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I have just posted a summary of the 5D rig my team used to [...]
With low-light performance becoming increasingly important, two approaches compete [click title for more]
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]
