Do you find yourself awake at night, hunched over your keyboard, eyes glued to the fine print, not surfing for porn but reading specs on the latest camera or lens at B&H? Don’t deny it–you could be suffering from GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Statistics I’ve invented (just as they do on TV news) show that […]

DSLRs aren’t just for still pictures anymore. With large sections of movies like Act of Valor being filmed with the Canon 5D MKII and films like Black Swan featuring footage from the Canon 7D, the place of DLSRs in filmmaking is no longer in doubt. A lot of budding filmmakers have more ambition than budget […]

Small frame cameras with a large imaging sensor took the Japanese markets by storm.  Canon and Nikon were caught flat-footed as Sony and others carved out a niche for themselves.  In responding to the new mirrorless cameras, Nikon rushed the J1 to market last year handicapped with a smaller sensor. Panasonic and Olympus handicapped their […]

Every year we challenge our video pros to apportion their film equipment budget.  This annual exercise grew up in response to filmmakers who would come to the forum announcing they had a $5,000 equipment budget and trying to figure which $4,999 camera to buy.  There’s more to making movies than the camera! Last year we […]

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