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Finding more classic stills lenses
Continued from part one, in which we considered whether cheap glass from internet auction sites is really a cheap...
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Newest Beta SP decks celebrate 25th birthday
Every so often, the BBC proudly puts out a press release that it has found a long-lost episode of...
Production
Digging for affordable lens greats
About fifteen years ago, the world suddenly realised that large-sensor movie cameras had become affordable, while large-sensor movie lenses...
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Linux on the desktop?
A couple of weeks ago, Canonical – the people behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution – hosted a talk by...
Production
Equipment great and small at BSC Expo
There is sometimes a feeling that a well-attended film and television trade show suggests that crew are lacking other...
Post Production
2025 in review: What the people want
One of the trickier things about camerawork is that it very rarely gets end-user feedback. If the end user...
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2025 in review: AI in mittens
“Holidays are coming,” chimes an almost Disneylike AI chorus in the famous soft drinks commercial. Well, yes, they are,...
Production
Old school lights are creating brand new opportunities for filmmakers
he plummeting used prices of 575W HMIs suggest that there might soon be a dwindling of people in the...
Production
Big lights could (should) give filmmakers pocket-sized power
Today, your narrator is going to abuse his position to complain about a standard that should exist, but doesn’t....
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Great PR persuades world Pinocchio is real.
Some actors work for years to achieve any sort of success, but one putative thespian who has been doing...
