I spent many an hour working with your products Dr. Land. Thank you for investing your life in their development. Edwin Herbert Land, the inventor of Polaroid cameras and film, was born 105 years ago today https://t.co/BiNKGSdjTq pic.twitter.com/t0EzCwnyxJ — IMPOSSIBLE HQ (@Impossible_HQ) May 7, 2014 ...
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This story was a bit of education for me. Of course, we all know that there is no way that a Galaxy note 3 cell phone is even in the same league as the industrial video workhorse, the Canon 5D Mark III, right? Well, right and wrong,...
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Creating a "Talking Senior Portrait" with Stills and Video from Sekonic on Vimeo. To a school portrait photographer, the very idea of video has to be a scary proposition. But there is a middle ground. What I call hybrid storytelling Joe Brady calls a "Talking Senior Portrait." What's the...
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Other People's Money from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. One of my clients is the LA band "Cats With Class." You could say I live with this band, since my wife Suzanne is the Bass player. Suzanne wrote and sings this original work "Other People's Money" in a...
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Published on Apr 25, 2014 How many times do you need to be told that the real Social is the social of meeting people face to face. That is why they call them "Socials." Or we used to, I probably should say. Sadly, the days of being...
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One of the wonders living near Hollywood is the number of opportunities that come up to see first class, top drawer creative works. The real deal, too, works from the world's top creative artists. Much of it is surrounded by a lot of pomp and pageantry, and...
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There have been a few times in history when Leica introduced products I was very interested in. To be honest, the introduction of the Leica T intrigued me, but just from reading about it didn't really ring my chimes. It looked nice, had nice specs,...
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You or a Loved One TRAILER 1 from Rubric Pictures on Vimeo. As most of you know, I own and use a set of three Fiilex P-360 lights and one P100 light for my productions. I had the set out with me yesterday at a shoot though...
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Dr. Andreas Kaufmann: About the Essence from Leica Camera on Vimeo. Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Leica Camera AG, introduces the Leica T System and speaks on its design, real craftsmanship and ease of use – a symbiosis of the best. Leica...
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"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo. There are times when being a Blockhead is a very good thing. This is one of them. Expertly done animation choreographed to incredible awesome music. Awarded the Best Commissioned Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival. Awarded Best Short Animated...
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The Art Of A Focus Puller One of the least expensive and most versatile lenses in any filmmaker’s bag of tricks is the 50mm lens. Check around, almost every manufacturer sells a "nifty fifty." Considered by many to be the default "normal" human vision equivalent, there are more 50mm lenses in...
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Standin' on a Corner from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The footage isn't pretty, it needs better stabilization or a more steady hand than mine at the time. Stabilization is something the A7R doesn't come with and neither does the 55mm f/1.8 lens. Software stabilization for long clips...
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When you're always on the lookout for good photojournalism styled documentary stories as I am, you never know when or where a story is liable to happen. The best you can do is be ready, and jump when you see the scene setting into place. Never leave...
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NAB 2014: Honorable Mentions from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. There were all those tasty tidbits from the NAB 2014 Show in Las Vegas, NV, that were not in their own right worthy, sufficiently compelling, or sufficient information available for their own separate stories; or items who's stories...
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SOURCE: NextWaveTV Carl Zeiss was not absent from the scene at NAB 2014. In fact, Carl Zeiss came with some exciting news other than the announcement of their latest entry into the compact cinema zoom lens category. In what can only be called the first "official"...
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NAB 2014: Kessler CineDrive from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The Kessler CineDrive is a revolutionary multi axis camera motion control system designed by the Kessler engineering team to put the emphasis on filmmaker creativity, solving the how to do it problems. I've never seen any one system...
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