Mirrorless they may be, but not all mirrorless cameras are Micro Four Thirds. Only when you buy mirrorless cameras from Panasonic or Olympus (and more recently Kodak, with the Kodak Pixpro S-1), are you really buying into the system conceived to unify all cameras under one standard. Something it never achieved, but that’s another story […]
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The start of commercial shipments of the T4K82, a 13-megapixel BSI CMOS image sensor from Toshiba that allows smartphones and tablets to record full HD video at 240 equivalent frames per second (fps) may not be of much interest to cinematographers, but is a sign of how fast technology moves and good news for smartphone […]
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My quest for a reasonably affordable, capable remote follow focus led me to the $1989 Cinegears Express. […]
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The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference pulls together professionals from across various industries to showcase where computing power is at and where it’s headed. Media and entertainment is certainly one of those industries, and it was great to discover that NVIDIA has developed some specific products that are geared toward us and used the conference as […]
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The term “Full HD” obviously means “complete HD”, which is confusing, inappropriate, and damaging for the video production community when used as a haughty nickname for 1920x1080p, since it attempts to insinuate that 1080p is always superior to 720p, and that any other HD (like 720p) is therefore “incomplete HD”. That is far from the […]
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A few years ago there was a spate of interest in chromatic aberration — fixing footage containing the color fringing, but mostly creating it for motion graphics and VFX realism. At some point, questions on creating this effect must have reached a critical mass, and tools and tutorials popped up to help. […]
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In our last article, we discussed building an in-house corporate studio. Assuming that you’ve got the approval to move forward, the next challenge is budgeting for the studio. If you’re not familiar with how corporate budgeting works, it can be a real head-scratcher. This article will give you some ideas on how to move forward. […]
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The good folks at Amazon dropped off a package the other day for a brand-new G-Technology G|DRIVE ev RaW “rugged” drive. I wanted to try one of these drives because as one who edits in several different locations I’m often shuttling media from one system to the other. I don’t carry around any padded foam […]
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Winner, at the 2015 iF Design Awards, of an award in the category for innovating and outstanding products, the Philips Two-in-One monitor (Model 19DP6QJNS), allows users to increase their working space through an ingenious solution. Research has found that using multiple monitors significantly increases productivity and reduces errors. Once you experience the advantage of dual […]
Blackmagic finally adds the long awaited lossless compressed raw recording to their original, the 2.5K Cinema Camera. In addition, both the 2.5K Cinema and the Pocket Cameras now boast a few convenience features that might help shooters work a bit more quickly. […]
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