Everybody’s been pontificating, pouting and proselytizing about the newly introduced Canon C100, which is, according to B&H, to be available by the end of November, 2012. So I might as well jump into the fray too. The first price quoted for the camera was $8,000 (USD). Then another site said around $7,000. Canon has said […]
Chances are your first film will not look like a full blown Hollywood production like this one. Photo By grendelkhan Everyone in filmmaking has had the experience. You put in the time and effort to make an indie film; begging for sets, pleading with talent, trying to get by on the cheap. After months of […]
Cover photo by by JohnnyMrNinja On Thursday Kodak announced they would be selling the business unit that makes film and manages their printing business and kiosks. The company said they were holding onto what’s left of the commercial movie film business, but other sources contradicted those statements, suggesting that too is on the chopping block. The […]
Black Magic has posted RAW files online for anyone to download and practice their color grading skills. But even before that we’ve seen a flood of comments talking about how wonderful the camera is, even though it has a fairly small chip by today’s standards. No problem—it shoots RAW! “I can make a grossly overexposed […]
Mosaic Engineering’s anti-moire/aliasing filter for the 5DII really works. I’m surprised it’s as good as it is, with no meaningful degradation of the image. It seems to do about what the 5DIII does, but the image stays sharp. These two shots were taken from frame grabs, then cropped in iPhoto to remove some proprietary client […]
Sony has never been afraid to take on any player in the digital camera space. With the release of the Nex-EAU50UH Sony is staking out ground closer to the DSLR price point but with high end video features in a camcorder form factor. The EAU50UH will take full 16-megapixel still images and accepts Sony E-mount lenses, […]
A long, long time ago, actually a little over three years, the Canon 5D MK ii was taking the video production world by storm. Almost immediately video pros started bombarding Canon with a list of new features they wanted. Canon said sure, we’ll get to those sometime next year. If you know video people like […]
Version 2 of the firmware for the Canon 7D is loose on the world and with it come some long-awaited updates. Although the Canon USA update page still says “Coming Soon” the update has been available here since yesterday. Here are a few of the highlights: The Big Kahuna – Manual Audio […]
There’s that sinking feeling when you know something is really wrong. You’ve been shooting for 20 or 30 minutes, your talent is hitting their lines and delivering the best performance all day when you hear the camera click off. What the…??? On the back of your camera is an error message…that’s not good. So you […]
With video and still photo equipment intersecting and more media customers asking for video besides still photos, it’s almost a given that every still photographer will get a request for video. Many still photographers think all they have to do is switch the little selector switch from camera to video and they’re ready to rock. […]