News from Here & There

More "House" stuff
If you aren't over-Housed yet, Videography has an interview with cinematographer Gale Tattersall. Interestingly, it appears that they got to use the Red Rock Micro remote-control focus (which isn't officially out yet):
Redrock Micro has this wonderful system we used that lets the assistants use an iPhone or iPod to control focus remotely. It's quite an ingenious system that is able to drive the internal focus mechanism within the lens. You have to keep your iPhone in airplane mode, though, so you don't get a call in the middle of your focus!
Videography: Gale Tattersall, Director of Photography, 'House' 'Help Me'



Updated Final Cut Pro filters updated
Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE
05/13/2010 Over 200 filters for Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5, CS4, and CS3. (Demo)
What’s New in this Version
- 11 New Filters
- Support for 64-bit Host Applications
- Adobe After Effects Integration
- Additional On-Screen Widgets
- New Compare Mode Feature Integration
- New Beat Reactor Feature Integration
- Performance Gains

Lock & Load X 1.2
05/13/2010 The worlds fastest stabilizer for FCP. Instant smoothing of camera motion with smart adaptive zoom straight on the FCP timeline. (Demo)
What’s New in this Version
- Now includes integrated Rolling Shutter Reduction to help reduce skew and vertical distortion from CMOS cameras.
- Includes shutter coefficients for Canon 7D, 5D Mark II, 550D, Sony Ex1, Canon Legria and other common CMOS cameras.



Fritz Sennheiser Dies
It's kind of odd when someone dies who you didn't know existed; and yet you should have. In audio, Sennheiser is well known - I have one of their shotgun mics - but I never thought about where the name came from, or that there might have been a Mr Sennheiser.
RadioWorld: Fritz Sennheiser Dies



Sony's affordable 35mm cinema camera - not that affordable!
Well, affordability is in the eye of the budget holder, and I never thought it was going to be sub $10,000 given the costs of other cameras they offer, so it's not really a shock that the "cinema" camera Sony was previewing at NAB is expected to by about $19,000 according to Film & Digital Time.
Film & Digital Time: Sony PL (Z35)



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sony GV-D200 review

Image
Sony GV-D200 I've been using a Sony GV-D200 deck to transfer old Video8 and Hi8 tapes. Some of these tapes are over twenty years old, and no longer having a Hi8 camcorder that worked I was concerned that if I didn't do something about transferring them to a more modern format soon, I might never be able to. While Sony no longer make camcorders that use these tapes - that I know of - Sony does still sell the GV-D200 deck (or Video Walkman, as it's sometimes labelled.) They also offer the GV-D800, which is almost identical but adds a small LCD screen for about $120 more. I didn't think I'd need a screen since I was using this to capture to the computer, but you will need an external monitor when you first set it up. Physically, the device is small. At 5 7/8" wide, 5 3/8" deep and 2" high, it's the smallest video deck I've encountered. I used to have a Video8 deck that I thought was small; and it was twice as deep and twice as high. The t...
Read more

Response: Which iPhone to Get?

Image
In response to my iPhone musings, I got the following reader email which actually sums up a lot of my second and third thoughts too: You might have a point about the fancier camera, but otherwise I would buy the smaller model. Its screen is about the same size as that of my Nexus 4, and I don't feel at all like it limits me with a too-small screen. But I do sometimes stretch to get my thumb the reach to the other corner of the screen. It is plenty big for a phone. A phone is a pocket thing. (Well, in my case it lives an ancient REI soft sunglasses case that I have on my belt.) Ubiquitous, handy, convenient, almost always with me. Small is crucial for all of that. Certainly a large screen is cool, but you need a place to put it: don't break a fundamental feature of a pocket phone by getting too big. That is what your small tablet is for. I have my phone with me almost always. I have my Nexus 7 tablet with me nearly as much. The bigger screen is great, yet it fits in some...
Read more

Should you buy the Sony NEX-FS100 Kit Lens?

Image
The Sony NEX-FS100 is available in two configurations: B & H : NEX-FS100U Camcorder only $4,999 B & H : NEX-FS100U (with 18-200mm lens) $5,599 But what does that extra $600 get you? It get's you this: Sony 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Zoom Lens for NEX Camera This lens is also available separately for $799.99, so at $200 off you'd think everyone would be jumping on it. But not so fast... In his article about switching from the Canon 5D Mark II to the Sony NEX-FS100 , Paul Antico  at Need Creative says of the kit lens: 7) Its 18-200 F3.6-6.3 kit lens absolutely sucks and should be avoided (thankfully, you can order it without one) [ 1 ] But is it that bad? At B & H 's site, 43 reviews give it an average of 4.6 out of 5 stars. That's not a bad rating, though many of these people are using it for stills, and the most common complaint noted is how large and heavy it is. Of course this feeling of size would be exacerbated when you put it on a tiny camera ...
Read more