Hasta La Gadget!

May 17, folks. That’s the date when the grumpy doctor you wish you were and the snazzy camera you wish you owned will join forces on American network television. The final episode in this season’s run of House has been shot exclusively using Canon’s 5D Mark II, and the show’s director Greg Yaitanes has been taking questions about the experience on Twitter. PetaPixel have helpfully collated the Q&A session into a coherent pseudo-interview, which you’ll be able to find at the source below. The major takeaway is that the crew liked the experience and didn’t have to do an overwhelming amount of work to adapt to the different shooting method. Guess after SNL and its own movie, the 5D Mark II just had to go and do a guest appearance on its favorite TV show.

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Canon 5D Mark II used to shoot entire House season finale, director says it’s ‘the future’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s half retro, half compact, and chock full of adventure. It’s Olympus’ PEN E-PL1, and it’s the first Micro Four Thirds camera from the company to boast an MSRP that you aren’t terrified to tell your friends about. We’ve spent some quality time with one here over the past month or so, and aside from a few minor quirks, we were fairly pleased with the overall package. But let’s be frank — that’s absolutely not why you’re here. You’re here to tell us how you’d change things if given the chance, and how you’d differentiate the E-PL1 from all those wannabes that seem to crop up every other month. Bump the megapixels? Improve the ISO performance? Offer it in neon green? The sky’s the limit, and comments are the place to dream.

How would you change Olympus’ E-PL1? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Our army of Best Buy informants has struck again, this time delivering an internal systems entry that references an S1240W model from Cisco’s consumer division, described as a digital camcorder. Aside from the obvious appearance of the Flip name in the top right corner, the retail box dimensions listed herein — 7.7 by 1.5 by 3.6 inches — seem an almost perfect match for the recently spied Flip Slide HD product box. At that time, we were furnished with supplemental pics pointing out 16GB of built-in storage for up to four hours of video, and today we can add a price and potential release date to the dossier. April 18 is the reputed “in stock” date for this Flip shooter, with a $280 “regular retail” price shown on the other snapshot we’ve come across (see it after the break). That means we’ve only got a few days of mystery left before Cisco flips the covers away.

[Thanks, Jae]

Continue reading Flip S1240W priced at $280 in Best Buy’s systems, reads an awful lot like ‘Slide HD’ to us

Flip S1240W priced at $280 in Best Buy’s systems, reads an awful lot like ‘Slide HD’ to us originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re not sure why Kodak is pushing its new Slice touchscreen camera out to JCPenney before any of the usual retail suspects, but there it is, looking radiant in “Radish” and marked up with a $100 premium over the usual $349 list price. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, you can also grab the 14 megapixel shooter with the 3.5-inch display, 720p video capture, and built-in search for $349 from JR.com or Kodak. Kodak’s also got the seven-inch Pulse WiFi digiframe that pulls photos from Facebook and the new PlaySport 1080p waterproof pocket camcorder up for sale now as well, at $129 and $149, respectively — and yes, you can buy those from Penney’s at a markup if you like, because the very fabric of our relationship to reality is unraveling in a heap on the floor of the Juniors department.

Kodak Slice touchscreen camera, Pulse WiFi frame, and PlaySport pocket camcorder now on sale… at JC Penney originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen plenty of the headline 1080p / 30fps video mode on the Rebel T2i, but what’s been missing till now are the equally comprehensive reviews of this new 18 megapixel shooter‘s other talents. Starting off with image quality — still the bread and butter of any DSLR — Camera Labs informs us that “the EOS 550D / T2i delivered images which were essentially the same as those from the EOS 7D,” describing them as highly detailed and exhibiting no greater noise than can be found on Nikon’s 12 megapixel competitors. An impressive feat, you will agree. Further appreciation is meted out for the newly improved LCD screen on the back, whose 3:2 ratio matches the sensor’s dimensions, but there’s also warning that the 7D retains a significant advantage in terms of ergonomics, weatherproofing, continuous burst mode, and autofocus. Even so, both reviews were happy to pin their “highly recommended” badges on the T2i, and you can discover the more nuanced reasons for doing so at the source links below.

Canon Rebel T2i / 550D receives plaudit-heavy reviews originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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