Notes On Video

Fringe Issue in Older Canon C300′s Solved? | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine Since its release, the Canon C300 has received a lot of praise for its image quality and low-light sensitivity. But some users have reported problems with color fringing: incorrectly colored pixels that appear on in-focus vertical or horizontal borders adjacent to a blown out – or nearly blown out – background. This most commonly appears on man-made objects like railings and window edges, though it can also be seen in specular highlights on ocean waves. Review: Sony 10-18mm F4 OSS Wide Angle Lens (Sony NEX) | PETER WALKOWIAK | The Photoblographer With it's image stabilization and wide-angle of view, this lens is intriguing for NEX owners. It's not cheap though, at $848 : The lens itself has a metal body and feels very dense. It is a heavy lens due to its construction but did not feel uneven when paired with the NEX-6. The lens has a fairly wide base compared to the 50mm or kit lens and ma...

The Five C’s of Cinematography | Stew Redwine | Fresh DV Cameras don’t tell stories, people do. Since we can all agree this is the case, there is really only one thing you need to tell great stories… YOU. However, none of us are born knowing anything about the tools of the trade. In an effort to improve the one tool all storytellers have in common, their mind, a must-have addition to their library is Joseph V. Mascelli’s The Five C’s of Cinematography . Cine Meter for iPhone | Adam Wilt | Website Turn your iPhone into a lightmeter? Cool! Cine Meter is a professional film/video/photo application for your iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod touch®, using the built-in camera to provide a shutter-priority reflected light meter, an RGB waveform monitor, and a false-color picture mode. Cine Meter works on any iDevice with a camera running iOS 5.0 or higher. Shooting DNxHD with ALEXA in paradise | ARRI News One of the major challenges in the tropics is the humidity. From t...

Sony grows E-mount lens collection with 20mm pancake, 18-200mm power zoom | Zach Honig | Engadget Sony's doing its part to make its products more appealing by adding two new lenses (for a total of 13): a 20mm f/2.8 pancake and a 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS powered-zoom optic, which first made its debut with the VG30 camcorder, but will now be available as a standalone purchase. B & H:  Sony 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 PZ OSS Alpha E-mount Lens ($1,198) Expected end of Feb B & H:  Sony 20mm f/2.8 Alpha E-mount Lens ($348) Expected middle of Apr. Hands-On Camera Review with the Panasonic GH3 — [Side By Side Comparos + Can it Beat a $250 eBay Bargain?] | Ben Pitt | Chase Jarvis Blog In many of my tests, the GH1 and GH3′s videos were hard to tell apart. The GH3 had a slight advantage for sharpness and its colours were a little punchier, but there wasn’t much in it. Here’s a frame from each camera’s 1080p output, split into three to show the GH3, GH1 and Sony’s NEX-5N – a...

Getting the Shot: Scenes from the Making of the Music Video, “Ready or Not” | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine Filmmaker : How did you do the hood shot? Macomber : Originally I was going to lie down on the hood, but there was nowhere to grab on to the front of the vehicle. And there was no budget so I couldn’t afford the suction cups. Understanding Your New GoPro | ABE KISLEVITZ | Blog A friend just bought a HERO 3 and has been struggling with the many image options it offers, so here's some help: A few things need to be explained when talking about the technical aspects of video resolutions, framerates, and video quality.  In digital video there are a lot of different variables that go into what makes up the overall IQ (image quality). 1080P on a GoPro is FAR different than 1080P on an Alexa – and it’s not just the image sensor that makes it different. Processors in cameras are a huge determinant to how video gets from the sensor to the SD card. There are tricks and s...

Review of the Canon C100 | Philip Johnston | HD Warrior Philip Johnston puts together a video-only review of the Canon C100. He seems pretty impressed with the image quality that closely matches his C300. Blackmagic Cinema Camera (Part 2) POST & Other considerations | Den Lennie | F-Stop Academy Den : [The Cinema Camera workflow] made me sell my 17″ MacBook Pro and buy a 15″ Retina Display one. I took the decision early on to get the infrastructure to support this. I bought FCP X about 18 months ago and didn’t really start using it ’til early this year, but I’ve embraced it fully, don’t even have a copy of FCP 7 anymore, and so I’ve realised to go down the Thunderbolt route – I’ve got a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro and an iMac, with the full Resolve setup on both machines – it’s very, very important that you have to get the right hardware. DaVinci Resolve 9.1 – adds Retina Macbook Pro support | Cinema5D In the newest update to the famous color correction software DaVinci...

BOSCPUG: SETH WORLEY (TEMPO) & AHARON RABINOWITZ, SMOKE 2013 & FCP X JANUARY 22 TIMES: 7PM-9:30PM (doors open at 6:30PM)** **Meeting begins PROMPTLY at 7PM! VENUE: Bright Family 2K Screening Room The Paramount Center 559 Washington St Boston, MA 02111 Rule Boston Camera WEDNESDAY JAN 23 SONY F5 AND F55 OVERVIEW Join Sony’s Senior Product Manager, Juan Martinez for an in-depth look at the new F5 and F55 large sensor cameras with 4K Super35mm CMOS sensors delivering images with higher contrast, rich color reproduction and greater clarity for every production application. Learning Lab: 10am–12n Bagels + Coffee Pub Night: 6–8pm Pizza + Beer Rule Boston Camera Learning Lab WEDNESDAY JAN 30 A LENS FOR EVERY STORY Canon’s Technical Specialist, Ken Rowe, returns with an overview of Canon’s comprehensive selection of lenses including fast primes and wide-tele zooms (fully 4K ready) for a variety of cinematic applications. Massachusetts Prod...