Let’s be clear. Everybody gets excited when Sony, Nikon or Canon raise the number of pixels, by millions, in their cameras. Or frowns when they do not do it. There seems to be a fascination for more pixels, although “more” does not necessarily “mean” better. And no, the war is not over, it seems. In […]
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TLCI’s developer says prism cameras and single sensor cameras respond to color in the same way. Thanks to Panasonic, I can show that’s not the case… […]
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This is an exchange from She a Go, a fan-made hip-hop music video that uses watermarked comp clips of businesspeople. It sums up many people’s feelings about stock footage. Then there’s Darwin Deez’s ridiculous You Can’t Be My Girl, where he’s inserted into stock video clips, this time of a variety of women. Yep, it’s […]
Back in February, I published an article called: 48 reasons why GarageBand is kryptonite for video production. At that point, I didn’t even know that Avid had announced Pro Tools First, a free yet extremely powerful version of their popular software. In fact, I didn’t find out about it until NAB in April. This article explores […]
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With the price of Lightroom 6 up on the $150 mark and the special prices Adobe offers until the 29th of May, some may be tempted to try the Create Cloud package instead or the Photography Plan. But Adobe needs to create more specific plans. For indie cinematographers, for example. It’s that time of the […]
More than anything else, ProVideo Coalition is a place where experienced professionals can talk through the essentials around what you need to know. Whether that’s Brian Hallett telling us his thoughts about the FS7, Jeff Foster explaining the latest from the FAA when it comes to drones, or Scott Simmons documenting how to get the […]
For twin brothers Phillip and Kevin Harvey, having grown up in Moscow, Idaho, it was hard to imagine they would one day be standing on top of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington with Dave Matthews, or in the middle of CenturyLink Field during the NFC Championship celebrations. The path that led them there was […]
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A 19-day shoot covering more than 35,000 miles requires a very special type of camera. For me that was the FS7 and its servo zoom E-Mount lens (FE PZ 28-135mm F4 G OSS – SELP28135G), which I put through their paces in some very challenging conditions. I was shooting a documentary on pediatric tuberculosis for […]
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Launched at the end of April and running until the end of May, the Camlet Mount campaign is for a project that may interest all those videographers using a DSLR but aspiring to have a bigger and affordable monitor to control images: Camlet Mount lets you use your tablet or smartphone. The people behind Camlet […]
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More than a few experts labeled 2014 as the “year of the breach”, and a list of all the companies that experienced security issues last year would be an entire article itself. Massive organizations are the ones that get the headlines when they experience a security issue, but companies that are infinitely smaller are just […]
