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Kodak Zi6: recording the Cologne Cathedral Climb
While I am here in Cologne, Germany for Photokina, I wanted to take my Kodak Zi6 Video Camera out to shoot some video.
I heard you could climb to the top of the Cologne Cathedral so I went to check it out.
Here is what I shot with the Kodak Zi6...
Kodak at Photokina
This week I am in Cologne, Germany for Photokina. Photokina is the world's largest photo and imaging tradeshow and Kodak has a booth there. All week you can read about what is going on at Photokina and the Kodak booth over on PluggedIn.
When I first arrived the Kodak booth looked like this.
Now it looks like this.
We have a lot of exciting products like the new Kodak OLED Picture Frame. It's great to see the press and public come to the booth and ooh and ahh over our displays.
This post wouldn't be complete without a panorama of the booth. Click on the image to see it larger.
There are many things to see at Photokina. Today for instance, for reasons unknown to me there was a wild bird flying demonstration right smack in the middle of the Photokina halls.
Perhaps it's just a photo taking opportunity... of course I was game and I shot some video too.
Panorama Extravaganza
Tom and I went a little nutty taking panoramic pictures at the Beijing Olympics. First of all it is so much fun. Everywhere we went we were scrutinizing the area to see if it would make a good panorama. Secondly, it's so darn easy with the panoramic feature on Kodak digital cameras. It is one of the features on our cameras that catches people's attention the most. Every time I post a panoramic picture I get lots of comments about it. So here for your viewing enjoyment is more panoramic pictures than you can shake a stick at. You can click on the images to see the ginormous shots in all their panoramy glory.
Stadiums full of people make dramatic panoramas... the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Gymnastics
Swimming
Corner shot of gymnastics
Track and field.
The stadiums were a favorite subject... the Water Cube.
The Bird's Nest
Tom getting a shot of the Olympic Green
We took panoramas all over Beijing... The Temple of Heaven
The Great Wall of China
Panoramic shots can work well indoors... this is the Kodak Store in the Olympic Athletes Village.
Banquet room in The Great Hall of the People.
Temple of Confucious
The granddaddy of all panoramic pictures. Three shots of the Olympics MPC strung together in Photoshop.
To read more about taking panoramic pictures check out this helpful page on the Kodak Tips & Projects Center.
Stadiums full of people make dramatic panoramas... the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Gymnastics
Swimming
Corner shot of gymnastics
Track and field.
The stadiums were a favorite subject... the Water Cube.
The Bird's Nest
Tom getting a shot of the Olympic Green
We took panoramas all over Beijing... The Temple of Heaven
The Great Wall of China
Panoramic shots can work well indoors... this is the Kodak Store in the Olympic Athletes Village.
Banquet room in The Great Hall of the People.
Temple of Confucious
The granddaddy of all panoramic pictures. Three shots of the Olympics MPC strung together in Photoshop.
To read more about taking panoramic pictures check out this helpful page on the Kodak Tips & Projects Center.
Photography That Saves Lives
A lot of letters come across my desk on a day to day basis. Here is one that particularly struck me and I would like to share. It's a story of how a photograph profoundly changed one family's life.
Dear Kodak,
I am writing to you as a photograph helped diagnose our son Leo with an eye cancer last summer. We first noticed a strange hue over his eye when reviewing photographs we had just taken on our digital camera. After a bit of research on the internet we immediately developed the photographs and headed to the emergency at Sick Kids Hospital here in Toronto with them in hand. Leo was assessed by several ophthalmologists and as this was a true emergency, his eye was removed within days. In short, those photographs might very well have saved his life.
Astonishingly enough, parents are most often the first to notice signs of retinoblastoma. The flash of the camera can make the tumor(s) visible in photographs, appearing as a white hue known as leukocoria, rather than seeing a red eye reflex as in a normal healthy eye. Of course now that we are aware of this, like many other retinoblastoma parents, we can see the tumor in photographs from a much earlier time.
