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Since over 2 years now, I use the Heliopan Vari-Grau ND Fader religiously. I tried a lot of different brands before and have to send them all back, because they get ether soft on a long lens or had some crazy color shift to it – sometimes both. The Heliopan – though expensive – was […]
November 13, 2012
Robert from JuicedLink just made a brilliant and very informative film, how to get the best audio out of the BMC. This is a MUST WATCH for every BMC shooter, since there are still some quirks. Make sure you also visit and recheck the JuicedLink website , since Robert’s blog there gets updated frequently. There is […]
September 20, 2012
A campaign backed by moviemakers has been launched to make sure films are watched “as the director intended”. The plea comes in response to a poll which found more than half of consumers do not use the most suitable settings on their equipment. One expert said poorly set-up TVs made images look “more like a […]
August 24, 2012
A few days ago, Blackmagic contacted me, and asked, if I would like to give their new Cinema Camera a test ride. Of course I want. This here will be a diary of my findings and opinions. So if you are curious in that camera, stop by frequently and read the latest updates. DAY 1. […]
August 17, 2012
After further trying, to milk out the last bit of the FS100 sensor, I think I finally came up with the “magic formula”. It holds and rolls highlights better than any of my other profiles, gives more DR than ever and also is the closest you can get to S-Log in a FS100. If you […]
July 30, 2012
This one got me puzzled for a while, and I’m still not sure what EXACTLY is going on, but at least I know how to work around this problem and get better results. A lot has bin said on boards and forums about the highlight handling of the Sony FS100 and FS700. After a lot […]
May 15, 2012
Dedo Weigert dämpft die oft übertriebenen Erwartungen, die mit der LED-Technologie verbunden werden. Zwar können mit weißen LEDs heute 60 Lumen pro Watt erzeugt werden, aber will man ein ausgewogenes Licht haben, das eine gute Farbreproduktion ermöglicht, liegt man eher in der Größenordnung von 30 Lumen pro Watt. Hier muss der Leuchtenhersteller einen guten Kompromiss […]
May 11, 2012
Reblogged from Inside Movies: Douglas Trumbull knows a little bit about movie visual effects. In his mid-20s, he worked with Stanley Kubrick to create the look and feel of the final frontier in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He later helped craft the effects for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the gorgeous […]
May 10, 2012
“This Movie Cloud guy is right — Hollywood is a monopoly…These are real film experts…I applaud the idea and initiative.” – Robert X. Cringley, I, Cringely: Cringely on Technology “I’ve known Dov Simens since 1992, and if anyone can pull this off it is he! We will be following Movie Cloud from the UK with […]
December 8, 2012
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