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…
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Shooting a short film – Tergiversation – during the last 4 days in Switzerland. Amazing actors (Alexa Jago, Sidney Kean and Lionel Podarski), great script, and the always awesome “Grey Eminence” crew: Remo Pini, Carolyn Pini, Marco von Allmen, Timo Schaub, Dominik Di Rosa, Annika Fausch, Alina Sara Hediger, Klemens Niklaus Trenkle, Sandro Schreiber We where shooting on two…
Just got two BiWin 128GB CFast 2.0 cards. Since they are not on Blackmagic’s official list of recommended cards (yet), a lot of folks don’t consider them safe for prime time. But I saw some good reviews, and also a lot of guys in the forums use them with success on their Ursas, so I thought I give…
Okay, this is actually pretty amazing. I just got my hands on the DigiPin13 wireless LANC controllers – did I mention wireless? Yeah – wireless! As far as I know, this is the first and only wireless LANC controller out there, and it works pretty well with Sony, JVC, Canon and – low and behold-…
I have a ton of sliders. The first 2 or 3 of them, I build myself (we been all there), but actually they never really cut it for me. I just don’t have the necessary machines to do it right, so it was always something, that I was able to assemble right out of Homedepot.…
I have to say, that this comes from a guy, who hates LED lights. I tried many of them, and though most of them feature a CRI in the ballpark of 90, I was never happy with the skin tones. And yes, I’m obsessed with skin tones, cause skin is what I shoot most of…
Public Beta for DaVinci Resolve 12.5 DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is a massive update with over 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features which includes major additions to the editing toolset, new and enhanced color features, including improved HDR support, and powerful new effects. DaVinci Resolve 12.5 beta is available now for download from the Blackmagic Design…
Here is a brief Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4.6K lowlight/mixed light test. ISO 800, no NR, Canon 17-55 f2.8, 4K at 3:1 raw
Buying a decent monitor, that is worth it’s salt, is usually setting you back an substantial amount of cash, especially if you need multiple in/out puts, SDI, 10bit ISP panel, LUTs, waveform, vectorscope, andwhathaveyou. And if you are looking for something like this under 1000 bucks, you are usually looking for a unicorn. Well, this unicorn actually…
Here is a quite interesting comparison between, Xeen Cinema Primes vs. Zeiss Super Speeds vs. Zeiss Standard Primes, done by Moscow Film School. …and while at it, Xeen vs. Zeiss CP, by AndrzejTomczak
Samyang is well known for their “best bang for the buck” line of mechanical lenses, and really, you will be hard pressed to find better performance in that price range. A while ago they started to “cinemize” their lenses, by putting lens gears on them, decklicking the iris etc. and I do a lot of work with them, inducing all sorts of commercials, short films, and…
It took less than 10 minutes after the official NAB announcement, and release of the specs, of the new URSA Mini, that the first guys complained about the lack of a ND filter wheel. And right after that, those infamous petitions kept popping up, regarding 2,5K ProRes, higher frame rates in the Pocket, auto WB, LUTs, noise reduction, andwhatnot.…
Soooo, NAB is over. Here are some short thoughts on some of the the new gear, that was shown this year. Redrock Halo focus system Pretty awesome idea, but – depending on the price – rather something you rent, instead of own. Also there is the Andra Motion Focus System, which I think is even…
