Notes On Video

SHAPE SHOW NEW GIMBAL FOR GOPRO | News Shooter The Shape Gimbal ISEE I for GoPro is a 2 axis brushless gimbal which can be held in one hand. Power is from a single Canon LPE6 type battery and control is via a push button. The ISEE I is already available for pre-order from their website for CAD $699. Trying out the Canon C100 Autofocus…does it actually work? Can autofocus in video every truly work? | Philip Bloom You will understand more once you watch the video below but one of the biggest issues for me was the limitation of the auto focus area just being that small square in the middle. Never in every shot are you going to want your focus to be dead centre. The key to getting good results with the continuous autofocus, is clever use of the focus lock button which I programmed onto function 7 in the photo below. ARRI Developing a 6K 65mm Digital Cinema Camera? | No Film School That’s why it comes as no surprise that ARRI looks to be developing their own 6K came...

Five Questions for Twenty Feet from Stardom Cinematographer Nicola Marsh | Filmmaker Magazine "People are so obsessed with resolution I actually think that’s not really what makes a good image; you don’t want a ton of resolution. It’s great to have it when you need it, you can punch in or rotoscope, but lack of resolution is beautiful and elegant and more impressionistic." Quit Crashing Your Computer: Editing 4K in Adobe Premiere | Premium Beat In the following video Luke Neumann shows us how to edit 4K footage without bogging down your computer. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done using only Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Panasonic GH4 Camera at 96fps 4096×2160 Vs ARRI Alexa Camera & Blackmagic 4K Videos |  cinescopophilia After a quick shoot we brought the clips into DaVinci Resole Lite to see details.What we have found was unbelievable. The GH4 could hold more detail in both high light and shadow over the Blackmagic.One problem about the ...

The memory card for the FDR-AX100 arrived, and I put it in the camera and it agreed that the card would support 4K recording - Woot! That's as far as I've gotten, as I was at a meeting tonight and only just got home. Meanwhile, EOSHD managed to find this sample video shot with the FDR-AX100 which seems to demonstrate some very bad skew. It postulates that the skew is only present in the 4K footage (because the RX10 has the "same" sensor and doesn't have the same problem.) Guess I'll have to try different formats and see what happens. And here's an unboxing and look at the camera:

The memory card for the FDR-AX100 hasn't yet arrived, but that doesn't mean the 4K news stops coming! Panasonic went and announced the HX-A500, a 4K wearable camera. Available in May for about $600. Looks interesting, though I do worry that 4K is going to be a bit like the early days of HD when some of the really inexpensive cameras jumped from 720P to 1080P; and yet there was no noticeable improvement in image quality. We'll have to wait for some tests and comparisons. I will say this; at 31g (1.1oz) for the camera unit and 119g (4.2oz) for the body unit, I should be able to fly it on the DJI Phantom! Panasonic HX-A500 wearable 4K camcorder claims 'world's first' | Cnet Other shooting options include gnarly Levelling Correction to automatically straighten tilted videos; rad Image Stabilisation function to cut down on blur as you're bumping and bouncing across track or piste; and sick slow motion at 200 frames per second, 100 fps in 720p, or 50fp...

I just got the Sony FDR-AX100 , which I think can be accurately described a being their "most inexpensive (currently) available" 4K camera. I thought it was time to at least dabble in 4K, but I didn't really have the budget to buy anything really good - no Sony F5 or Canon C500 in my budget! But if you're not looking to spend more than $4k on 4K, there are some other choices. Why didn't I get one of those? Sony FDR-AX1 At $4,498 (currently) the FDR-AX1 is over $4k, but close enough. It's intriguing to me, especially as I loved Sony's HD camera's in that format. Advantages; everything is in one box; for run and gun shooting it would be really good, and that's the kind of thing I do most of the time. It has more manual controls, more buttons and knobs and XLR audio inputs than the FDR-AX100. The reason I didn't buy it; honestly I shoot a lot more stuff with small camcorders right now, and I'm planning to take the FDR-AX100 on ...