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Kodak brings back the legendary Ektachrome film

Kodak brings back the legendary Ektachrome film

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Kodak issued wonderful news at CES 2017. To the joy of all film lovers, they are bringing back the legendary Ektachrome Still Film. The company plans to reformulate and produce the Ektachrome 135 still frame. In late 2017, the film will be back on the market. Also, Kodak is re-launching Ektachrome Super 8 film to go along their recently introduced Super 8 movie camera. So, both photographers and filmmakers have something to look forward to!

As digital photography took over the market, the company discontinued production of Ektachome in 2012. However, analog photography seems to be rising in popularity again. So, four years later, the company has decided to re-launch their iconic film.

Steven Overman, Kodak’s chief marketing officer, stated that the company is aware of a “broad resurgence of excitement about capturing images on film.” According to him, “Kodak is committed to continuing to manufacture film as an irreplaceable medium for image creators to capture their artistic vision.”

Dennis Olbrich, President of Kodak Alaris stated in the official press release: “We’ve been listening to the needs and desires of photographers over the past several years and wanted to bring back a color reversal film. In assessing the opportunity, EKTACHROME was the clear choice.”

Ektachrome is a color positive film (“reversal”, “slide” or “transparency” film). It makes it great for high-resolution projections and presentations. It also gives great results with scanning and printing onto various photographic media. In addition, it is famous for its fantastic contrast, tones and colors, and very fine grain. Because of all this, film photographers and videographers all over the world are looking forward to the great comeback of this film.

The company has announced that the film will be available in the fourth quarter of 2017. We don’t know the price yet, but one thing’s sure – it will certainly be cheaper than the rare pieces you can find online nowadays.

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Watch How ILM Brought Back Tarkin and Leia for Rogue One

By now, we’ve talked our heads off about the ILM recreations of 1977 Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in Rogue One. We’ve talked ethics, quality, and even the process. The last piece is to simply watch how it was done, and now you can.

ABC’s Nightline was given the scoop. They did a piece from Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco, talked to John Knoll, and revealed never before seen footage of the process of creating not just Tarkin, but Leia too. Check it out.

It’s definitely an interesting video, especially now since Carrie Fisher has passed away. Kind of gives the whole process another layer of contemplation.

You can read (and discuss) more about the process with the below links.

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This Video Explains How to Use SMART to Monitor Your Hard Drives For Failures

Your hard drive failing is one of the worst things that can happen to your computer, since you lose tons of data. Fortunately, most drives include a tool set called SMART that can monitor your drive and let you know when you’re about to have a problem.

As the video above from Techquickie explains, SMART monitors all kinds of details about your hard drive including its temperature, vibration levels, bad sectors, write cycles (for SSDs), and tons more. With this data, it can give you an early warning when your hard drive might fail.

However, you have to seek out SMART to use it. The feature is kind of like the diagnostic computer in your car. Your PC doesn’t just come with an app to show you all of that data. There are a couple of ways to access it, though. First, you can use a command prompt. Run the following two commands to see if there are any errors:

wmic

diskdrive get status

If this returns “OK” then your hard drive at least isn’t suffering from critical errors. If it returns something else, you might have a problem. You can also use tools like Passmark DiskCheckup to go into more detail and find out exactly how healthy your hard drive is.

SMART for HDDs/SSDs as Fast As Possible | Techquickie


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Growing Onions For Backyard Farmers

Onions are some of the easiest crops to grow and they are a good place to start for backyard farmers. They are also an excellent cold weather crop for a fall garden.

If you want super easy, go to a locally owned farm supply store in early December and buy a bundle of onion sprouts. Onion seeds are available for those who would rather start from there.

Let’s use the Texas Super Sweet (1015 Y) as an example. Depending on location, they can take anywhere from 75 to over 110 days to grow.  The name comes when the seed is supposed to be planted, which is on October 15th, and it is a yellow onion.

The 10-15Y produces a large bulb that has a pleasant, sweet taste.  When stored in a dry and dark location, it can be stored for a couple of months.

Preparing Soil

Onions can be grown in just about any soil.  They prefer well drained, plenty of organic material, rocks and tree roots removed, and little clay.  The bulb needs room to expand, so removing roots and rocks is important.

I use either raised beds or use a tiller to work up an area. If the onions are going to be planted directly into the ground, I use a tiller to break up the soil until it is fine and all the clumps are removed. Either in a raised bed or directly in the soil, I like to add organic potting soil or compost along with commercial fertilizer.

Onions love nitrogen. I usually use just a little 13-13-13 while the sprouts are young. A month or so later, I side dress with a high nitrogen fertilizer, such as 16-6-12 or 21-0-0. The first number of the fertilizer is the nitrogen content.

Make sure the onion beds will have access to water. It is important that the onions have plenty of water, but they do not like to sit in water. The soil must be well drained.

Planting Onions

If you bought onion seed, plant them directly in the soil.  If you are growing 10-15 Y, the seeds are supposed to be planted on October 15th.

Sprouts will start arriving at farm supply stores around the first week of December.  I usually buy the sprouts rather than plant from seed.

