First look: Saramonic SoundBird T3 shotgun microphone
Sony Alpha 7S III: designed for photo and video journalists
The Sony Alpha 7S III is out and the crowds are about to compare it with the Canon EOS...
Foreign language editing using SRT files
My new film The Right Girls is coming out soon. It is about three transgender women who were part...
TV/Film Production Realities in the Scripted and Unscripted Worlds: Part 5, Pre-Prod and Production
Pre-production! Finally, an area where there are more similarities than differences in the Unscripted and Scripted worlds. Everything depends...
First look: UltraStudio Recorder 3G from Blackmagic
Although the big media hype is about Blackmagic’s new 12K camera with its amazing sensor, the other intriguing new...
Reviewing the Sigma FP: A Full-Frame Sensor In A Tiny Body
Small. Feather-Light. Full-Frame. We are talking about the Sigma FP mirrorless camera. Sigma has thrown a ton of great...
Enter the RED Komodo 6K S35
I was fortunate to pick up one of the first early orange models of Komodo in late spring of...
ARRI’s Alexa celebrates it’s 10th Birthday
ARRI’s groundbreaking ALEXA camera has gone through many iterations in the 10 years since it first appeared in Chicago....
It’s true: Meikes are Veydras
There have long been rumors...
The heat is on with Canon’s new EOS R5
Some people are asking why Canon’s new EOS R5, in some modes, suffers heat-limited recording times. Part of the...
Blackmagic Shows Off New URSA Mini Pro 12K Cinema Camera
Today, Blackmagic Design announced a new URSA Mini Pro model boasting an incredible 12K resolution. Yes, you read that...
Workflow From Home Web Series with Frame.io
I first learned about the Workflow from Home web series from Frame.io when Ep 5 – Conan O’Brien in...
How to make better looking and sounding Skype and Zoom calls
So many broadcasters have been relying on incredibly crappy webcam video for content, ala SNL’s stay-at-home broadcasts, numerous news...
The Great C and First Step: VR winners in Cannes
A science-fiction story and a documentary that is also a fairy tale are the VR award winners of the...
Blackmagic + NewTek: conspiracy theory with shy cameras
For many years, I have been documenting the existence of “shy” 1080p cameras, i.e. those incapable of outputting a...