Flicker: Why On-Set Monitors Fail Us
While working as a young second camera assistant on a film TV series in the 1990s, I noticed the...
Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television
Have you ever watched a movie or a television program set in a time decades ago that had a...
Photogrammetry and Visual Effects
Photogrammetry and Visual Effects
TLCI vs. CRI, CQS, etc.: How do they stack up?
How does TLCI stack up against the other measures of color accuracy? I’ve argued that its testing methodologies might...
Communications Satellites
The year 2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first artificial earth object to orbit this planet. Sputnik 1...
REVIEW: Ready Rig GS Gimbal Support
Camera gimbals like the Freefly Movi and DJI Ronin are wonderful tools, but if you pair them with any...
“Too Much Headroom!” The Joy of “Unconventional” Compositions
I’m a huge fan of the TV series Mr. Robot. Not only does it have one of the deepest and...
REVIEW: Drone Pilot Ground School for FAA Certification
It’s very simple: If you want to fly an unmmanned aircraft commercially in the United States (ie, to be...
DaVinci Resolve on a Surface Pro 4
Blackmagic Design and Intel loaned me a Surface Pro 4 to test the performance of the Iris GPU and...
Kinescope Recording – Television’s Antique Recording Medium
I’ve written about restoration of television programs before. But the master copies were usually on videotape that didn’t start...