Plant the onion sprouts about 6 inches apart.  This gives the sprout plenty of room to grow the bulb and access moisture and nutrients.

Growing Onions

Planted in the first part of December, depending on type, they should be ready around May – June.

First thing to grow will be green shoots.  The bulb will not form until much later.  Onions use nitrogen to grow the shoots.  The shoots store nutrients, which are used to grow the bulb.

If the shoots lean over towards the ground, the onion may need water.

About every 4 – 6 weeks, side dress with a high nitrogen fertilizer.  After side dressing, water the onions or side dress right before a rain.

Side dressing means to throw fertilizer on the ground next to the plant.

Good Crop For New Farmers

Onions are one of the easiest crops someone can grow, and they are an excellent start for anyone who is interested in gardening.

If you want to get started with gardening, go down to the local farm supply store, pick up a batch and plant them.

 

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Here’s Exactly How Manual Transmissions Are Different From Automatics

We already know which one is supposed to be more “fun”, but what do the innards of manual and automatic transmissions look like? How do all the parts to together?

This delightful video, nearly eight minutes long, is an excellent visual explainer on how both transmissions work and how they are different from one another. If you’re a visual learner like I am, this is a real treat. It’s also a good primer on why internal combustion engines need transmissions at all.

The automatic transmission gets a bad rap among enthusiasts, but it’s a technical marvel even today, and modern ones keep getting better and better. That’s not to say a manual gearbox isn’t equally amazing, as you’ll see here.

Did we learn anything today, kids?

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The Untold Story of Darth Vader

The Untold Story of Darth Vader

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While its title is a bit hyperbolic, Looper’s look at one of the most recognized and downright evil dudes in the history of movies is still a good watch, and provides at least a couple of tidbits about the character and the actors that portrayed him that we didn’t already know.

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A Yoga Routine for People Who Work on Their Feet

If you work as a waiter, hair stylist, sales clerk, stocker or other job that requires you to be on your feet all day, you know how tired your feet and leg muscles get from just one shift. Try this yoga routine to stretch and help those muscles recover at the end of the day.

15 minutes is all it takes to do this routine, and once you’re finished you’ll feel refreshed for your next shift, or better yet, for your actual life off the job. Here are the areas this routine focuses on.

  • Joints: Standing and sitting stretches for your wrists, ankles, and hips. Essentially bending your wrists or ankles back gently to stretch in the opposite direction they’re normally in.
  • Back: Elongate the spine with forward folds and shoulder stretches to open up your upper back. These two poses use your body weight to slowly stretch your upper back and shoulders. For the forward folds, bend your knees and put your feet hips width apart, fold forward and grab your elbows. Gently move your head back and forth, then slowly move your arms and torso back and forth to stretch your upper back and shoulders.
  • Legs: Stretch your hamstrings and leg muscles by putting your feet a little more than shoulder distance apart, straighten your legs if you can. Put your hands on your waist and slowly bend forward. Go slowly so you don’t lose your balance. Once you reach a 90 degree bend, place your fingertips on the ground, your palms if you can, and bend and straighten your elbows to stretch more and less. Walk your hands back in between your legs for more of a stretch. Return your hands to your waist and slowly rise up to a standing position.
  • Neck: Neck rolls and forward bends to move your neck muscles in a different direction.

The routine is designed to be helpful and short, but if you’re particularly tired, have sore legs, or maybe your joints really bother you, just add a few reps of the exercises above to work that part out a little more. For the full routine, check out the video above.

Yoga for the Service Industry | Yoga with Adriene


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Jerusalem gets its own ‘City Of’ mesmerizing movie

Jerusalem gets its own ‘City Of’ mesmerizing movie

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Many big cities around the world get a movie highlighting the city with stunning shots and eye capturing hyperlapse sequences. Now, Jerusalem got one of those movies, Voices of Jerusalem, made by team Kaveret.

This by no means was a small project. It is not easy to convey the many faces of the city with its many cultures, religions and conflicts. This is why it’s not surprising to hear the effort that went into making this movie.

Adam Rubin, Kaveret’s founder tells DIYP that they shot over 540 hours of footage all around the city, which includes both videos and still, coming to an astounding 1.8TB. With that amount of footage it took about 30 days to edit.

project timeline

As for gear, the team used just about anything and everything: bodies wise they used a mix of Sony A7R II, Sony A7S II ,Sony FS700R for capturing video a Canon 5D III for the hyperlapse sequences and an Inspire 1 for the drone footage. Those were coupled with an impressive array of lenses: 16-35mm, 24-105mm for hyper lapses and 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm, 135mm and 70-200mm for “regular” footage.

Adam tells DIYP that the biggest challenge with the project was not getting access (they were working with the city hall). The biggest challenge was organizing the logistics behind the shoot.  (and we will have a story about this coming up). The team only had 15 days of shooting to cover the entire city, with over 40 locations planned. Some were short shoots, but most needed a crew of more than one person, gear and the right angles of view.

The team had to go through a massive research about the city itself. What are the highlights that would distill the city feel. At the end of the research the team had a huge spreadsheet, with locations, vantage points, parking spots and everything needed for each shot.

[Voices of Jerusalem | Kaveret]

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