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June 16, 2026
WALLEY POS-86
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 camera that is both a reverse trend in consumer electronics and “the most advanced camera ever built.” Creation to Consumption Statement: “Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley dive into the worlds of video camera invention and commercial marketing for their upcoming exhibition Creation to Consumption at Sala Diaz. The gallery space will be transformed into a
Read moreCOSPLAY – Hollywood Style SuperHero Dress-Up!
[aesop_image imgwidth=”930″ img=”https://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 itself. Noun: Making that cosplay only took me 5 hours. Verb: I like to cosplay. There are already anime cosplay conventions around the world, and this hobby continues to grow. [aesop_gallery_pop id=”50565″ width=”350px” align=”right”] Halloween aside, I got my first real chance to directly experience cosplay with mostly adults for myself last Saturday, when Suzanne
Read moreIntroducing Zeiss Batis Lenses For Sony E Mount
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, impressive contrast and maximum resolution down to the very last detail. Those are some big claims, but this is Zeiss we’re talking about here so I am inclined more to give them credit at this point for doing these two necessary focal lengths for the E mount, rather than critique. I’m a likely target buyer
Read moreOWC Envoy Pro Mini
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 OWC Envoy Pro mini is now available, and promises Desktop-Class SSD performance in the size of a thumb drive! OWC announces availability of the award-winning Envoy Pro mini, the ultra-portable 433 MB/s storage solution for everyone, everywhere. NAB 2015, LAS VEGAS, NV – April 14, 2015 – Other World Computing (OWC), a leading zero-emissions Mac and
Read moreRedrock Micro Reinvents Focus Pulling With Hālo
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 believe but this small bit of technology can do wonders for improving your focus control. Automating the focus pull? No problem. Camera external focus tracking? Of course. Want to do complex focus pulls and returns. Not a problem. In fact, just about every complex move you can think up in the focus world, this new Hālo focusing
Read moreBlackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic Video Assist
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 HDMI camera. Blackmagic Video Assist adds professional recording and monitoring to any camera and features a bright, high resolution 5 inch monitor for checking focus, framing, and reviewing shots, along with a broadcast quality HD recorder for saving quality video files. Blackmagic Video Assist is available in July for $495 and will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2015 booth at #SL219. Here
Read moreUsing Sony Wi-Fi with PlayMemories, PicTapGo & Instagram
Using Sony Wi-Fi with PlayMemories, PicTapGo, & Instagram – How to Use Wi-FI on your Sony Mirrorless camera in conjunction with the Sony PlayMemories app, PicTapGo and Instagram on the iPhone by Paul F. Gero | paulfgero.com Member, Sony Artisans of Imagery Program One of the great things about Sony mirrorless cameras like the a7II, the a7, the a6000, and the a7s is that they are small, light and professional cameras. And, one of the great bonus features to these cameras is that they are Wi-Fi enabled and thus I can use my little Sony mirrorless cameras to send photographs from
Read moreBlackmagic Micro Cinema Camera
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, Las Vegas, USA. Blackmagic Design today announced the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera, a miniaturized Super 16mm professional digital film camera with a revolutionary new expansion port that lets customers use PWM and S.Bus model airplane remote controls to operate the camera wirelessly for capturing action anywhere. Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera will be available in July for $995 and is presently being demonstrated at the Blackmagic Design NAB 2015 booth #SL219
Read moreSony 24-70 f/4 Teardown
Those of you who read our teardowns know that we commonly are tearing down Canon or Nikon mount lenses. The reasons are pretty simple and it basically comes down to the fact that we have a lot more of those lenses. If we have a lot more it’s less of a problem to take a couple out of stock for a teardown. Plus, we’re more likely to be doing repairs on them in-house so we need to know the layout. Not to mention, since we spend most of our day inside those lenses, we know our way around them pretty
Read moreDennis Manarchy – Butterflies and Buffalo
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 photographic craft skills, an eye for classic portraiture, and excellent vision into the souls of the people he photographs. Dennis Manarchy puts a lifetime of experience and thought into every image he creates. Dennis Manarchy: “We have come to a tipping point. There are fewer and fewer cohesive American cultures. The “Greatest Generation” is in
Read morePhotojournalist Reporting Preferred By Readers, Study Shows
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 and training in the crafts? In the new age war of “Photojournalist Professionals” vs. “crowdsourced photography,” eye-tracking expert Sara Quinn concludes her audio interview above with the final observation “… it is the marriage of the images and the words that are crucial” in the general public’s now proven ability to readily separate, quickly identify, and distinctly
Read morePerspective Correction: Meet The BRONICAsaurus
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 (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp. Tilt makes use of the Scheimpflug principle (the math is all there). Shift is used to adjust the position of the subject in the image area without moving the camera back. This movement is absolutely necessary in avoiding the convergence of parallel lines, as when photographing tall
Read moreHow To Structure A Video Essay
Somehow 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, but today, let’s see what it has to teach us about structure. NO SPOILERS. “F for Fake” is the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory’s recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory’s story serves as
Read moreOlympus 40-150mm F2.8 vs. Panasonic 35-100mm F2.8
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 of these lenses is what I call inexpensive, but then few lenses with Pro level build quality and performance ever are. The Camera Store’s Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake put both of these mirrorless Pro lenses through their paces and debate which is the ultimate option for Micro 4/3 shooters. The Olympus 40-150mm F2.8 PRO lens is not
Read moreOlympus OMD EM5 Mark II – First Look
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 an excellent consumer camera that on the surface appears to be able to fill many professional needs too. I look forward to getting to know the OMD EM5 Mark II very well over our coming weeks together. I have a confession to make. I am not a lazy photographer, but I HATE reading the instruction manuals for
Read moreSebastião Salgado: The Silent Drama of Photography
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 stuff from the dark side of the force. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world’s forgotten people and places. If you haven’t seen the Genesis show and get the chance, you need to. It is
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