{"id":30305,"date":"2017-12-07T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30305"},"modified":"2017-12-07T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:47:43","slug":"norm-chan-editor-of-tested-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/norm-chan-editor-of-tested-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm Chan, Editor of Tested.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have hired professional editors to help create our weekly podcasts and video reviews. So far, Cool Tools listeners have pledged $329 a month. Please consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cooltools\">supporting us<\/a>\u00a0on Patreon. We have great rewards for people who contribute! \u2013 MF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nchan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norm Chan<\/a>. Norm is the co-founder and editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tested.com<\/a>, a website and YouTube channel celebrating the interesting intersections of technology, science, art and the maker community. Norm&#8217;s been a technology journalist for 10 years and produces shows on Tested including Adam Savage&#8217;s costume builds and his weekly podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/podcast\/still-untitled-the-adam-savage-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Still Untitled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/366504590&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1ZEZutuqOOoNguiSYm4G7lcOtItksIAedEJu3DLmDurg\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/7652135\/366504590-cool-tools-101-norm-chan.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30309\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/canon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"canon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/canon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/canon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/canon.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2nwR5eq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Full Frame Digital SLR Camera<\/a> ($3,949)<br \/>\n[The Canon EOS 5D] is my go-to, that\u2019s the thing I probably use the most next to a smartphone or a computer. \u2026 I definitely like shooting video with it. The 5D has a touch screen, lets you tap to focus, it tracks faces. It\u2019s a very good B-roll camera for me. \u2026 I like the Canon user interface. I have a collection of Canon lenses. I don&#8217;t know if you know but, on Nikon the focus and the zooms are reverse. Whereas in Canon you rotate clockwise, on a Nikon it would be counter clockwise. So my muscle memory is actually tuned to the Canon lenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30308\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/DXO-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"DXO\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/DXO-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/DXO.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2nBqAVh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DxO One<\/a> ($469)<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a company called DxO \u2026 they&#8217;re a software company, they do software analysis for images. When you see smartphones come out, you may see a DXO score or rating for some of these cameras. But they also make hardware and their first camera was a camera called the DxO One. The price has gone down a little bit, it\u2019s a $500 camera, which is still expensive in the pocket camera world. But it has a very large sensor, it&#8217;s a 1-inch size sensor in this form factor that&#8217;s no bigger than a lighter. A metallic lighter, like a Zippo. It&#8217;s very pocketable, and it actually plugs in to an iOS device. So it has a lightning port, you plug it into your iPhone and basically you have a very nice camera. You can use the iPhone as the viewfinder and save the photos directly on to your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30307\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/Amaran-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Amaran\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/Amaran-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/Amaran.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jonS10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amaran AL-M9<\/a> ($45)<br \/>\n&#8220;So working in a production pseudo-environment, we use a lot of traditional kino lights, things you&#8217;d find in movie studios and big bulky lights with the switch out the bulbs. And the past couple years we&#8217;ve been moving over to LED lights. \u2026 But more recently we\u2019ve discovered there&#8217;s a company called Aputure, and they sent us a sample of this very small, lightweight, credit card-sized LED light. The AL-M9 is the model and we have a couple handful of these in our studio and they&#8217;re very backpack-able, even pocketable. Run off of built in battery and they get incredible bright, very bright with I think 9 or 10 degrees of brightness settings so it can get pretty dim, pretty bright. And they&#8217;re just so handy for, even if you&#8217;re shooting outdoors use them for a fill light for example. Or when I do product shots or macro shots, as a backlight or even as key light. And then they have these magnetic swappable covers for color temperature. Just very versatile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30306\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/12\/glowforge-300x150.png\" alt=\"glowforge\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/glowforge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glowforge<\/a> ($5,995)<br \/>\n\u201cThis is like the new shiny toy. ..Having a laser cutter that I have in my home office is game changing. I have a 3d printer now and a laser cutter next to my computer desk at home. It just changes how fast I can prototype and come up with an idea and make it. \u2026It\u2019s a 40W laser or a 45W, if you go for the pro model. In the world of laser cutters, the way I understand, there are two fundamental laser technologies. There are tube lasers, glass tube lasers and then there&#8217;s metal lasers. And the big industrial lasers you see at maker spaces are metal lasers, they are pulse based. Tube lasers have a continuous laser but they don&#8217;t last nearly as long &#8211; they&#8217;re more hobby lasers. So this one is a tube laser. I expect it to last several years, but it&#8217;s going to be replaceable. But it definitely cuts cardboard, foam core, 1\/8 inch wood is probably the sweet spot for it. \u2026 it\u2019s all cloud-based software, they\u2019re rolling out. \u2026 But one of the other features is a pass through system. \u2026 If I have a very long sheet of material I can cut a fifth of it and then slide it through, it\u2019ll re-align, resume a cut or resume a etch and therefore I have a 20 inch by theoretically as large as I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools Show 101: Norm Chan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1555,1472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30316,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions\/30316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}