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iMac Pro testing shows 10-core model dramatically faster than any other Mac on intensive t...
200% improvement in RAW photo processing over the reviewer’s prior iMac. Sounds like a good start!
I wonder about multi-GB Photoshop documents with lots of layers, Smart Objects, effects, etc.
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10-core Vega 64 iMac Pro first impressions video posted by prominent YouTuber MKBHD
Troll.6toecat said:Oh gawd, why isn't he using REDcine-X ? The RED raw HUD in FCPX is so limited. This guy is NOT a Pro.
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Comparison: iPhone X vs. iPhone 8 Plus camera quality
I am a photographer. I am also a photo editor. I understand the distinction the pedantic commenters make. I understood the author’s meaning. I find everyone’s obsession with correcting the smallest misstatement tiresome and small minded. It’s such stereotypical nerd pugnaciousness.gatorguy said:
Why are you so bothered with someone with more photography knowledge than you explaining the difference between the faux digitally enhanced blur your smartphone is producing (which for clarity you could call Fokeh which IMO best describes the intent) and "bokeh" produced by a traditional SLR camera lens, what it is and what factors create it. I think his post was very appropriate. Personally I don't like misappropriated words either since as you said words mean something.... until they don't due to ignorance, laziness, marketing and other misuse of it.polymnia said:
Words do begin to mean things they didn’t mean originally. Try reading an English newspaper from 100 years ago. The point is this: did you understand what the author MEANT?georgie01 said:
I think Hmlongco’s post was interesting and helpful. You may find the usage of the word ‘bokeh’ as minor and inconsequential, but why do you expect those in the photography world to bow to other’s ignorance? Words can start to mean things they didn’t initially, but why defend ignorance with such a passion?polymnia said:
OMG. Commenters here are the worst.As long as we're being pedantic about it, we should cover the minor fact that Bokeh is not a technique, but a characteristic of how the out-of-focus areas in an image appear.
A specific lens at a specific focal length at a specific f-stop focused at a specific distance has a specific DOF. Anything not in focus will be blurred to a greater or lesser extent, and the characteristics of that blur depend on the aforementioned factors. You can change those settings and get more items in and out of focus, but you can't change the bokeh.
Lenses with more aperture blades (and thus rounder apertures) tend to produce better bokeh, but that's not the sole determining factor.
If you did, then case closed. You are smarter than he is. Good for you.
If if you don’t, then ask for clarification.
if you did understand and think a word choice wasn’t the best, and that’s your ONLY contribution to the discussion, please save us.
Its a a story on a tech blog. It’s not a an artistic research paper. Or even a photo enthusiast blog.
Pleather is not leather until we start using one to describe the other. When you buy furniture you will appreciate that the two are not considered one.
If we call every smartphone an iPhone then it devalues Apple's product when buyers think they are all one and the same. (Apple goes to great lengths to protect that word from being misused for that very reason).
Calling digital background blur from a smartphone "bokeh" as tho there's no difference minimizes the nearly 200 year old artistry and value of photographers, and is an effort by smartphone makers to dismiss the value of SLR's and enhance the value of their own product using marketing-speak to imply your $600+ 8mm thick smartphone delivers the same results. It does not, nor are they capable of doing the same thing. Pesky physics get in the way.
if you care to google these forums, I’ve discussed the technical merits of Fokeh (please correct me if I use your term incorrectly) and how it is quite possible to use off-the-shelf photoshop techniques (look for Lens Blur and use a depth channel) to produce extremely convincing Bokeh (fokeh [not Gaussian blur]).
I also own a 70-200mm f2.8 nikon lens that creates beautiful Bokeh (not Fokeh [optical effect, not in post]).
But my point is not to say one is better than the other or that I’m smarter or dumber than anyone. My point is that a person who understands what Bokeh is (I am one of those people) can also understand the article perfectly well. We don’t get anything extra from a bunch of “well actually…” from the propeller-beanie-gallery.
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Jony Ive returns to hands-on control of Apple design team
At least the entire comment thread isn’t obsessed with the way an author (mis)uses a single word. This is practically the commenters of AI singing Kumbiya in unison.macxpress said:
Yeah everyone loved that felt and fake wood interface...cgWerks said:9secondkox2 said:Soooo glad to hear this. The hardware designs have taken s step back in some ways.
And Ive Revolutionized iOS with a perfect minimalist UI THAT WAS THOROUGH.
THE current iteration can use a thorough going over. Keep it minimal and consistent.
I was thinking when Ive got involved was when it went downhill.
Why does every god damn article turn into this constant negativity and results into this I know how to run Apple better than Apple?
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'Hey Siri' may come to iMac Pro with rumored inclusion of A10 Fusion co-processor
It seems to me the real importance of this discovery is that the A10 chip will handle booting & security. That means FaceID is coming to the Mac at some point. Which isn’t a giant leap. But seeing references to the hardware required in code means we are closer than we may have thought.
