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.
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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
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.