Shooting a professional video with your mobile phone was unthinkable and sounded ridiculous a decade ago. It was far-fetched even 5 years ago. Today, we have expensive corporate videos of premium …
Podcast 010 – The Week in Review: Fincher’s “Gone Girl” Shot in 6K, BMPC 4K Raw Footage, Amazing Short Film Shot on the Sony A7s Posted by Ogy Stoilov August 18, 2014 …
Since the Panasonic GH4 was released earlier this year there have been countless reviews and shootouts. And that’s not surprising as the GH4 is kickass little camera, which was the …
2014 so far has been quite a thrilling year. New 4K camera announcements are popping up almost every month (from Sony). And if this year is remembered for anything else …
A high-resolution OLED Monitor with a full set of professional exposure & focus assist features, 4K Recorder and playback all-in-one. This is what the Odyssey 7Q by Convergent Design …
The Blackmagic Production Camera (BMPC) was the first camera from Blackmagic Design to shoot 4K. It was one of the hottest cameras announced at NAB 2013 and upon its …
With the advancement of sensor technology and the boundary-pushing sensitivity of cameras such as Sony A7s, the way we shoot, and the craft of cinematography is evolving and undergoing a permanent change. …
David Fincher has always been one of my favourite filmmakers. It is extremely rare, if not almost impossible, in today’s filmmaking reality for a filmmaker to create intelligent films, …
Many of us still underestimate the power of the video editing features of Adobe Photoshop CC. Sure, who does actually need Photoshop when we have great NLEs like Premiere …
Earlier this year in June, the Television Academy, the organisation behind the Emmy Awards, held a fantastic conference entitled “The Ultra High Definition Revolution: A Technology Primer”. The event …
Setting up the DJI Ronin 3-axis gimbal reminds me of the old days when many of us (myself included) were trying to balance our 5D mark II or 7D on …
There is a common misunderstanding about the colour look-up tables, or in short LUTs. Many people still do believe that applying a LUT to the image is like applying another …
Podcast 009 – The Week in Review:Red Dragon Dynamic Range; A7s Review Round Up, Shane Hurlbut’s “Inner Circle”, Exclusive Footage from The URSA camera and More Posted by Ogy Stoilov August 11, …
We’ve come a long way in the last decade. From SD to HD, and now making a quantum leap into 4K resolutions and beyond, it sometimes makes me wonder …
Australian, DP and Blacmagic Design’s “go-to” cinematographer – John Brawley go this Blackmagic Design URSA PL mount camera earlier in the week and teased some photos on Twitter, effectively putting an end to …
Crowdfunding for creative projects has taken-off and gained significant momentum with the growing popularity of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Sponsume, among many others. Unless you’ve been without …
Like any other technical aspect of the filmmaking process, audio needs special treatment, a lot of practice and professional attitude to get professional results. Today we’ll try to give you …
Before Blackmagic Design threw their hat into the camera making ring, Red Digital Cinema were the original “disruptive technology” camera manufacturers. They were the new kids on the block, they …
Light is life. Without light, cinematography simply would not exist. There are many techniques on how to achieve a certain mood or look using light and how to light a scene …
OK, so we’ve been waiting to see production models of the 4K URSA in the wild for some time now. Sure, there’s are probably working models with beta testers …
