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I have just posted a summary of the 5D rig my team used to [...]
Mac Pro Towers and the Final Cut suite are lagging in development just as more serious alternatives arise.
With low-light performance becoming increasingly important, two approaches compete [click title for more]
Vincent Laforet posts the most in-depth glimpse I’ve seen online of a hybrid still/motion shoot with HDSLR cameras. It’s quite revealing and a must read. And the images in the sideshow he put together below depict some of the most innovative and elaborate rigs you’ve ever seen attached to a still camera to adapt it [...]
Something great is coming soon from Zeiss [click on title for more]
A quick but substantial update to the earlier post about the 5-camera Canon 5D Mark II rig used for the TV show “24″. Here, DP Rodney Charters and Sam Nicholson (from Stargate) go into much greater detail and show the rig in action.
They see these cameras playing increasingly significant roles on high-end productions. They [...]
Below is a clip showing a creative setup that DP Rodney Charters and team created for the TV show “24″. Pretty cool rigging, nice View Factor cage and 9″ Ikan monitor too.
The show “24″ has been famously resistant to digital shooting, with Keifer Sutherland himself wanting film and having made statements that he can’t deliver [...]
I’ve recently been digging deeper into color grading and this means shooting footage that will give the most creative freedom in post. One limitation of the HDSLR cameras vs. the Red cameras is that they shoot in a highly compressed file format (really designed for output on the web, not original capture material). As a [...]
The killer app for new video cameras will be low light performance and high ISO capability. [click title for more]
The world is a different place in super slow-mo.
Phantom HD camera footage, shot at various frame rates from 1000-6000 fps. via Negative Spaces
Examining the first few magazine uses of Red Camera stills as feature art. [click title for more]
Ted “the voice of Red” walks through a preview of the Red Scarlet at CES via Engadget.
I’m loving the built-in wireless remote and the modular expandability, and I really respect how these guys set out to create an entirely new approach to digital capture rather than building incrementally on what has always been out there. [...]
The recently announced Red Scarlet camera will debut this year with a dream-list of features, previously unheard of at this price point. But no full frame sensor in the initial model — leaving us to deliberate. [click title for more]
