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The Hollywood Distagon at f/2: A Single Daffodil and the Contax Zeiss 28mm on the Sony A7RV
April 28, 2026
The Human Piano
It must be Eran Amir appreciation day here at TheCameraForum.Com. Here is Amir back once again with another fantastic time lapse movie idea, this time more than 300 random people on the streets of Israel, each repeating one single note, creating together one harmonious melody.Amir is quick to point out also that no Auto-tune was used in the making of this video. I don’t know about you folks, but around this household the only one who could stand a chance of hitting a note perfectly would be my wife. Me? You could give me the entire 300 note range, and I guarantee
Read more500 People In 100 Seconds
In the spirit of our continuing coverage of interesting time lapse photography projects, here is one with a very different and quite creative twist. Eran Amir, the project creator, originally uploaded “500 People In 100 Seconds” to YouTube on Aug 23, 2011. Including my own, to date the project has had 1,667,851 views. Eran one day got the brilliant idea of printing out a 1,500 image 8×10 photo essay, and had 500 people holding them while he took their picture doing it – all around Israel. The result is the movie above, where Eran has created a smooth music video
Read moreKilling Me Softly, Canon 1DC
KILLING ME SOFTLY — A CANON 1DC SHORT FILM from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo. When God designed lobsters he built them very different from humans, so it’s hard for us to imagine how they perceive the world. Where humans are the dominate species on land, a water based habitat requires things work just a bit differently. For example, we humans smell scents using our nose. Lobsters “smell” chemicals in the water with their antennae, and where we humans use our tongue to taste our food they “taste” with sensory hairs along their legs. But in many important ways, lobsters aren’t
Read moreOptimal Sharp V3
If you look at Optimal Sharp V3 it is very simple to use. On the surface you have only two scripts as options: • Optimal Sharp V3 • Optimal Sharp V3 Plus (for extra fine detail) The results allow way more control than you may expect. Here is what you can do: • Lower opacity to reduce sharpness • Change the Layer Mask o Disable the Mask o Change Mask Density o Change Mask with Curves o Paint into the Mask to protect or reveal areas • Create custom actions to automate changes The first option is straightforward. This article covers mainly
Read moreTonalization
Tonalization is a term coined by Dr. Shin’ichi Suzuki, the founder and namesake of the Suzuki Method of Violin instruction, and is defined as the student’s ability to produce and recognize a beautiful, ringing tone quality on their instrument. Tonalization can be used also for other musical and technical goals, but it is in hybrid storytelling where I am going to borrow it to coin a new video editing term. As with music, video stories combine many different “notes” together, hopefully working in harmony to enhance the feeling of the overall piece. One “note” is the light; another “note” the
Read moreLandscapes – Volumes 1 & 2
Landscapes: Volume One from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo. There is something about seeing the world move in slices of time as opposed to viewing it as a continual flow. Time-lapse photography fascinates when it is particularly well done. It draws you in. It can create a virtual world all of it’s own. At it’s very best, as this production from Dustin Farrell is, it can mentally take you to a whole different world. A “DreamScape” if you will, where skies rotate with radiating spots of starlight. Where mountains reveal further details as they slowly pass by. Where the sun trumpets
Read moreThe Future Of Medium Format
Henrick Interview from The Luminous Landscape on Vimeo. Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape recently interviewed Henrik Håkonsson, CEO of Phase One, about the state of the marketplace and the future of Medium Format in general. The PhaseOne Companies are comprised of PhaseOne, CaptureOne Software, Leaf, and Mamiya of Japan. PhaseOne specializes in building ultra high resolution digital photography products, most of which are used in advertising photography or other uses requiring the ultimate in resolution. These products are all quite expensive, some reaching stratospheric levels of over $40,000 for just the Medium Format back alone. With the relatively recent
Read moreHammerHead
Tiburon Martillo / Hammerhead Shark from Studio Up! on Vimeo. The hammerhead shark is the most emblematic animal of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, which is one of the last places in the world where you can still see large schools of these strange animals. The songs’s author is a Galapagos Dive guide who has had the opportunity to carefully observe how hammerhead sharks free themselves from their parasites at the famous “cleaning stations” with the help of the king angelfish, who has specialized in this activity. This exchange of favors is of mutual benefit for both, as the cleaning fish
Read moreDog Schidt Optiks
Dog Schidt Optiks ‘Flare Factory 58g’ (Green Tint) Taking Lens + Iscorama 36 from Melting Bloke (Richard Gale) on Vimeo. From the “Just When You Think You’ve Seen It All” department comes a UK company with the unusual name Dog Schidt Optiks. This innovative company brings to market an equally unusual new product line. The Dog Schidt ‘Flare Factory 58’ lenses. Custom lenses based around the Zeiss Biotar 58mm / Helios 44 design which are developed further in the manufacturing process to add analogue looks with raw, rustic flare and contrast character to footage. In particular they have been developed to add
Read more4k Video Workflow: Hype Or Reality?
