Saturday, January 28, 2012
BandPro’s Jeff Cree shows off the F65 at Videofax in San Francisco.
Last week, San Francisco rental house extraordinaire Videofax took delivery of Sony F65 #15, and on Thursday BandPro’s Jeff Cree came up to show off the camera to local DPs, ACs, and DITs. I was able to shoot some photos and take some notes, which I have pulled together and annotated, in a somewhat scattershot manner, for your viewing pleasure. [Update 2012.01.29: typo & terminology fixes]
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Panasonic delivers full-res, full-function, feature-rich 3-chippers.
While all the attention is focused on large-single-sensor cine-style camcorders, Panasonic has come out with a line of high-quality 1/3” 3-MOS handhelds that leave little to be desired. The HPX250 is a handheld version of the shoulder-mount HPX370, while the AC160 and its simplified sibling, the AC130, bring the same fundamentals to the AVCCAM (AVCHD) world. [Update 2012.01.30: SDI out is 10-bit only on 250, not 160.]
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Friday, January 06, 2012
85 minutes of lens tests!
If you’re in the market to rent or buy “affordable” PL-mount primes (e.g., under $10,000/lens), you won’t want to pass up this test.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sony’s new 24mm, 50mm, and 30mm macro lenses for NEX cameras.
Sony has three E-Mount primes coming out right about now, and I had a chance to play with prototypes of them attached to an NEX-FS100 LSS camcorder. Here are my impressions, and a short test.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
PMW-F3/NEX-FS100 demo Monday 12 Dec; large raster workflow seminar Tuesday 13 Dec; the best demo video ever.
[Update 9 Dec: ASG Large Raster Workflow seminar Tuesday in San Francisco.]
1) Media Solutions and Sony present Sony PMW-F3/NEX-FS100u Demo and Workflow Solutions this Monday, 12 December, at Meets The Eye Studios, San Carlos CA (Northern California, between San Francisco and San Jose).
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Monday, November 07, 2011
Canon confounds expectations; thinks very differently.
Last Thursday, Canon announced the EOS C300 (EF mount) and C300 PL (PL mount) “Cinema EOS” camcorders in a much-heralded rollout at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Saturday, I had a chance to visit Paramount and see it for myself. [Update 2011-12-16: fixed malformed movie embed code.]
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Two chances to heckle your correspondent!
Next week I’ll be involved in two public events, one in Burbank (a panel on production technology) and the other in San Carlos CA (our shooting stages open house). Come by to visit, to ask questions, to complain, or to throw things. Also: what’s in the pipeline after that.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The first aftermarket handle designed specifically for the NEX-FS100.
You can tell a camera has struck a chord when its users start turning out aftermarket accessories that are themselves objects of desire.
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