New Products & Updates
Happy New Year! And if you didn’t get what you wanted at – insert holiday here – then maybe uncle CES and aunty MacWorld have something for you… But first, Canon has released firmware that it says fixes – or mitigates – the “black dot problem” in the 5D Mark II. First reports are encouraging. The firmware update doesn’t add any features – like the ability to manually set aperture and ISO while recording video…a feature people using the 5D MkII for video capture would just love to have. Unfortunately, I think they are wasting their time waiting…they will have to wait for the Mk III or the 60D for new features. iMovie 09 Apple didn’t announce much at MacWorld, but they did roll out iMovie 09 . While perhaps not a serious editing tool, it can be useful for quick editing, and they added one exciting addition; image stabilization New video stabilization in iMovie ’09 analyzes how much your camera was moving while you were recording, then automatically reduces camera shake. Stabilize on a ...