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Dreaming In 4K: My Imagination Leads Me To Hawaii With The Samsung NX500

So I had this crazy dream last weekend. A dream where I was sent to Hawaii to go whale watching off the shore of Kona with Chris Robinson, the Editor-In-Chief of Outdoor Photographer Magazine. A dream where I found myself taking a helicopter tour over the big island with Chris Gampat, founder of The Phoblographer, marveling over Hi’ilawe Falls, one of the United State’s tallest waterfalls, and where I imagined myself zip-lining through a rainforest canopy of Koa and sycamore trees with Videomaker’s Editor-In-Chief Mike Wilhelm and Big Picture Big Sound’s Editor-In-Chief Chris Boylan.

One where I saw myself discussing the personal project of Philip Ryan, an editor of Popular Photography Magazine over a glass of Oban 15, just after a 5-course dinner overlooking the Hawaiian sunset with HD Video Pro’s Editor Neil Matsumoto and Slashgear Executive Editor Chris Davies. In this same dream, I could have sworn I saw myself photographing a luau and discussing handheld photo technique next to a Hawaiian waterfall with Jack Neubart of Shutterbug Magazine just after chimping over images of those very same waterfalls with DP Review’s Magazine Editor Barney Britton.

I also saw myself meandering through a random Hawaiian village sipping on fresh Kona coffee with Imaging Resource’s Associate Editor William Brawley just after bouncing around the back of a old World War 2 military Pinzgauer Jeep as I went off-roading through a private guava forest with Sound & Picture’s Editor-In-Chief Daron James and Digital Trend’s Photography Editor Les Shu. One where I found myself running around an island with two Samsung Imagelogger comrade-in-arms, Fraction Magazine‘s Editor-In-Chief David Bram and Hawaiian expert and nature photographer Bob Kurtz. A dream in which we had our very own New York PR fashionista posing atop a jetty of lava rock as the sunset light rested upon her face.

And on this dream, a talented team of photographers and enthusiasts ready to cater to our every photographic whimsy, handing us various lenses and grips and flashes and batteries like they’re glasses of water, including photography industry legend Jay Kelbley, who apparently personally worked on original Ansel Adams negatives and prints and seemed to be nursing the much touted yet seemingly mythical Samsung 300mm f2.8 lens, and Charles Leone, the man, the myth, the PR legend from Allison & Partners, who has managed to cull together and keep this over-visually-stimulated group of trigger-happy shutterbugs in line throughout the whole thing. Not to mention Anthony Zirfas and Andrew Bieker, a team of technical gurus by our side at every step of the way to make sure all those bits and bytes and circuits and stuffs kept doing what they were supposed to.

In this dream, I woke up each morning, opened up two sliding glass doors to nothing other than lush Hawaiian gardens with volcano rock paths leading to open cabanas lining a flawless Kona Kilauea beach. All this whilst fondeling a new 4K camera that magically appeared in my hands just as I began to drift away into the REM phase.

Basically, this was a dream in which I was completely in my element: hardcore geeking out with photography and imaging nerds in a hardcore playground for photography and imaging nerds: Hawaii.

The craziest part of the dream? In playing testament to the wonders of modern physics, I somehow…some way…woke up from it with a memory card full of images in a brand new Samsung NX500, essentially a Samsung NX1 in a sexy brown retro-styled body.

Take THAT Inception!

The images I pulled off that bugger might be some of the first to come from the Samsung NX500. Check ’em in the gallery below. Just be sure not to pinch yourself. And please, for the love of God, don’t pinch me. That part can be very very painful…

And as an added bonus, here’s a bit of 4K footage shot on the Samsung NX500. Make sure to choose the 4K resolution setting from that little gear symbol icon thingy in the bottom right of the video:

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March 19, 2015
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of August 11

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Cinematographer John Brawley posted the first frames shot using Blackmagic’s new 4K URSA camera this week. This is the one Blackmagic announced at NAB in April that has a 10-inch, 1080p pop-out display, shoots 4k at 60fps, and comes in a camcorder form factor for a fraction of the price of the RED. Uh…yeah! Needless to say, the footage is drool-worthy. Click here to see it.

Petapixel reports that the New York Police Department has sent out a memo to it’s officers reminding them that so long as they don’t interfere with police operations, “members of the public are allowed to record police interactions” and any attempts to stop it “constitutes censorship and also violates the First Amendment.”

A team of researchers from Japan’s University of Tokyo and Keio University have created the world’s fastest camera. It’s so fast in fact, it can record a chemical reaction in a single shot. That is 1000 times faster than the previous best, and is essentially 1/6 the speed of light. “Its optical shutter shoots images consecutively in less than one-trillionth of a second,” Gizmodo reports.

Don’t know how I missed this one earlier this year, but just in case you did too, Digital Photography School posted “15 of the Best Cheat Sheets, Printables, and Infographics for Photographers.”

And because, just because, I haven’t said anything yet here about Robin Williams, but it’s taken a bit to sort of soak it in. It wasn’t until listening to Marc Maron‘s interviews over the past 4 years with just about every comic under the sun that I’ve truly realized that all good comedy come from a dark place. It’s the most transparent and vulnerable way of dealing with life’s insecurities and, well, constant bullshit. I think Robin Williams was one of the ones that seemed to resonate with me most. I’m not sure why, but something about him…it was always apparent he was deeper than what he chose to show on the surface, and it seemed subconsciously obvious that a vein of pain fed that deeper part of his soul. I did not see this coming. And it hurts. I don’t think I can really say anything that will trump how Marc Maron opens his tribute to Robin Williams earlier this week:

“Depression is real.’

And the dialogue surrounding this awful disease needs to be louder and more profound and in everyone’s face. If the day soon comes that depression and mental illness becomes an integral part of the public dialogue, and the shame surrounding them crumbles away, Robin would not have died in vain. Let’s do our part to give back to Robin a fraction of what he gave to us. Rest in peace Mr. Williams. You’ve definitely earned it.

Anyhow, it’s a tribute worth listening to, as is the interview with Robin that Maron reposted following his tribute. Click here or on the picture above for transcript and the interview link

August 15, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 21

Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.Blackmagic Design Updates its firmware for their 4K Production Camera. Firmware update 1.9 offers a ‘heads up display’ showing a histogram, peak audio meters, and recording time remaining. They also announced they will soon be including these features in firmware upgrades for the other BlackMagic cameras as well. Click here for the update.

Ooops…did David Hobby, aka The Strobist, just post the first picture taken with the upcoming Fuji X100T? It’s been since taken down, but FStoppers managed to pick up on it and post a screenshot of the EXIF data. Click here to check it out.

As of this week, Lytro is officially on 500px, and they’ve already posted a variety of images taken on their latest piece of hardware madness, the Illum. One of the benefits we get as part of their partnership together is $250 off the Lytro Illum. Click here to visit their 500px page for more information.

ONA, the fashionable camera accessory and bag maker, announced that they have partnered with “charity: water,” a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, with a special handcrafted black leather strap dubbed Sahel, PetaPixel reports. Click here to find out more about the strap and the charity.

That curved sensor by Sony we talked about last time? Well, according to PetaPixel, it just might end up showing up not only in their new full frame camera, the RX, but it might also debut in the upcoming Xperia Z3X. Yes, a curved sensor in a smartphone. What have we gotten ourselves into…

And for a little bit o’ cheek funny, here are 10 Things That Annoy Photo Enthusiasts, but the one and only DigitalRev:

July 25, 2014