I was lucky enough to go out and play with an F55 while in Singapore. There was no pressure, nothing specific to shoot, just play time. This meant I could try different frame rates, different frame sizes, basically I could experiment. I also had the use of one of the lovely (but very heavy) Fujinon … Continue reading The PMW-F55 with the Fujinon Cabrio 19-90 PL servo zoom. What’s it like to work with?
One of the most commonly asked questions for me right now is which camera do I choose out of the PMW-F5 and F55. The price difference isn’t huge, around $10k USD. If you have the budget, if money is not a major concern then the choice is actually quite simple. Buy the PMW-F55. The F55 … Continue reading PMW-F5 and F55, which to choose, which EVF? OLED or LCD.
The latest free firmware release for the Sound Devices Pix240, called “Aurora” adds the ability to record 10 bit or even 12 bit ProRes444 RGB or YCbCr. Using the Pix240’s 3G HDSDI input this means that you can record the full 10 bit S-log RGB output of the Sony PMW-F3 (or the F5 if you … Continue reading Sound Devices Pix-240 Gets Free Upgrade to 3G 444 Recording. Perfect for the F3!
XDCAM-User passed a new milestone last month with record breaking traffic levels. In October the site took an average 50,000 hits per day from just under 3,000 visits a day. Over the course of the month the site had 1.5 million hits from 90,000 visits by 36,000 unique visitors. I’m flattered that so many people … Continue reading New Milestone for XDCAM-USER. 1.5 Million hits from 36,000 visitors.
I was going to call this: “There’s never been a better time to buy a camera”, but then the more I thought about it the more I realised that actually in some respects, right now it’s really difficult to make the right camera choice due to the large number of very capable cameras on the … Continue reading Are the F5 and F55 going to be game-changers?
OK, not really very scientific, but I’m busy on some paying projects at the moment and the weather is very changeable so I only had a short window to do this. I’m still exploring the image quality of the FS700. It is very good, of that there is no doubt, but my benchmark right now … Continue reading PMW-F3 and FS700 comparisons. Free clips to download.
Here’s a link to 14 short comedy sketches shot by cinematographer Charles Papert. Shot using S-Log with a PMW-F3. Really, really good stuff and gives an amazing insight into the range of looks that can created with the F3. https://vimeo.com/channels/311011/
I’ve decided to group together some of the various shooting tips that I have written over the years on a single page. Hopefully this will make them easier to find. Some are technical, some are practical or creative. For technical aspects of setting up picture profiles see this page or for other technical information this page. … Continue reading Shooting Tips
I have just spent a couple of days with 3 of Sony’s latest offerings. The new compact XDCAM camcorder, the PMW100, the diminutive NXCAM HXR-NX30 and the NEX-FS700. If you’ve managed to miss all the noise, the FS700 is yet another camcorder with a Super 35mm sensor, this one recording to AVCHD and very,very similar … Continue reading A Second Look at the Sony NEX-FS700.
Great news. I have managed to create a set of .lut files from the standard MLUT’s included with the PMW-F3. These new files work with most LUT enabled software, like LUT Buddy, Colorista, Resolve etc. The standard Sony files don’t work so I had to create these which should be 100% matches with the F3’s … Continue reading PMW-F3 MLUT’s converted to .lut files. Works with most LUT software