Based in Los Angeles, Larry Jordan is an internationally renowned consultant with national broadcast experience as a television producer, director, and editor. He has published eight books on editing and is the winner of multiple awards for his broadcast work, as well as his online training. Learn more about Larry Jordan This video is a speech that was presented February 26 at Broadcast Video Expo 2013 in London, England. In his speech, Larry presents his perspective on the hype vs. the reality of shooting in 4k. He makes a persuasive argument and draws some interesting conclusions that will be valuable to anyone
Read moreCanon C300: Field Test
Filmmaker Interviews: Rick Gershon from Canon Pro on Vimeo. MediaStorm’s Director of Photography, Rick Gershon, brought the C300 to Angola to shoot their documentary “Surviving the Peace,” which follows the progress of the Mines Advisory Group as they clear unexploded ordnance. Watch as he shares his thoughts on how the C300 helped realize their vision for the production in this interview with Gershon and featuring footage from the documentary. “MAG (Mines Advisory Group) works in more than 35 countries around the world to remove land mines, bombs and other weapons from post-conflict countries. After commissioning MediaStorm in 2011 to
Read moreWorking With Digital Zoom
For years, I have heard warnings about the poor quality of photos taken by small point-and-shoot cameras that have digital zooms. Critics would say that they never use that feature because it would mean giving up the quality that only an optical lens could provide. That made sense to me, so I seldom used the digital zoom on my old Canon G9 camera. My larger cameras don’t have digital zooms. I got curious yesterday, though, and decided to test out the quality of the digital zoom feature on my Canon G1X. I set up a subject, put the camera
Read moreSony F55 vs. Canon 1DC
Sony F55 & Canon 1DC – 4K side by side from cinema5D on Vimeo. There is a raging debate going on in the film production industry over 4k video. Those who shoot in 4k today love the results, but are less enamored with the workflow. Judging by the standards of my own pocketbook, until quite recently the only camera systems that support shooting at 4k resolution were insanely expensive. I’m talking stratospheric numbers too, well in excess of the cost of a new luxury BMW or Mercedes. Historically these professional digital cinema products could easily cost upwards of $100,000 once
Read moreVizelex RhinoCam
What do you do when you need highest resolution still photographs possible, but can’t afford a PhaseOne P45+ Digital Back? If you’re like me, buying the NEX-7 stretched my budget so tight I can’t even afford a Hasselblad body to mount it to! Answer? You drop by the Fotodiox web page and check out their new Vizelex RhinoCam. Where they ever came up with a name like that is beyond me, but the concept is brilliant. According to Fotodiox, the RhinoCam uses Pentax 645, Mamiya 645, or Hasselblad V medium format lenses. Further, “the built-in Composition Screen enables photographers to
Read moreIceland By Time Lapse
Dramatic Aurora Borealis. Iceland – Time-Lapse of a Winter Fairytale from Anna Possberg on Vimeo. Claus and Anna Possberg, a German photo and film team have travelled extensively to haunt the special places of the world. Together, husband and wife, they have travelled to every single continent. On their motorbike they have traversed China’s Wild West, climbed over Tibet’s 5000m high passes, filmed down inside Indonesia’s volcanoes and crossed the sandy deserts of Africa, to name a few. Most recently they witnessed the incredible show of the polar landscapes, like penguins, seals and the Aurora Borealis up in the
Read moreTintype Masters – Part Two
Death Do Us Part from Ian Ruhter : Alchemist on Vimeo. “There is a point in every person’s life when they must choose to follow their dreams or be stuck in the life they fear” boldly proclaims Ian Ruhter – Alchemist. And truly an alchemist he is. Not satisfied with being just a stereotype alchemist turning lead into gold, Ian has gone on to more toxic endeavors. Turning peoples fears into their greatest strengths. Ian goes on to say “I’m not sure why this camera led me to a cemetery where I would face my greatest fears. As I stood
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