One of the nice things about photo companies trade show booths are the mini-galleries they put up on the walls of their booths. They are always great pictures, and it turns a trade show into a gallery. Mr. Dude wishes he had taken this picture, which was hanging on the Nikon wall. But instead the photographer was Dave Black, using a Nikon D3S. Good stuff Dave.
The Polaroid name was bought out in its bankruptcy proceedings, and the company has been re-launched selling everything from photo accessories to TVs to DVD players and much much more. But this caught DV Dude's eye - a re-vamped Polaroid instamatic camera, the Z2300. It can make 2x3" prints in about a minute. Not great image quality, but then again, neither was the original Polaroid.
Technicolor had a booth, and they were demonstrating their new consumer colour correction software for video. Think of it as the iMovie version of DaVinci Resolve. A lot simpler to use than Resolve, but still very powerful, and can be more sophisticated if you want it to be. Asif Ahmed of Reel Engery Entertainment was demoing the software, and he did a great job. Mr. Dude was impressed with the ease of use, the real-time rendering, and the ability to grow with it.
CES has a small section dedicated to robots (I did a couple of pictures for the last CES), and there is always something cool yet creepy at the same time about them. The robots on display at CES range from cute toys to massage to housekeeping bots. This little guy is just screaming "Take me to your leader!" Yes, they will rule us one day.
