More jobs in the video production business is a good thing and there may be more work on the horizon from companies like Google and Amazon. You can blame the hit $100 million dollar Netflix series House of Cards with Kevin Spacey and their pending reprise of Arrested Development series that put Netflix back in […]

It’s like being transported back to college when someone laid a turd in the Whopatooli bowl, only this time we already know who dropped the deuce. Many video editors who switched from FCP to Premiere Pro after Apple laid the X egg are now feeling just as betrayed by Adobe’s plan to discontinue selling boxed […]

Back in the good ol’ days if you wanted to buy a lens or set of lenses you’d go to your nearest professional photography store with camera in hand.  Let’s say you were interested in a 35mm lens. The owner of the shop (the owner was almost always present in those days) would set out […]

I just bought a set of Rokinon cine lenses, and the first comment I got from a friend was: “Hey, you’re the guy who’s made all those posts saying lenses are forever, get good ones.” I plead guilty, but before I get charged with lens cognitive dissonance, allow me to explain.Lens quality is not a […]

Two new cameras from Black Magic, just announced at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas this week, is already available for preorder at B&H. One is being called the Pocket Cinema Camera (cue the standard jokes).  The specs are impressive for the footprint.                   […]

I love good lenses. The feel of a Zeiss lens when I turn the focus ring is probably the same to me as a sip of a bottle of $500 wine to a wine connoisseur. Zeiss ZF and ZE lenses provide an excellent quality image. The Canon L lenses look good too, though they don’t […]

                      A competitor has materialized to challenge GoPro with a rugged, waterproof housing, wifi and LCD screen included in the base model. With a price tag of $399 the Drift HD Ghost is priced competitively with the GoPro Hero 3 and has some compelling features including […]

Recently the video business has had its share of upheaval. First the DSLR revolution put cameras capable of producing near film quality 1080 video at 24p. While most video professionals had upgraded to HD long before then, the DSLR revolution opened the floodgates of HD video. In the midst of the HD transition, Kodak filed […]

It was actually a photography forum where I suggested that Avid was losing favor as an editing platform and it was a waste of time for people new to the business to learn. It drew quite a firestorm of comments from people claiming that Avid was very much alive in post houses. The whole dust up reminded […]

By the time Planet5D and Cinema5D consolidated operations it was already readily apparent that the video world had started moving back to dedicated video cameras and fewer video professionals were choosing DSLRs as their primary video camera. Give Canon credit for launching the DSLR revolution by adding 1080 video to the original Canon 5D MK […]