WALLEY POS-86 Promo Video from Walley Films on Vimeo. On the lighter side today for those who haven't seen it yet, Walley POS-86 is a short promo video that parodies the endless production and marketing of prosumer video cameras. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley have created a...
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[aesop_image imgwidth="930" img="http://thecameraforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DSC04251.jpg" align="left" lightbox="off" captionposition="left"] Cosplay is literally a contraction/combination of the two words "Costume" and "Play." Cosplay can mean dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character (usually a sci-fi, comic book, or anime character). Or it can be used to describe the costume...
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The new ZEISS Batis 2/25 and 1.8/85 lenses are the first full-frame autofocus lenses with an OLED display for the mirrorless Sony αlpha series and therefore the pioneers of a new era. As professional tools, Zeiss claim they enable outstanding outcomes with optimal image performance,...
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Whether you're involved in photo capture, filmmaking or video production moving content safely, and securely is a huge challenge. OWC unveiled a solution no camera person may soon be without - a thumb drive sized desktop class SSD for working in the field and in the office. The...
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NAB 2015, Las Vegas, NV. Focus Has Now EVOLVED, and it is our old friends at Red Rock Micro that have evolved it with their announcement and demonstration here of their new Hālo focusing system. Pretty darn amazing, if you ask me. It is hard to...
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[caption id="attachment_50479" align="aligncenter" width="798"] Blackmagic Video Assist - Front View[/caption] NAB 2015, Las Vegas, USA - April 13, 2015 - Blackmagic Design today announced the Blackmagic Video Assist, a portable, all in one professional monitor and video recorder that can be used with any SDI or...
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[caption id="attachment_50440" align="aligncenter" width="798"] The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera Is Designed For Flight[/caption] What 1080P video camera features include Super 16 size sensor with 13 stops of dynamic range with both RAW and ProRes recording onboard? Meet the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera, announced today at NAB 2015,...
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Have you ever heard the stories of Photographer Dennis Manarchy? He goes down in my book as one of the great living American photographers. Not only does Dennis Manarchy have the magnetic powers of a P.T. Barnum, as a photographer Dennis Manarchy possesses an excellent set of...
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Can you imagine what the audience's reactions would have been down through history if 35mm cameras had been invented 2000 years ago? What historical images do you think you would prefer to see today, crowdsourced digital or the work of a photojournalist with time at the job...
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Perspective correction, or "tilt–shift" as it is often called, encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus...
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Read MoreSomehow this seems like an appropriate story for the first day of April, 2015. If you want to make video essays, there’s no better film to study than Orson Welles’ 1973 masterpiece, F for Fake. There are a million lessons to take away from it,...
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The new Olympus 40-150mm F2.8 telephoto is the longest, fastest zoom at F2.8 available for a mirrorless camera. The Panasonic 35-100 F2.8 is incredibly compact and regarded by many as one of the best mid range telephoto zooms on the market for the M43 format. Neither...
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The first opening of the box, and firing up for the first video recording from the new Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II. As you would expect, not perfect without reading the manual, but intuitive and quite acceptable all the same. A testament to Olympus designing...
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Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline quickly became a life changing obsession. Sebastião Salgado years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction, decay, or some of that other nasty...
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FAIR USE AND ONLINE VIDEO Contrary to popular belief, United States Copyright and Patent Laws were not put into place to protect creators; they were an attempt to legislate creators to share some rights in their creations with others. The cultural value of copying is so...
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Japan's Disposal Workers: Net Cafe Refugees from MediaStorm on Vimeo. Internet cafes have existed in Japan for a couple of decades, but in the mid 2000’s, a few customers began using these spaces as living quarters. Internet cafe refugees in Japan are mostly temporary employees; their salary...
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