Retinoblastoma is a childhood eye cancer typically affecting infants and children up to 5 years of age. It accounts for approximately 3% of pediatric cancers and affects 1 in 15,000 live births. Only 5% of new cases have a family history of the disease. It is a highly malignant form of cancer spreading to the brain through the optic nerve or to the bone marrow through the blood if left untreated.
This condition often goes undiagnosed by pediatricians until it is at an advanced stage which is why parental awareness is so essential. Parents should be made aware of the recommendation of pediatric ophthalmologists to take a monthly photograph of children under the age of 5 in a dimly lit room without the red eye reduction feature on. This would undoubtedly spare numerous children from having to undergo extensive painful treatments, help eliminate avoidable vision loss, help prevent the unnecessary removal of an eye or both eyes, and could very well save their lives.
While it seemed Leo had avoided further invasive treatments, unfortunately his retinoblastoma story doesn't end there. He was further diagnosed as having trilateral retinoblastoma at 6 months of age, which means that he also has a malignant brain tumor. This is a particularly dangerous and a very rare presentation of the disease as he is only the second child in Canada in the past few decades to suffer from it. That said, Leo has now completed his most active chemotherapy protocol and had a bone marrow transplant in February, a week after his birthday. We are pleased to report that he is recovering nicely and is very much a happy energetic 14 month old!
We hope something positive can come from Leo's diagnosis and would most sincerely appreciate an awareness you would be willing to create.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration,
Maria Pezzente
Leo at 16 months
What an amazing story. I just read a similar story here. I am happy to spread the word for the Pezzente family and hope for the very best for them.
Dear Kodak,
I am writing to you as a photograph helped diagnose our son Leo with an eye cancer last summer. We first noticed a strange hue over his eye when reviewing photographs we had just taken on our digital camera. After a bit of research on the internet we immediately developed the photographs and headed to the emergency at Sick Kids Hospital here in Toronto with them in hand. Leo was assessed by several ophthalmologists and as this was a true emergency, his eye was removed within days. In short, those photographs might very well have saved his life.
Astonishingly enough, parents are most often the first to notice signs of retinoblastoma. The flash of the camera can make the tumor(s) visible in photographs, appearing as a white hue known as leukocoria, rather than seeing a red eye reflex as in a normal healthy eye. Of course now that we are aware of this, like many other retinoblastoma parents, we can see the tumor in photographs from a much earlier time.
Retinoblastoma is a childhood eye cancer typically affecting infants and children up to 5 years of age. It accounts for approximately 3% of pediatric cancers and affects 1 in 15,000 live births. Only 5% of new cases have a family history of the disease. It is a highly malignant form of cancer spreading to the brain through the optic nerve or to the bone marrow through the blood if left untreated.
This condition often goes undiagnosed by pediatricians until it is at an advanced stage which is why parental awareness is so essential. Parents should be made aware of the recommendation of pediatric ophthalmologists to take a monthly photograph of children under the age of 5 in a dimly lit room without the red eye reduction feature on. This would undoubtedly spare numerous children from having to undergo extensive painful treatments, help eliminate avoidable vision loss, help prevent the unnecessary removal of an eye or both eyes, and could very well save their lives.
While it seemed Leo had avoided further invasive treatments, unfortunately his retinoblastoma story doesn't end there. He was further diagnosed as having trilateral retinoblastoma at 6 months of age, which means that he also has a malignant brain tumor. This is a particularly dangerous and a very rare presentation of the disease as he is only the second child in Canada in the past few decades to suffer from it. That said, Leo has now completed his most active chemotherapy protocol and had a bone marrow transplant in February, a week after his birthday. We are pleased to report that he is recovering nicely and is very much a happy energetic 14 month old!
We hope something positive can come from Leo's diagnosis and would most sincerely appreciate an awareness you would be willing to create.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration,
Maria Pezzente
Leo at 16 months
What an amazing story. I just read a similar story here. I am happy to spread the word for the Pezzente family and hope for the very best for them.