Photos from the launch of the 2 x 250km endurance race known as the Clipsal 500, raced on the streets of Adelaide. Driver appearances by: Steven Johnson, James Courtney, Russel Ingall, Tim Slade, Lee Holdsworth, Will Davison, Shane Van Gisbergen, Dean Canto, Steven Richards and Greg Murphy.
Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA on Friday the 16/10/2009.
Bought this last week. Graphics are excellent. Sound is ok. But it has some problems that could have been easily avoided had a little more effort been put into the key aspects that make a good racing game imho - mainly views and controls.
What I don’t like:
1) Choice of views. There are 4 (from memory) views, and only two are really usable, and all appear to be non-configurable.
2) The default view looks like it’s at the point of view of a truck in terms of height. As a result, the track width looks smaller than it really is (claustrophobic, esp. on the nurburgring).
3) Yes, they thankfully put in a cockpit view. A pitch black cave. Yes, that’s right, you can’t even see the interior. Also, the fov is so wide that you can’t see where you’re going. Forget all this sensation-of-speed view ideology, this is a ’simulation’, and a crucial point is to be able to see where the road goes so you can look further ahead. The least they could have done was put in a lightened bitmap for the interior and I wouldn’t complain.
One of many photos taken today at the Lobethal Grand Carnival.
There were almost as many Nissans as there were Porsches at Monarto last Sunday afternoon.
At the top of the world, Simon and Sue Evans stand opposite the media atop their winning Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 at Mt Pleasant Oval last weekend.
One of many photos taken over three days at Rally SA.
Most enthusiastic radio communication from an Aussie ever. For anyone whose mobile can use mp3’s as a ringtone (motorola), here’s an sms ringtone available for download.
I first heard about this camera during the Adelaide Film Festival domefest event earlier this year, and yesterday attended a seminar on current 2k-4k video recording technologies, including hands-on on a few of these cameras, such as the tiny SI2k, as well as the Red One.
For those that don’t know, the Red One camera is a 4000×2000 pixel video camera that records in Raw, like professional DSLR’s do for photos. It records up to 30fps at that resolution, but can record at a higher frame rate at lower resolutions (120fps at 2k from memory).
The digital workflow seems simple enough, and the resulting footage from it is absolutely breathtaking. RED’s latest 35mm Film Demo Reel was decidedly jaw dropping to say the least. I’d love some proper testing time with wide fisheye lenses for fulldome / regular cinema presentation.
August Boehm is currently back home in Australia, with interests in artistic technologies, speed sports, and martial arts.
