Some ViewerReaderListener Questions.

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Hello Mike, John, Fxguide Staff, Readers, Posters, and Looky Loos.

My name Is Nick and I have been a long time fan of your site. After years of sifting through Special features and making ofs, finally there is an outlet for the kind of reporting that has been sorely lacking. I am consitently impressed by the quality of the information and the hours of free entertainment that you deliver both here on the site and in the few fxphd courses that i have been lucky enough to see.

The only problem with being a spectator is that i’m left with questions about various things and no matter how loud I shout i just cant get a response from my stupid Ipod! (I have already Written a strongly worded letter to apple.) So I come here to the forums to ask of anyone who doesn’t have anything better to do, to share their comments.

Here goes,

First, a few years ago I heard about a Study on a new form of motion capture at M.I.T. that reversed the impetus in that the cameras where on the actor filming markers placed on the set around. evidently it makes the whole thing transportable and useable on set as well as in cramped spaces like cars etc.
heres the video and paper

http://people.csail.mit.edu/wojciech/MoCap/index.html

I thought for sure this would make a splash but I haven’t heard of anyone trying it… Anyone know otherwise… Thoughts…

My second question may have been answered somewhere i haven’t seen, but I played a bit with the Magic Lantern Firmware hack for Canon Dslr’s

http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wiki

it has some neat features including Hdr video Or and aproximation. Unfortunatley Its not out yet for my T4i, so I havent been able to really try it properly. Has anyone out there gotten results?

and Finally This is an interesting Ted talk on Femtophotography that’s a Trillionth of a Second and Combining a number of these photographs they have create a trillion frames a second animation of a packet of photons hitting a bottle and refracting,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA&ytsession=fosEq3TN4k1Vpx5Vff6_qDs22ycfJYG1fUfX4_mo1fkl1pxvVhfu0I-fSwf38H1EOhnOt9_r_BZywHAfEJMrKEkrCsOdWyTvazOUAHxieOYLqcVlZInQtl0XgeAeyJ90U7c7fIEnEBFJccyPGCs67DIwn8FC52xdeN58jwrU8wNNVXXHt6cOxDLW28pM4-SdLXTRDWeYmg8yHqqCWRzf_bk6HYHzjD5J_8n1prZ_3uM

its amazing reference for lighters, shader builders, and anyone really interested in how light really moves. What do You Think?

anyhoo Love your Work, and My only suggestion on how to improve the site would be to somehow clone duplicates of everyone involved so you can double your content. Short of that Keep up the Good work and Thanks for everything!

Nick

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