It seems so long ago, but it has only been about eighteen months since Panasonic announced the GH3. The GH3 has proved to be an able follow-on to the GH2, and an improvement in every regard. Panasonic saw the light with the wide acceptance of...
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Pay Particular Attention II from TheCameraForum on Vimeo.This video is about Paying Particular Attention to what goes on behind the scenes, where the real dealing takes place. [Pay Particular Attention Song and Video ©2013 Suzanne Birrell as performed by Cats With Class: Victor Arno on...
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A Man Ain't A Man from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. We are now setup and operational with the latest Mavericks OSX and the latest Final Cut Pro X. One of the exciting things Apple has evolved in Final Cut Pro X is multi camera editing. What is...
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Zoom Q4 from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. Zoom calls their Q4 a Handy Video Recorder. Sony refers to their HDR-MV1 as a portable Music Video Recorder. But what is in a name? In the end, what sold me was features. The Zoom Q4 is packed with them,...
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https://youtu.be/cA0X-gLU_LM Introducing the new Zoom Q4 Music Video Recorder. I don't know if it is the exuberance of it being New Year and the Chinese Year of the Horse or what, but for some reason this year is starting with a plethora of good sounding, purpose designed...
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Great story, client with low production budget, good but public shooting location, no lights, crew or assistants? I grabbed my Panasonic GH3, and Panasonic's fantastic 12-35mm f/2.8 Lumix zoom, and went for it. The Panasonic GH3 is a fine video camera for a lone storyteller. All...
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In addition to improvements in just about every area, Fujifilm has also brought some interesting new features to the X-E2. What's the coolest? To me, one has to be the new Digital Split Image™ for interchangeable lens cameras. Split image focusing was originally used in manual...
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From: OutbackPhoto.Net We recently found some fun to photograph again some animals and birds. For our Nikon and Canon systems, faster long tele lenses or zooms (at least 400mm and f/4) were never a real option. Why? One may think first of the price and rightly...
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Fujifilm has announced another lens for their X series mirrorless digital cameras. The Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R lens is the twelfth lens made for the X-mount cameras and is an impressive portrait-length lens with a very fast maximum aperture, ideal for shallow depth-of-field control and excellent...
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From http://www.productionhub.com we bring you an interview from the 2013 Cine Gear Los Angeles Expo with August Bradley, a photographer turned cinematographer who has been using Carl Zeiss lenses since he began in the industry. Camera lenses from Carl Zeiss are used by millions of...
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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...
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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....
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We often use a two-step method to add additional processing to our images. The first step is to develop the color image to be kind of standard and natural (both subjective). But sometimes we want to add to the image a grungier look, convert it...
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Featured Photographer: Steffen Jahn My good friend Steffen Jahn is a very lucky guy. He gets to shoot some of the finest automobiles ever made, and gets paid to do it. Talk about a dream fantasy job. But as with all pleasures also comes a great...
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There are endless iPhone camera replacement apps and many are better than the Apple app. We always liked the 6x6 app for shooting square images because of its elegant simplicity. The same author has now published his PureShot camera app. For us, it is so...
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