The obligatory Sony F65 photo. There wasn’t one overall theme to the NAB camera announcements. 4K cameras and HD-resolution LSS (large single sensor) cameras shared the spotlight with workaday small-sensor cameras packing ever more features into the same sorts of form factors we’ve seen for years. But Sony did make a leap into uncharted waters […]
When most people think of high speed sync, they think fast shutter speeds and freezing the action. True, shooting at 1/8000 with flash is going to freeze the action no matter what the main light source is illuminating the subject. But what about other uses of high speed sync and flash. Until the release of […]
I thought I would never be able to actually see something that’s almost as rare as a bigfoot sighting and that’s a Philip Bloom Signature Series Pocket Dolly from Kessler. However, once we were at the booth, we were totally taken off guard by Eric Kessler and his brand new software based motion control system. […]
As we mentioned earlier, we're in the process of recording our book After Effects Apprentice as a series of training videos, where you get to look over our shoulders and hear what we're thinking as we work through each lesson. Our latest installment is the lesson on Type and Music. One of the cornerstones of […]
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville Between 1857 and 1860, and 20 years before Thomas Edison recorded his version of Mary Had A Little Lamb on a tinfoil roller he called a Phonograph (1877), a French typesetter/inventor, Édouard-L©on Scott de Martinville, created what are now considered to be the very first recordings of the human voice on […]
