Notes On Video

Yesterday Sony Europe hosted a webchat on the new NEX-EA50 . For the next 30 days you can read an archive of the webchat here : http://www.bit.ly/NXCAMchat . Below is an edited version of the chat (primarily I have grouped the answers with the questions): Q: Why no ND filters? Alvaro Ortiz:  ND filters included on FS700 were completely newly developed, and they are extra-thin due to the short flange-back distance (sensor to mount), so their inclusion on EA50 would've involved a significant increase of price Kanta: The FS700E has the ND filter in it but it makes body big and it is rather costy part. For EA50EH, you can find several types of variable ND filter from optical filter manufacturer, which gives you seamless ND control. Q: I have the Sony EX3 with the ST-7 Shoulder mount with heavy duty battery fitted. I can see that this cam has a shoulder mount that can be retracted and used how ever is there provision for a heavy duty batter to be added? Dave:  the...

The Year Sony Kicks Ass | Michael Britt | PhotoCineNews Some people are thrilled by Sony's new full-frame camera announcements, the A99 DSLR, NEX-VG900 camcorder and RX1 : The full frame Sony Alpha A99 DSLR style camera is everything you’d expect from a company trying to dethrone the 5DMkIII. Full frame sensor, check. Amazing OLED electronic viewfinder, check. Great low light performance, check. 6 Frames per second capture rate, check. Uncompressed video out via HDMI (like the MarkIII should have had), check. Microphone and headphone monitoring jack, check. Sony NEX-VG900 Lens Sample | Focus Pulling | Vimeo Sony NEX-VG900 Lens Sample from Focus Pulling (.com) on Vimeo . IBC2012: Blackmagic Cinema Camera |  FilmTVVideo | YouTube Stuart Ashton, Director EMEA at Blackmagic Design, explains the concept and the handling of the Cinema Camera from Blackmagic Design. Tamron's new full-frame lenses: 90mm macro, 70-200mm tele | Stephen Shankland | C|net ...

Sony A99 Field Test with NEX-VG900 Preview | TheCameraStoreTV | YouTube In addition to the VG900 , Sony also announced a full-frame sensor DSLR, the A99 : The A99 is Sony's new flagship, with the SLT design promising amazing autofocus. To test this, Chris Niccolls from The Camera Store went to Wild Rose Motocross Park to see how the stills and video stack up.Also this episode, Jordan Drake takes a quick look at the Sony VG900, the first full frame camcorder. Sony A99 revealed with new video optimised full frame sensor | Andrew Reid | EOSHD On the audio side there are on-screen meters, a mic socket, headphone jack and even a XLR battery grip (XLR-K1M) for $800 which includes a shotgun mic. There’s a ‘silent’ control dial on the front of the camera. It isn’t a touch control though. The codec is AVCHD 2.0 and for the first time we officially have 1080/60p on a full frame DSLR. 24p/25p are there too but no word on whether it is region switchable yet. Sony NEX-VG900 Camc...

(SR5) First picture of the Full Frame E-mount VG-900! | SonyAlphaRumors Rumors are that Sony is going to announce another camcorder that's full-frame (not Super35 or APS-C), uses the E-mount, and will be called something like the NEX-VG900 and cost about $3,000. How that fits together with the already announced Sony NEX-EA50 and the existing  NEX-FS100 , which are also in the same approximate price, is a puzzle I'll leave to Sony: This is the first image of the first E-mount Full Frame camera! It’s actually a camcorder to be correct, the new VG-900. [...] It finally proves that a FF sensor indeed fits into an E-mount.  First Impressions: Sony NEX VG-900 | CHRIS GAMPAT | The Phoblographer Before today's Quick Links was even posted, the camera has been confirmed! It appears very similar to the Sony NEX-VG20 (which is now replaced by the NEX-VG30) . I'm really curious to see what the image looks like, and how this camera fits in between all the others (the VG20 a...

JUST C IT ! (EOS C100) | Sebastien DEVAUD | Vimeo The promo movie for the new Canon C100 proves that if you use a common element in all the shots of your movie, you don't need to have a coherent story. Though why is that guy shooting with a Canon XA10 on the beach, rather than the C100 ? That's the one thing I don't understand: Earlier this year, i was contacted by Canon Inc to create a new exclusive film for the worldwide launch of the new EOS Cinema camera : The EOS C100Given the difficult task awaiting me, I decided to call upon and challenge the C’brothers to highlight and validate the strenghts of this new technology…Join the new C generation !Just C it ! was shot with three C100 bodies and 12 EF lenses. AVCHD compress recorded on SD Card You can see the behind the scenes movie here: Sample Movie | Canon Japan Canon to Nex adapter with AF | EOSHD Forum Link to a video showing a Canon EF to NEX E-Mount lens adapter that includes Auto Focus control. Of course...

IBC 2012: Den Lennie Talks to DOP John Brawley about the M4/3 Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera  | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter My good friend Den Lennie has been at IBC in Amsterdam this weekend. He got a chance to speak to DOP John Brawley about the new M4/3 Blackmagic Design cinema camera. Brawley has been working with Blackmagic Design to develop the camera. This is what they had to say: DAY 6 – Are you listening? Audio and the BMCC | Frank Glencairn | Blog Frank continues his diary on the Blackmagic camera, this time looking at sound: Q Since the BMCC has no VU meters (yet), how do I see what my levels are? A: You need a outboard monitor anyway, so get one, that has build in VU meters. Even if BM updates the camera with VU meters, they are still on the build in monitor, where they are hard to see under certain lighting conditions. KineRAW-S35 (tm) I1 2K boxed 1920x1080 full range (grade a1) "Daisies and Windmills" | Dan Hudgins | Vimeo Some video from that C...

At this year's IBC, Cinematographer Roger Deakins talked about using the Arri Alexa . Deakins has been using the Alexa for some time, and recently completed shooting the latest Bond film, Skyfall . The ARRIChannel Twitter feed had the following comments from Deakins: UPDATE: They've also posted a video of the event (below): "There was so much more latitude in ALEXA than a 4K scan of film" when he first tested it for In Time Deakins on resolution race: "there is such a thing that is too much resolution, it becomes too sharp and synthetic" Deakins feels ALEXA can mimic film identically by adding grain "You can get there with the image but you can take it elsewhere as well" "Now when I go to the cinema & when I see grain, I don't like it. It's too much for me." Roll-off of highlights and detail in shadows is what he likes about ALEXA vs other digital cameras Deakins manipulated color temperature in camera on ALEXA...