Category Archives: Digital video

Making digital images on the camera stand

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the third in a series of posts about digitizing film. To start at the beginning, please click here. My camera stand project is now set up and running. I am using my Canon R5 camera and my Laowa … Continue reading →

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I wasn’t asking the right questions
about Mini DisplayPort connections

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Brian Lawler

I finally reached the point where my Mac Pro cylinder computer would no longer work for me. I bought it new 10 years ago, then modified it about five years later to expand its internal working memory. When I bought … Continue reading →

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Calibrating the iPhone with i1 Display Pro

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I see iPhones being used for all sorts of “professional” applications including video capture, and now that the phone sports a 12Mp camera, graphic arts quality photography. No excuses professional photography. Several years ago I was made aware of a … Continue reading →

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Shooting 100 60MB photos every second
with the Red Dragon

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Brian Lawler

For years I have been following the development of the digital video company called Red. They made news first at the National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. At that show they introduced the world to … Continue reading →

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A not very brave new world of storage

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Brian Lawler

I just bought a pair of 4TB drives. I installed them in a LaCie RAID drive enclosure to make a single 8TB drive that will become my Time Machine back-up drive. Until I run out of space again. I know … Continue reading →

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My Lytro camera comes today

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been up all night checking the UPS web site, watching progress as my new blue Lytro camera makes its way from Indianapolis to San Luis Obispo. There were eight hours there where nothing happened at all (except that the … Continue reading →

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Father-son bonding experience, part III

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been back from the Bosque del Apache and the Very Large Array for ten days now, and (other than the temperature) I miss it. The Bosque is a magical place, with photo opportunities galore. Bird watchers take flight in … Continue reading →

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The Very Large (and very cold) Array

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Brian Lawler

The crack of dawn cracked especially hard this morning in Socorro, New Mexico. It was our day to go to the Very Large Array, a group of 27 radio telescopes spread across a mesa to the west of Socorro. I … Continue reading →

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Father-son bonding experience, Part II

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Brian Lawler

Sunrise comes early at The Bosque. Though the official sunrise was 7:11 a.m. today, the birds were very active at about 6:35 a.m. The big Sand Hill Cranes had already started taking off in flights of three or four when … Continue reading →

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Father-son bonding experience, Part I

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Brian Lawler

I’m in New Mexico, home of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the White Sands Missile Range, and the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Among other things. I’m here with my son Patrick to take photos of migratory birds. There … Continue reading →

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