Archive for February, 2010

Google does Whistler

Published at February 9, 2010 in shortpost. 1 Comment

Those guys at Google will do anything. In honour of the 2010 Olympic Games they outfitted a snowmobile with their street-view rig and drove it up and down Whistler Mountain creating maps of the ski runs. Pretty neat.

Canon Cameras

Published at February 9, 2010 in shortpost. 0 Comments

Canon has released their new crop of cameras. There is some interesting updates, but sadly they seem to have cranked the MP up to 14. Will have to see how this affects the noise and overall image quality. It is nice to see they finally have 720p video with a stereo microphone. It would be nice if they could have started the lens a little wider open than 28mm, but with 14x optical zoom it could be an interesting look.

Another interesting announcement is their updated d-SLR the T2i. Less than a year ago they released the T1i to replace the XSi. With entry level d-SLR’s like this, it’s hard to figure out why anyone (other than the top of the top photographers) would need anything more. the T2i offers 1080p video, 18MP and a whole heap of other internal enhancements.

Someone needs a new computer case

Published at February 6, 2010 in shortpost. 0 Comments

I think I need a new laptop case. Twelvesouth are making some damn sexy laptop cases. (update: $34 shipping?! No dice.)