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NEW YORK FASHION WEEK SAYS NO TO UNPROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT -- EXCEPTIONTION: 360FASHION

slimpixi | 08 September, 2007 15:05

IMG WORLD banned from the catwalks this year all "unprofessional equipment". their concern is the quality. i discussed this issue with IMG WORLD online media head, and he said simply [i paraphrased it as best i could], "fashion is about beauty. fashion is about quality. designers spend 100,000 and more on presenting their collections during the fashion week. what is the point of spending so much money, if the results will be a blurry, fuzzy, video online? this does not serve the designers, and it does not serve the the consumers, and it serves no purpose. you have to choose the right tool for the right situation, and currently cellular technology and consumer electronics products do not produce high enough quality results for the fashion industry."

while i would in one regard totally agree with him, from a personal perspective i would have to agree with robert cringely when we spoke during my PBS interview (they are making a documentary on me during the fashion week). if no one pushes the envelope--how will the technology evolve? if i don't make tests, try out new things, make experiments live, then how will the technology get better.

here you can see the interview with top photographer, randy brooke, where i asked him why with my n93 did i get pixelation and color variation on the catwalk. you can see here a video i uploaded with my n93 (still the superior device in my opinion for fashion quality video) and a test device n95 loaned to me by nokia. the light meter in the n95 is MUCH WORSE, (along with other featured they have eliminated from the video editing software). the video is completely washed out in the n95 video of the same show.