Here is a collection of posts and articles for anyone interested in cinematography in general.
- Sony Launches Airpeak Drone – Designed to carry Alpha sized cameras.
- Sony FX6 Launch
- Inside the Big Top. A short film from Glastonbury 2019. Shot on Venice.
- Are We Missing Problems In Our Footage Because We Don’t Use Viewfinders Anymore?
- ProResRaw Now In Adobe Creative Cloud Mac Versions!
- Are LUT’s Killing Creativity And Eroding Skills?
- Temporal Aliasing – Beware!
- How We Judge Exposure Looking At an Image And The Importance Of ViewFinder Contrast.
- What’s So Magical About Full Frame – Or Is It all Just ANOTHER INTERNET MYTH?
- Struggling With Blue LED Lighting? Try Turning On The adaptive Matrix.
- Guess The Lens! A little bit of fun and an interesting test.
- The “E” in “E-Mount” stands for Eighteen.
- Can You Shoot Anamorphic with the PXW-FX9?
- Venice to get even higher frame rates in V5 firmware.
- Do I need to worry about 8K?
- New Atomos Shogun 7 with Dolby Vision Out and 15 stop screen.
- Shooting Anamorphic with the Fujinon MK’s and SLR Magic 65 Anamorphot.
- AMPAS snub Cinematography and Editing at the Oscars.
- Do the images from my Sony camera have to look the way they do?
- Film Emulation LUT’s for S-Log3 and S-Log2.
- ISO and EI – using the right terms makes what you are doing easier to understand.
- Learning to be a film maker? Don’t shoot short pretty videos – shoot documentaries.
- Noise, ISO, Gain, S-Log2 v S-Log3 and exposure.
- ProRes Raw Over Exposure Magic Tricks – It’s all smoke and mirrors!
- Why I Choose To Shoot ProRes Raw with the FS5
- Philips Extreme Earth Episode 2 now on YouTube.
- Log and Raw Don’t have highlight a highlight roll off.
- When is a viewfinder a viewfinder and when is it just a small monitor?
- Duran Duran’s A Diamond In The Mind – A look back at a great project.
- Venice in Cape Town. HDR Video excerpt.
- What’s wrong with my viewfinder, my old camera had a much better viewfinder!
- Shooting With Sony Venice.
- Vegas, Slot Canyons and Venice.
- Sony Venice – A close look at the dynamic range and noise.
- Banding in your footage. What Causes It, is it even there?
- Shooting Flat – No it’s not!
- Skills and knowledge in TV and video production are not keeping up with the technology.
- Should I shoot 8 bit UHD or 10 bit HD?
- Sony Venice. Dual ISO’s, 1 stop ND’s and Grading via Metadata.
- Using LUT’s for exposure – choosing the right LUT.
- More on frame rate choices for todays video productions.
- Why hasn’t anyone brought out a super sensitive 4K camera?
- Why do we strive to mimic film? What is the film look anyway?
- Behind the Scenes: Lucy – Shot on the F65.
- What does ISO mean with todays cameras?
- Sony Venice at IBC 2017.
- Why are Sony’s ISO’s different between standard gammas and log?
- Sony Venice. Full Frame Digital Cinema Camera.
- The making of “Fire and Iron”.
- Why is exposing log brightly beneficial?
- Beware Exposing To The Right With Log.
- The Pro’s and Con’s of 12 bit linear raw or recording raw to S-Log.
- Guide to Cine EI – Still Current.
- When is a DP not a DP?
- What is HLG and what is it supposed to be used for?
- Want to shoot direct to HDR with the PXW-FS7, PMW-F5 and F55?
- Thinking about frame rates.
- Why do I always shoot at 800 EI (FS7 and F5)?
- Will a bigger recording Gamut give me more picture information?
- The Fujinon Cabrio XK6x120 alongside the MK 18-55.
- Anatomy of a shot. Night Scene in Arctic Norway – Fujinon lenses, Stella Lights.
- PXW-FS5 and PXW-Z150 to get Hybrid Log Gamma for direct HDR production.
- ISO Confusion Once Again!
- Auto Knee when shooting with Rec-709.
- Raw and the PXW-FS5
- Fujinon MK18-55mm t2.9 E-Mount zoom lens.
- PXW-FS5 Native ISO’s
- The new Sony FS7 zoom lens, the Sony SELP18110G.
- Northern Colour – new Northern Lights video.
- Not all raw is created equal. Log may be better
- What is XOCN? Why is it so good, why do we need it?
- Norway and the Northern Lights Video Blogs.
- Norway here I come!
- The great S-Log2 or S-Log3 debate.
- Video Tutorials for the FS5. Picture Profiles and Raw Recording.
- Incorrect Lumetri Scope Scales and incorrect S-Log range scaling in Adobe Premiere.
- Big Update for Sony Raw Viewer.
- Why Do We Need To Light?
- Webinar Recordings.
- How much technology does a modern cinematographer need to know?
- 4K – It’s not the be-all and end-all.
- What is “Exposure”?
- Video Camera Noise, ISO and Sensitivity.
- PXW-FS7 Training Films Parts 4 and 5 released.
- Treat it like a film camera!
- Testing without charts leads to questionable results.
- Does the average TV viewer actually get the “film look”?
- What does HDR mean in the world of video production?
- More info on CMOS sensor grid artefacts.
- From a good looking image to a stylised look. It’s not easy!
- Tales of exposure from the grading suite.
- What is “Exposure”
- Using the High/Low key function on the PXW-FS7, PMW-F55 and PMW-F5.
- Don’t Confuse a DIT with a Data Wrangler or Runner.
- Do you really want or need 4K?
- Sensor sizes, where do the imperial sizes like 2/3″ or 4/3″ come from?
- What is a Gamut or Color Space and why do I need to know about it?
- What causes CA or Purple and Blue fringes in my videos?
- Why gain is bad for your dynamic range.
- What’s the difference between Latitude and Dynamic Range?
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