester, involves close collaboration between Indian and British scientists. A delegation of scientists and engineers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai today held discussions with their counterparts from the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre, Leicester to finalise design of the camera. "The procurement of key components is now well under way and several critical elements of the camera electronics have been designed and are currently being built in the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester," Guy Peters, Astrosat SXT Project Manager UK, said.... | |
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| | | Outtakes | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:49:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (PG-13) Actor Liev Schrieber (The Manchurian Candidate) makes his directorial debut with this black comedy based on Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel about a Jewish-American writer traveling to Europe in search of family secrets. Elijah Wood heads up a crew of quirky characters, and the whole thing almost certainly gains in authenticity from having been shot on location in Prague. Also stars Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin. Opens Oct. 6 at Sunrise Cinemas in Tampa. Call to confirm. (Not Reviewed) IN HER SHOES (PG-13) Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette play radically dissimilar sisters whose only common ground is a love for footwear, in this meandering, unfocused romantic comedy from normally dependable director Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential, 8 Mile).... | |
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| | | Verizon Wireless G'zOne Type-V | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:50:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | If Aquaman or Superman ever needed a cell phone to keep in touch with the other members of the Justice League, Verizon Wireless's new G'zOne Type-V would be the perfect handset. Rugged, strong, and waterproof, the Type-V is well suited to the superhero lifestyle. Aquaman could take it underwater (albeit one meter), while Superman could use it while battling villains in the most extreme environments. It's not the prettiest phone around, but like a superhero, it's built to take a lot of blows. Look out Nextel, Verizon is coming after you. The feature set packs a wallop as well, with support for EV-DO networks, a 2-megapixel camera, and a speakerphone, though curiously, Bluetooth and a music player are absent. The Type-V costs a hefty $300 with a two-year contract. Though the phone is made by Casio, it's marketed by UTStarcom.... | |
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| | | Capsule Movie Reviews | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:49:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Film capsules are written by Lawrence Toppman. If there's no star rating, he hasn't seen the movie. Grades: 4 stars = excellent, 3 stars = good, 2 stars = fair, 1 star = poor. new releases CATCH A FIRE Derek Luke plays a South African oil-plant foreman unjustly suspected of a crime under the apartheid regime in the 1980s. When he and his wife are tortured, he becomes politicized and joins the African National Congress, which is rebelling against the white government. Writer Shawn Slovo (whose dad was one of the few white leaders of the ANC) and director Phillip Noyce have made a fast, effective piece of agitprop, putting more complexity than usual into the police villain (Tim Robbins). Luke stands out as the family man who never meant to join a crusade. 101 minutes.• PG-13: Thematic material involving torture and abuse, violence, brief language.... | |
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| | | Aquarium s Newest IMAX Film Deep Sea 3D Awarded Top Honor At Film Festival | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:48:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | The newest Tennessee Aquarium IMAX film, Deep Sea 3D, which gives visitors an unreal experience that feels so real when they face off with wolf eels, darting squid or hunt with hungry sand tiger sharks has recently been awarded the top honor at the International Wildscreen Film Festival in Bristol, UK. In order to complement the Tennessee Aquariums natural discovery and adventure, many excellent sea-themed IMAX 2D and 3D films have debuted at Aquariums IMAX Theater since we opened it in 1996, said Charlie Arant, Aquarium CEO. But when we previewed this particular film for our visitors, we knew we had something so spectacular, vivid and full of action, our visitors couldnt resist it. Deep Sea 3D was awarded the top honor in the Large Format category at the Panda Awards, the world's most prestigious awards for films about the natural world.... | |
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| | | 'Little Children' plumbs depth of everyday suburban life | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | 'LITTLE CHILDREN" opens with a group of moms sitting in a park, watching their kids play. All of the moms have the look of women zoning out, enjoying a moment of peace, except for Sarah (Kate Winslet) whose dazed look implies she hasn't enjoyed anything or anyone in years. They might be Stepford Wives, but she's a zombie. The movie by director Todd Field, whose first feature, "In the Bedroom," was nominated for multiple Oscars, is about being stuck in one place, not a physical location but a developmental one, and facing the possibilities of changing that. Sarah despises the other mothers, who she sees as being unable to escape their depressing existence and who she believes ? probably correctly ? would like to see her buckle down and embrace her life as a wife and mother. Sarah is also trapped in her life, but because she reads poetry in her study, she imagines that this could change, or at least, should change.... | |
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