Blackmagic Design URSA Studio Viewfinder Review
Polishing the Talking Head Interview
I’m constantly experimenting with common lighting setups and trying to make them better. There is no more common lighting...
Blackmagic Announces URSA Mini Pro and Accessories
In a youtube live streamed press conference Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty displayed a few new items. Yet, this was...
Review: edelkrone Wing 7, a portable slider and dolly
The edelkrone Wing 7 is a portable solution to investigate if you need a slider extending to 40cm and...
Flicker: Why On-Set Monitors Fail Us
While working as a young second camera assistant on a film TV series in the 1990s, I noticed the...
Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television
Have you ever watched a movie or a television program set in a time decades ago that had a...
Small Camera, Big Picture – Producing a Dream with the Sony a6300
Being a filmmaker who primarily produces international documentaries, both long and short, I know the pain of traveling with...
Shooting With Fujinon’s New MK18-55mm Cinema Lens
Well well… it appears Fujinon is jumping onto the affordable cinema zoom bandwagon. Today the company announced two new...
King Crimson’s Radical Action: A Fresh Approach to Live Concert Videos
The art of the live concert video has evolved over the years alongside technology, from film cameras on tripods...
Review: Fujinon MK18-55mm T2.9 E-mount cine zoom
Fujinon has just announced two new lightweight cine zooms for E-mount cameras, the MK18-55mm T2.9 and the MK50-135mm T2.9....
Review: Panasonic VariCam LT 4K Super35mm Cine Camera
The VariCam LT is Panasonic’s “affordable” large single sensor VariCam, putting the core of the $55,000 VariCam 35 in...
Attack of the Cyber Octopuses: Sci-Fi without CGI
Imagine William Gibson’s cyberpunk universe and sci-fi products like Blade Runner, Terminator, Escape from New York, Aliens, Akira or...
Dual Pixel AF for everyone, 4K for none
Canon has two new DSLRs ready for the CP+ show, EOS 77D and EOS Rebel 7Ti, both featuring the...
Vertical video: a video editing solution for smartphone users
Vertical Video Syndrome was something people laughed at when the first videos appeared in YouTube, but even YouTube had...