In the West Loop, at the Taste of Randolph Street

by Joe Zekas on 6/21/09

I visited the Taste of Randolph Street yesterday with my long-awaited new camera. Bear with me as I slog through the maddening maze of video codecs, and navigate the endless trade-offs between output quality and processing time. I’m hoping it’s a single-camera solution for high-quality stills and high-def video.

I stopped by CA23, where the old sales center building has been demolished to make way for the next phase of the development. My sally into the West Loop ends with a partial view of the skyline from Lake Street and the Kennedy.

The Taste continues today. While there you can check out a number of West Loop developments.

[where: 60607]

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{ 2 comments }

Jon 6/24/09 at 8:07 AM

Joe,

Love the website – great work. This is a bit off topic but, how do you like the new Lumix DMC-GH1? I’m thinking about picking one up myself. Keep up the good work!

Best,

Jon

Joe Zekas 6/24/09 at 10:52 AM

Jon,

The camera is great.

Working with the video files, however, is a headache. Still can’t use the higher-quality AVCHD files with Adobe Premiere software, so shooting lower-quality motion JPEG. The software Panasonic ships with the camera is worse than useless.

Right now you can’t just “pick one up.” I had mine back-ordered directly from Panasonic for about 6 weeks. Amazon sellers are offering the camera at $1,000 over list price.

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