Just a week ahead of Cine Gear Expo, Blackmagic Design just released Beta 3 of their newly updated DaVinci Resolve 16 and DaVinci Resolve 16 Studio. Beta 3 update comes packed with hundreds of performance and stability enhancements based on user feedback. DaVinci Resolve Beta 3 features
Let’s have a look at a couple of external monitors, shall we? The head-to-head between the Atomos Shinobi and the FeelWorld FW279 starts here! The first question to ask – do you need an external monitor? There are a bunch of reasons to invest in an external
The Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro G2 – what a mouthful – is an unusual camera on the marketplace. I admire Blackmagic for going their own way and trying to optimise cameras for video shooters in ways that some other manufacturers might not dare. The URSA, for short,
Last September at Photokina 2018, Fujifilm announced the development of the GFX100 – their flagship 102 megapixel medium format 4K video capable mirrorless camera, and today the camera was officially announced at the special launch even called Fujikina 2019 in Tokyo. Scheduled for delivery in late June
We have already spent a good amount of words on the qualities that Blackmagic Design managed to pack inside the Pocket 4K. One of the most unsung praises should be to the various options the camera gives you to record the files to. It’s widely discussed of
Voigtlander is one of the most legendary lens makers in the world of photography with a lineage that goes back more than a century. About a year and a half ago, the legendary Austrian lens maker announced the Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f1.4 lens for Sony E mount
Earlier today, Apple introduced their latest 15″ MacBook Pro that has been upgraded with a 9th Generation Intel Core eight-core processors with a burst speed of up to 5 GHz. The brand new 15″ 8-core MacBook Pro should be able to deliver two times faster performance than
Teradek have been killing it in the wireless video transmission field with their Bolt series receivers and transmitters, which you can see on just about any film or TV production regardless of budget. Right now, I am 2nd assisting on a feature film in Eastern Europe (NOT
Sony color science is always a hot topic and is often the stick used to beat Sony fans. The standard refrain of Canon colors being beautiful out the box and Sony being a lot of work is well worn. Whatever you make of that way of thinking
Viltrox may be familiar to you as a brand maker of affordable lens adapters and LED lights, but they have some exciting new lenses for Sony FE and Fuji X mount. I remember checking out their new 85mm E mount lens at Photokina 2018 where they had
Many filmmakers tend to forget the days when they were starting. Everything, every process or tool seemed to have some strange alien name or functionality. But then you’ve got experienced, you’ve learned things and mastered the jargon. But what about all of those out there that are
We’re nearly half-way through 2019 and I don’t know about you, but to me it already feels like trade show overload. Now that we got the big one – NAB out of the way, and before we start the countdown to IBC 2019, which is a good
1TB MicroSD and SD cards are a thing now and it looks like it won’t be too long before we see even bigger capacity cards in this class in the not so distant future. Announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress in February, the Sandisk Extreme 1TB
Crazy times call for crazy….shootouts! And what could be a crazier battle than the one between a high-end cinema camera, known as a staple in most of the big movies and tv-series all over the world, the sweet little dream of filmmakers everywhere, a RED camera, and
NAB has come and gone, all the hype and the flood of presentations, dinners and keynotes are gone. While the dust settles down, we can take a look back at some of the most interesting news that came out of it. Blackmagic Design went on the path
Since compact mirrorless cameras with extensive video features became the norm these days, another mandatory piece of kit that can increase the production value of your videos is the single grip handheld gimbal. This industry segment is usually dominated by big names such as DJI and their
DJI have just officially announced their first action camera! Considering all unique and innovative features it brings to the table, DJI Osmo Action seems to be the most serious competitor of GoPro HERO series to date. The all-new camera is, of course, compact, lightweight, and sturdily built
The BMPCC 4K is a great video camera, with fantastic picture quality and some really nice features. But what if you want to level up and go full beast mode? Well, then you are talking about rigging and all that entails. From monitoring to power, external SSD’s
Samyang Optics just announced their latest premium compact lens – the Samyang AF 45mm f/1.8 FE designed for Sony full-frame mirrorless sensors. The brand new, compact premium AF 45mm f/1.8 FE has bright maximum aperture, consistent internal focusing and a field of view that most closely replicates
Sometimes I wonder, just how friendly are each department within a camera company? I wonder this because sometimes different product lines seem to step on each other’s toes and surely affect each other’s sales figures. Some cameras compete so directly with their sister products that the rationale
