Notes On Video

Blackmagic Cinema Camera Shipping Update: 11/7 | Grant Petty | Blackmagic Forum Blackmagic continues to update on the progress of the camera, and the problems they have had with the sensors. Evidently the sensor manufacturer switched from one company to another for the bonding of glass to the sensor between the initial test run and the production run. Odd. Our current understanding is that the company that has been bonding on the glass is crap and they have been contaminating the glass when bonding it. Because the sensor suppliers test process was also bad, it meant that no one really knew what was going on and it's been weeks and weeks of confusion. Shooting with the TS3Cine | Justin Hamilton | Vincent Laforet In the end, we came away with some good shots, mostly thanks to the skill of the skater we were working with.  The lesson learned for us was that camera motion is just as important in hi-speed as it is at normal frame rates.  A static camera is a boring camera...

Upcoming Events in Boston This Friday, 9th November is the  BOSCPUG SuperMeetUp .   Then on Tuesday 13th is another event:  BOSCPUG   Visual Storytellers Meet  Featuring JOE FINDER (PARANOIA) & WYNDHAM LEWIS (NURSE JACKIE) Rule Boston Cameras Events: Wed Nov 14: 10am-12noon Maximizing Mass Tax Credits For Your Production : Boston-based Entertainment Attorney, Emily McNamara, answers all your questions about the Massachusetts Film Tax Credits and how your production can take advantage of these valuable incentives. Wed Nov 28: 10am-12noon Canon Full Cinema EOS Line-Up And 4K Workflow : Canon's Technical Speicalist, Ken Rowe, introduces the latest in the Cinema EOS family — the new C100 and C500 cameras and EF Cinema prime lenses — providing a brief overview of their features and a review of the C500's 4K workflow. Thu: Nov 15: 6-8pm Recipe for Success: Jan maliszewski on Directing Cook’s Country : Emmy-nominated director...

Are the F5 and F55 going to be game-changers? | Alister Chapman | XDCAM-User The very thought of 16 bit raw with 14 stops of dynamic range is making me drool, these cameras will seriously encroach on F65 territory and give the Arri Alexa a very hard time indeed, heck even the F5 will give the Alexa a very hard time. A clear sign of just how significant these cameras are is the way Red have slashed the prices of their Epic and Scarlet cameras. Canon C500 is Shipping, but Canon's RAW Implementation is Unlike Any You've Seen Before | Joe Marine | No Film School Basically, instead of sending out an Alpha along with the RAW, it’s sending the other green channel. Since Canon is not starting out with a 16-bit image pipeline like RED and Sony (Canon is only doing 10-bit at best), they are trying to save as much detail as possible by locking in certain attributes. These engineering hacks have worked in the past for Canon, who always seems to pull out better image quality than t...

CHECKING OUT SONY’S NEW NEX-EA50H AT ABEL CINE TECH: ERGONOMICS AND LOW COST TOO | David Leitner | Filmmaker Magazine It proved a joy to operate, too. A rocker switch built into the EA50H’s handgrip drives the 18-200mm at three fixed zoom speeds: slow, slower, and snail’s pace. Perfect for subtle pushes during interviews. A selector switch for the three speeds resides conveniently on the side of the lens. No menu diving required. (Uniquely, there’s also a low-profile, spring-loaded slider switch on the barrel of the lens to operate the zoom on e-Mount cameras lacking handgrips with rocker switches.) Panasonic GH3 real-world test (pre-production firmware) | Andrew Reid | EOSHD Now for better news – the GH3 maintains the insane resolution of the GH2 in video mode. This aspect of the image in 1080p is well up there with the best 1080p cinema cameras costing many times more. It resolves more than the Sony FS100 and has a better internal codec especially in 1080/60p (with nearly do...

Red, Sony and Canon 4K | Michael Sutton | WideOpenCamera Mike Sutton takes a look at the 4K options: The next thing Red needs to do is to have 4K video outputs on the camera.  You cannot tout resolution yet be highly compressed without any other codec options.  I don’t see how these go hand in hand.  If image quality via resolution is everything, then surely resolution aficionados would want the ability to tap off an uncompressed RAW feed.  I have a feeling that RED will put out another camera much sooner that people expected. 8-Bit is Still 8-Bit, Why DSLRs Are No Match for the 12-Bit Blackmagic Cinema Camera | Joe Marine | No Film School People have done as much as possible to argue against the test that was performed with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera by Marco Solorio and OneRiver Media. That test compared the 5D Mark III and the BMCC, and even though the superior resolution and dynamic range of one of those cameras should have been obvious, many still pr...