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.

Red (finally) takes the wraps off new camera - Scarlet-X

Canon’s new EOS C300 digital cinema line - competition for Red or Sony?

Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGear

Come see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGear

Mike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRx

Mike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part One

Coming to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday night

Yo, Creative Pros—Apple Doesn’t Love You Any More. Here’s why.

Did Apple actually lame out on the new Mac Pros?

New Quad Cores: iMac or Mac Pro?

Apple Releases New iMacs - good enough for video editing?

Apple Announces New 12 core Macs….for $5000

I went and saw nitrate prints and Soderbergh on the same evening…

Arri Alexa - look out Red!

Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketing

The Return of Blogwad

Aperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ‘09 migration

Another good article on color correction from Stu

On iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drives

Great new blog to read - PostWorld

Giz Explains: Why ISO Is the New Megapixel

Aperture 3 announced - time to upgrade from iPhoto ‘09?

WOW! Here’s why to go cheap/fast/light!

iPad Follow-up Thoughts - thoughts on v2 hardware and v1.5 software

Apple’s iPad - All the Details, What It Means For Us

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