YouTube 4K

July 12th, 2010 * Comments(1)

Just a quick note for those interested… YouTube recently introduced 4K into their lineup of supported resolutions (240, 360, 480, 720, 1080, 4K). Obviously the choices of recording in 4K are very slim so you won’t see many films in the near future but it’s coming. Slowly but surely. So YouTube wanted to be a part of it. Nothing wrong with that. Here’s a sample 4K playlist. However, on full HD 23″ LCD screen the results look horrible. I’m going to presume it’s not just the heavy compression. The 1080p option looks infinitely better. So don’t even bother opening the 4K original if you don’t have a damn good connection and a 4K projector, screen or some other way to view it in full resolution. You likely don’t. Or as Ramesh Sarukkai of YouTube puts it:

First off, video cameras that shoot in 4K aren’t cheap, and projectors that show videos in 4K are typically the size of a small refrigerator.

Shared items on July 7, 2010

July 07th, 2010 * Comments(0)

An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently.

  • Workaround
    from: xkcd.com on 7 July 2010
  • Scuba-diving Dachshund
    from: Boing Boing on 6 July 2010
  • Our 2010 T-Shirts Are Available For Pre-Order, Order Yours Now!
    from: FinalGear.com on 5 July 2010
  • I Like You, Dan Winters.
    from: A Photography Blog on 5 July 2010
  • Dnevnikov Objektiv: Harakiri slovenskih medijev na spletu
    from: The L Files on 3 July 2010
  • Marina-sands hotel. Singapore.
    from: Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics on 2 July 2010
  • Audioholics: HDMI is Dead. Introducing HDBaseT Networking
    from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on 1 July 2010
  • Visualization of Vessel Trajectories
    from: information aesthetics on 1 July 2010
  • An Awesomely Bad Sentence
    from: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan on 1 July 2010
  • ‘How a Broker Spent $520 Million in a Drunken Stupor and Moved the Global Oil Price’
    from: Daring Fireball on 30 June 2010
  • Fake trailer for movie about Microsoft .NET vs Java
    from: Boing Boing on 30 June 2010
  • "yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
    from: www.27bslash6.com on 30 June 2010
  • Revelation Mountains – Alaska
    from: StraightChuter.com – Backcountry Skiing & Beyond on 30 June 2010

    • Dettifoss & F864

    July 02nd, 2010 * Comments(0)

    Another low key video… the footage I had just called for such approach.

    Dettifoss & F864 from Jernej Burkeljca on Vimeo.

    I took it on a recent trip to Iceland and it sort of represents a condensed impression of Iceland in general… waterfalls and gravel roads through the desert (obviously there’s much more to it). Featured here are Detifoss and the drive there on F864 (Hólsfjallavegur). Wikipedia says it’s the largest waterfall in terms of volume in Europe. And it is impressive. Although once you make your way around from Reykjavik you’re wondering if seeing yet another waterfall is worth any extra effort. We took that chance. It was a miserable rainy, freezing and windy day but I’m not sorry.

    Shot on Canon HF200 on a tripod that was shaking like a leaf in the wind and treated with proDAD Mercalli (highly recommended piece of software) to stabilise the in-car shots a little bit (it’s a very light camera and I wanted some weight to its movements).

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