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June 16, 2026
Phantom Drone
(Click Photo Above To Play Video) Guangdong, China, headquartered DJI Innovations is one of the global leaders in developing and manufacturing high performance, reliable, and easy-to-use small unmanned aerial systems (UAS as they call them, Drones as the rest of the world know them), for commercial and recreational use. Their company size, over 500 employees, ranks them among the largest companies in the Drone market dedicated to making aerial photography and videography accessible to professional photographers, cinematographers, and hobbyists anytime, anywhere. Their global operations span North America, Europe, and Asia. DJI is founded and run by people with a passion
Read moreTraveling To Strange Places
One of the strangest, most desolate places I’ve ever been is in the weathered volcano crater called La Morada del Diablo (the place where the devil dwells) in the Pali Aike national park in Chilean Patagonia. People lived here once. They must have had a very hard life. A few weeks ago, our group visited this windy, lonely place, and I took a series of vertical photos with my digital camera, moving from left to right and overlapping each photo with the next. Our South American trip is over now, and today, Karen and I rode back from Mexico
Read moreThe “MōVI”
MōVI BTS from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo. One of these days, you will own one of these devices in one form or another. Many of you may wonder just what this “MōV” thing is, what it is for, and why should you take any of your valuable time to read one more word of this article. Here’s a surprising answer. One day, I predict that this technology will be incorporated into every video camera made. As standard equipment. That is how important I feel this technology is, and it is advancing at a very fast rate. When you can
Read moreCanon 1DC Drone
Anthony Jacobs, the founder and chief pilot for Perspective Aerials (perspectiveaerials.com), became the first person I know of to fly a Canon 1DC with a drone rig. The 1DC is a camera I have some very mixed feelings about, as I have already stated in other articles on the subject. Then when I see the way someone like Mr. Jacobs can set it to work making magic, I can only imagine what the 1DC’s ability to capture self-contained 4K could make possible for him in the future. In the above video you can see some of Mr. Jacob’s first test
Read moreThe 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
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