Cinematography Archive
Sony Mirrorless Cameras have been frontrunners in the camera market for a few years now. The various ‘A’ ranges have come in at different price points from the incredibly popular A7 models up to the expensive, stills-focussed A9’s. At the cheaper end, we find the A600’s and
Blackmagic Design have just released DaVinci Resolve 15.2.4 update, which improves performance of video playback on the edit page, as well as multi-cam playback. In DaVinci Resolve 15.2.4, Blackmagic Design engineers have also improved H.264 and H.265 encoding on MacOS (Fuji XT3 shooters will love this). In
Last year at BSC Expo in London, Kino Flo brought their LED tube prototypes (read more and see our interview from BSC 2018 here), which have been designed and envisioned to bring high quality light and RGB versatility to film, commercial and TV productions into a very compact
LED lights and accessories manufacturer F&V have announced a new addition to their already illustrious lineup of LED panels. The all-new F&V Z1200VC CTD–Soft is a 3×1 LED Softlight that according to its maker …redefines true colour accuracy by using RGBWW LEDs, not only for colour effects but also to improve pure white light. A 3×1
The day before BSC Expo 2019 in London (which you should be attending), Sony released details for their upcoming VENICE firmware v4.0, which will include a paid HFR license enabling VENICE shooters to get 4K/120fps in 2.39:1 and 6K/60fps sometime in Summer 2019. If there was one
Aputure have been making amazing LED lights for indie filmmakers for some time now, but probably the most exciting light I saw last year at any trade show was their Amaran MW mini LED that is super-bright and also can go underwater. I saw it at IBC
Savage Stock launched just weeks ago and caught my eye as an exciting new subscription-based platform for royalty-free music and video designed to help creators, indie producers, filmmakers and just about anyone find the right high-end, polished 4K and 8K footage for their projects. Many of you
Some of you may be familiar with Lutify.me the brain child of Goran Ljubuncic, a fashion and commercial photographer and director based in Tel Aviv, Israel, who’s aim back in 2016 was to create a place, where creative professionals and enthusiasts can purchase high quality, industry-standard 3D LUTs at
Director Simon Smyth and DoP Balazs Bolygo BSC, HSC recently shot a short film with the Sony VENICE 6K Full-Frame camera. “Shadow” demonstrates extensive capabilities of the top dog CineAlta camera, with impressive dynamic range and low-light performance due to its dual native sensitivity. The Sony VENICE
Atomos just released the manual for the Ninja V, which has been shipping for a couple of months now getting in the hands of thousands of creatives. The 5-inch form factor is more suitable for those looking for a more compact monitoring and recording solution for their
Most of you probably remember the original LUMU Power light meter for iOS devices that was Kickstarted by Slovenia-based Lumulabs over three years ago, and now Lumulabs are back with the sequel. The new Lumu Power 2 is a completely new light meter that can measure Colour Temperature of Flash in
Yes, I know it is this time of the year again, so I apologize in advance. By now most of you have already been subjected to plenty of email blasts and exclusive “Black Friday” offers, but is it me or is this year not as bad a
Texas-based producer, director and cinematographer Martin Lisius, best known for his high-end weather productions, has just released a new short film titled, “Prairie Wind,” a truly epic and breathtaking HDR film he shot on a custom rig with 2x Canon 5Ds DSRLs in 16K HDR! Most of
ARRI have announced the immediate release of Software Update Package LF SUP 4.0 for the ALEXA LF camera. This firmware update provides significant new features for anamorphic shooting, advanced features such as improved dynamic defect pixel correction, compatibility with ARRI LBUS accessories, and important bug fixes. Rental
The following post is a guest post by LA-based director of photography, Lidia Nikonova , who works on narrative, documentary projects, and music videos in the US, UK, Russia, Australia and France. Her clients include Spotify, VICE, VICELAND, SSENSE, amongst many others. She has shot music videos for artists such
First off, huge thanks to Blackmagic Design UK for lending me an URSA Mini Pro (which I sent back) in order to test Blackmagic Raw. In this post, I’ll share a couple of tests as well as some footage I shot using the latest Blackmagic Raw format
Freefly Systems, the “Godfathers” of handheld gimbal stabilizers that were single-handedly responsible for the explosion of this exciting sub-segment of filmmaking gear that we now know as 3-axis gimbal stabilizers, continue to innovate and have just added another innovative addition to their impressive image stabilization system –
ShareGrid, the popular peer-to-peer camera rental marketplace, today launches a new service called ShareGrid Buy & Sell. The company has also partnered with leading equipment provider AbelCine to offer exclusive flash deals. Many of use have bought or sold used equipment on platforms such as eBay or
This post is sort of a Part 2, to my previous Fuji X-T3 footage post I did not that long ago (you can check it out here in case you didn’t), and I wanted to include a bit of a mixture between Fujifilm produced short films and
Fujifilm recently announced the new Fuji X-T3, which has some very important features for video creators. The X-T3 is the mirrorless camera, which can record 4K/60p in a 10bit (4:2:0) HEVC H.265 codec internally onto UHS-II SD cards, a clear signal that Fujifilm are quite serious about
