Canon Compact Zoom Lens Review: 18-80mm and 70-200mm
When I started this career I was told to never ever, under no circumstances, use a camera’s autofocus. Just...
Halloween 2017 movie recommendations
“Terror is smelling a corpse, while horror is finding it.” Gothic fiction defines these terms as very different things,...
Blackmagic’s ATEM Television Studio Pro HD Review
I sat in my office and stared at the brown cardboard box holding Blackmagic’s new ATEM Television Studio Pro...
Review: RØDE Broadcaster, the voice microphone that challenges conventional wisdom
The general consensus is that in order to reject background noise (especially with acoustically untreated rooms), it behooves you...
When exact 24 fps beats 23.976… and when it doesn’t
Nine years have passed since I published When 25p beats 24p…. In fact, that was my very first article...
How the Seal Team series uses Dutti Dolly
Three Dutti Dollies are always around during the production of the CBS series Seal Team, used for multiple situations...
Art of the Shot: Mindhunter cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt
Shot with a tailor-made RED camera, the RED XENOMORPH, auteur David Fincher chose cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt to helm camera...
Behind the Scenes: 40 years of Star Wars
The next film, Star Wars IX, with J. J. Abrams at the helm again, will end the saga started...
Understanding iPhone framerates for shooting, editing & distribution
When you shoot video on iOS (including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), framerates don’t work the way they do...
How to transform a brewery in a live studio
While making the pilot of their TV series Late Night Cap, Framework Productions filmed what can be considered a...
