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NAB 2012: Motion Control Systems - CamBLOCK

2012-05-03T10:06:00+00:00

I'd already heard about CamBLOCK before NAB, and sought out some information, but I never expected them to come seeking ME at NAB. {C}

Top Ten Trends of NAB 2012

2012-04-19T00:17:00+00:00

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.

Arri Booth NAB 2012

2012-04-18T05:47:00+00:00

Swung by the Arri booth and ran into Stephan Ukas-Bradley who gave me the rundown on what is new in their booth:

BlackMagic Design’s Cinema Camera - Supermodel Backrub with Ninja Claws?

2012-04-18T05:17:00+00:00

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?

Miss me? I hope so. Here’s what I stayed up all night writing.

2012-03-08T08:56:00+00:00

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.

So…where’ve I been?

2012-03-08T08:29:00+00:00

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.

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

2011-11-04T10:12:00+00:00

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.

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

2011-11-04T07:05:00+00:00

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.

Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGear

2011-06-03T23:01:00+00:00

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.

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

2011-06-03T22:50:00+00:00

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.