HD for Indies
Mike Curtis writes and runs HD for Indies, a consultancy and website dedicated to using affordab...
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Pics and details of what you get when your Red One arrives
By Mike Curtis | March 02, 2008
Fedex delivered my Red, #417, on Monday to my friend's house since I was out of town (as pre-arranged with Red). The plan had been for me to drive over, set it up, and shoot some 4K footage of his kids (twin boys). Didn't quite work out that way, but read on.I got over there and started unpacking everything - and there's lots to it! I had three boxes of stuff from Red.
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Video Interview showing CamBLOCK's Awesome Lightweight Motion Control Rig
By Mike Curtis | May 03, 2012
I'd already heard about CamBLOCK before NAB, and sought out some information, but I never expected them to come seeking ME at NAB.
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What to make of 2.5K RAW for $3000
By Mike Curtis | April 17, 2012
So Blackmagic Design, maker of post production hardware and software, introduced their first camera at NAB 2012 - the Blackmagic Design Digital Cinema Camera. What to make of it?
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Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad NAB 2012 - here's why
By Mike Curtis | April 18, 2012
Lots of change this year - not just new products, but new KINDS of new products from companies we didn't expect them from. Here's some new tech, trends, and an attention seeking Top Ten List of my take on the show so far.
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What I've been up to, besides not publishing here. Links to new stuff follow.
By Mike Curtis | March 08, 2012
So, where did I go? Where've I been? What have I been up to? (And does anyone care?) Here's what I've been up to, and some links to what I've been doing lately.
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Think of it as Epic's little sister - who kicks butt at 1/3 the price
By Mike Curtis | November 04, 2011
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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Canon's new camera is huge news....for Canon.
By Mike Curtis | November 03, 2011
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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Alexa updates and goodies and a tantalizing teaser concept
By Mike Curtis | April 17, 2012
Swung by the Arri booth and ran into Stephan Ukas-Bradley who gave me the rundown on what is new in their booth:
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ProPhotoCoalition front page domination? Like A Boss.
By Mike Curtis | March 08, 2012
So if you read this article about how and to what my passions have shifted, you'll know I'm kinda into DSLRs now. Not for the video like most everyone else, but for timelapse. Huh? Yup. And not just any kind of timelapse, but HDR (High Dynamic Range) timelapse. So when Nikon and Canon announced new mid-range and top end full frame DSLRs this year, I was kinda Into It.
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As an editor, should you get an iMac or Mac Pro? How different in price and performance?
By Mike Curtis | July 27, 2010
New Quad core Macs: high end iMac or low end Mac Pro?Apple today announced new Mac Pros (coming sometime in August) and new iMacs (available now). Both have available Quad Core (4 processor) models. The iMac has a built in screen which the Mac Pro lacks, but the tower has scads of easy expandability. Which to buy?Read on for the deets and analysis.
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