Micah Mcdowell
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Perhaps you’re looking for VLC media player?
It’s open-source freeware, opens just about anything, and is worlds apart from Windows Meda Player.
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Snow Leopard is 64-bit capable, but it depends on which Mac you run it on as to whether it actually boots in 64 bit mode. Check out this page for all the gritty details.
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Wow, I didn’t think that it was possible for FCP7 on a G5, no way, no how.
I was pondering the exact same question of what to do with my trusty dual 2.7 G5 last night. Do I drop a few hundred in it to keep it usable for another year (add an SSD boot drive, max out the RAM, upgrade all my apps, polish up the aluminum)?
Or… do I ditch it on eBay while it still has some resale value and get that new 17″ i7 Macbook Pro that I’ve been eying? Will I be disappointed?
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I’ve been running the same system for five years with absolutely no protection and no issues. I’ve tried to get a Mac virus: it’s not going to happen.
My work PCs, on the other hand…
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I’m a frequent user of iStockphoto.com/.
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The reason the HF S10 keeps everything in focus with an f/1.8 lens is that it has a tiny, tiny sensor (1/2.6″ which is approx. 9.7mm vs. the 35mm of the 5DmkII). The smaller the sensor, the higher the “crop factor” which has the effect of reducing the depth of field and apparent bokeh.
The tiny sensor also partially accounts for the lower quality since each pixel is smaller and can’t be as sensitive to light without increasing gain and therefore noise.
As for your original question, I think you would be very impressed with even the Canon 50mm f/1.8 as far as optical quality and low light performance is concerned. The f/1.4 is better, and the f/1.2 is better still, but the law of diminishing returns definitely applies here. The 50mm f/1.4 is a HUGE jump from an f/4 zoom lens. The 50mm f/1.2L is a tiny, tiny, tiny jump from the 50mm f/1.4.
Now, having said all that, remember that lenses are a much better investment than camera bodies. That f/1.2L will still be a valuable, excellent lens five years from now, even after the 5DmkII is long obsolesced. If you do have the cash to put into the high-end glass, you won’t have to worry about it being a bad buy.
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Or on second thought, if you have a couple more days, burn it to a disk and stick it in the mail.
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I would definitely NOT convert to h.264 and back, since you’re taking a huge quality hit, only to convert it back to the originating format at the end.
If you have a decently fast internet connection that you can leave on and a little bit of time to wait, try enabling Web Sharing on your Mac. Let him download the original, non-recompressed file straight from your computer. This will save you the intermediate step of uploading and having to host the file somewhere.
It’s easy to do, you just click a check box in the “Sharing” section of System Preferences and then put your video file in the Sites folder in your home directory. Then, find out what your IP address is, and when he goes to it in his browser, he should be able to download straight from your machine. Here’s a simple guide on how to do it.
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That’d be a negative.
Even if you managed to physically adapt the lens to fit the camera, the image circle the lens produces would never cover the sensor of a 7D or especially a 5D. It would give you a tiny circle of an image with a large black vignette all around. And, even if it DID cover, it’d look very poor. That lens is optimized for three 2/3″ CCDs, not one large CMOS sensor. Would it work for a newer HD ENG camera? Most likely, but not on a Canon DSLR.
I’ve seem some B4 lenses adapted to the Panasonic GH1 DSLR, but it has a smaller sensor than the 7D and it also has a shorter flange focal distance which allows just about any lens to “fit” with enough esoteric adapters. And, I’m pretty sure they’re using a 2x focal extender switched on to make those lenses cover without vignetting, which I don’t think your lens has.
That’s a long way of saying it won’t work.
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Actually, it does (alpha version)… https://groups.google.com/group/ml-devel/browse_thread/thread/1192bdeeb58e94d5?pli=1