"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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Like it or not, every serious video production requires "sticks" and a slider. Normally, these two components are separate, transported separately, and for the slider, should you wish to raise it, you need to carry a separate tripod. Add all these separates together, two...
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Leica Summilux-C Prime Cine Lenses. Otto Nemenz, Leica, and Band Pro got together and said, "Let's make some cinema lenses, baby" [caption id="attachment_6884" align="aligncenter" width="950"] Leica Summilux-C 35mm[/caption] And so they did, which proved very interesting to cinematographers always looking for alternative looks. At nearly $200,000 per...
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Few things I have seen at this year's NAB 2014 show impressed me as much as the Jigabot AIMe. What an incredible idea! Simply put, the concept is you attach an electronic "sensor" to your body or the subject you wish to track, mount your camera...
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NAB 2014: DJI from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. When I started writing this series for TheCameraForum.Com a year and a half or so ago, DJI was just ramping up. I never expected to have a special category of camera for DJI Quadcopters. But here we are only eighteen...
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Atomos-HD 720p from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. Atomos Global Pty Ltd, Level 1, 36 Park Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205 Australia, the creator of the award-winning camera-mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the pocket-sized Connect converters, is an Australian hardware design/manufacturing company few have ever heard of. However, that is rapidly changing. ...
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Introduction Of The Sony A7S from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The world premier of the Sony A7S introduced on Sunday, April 6, 2014, at the NAB 2014 Show In Las Vegas by Mr. Shigeki Ishizuka, Sony Executive Vice President. I had planned to attend the NAB convention in...
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AJA entered the digital cinema camera market with the announcement of their AJA CION 4K Production Camera, capable of recording both DCI and UHD 4K, as well as 2K and HD resolution video. From its sleek, elegant 6.4-lb magnesium body to the contoured suede shoulder pad,...
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Leading off our NAB 2014 coverage we will start with Blackmagic Design. This year at NAB 2014, Blackmagic Design is rolling out a whole new range of Ultra HD products such as converters, routers, DeckLink cards, and more. They are introducing the first 12G-SDI Teranex Express with...
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Here are some additional field test images from the Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8. We used the lens (loaner from Zeiss) with our X-T1. Some initial thoughts: Very good sharpness as we expected A focal length of 32mm (48mm at 35mm equivalent) proves to be good for general street photography...
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