Mike Curtis
Mike Curtis writes and runs HD for Indies, a consultancy and website dedicated to using affordable digital technology for independent filmmaking. Mike started HD for Indies after a 15 year digital media career making content for everything from cell phones to cinema screens for clients such as Ford, Dell, Compaq, etc.. As a consultant, he focuses on production and post production hardware, software, and workflows to achieve maximum results at a variety of budget levels.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Think of it as Epic’s little sister - who kicks butt at 1/3 the price
Jim Jannard of Red (finally) revealed their next camera - 3K for $3K is long gone - now it is 5K stills & 4K motion for a sub-$10K “brain.” It is everything you wanted in an Epic…but less.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Canon’s new camera is huge news….for Canon.
Today in Hollywood Canon announced their first truly professional cinema class camera - a Super35mm sized 4K sensor in a small, 3.6 lb body available with either EOS or PL mounts, recording to CF cards with an ISO range of 320 to 20,000. That is the good news. Everything else is either as expected or disappointing, depending on how fanboy hyped up you were about it. Is it a competitor for Red One? Scarlet-X? Epic? Sony’s F3? Read on and see.
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Friday, June 03, 2011
The 12 cameras you might shoot on compared in depth - dynamic range, resolution, rolling shutter, skin tones, etc.
I was the post supervisor on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) for the past several months - we shot on 12 cameras (Alexa, film, F35, Red, AF100, Sony F3, Phantom Flex, Weisscam HS-2, Canon 1D MkIV, 7D, 5D Mk II, and Nikon D7000), and ran them through an extensive battery of tests - sharpness, sensitivity, over and underexposure latitude, low light performance, compression artifacts, color reproduction, skin tones, and the best shutter artifacts test I’ve ever seen. Saturday June 4th at 10:15am.
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Friday, June 03, 2011
I shot world class Arabian stallions on an F3 in S-log on the best lenses I’ve ever used. Come see it tonight.
If you’re in LA and a shooter, you should come to CineGear. And while you’re there, come see me talk about my shoot with the F3 in S-log mode shot on Leica Summilux-C lenses - perhaps the best lenses EVER.
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
First impressions, what works, digging into HDRx
This week my friend Eric Ulbrich that I met while working on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) got his Epic-M. He was nice enough to invite me over to play with it on Friday, here’s some first impressions on the camera and its HDRx mode. Notes and pics follow.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
I visited Blackmagic, AJA, Red, Arri, Canon, Fujinon, Abel Cinetech, and others
Hey all! I’m here at NAB and am wandering the show checking out what interests me. My coverage will be based on what I saw in the order I saw it. Today I visited: Blackmagic Design, AJA, Red, Arri, Canon, Abel Cine, and Sony. So here we go:
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
SCCE=Single Chip Camera Evaluation - all the cameras you’d care about on Tuesday
Hey all -
One of the (many) reasons I haven’t been writing lately has been I’ve been up to my neck in the SCCE. What’s that? The Single Chip Camera Evaluation. Zacuto started the idea and Bob Primes ASC designed and supervised all the testing. I was one of the planner/organizers, as well as post supervisor and ran around and did a bunch of stuff on set. Tuesday night, 6-8 pm Content Theater. Here’s the press release after the jump:
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Not the way they used to - like the ascendant rock star’s old girlfriend, we are yesterday’s news
After writing this piece on whether Apple lamed out on the new Mac Pros, I got to thinking more about Apple and where we, as creative professionals lie in their priority list. Read that article for a detailed analysis of how Apple wasn’t aggressive with new technology, was late to market, skipped a bunch of new technology, and MIGHT potentially have decided to stiff-arm Adobe with the lack of NVIDIA GPUs at user expense. So where do we rank with Apple these days? Lets look at their motivations and actions.
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A big update adds multicam, manual relinking, broadcast monitoring and the ability to move a project over from FCP7
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