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Travel Photography

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I took them both. My Sony RX100 and one of my Nikon DSLRs, the Nikon D600. For the Nikon, I brought along a 50mm prime and a 24-120mm F4 zoom.

The Nikon kit is heavy. And, in the Florida heat, a tad uncomfortable.

We spent yesterday at Universal Studios in Orlando. I decided to leave the big DSLR behind. I took the very small Sony as my camera.

I have to say that it performed well above my expectations for a compact point and shoot camera. Well enough that I doubt I would have captured any significantly better images with the DSLR particularly given the location and the time of day.

It was quite liberating to walk the park with a camera that could easily fit in my pocket when needed. No hassles when doing the rides.

Here are a few photos from the day.

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528 Inputs and Thousands of Bands of EQ

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Universal Studios’ Dub Room 4, also known as the Alfred Hitchcock Theater, upgraded their console in 2005 to be functionally equivalent to the Harrison MPC4-D. The console is over 30 feet long and has more faders than any single console in the world. Here is a picture of the console.

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Harrison recently hosted an AES event and showcased an MPC4-D ready for delivery to a soundstage in Russia. 3dAudio covered that event at a post here.

One interesting feature is the number of processors required to run the console. Here is a photo of the AMD Opteron-powered CPUs that power the board. The operating system is running Linux and everything is connected by Gigabit Ethernet.

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