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Very pleased with this photo, had a really hard time figuring out which angle in wanted to use since I got as many as I could let me know what you think and any hints to make it a better photo! Thanks
My third handheld panorama. Still don't quite have the hang of it yet, the same gaps were in this image as the other two.
April 7
This place is CRAZY! I knew NAB was huge, and I expected it to be a barrage of gear porn and more, but apparently my imagination needs some maintenance because the scale of this tech conference is really hard to wrap my head around.
Chris and I spent the entire day in Central Hall, which is one of THREE halls. We didn't even linger at many booths either. We just sort of bounced around to a lot of the vendors we were interested in. We quickly realized that this year is undoubtedly the Year of the Brushless Gimbal. It seems that nearly every vendor has its own handheld gimbal for us to play with. Oh, I forgot to mention that you can play with EVERYTHING.
Chris and I got to try out several handheld gimbals, and while they all have a lot in common, there were a couple that stuck out. I've been drooling over the Movi for ages, but the one that can handle my camera is over $10k. There are some here, namely DJI's newly-announced gimbal (the same company that makes those cute white GoPro quad copters) which can hold up to 14lbs AND is less than $5k! I have a feeling there will be a lot of geek juice flowing for the next few days.
Alan Farmer is here and met up with us about halfway through the day. After our time at NAB we met him at The Pub over at the Monte Carlo. It was refreshing to find a place with 100+ beers on tap after only having access to Miller Lites for $6.50. Everything in stupidly expensive here, by the way. For lunch I had a hot dog and a root beer for $16. At The Pub we met Alan's old (British) coworker from Keller, who was a pretty cool dude.
As it got late, Alan took us to the Cosmopolitan. His step-brother works at a club there, which happened to be the location of an NAB after-party. Unfortunately, Alan was dressed like a hobo and we didn't want to bail on him, so we just hung around and people-watched.
This will go on my list of extremely long days.