Thanksgiving Respite | Cool Announcements & New Contest

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | December 01, 2008

Happy Monday everyone! I hope that the extended weekend treated everyone well. I for one traveled a few hours to go visit some family and wound up getting sick through the process. I sit here a sniffling mess, trying to get back in the game. However, this is not what you came here for. You want to see cool stuff, and I am here to deliver, like Domino’s!

D3X is Announced
For those who drool over awesome cameras, we salute you. Nikon has officially released the new Nikon D3X! with a 24.5-megapixel CMOS FX format sensor, full resolution shooting at 5 FPS, ISO from 100-1600 (expandable to 50-6400), TIFF, JPEG or NEF (RAW) file formats up to 138MB, and a newly updated EXPEED image processing system, this camera is a juggernaut! Look for it to break the banks and wallets of the devoted this December at $7,995 (ouch!)

For more information on this, click here for Nikon’s press Release on the D3X

Interesting Video Technology Alert
So.. I’m laying in bed, and my buddy Moose sends me a link to this video. Dan Goldman is working on a project between Adobe and the University of Washington on creating interactivity with video editing. I think that if implemented, this could be really, really cool functionality in the After Effects/Premiere side of things. Check it out for yourself:

Click on the More Link for last weeks contest winners and a new Contest!

Contest Winners
First off, a couple of orders of business. I want to congratulate Brittany Nichols for winning last week’s Layers TV contest. Secondly, I’d like to congratulate Matt Johannes for winning last week’s Layers Blog Contest. Way to go, people! You just keep writing to us, we’ll keep handing out the cool stuff.

Contest Time
Go to the Contact page, select the Layers Blog dropdown, then fill in your name, email address and answer to this week’s question. Remember, the contest will end Thursday 5PM, and the winner will be announced Friday morning.

The Contest Question: Who wrote the review on the Layers site for the Canon HV30?

The Prize: A copy of Scott Kelby’s 7 Point System Book as well as a year subscription to Layers!

That’s it for me for today. I’m hoping to shake the sniffles soon, but that wont stop me from talking cool stuff tomorrow. Make sure you stop in!

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