In our haste to run immediately to a DSLR or Mirrorless solution for video, let us not forget there is another direction to come at this from. The venerable Camcorder has been around for quite some time. Just like its DSLR and Mirrorless cousins, it...
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Published Dec 28, 2012 on YouTube The story of television history is an interesting one. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) traces scientific advances related the development of television from the 1920's to 1950's, including the introduction of color broadcasts. The film includes technical examples of...
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My longtime friend Uwe Steinmueller, editor and publisher of OutbackPhoto.Com, and fellow contributing editor to TheCameraForum.Com has passed away. Uwe suffered a heart attack on August 8, 2014 at his home in Germany. There, I said it. I've been procrastinating for several days now writing this. Somehow, to actually...
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Because you can’t tell the players without a pogrom! A brief who's-killing-who-how-and-why history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant - the most fought-over piece of real estate in human history. A biting satire and poignant comment on how violence never settles anything from award-winning US...
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Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 4K Frame Grab Instructions from Mark Toal on Vimeo. My friend Panasonic Rep Mark Toal put together this excellent tutorial video on how to "extract" or "frame grab" one of the 8MP still JPG frames from the 4k video stream of Panasonic's latest...
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I try to avoid switching lenses when walking places unless the focal length needed is predictable. On the other hand I am not a big fan of slow lenses with variable apertures. The Fuji 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 offers an amazingly useful range (27 to about 200mm)...
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Video review of the Sony A7S from Philip Bloom Reviews & Tutorials on Vimeo. Few people in the small camera video production industry are as widely respected as Philip Bloom. A photojournalist by former trade, Bloom has evolved his brand and his style to encompass filmmaking...
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https://youtu.be/yZsuQXKkPdw Fifty years or so ago, I saw The Endless Summer in a suburb outside Washington, D.C., after it was released at the world premier on the 15th of June, 1966, in New York City, New York. The Endless Summer is the best of the best in ten...
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Master Series Lecture - Gregory Heisler from Maine Media Workshops + College on Vimeo. Gregory Heisler relates the story of photographing Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis in large format black & white infrared for Life Magazine. Gregory Heisler is a photographer and educator renowned for his technical...
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[caption id="attachment_49138" align="alignnone" width="950"] Opening Day at Photokina is always a mad house![/caption] Every two years, much like lemmings the movers and shakers in the camera industry join the seasoned industry professionals for the trek to Photokina. According to Wikipedia, The Photokina (rendered in the promoters' branding as photokina) is the...
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Published on Aug 1, 2014 by TheCameraStore.TV and Jordan Drake, Producer The Sigma DP cameras have been defined by the spectacular images they can produce, and the awful design choices that make capturing those images incredibly difficult. The new sigma dp2 quattro cameras aim to fix those...
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Duo Flammenspuk - Kobold Streit & Schabernack from Hacky on Vimeo. Kathy & Caro from Hamburg, Germany bring us enchanting fire-artistry with "Duo Flammenspuk." Flammenspuk is a word creation composed of the German words for flames and haunting. This medieval show is called "Kobold-Streit" (goblin hassle)...
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The Creative Life from Shawn Blanc on Vimeo. This video is a part of an ebook and interview series Shawn Blanc made: Delight is in the Details. "What does our best creative work look like? I believe it looks like a gift. I believe creativity is, by nature,...
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Panasonic FZ1000 SloMo Tests from Bettina + Uwe Steinmueller on Vimeo. The Panasonic FZ1000 is not due for release in the United States until next week, but is already available in Europe in limited quantities. Uwe Steimmueller shot this test footage with his new Panasonic FZ1000 at 1080p...
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It's Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo. "Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." Every man has heard these words. Some feel they are the law of the land. No matter what. Others, that most times #beinghappy is more important than...
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Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts (Phl) on Vimeo. Studies show consumers are willing to pay 5 to 10 per cent more for sustainable green products and services. But only so long as they function...
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