Blackmagic Design Announces Updates to Micro Studio Camera 4K And More
Blackmagic seems to have a firmware update for just about everything they make. Well, in all seriousness, Blackmagic has...
Art of the manual white balance
White balancing a camera is only half the story. Now we have to white balance our lights. Back in...
Three beautiful TV shows you probably aren’t watching
I’ve worked on episodic television. I know how fast it moves. That’s why I’m amazed at how good recent...
Is the GH5 the best camera under US$10k? Jordan Drake believes it is. Learn why.
Jordan Drake and his co-host Chris Niccolls from Calgary, Alberta, Canada consider the under US$2k Panasonic Lumix GH5 to...
Blackmagic Updates its Video Assist and Video Assist 4K
Blackmagic Design has updated their Video Assist 4K LCD monitor/recorder. This time they have improved the color reading Vectorscope by...
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...
Current thoughts on current lenses
Near perfect lenses are easy to find these days. The problem is… I don’t want them. I want lenses...
Affordable-ish Pro Cine Prime Lenses
Ten years ago if you were “indie”, you kludged together some fast still prime lenses for your cinema camera...
Reality: it’s completely overrated
There’s no such thing as a reality show, only unreality shows. The more unreal, in some cases, the better....
Canon answers my questions about new camcorders XF405/XF400/GX10
You may have read my recent coverage about Canon’s new XF405/XF400/GX10 and Sony’s new PXW-Z90, HXR-NX80 and FDR-AX700 cameras,...