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Today Blackmagic Design released the updated Version of the Pocket Cinema Camera. It comes with a larger Sensor, an EF mount and with 6K resolution. The sensor is aS35 (23.10mm x 12.99) in size and sports a resolution of 6144 x 3456 pixels. The price is $2495 US and - the best thing - it's... Continue Reading →
So Apple announced the new MacPro yesterday. At a first glance, I have to admit, I was impressed. After all these years, where Apple seems to have abandoned the pro community, they finally listened, got their shit together and provided something, that seems to check all the boxes of the wish list. But on a... Continue Reading →
A few days ago, Blackmagic announced (among other things) the new firmware for the Pocket 4K. It features a long awaited option: Blackmagic's own flavor of raw, called BRAW. A lot of folks where very happy, when they heard that - well, not for long. In the next sentence, they learned that CDNG is gone... Continue Reading →
Blackmagic Design announce the brand new Ursa Mini Pro G2 - the Next generation URSA Mini Pro camera. It features new electronics, a Super 35 4.6K HDR image sensor, 15 stops of dynamic range, and up to 300 fps high frame rate shooting, Blackmagic RAW. The new URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 is a dramatic... Continue Reading →
Okay, I probably gonna get some flak for this, since this is more an opinion piece, than the usual tec-talk, so keep this in mind, when you break out your flame throwers. So it's that time of the year, when the whole industry looks at Vegas, eagerly awaiting the new game-changer collection. And this time,... Continue Reading →
This LUT is around since quite a while now, but since I still get many requests, I thought I just make it also here available. I developed this for a project I was working on, and cause a lot of folks liked the look so much, I released it to the wild (as is). It's... Continue Reading →
LukiLink connects your camera to your smartphone via HDMI, and replaces a monitor, a recorder, a streaming box, and even a wireless video link. Imagine a device, that is small and lightweight, has vivid colors, a bright screen, high resolution, amazing contrast, and doesn't need additional batteries, to monitor your shot. How about recording straight from your camera,... Continue Reading →
Steve Yedlin, ASC offers an intriguing demonstration, on how capture formats, pixel counts and postproduction techniques affect image quality and why simply counting Ks is not a solution when selecting a camera. While the “K Wars” continue to dominate many filmmaker and studio-level conversations about image quality and what camera system is “best” for a... Continue Reading →
