I’m running a couple of film making workshops for London Film School in association with Sony. These workshops are aimed at new content creators or others that wish to improve their production skills. It will cover the whole film making process from concept to storyboard to production. There will be sessions on project development, camera … Continue reading Film making workshops with London Film School, March 2025
Bright Tangerine have announced the details of this year’s Black Friday sale. Lasting from Monday 25th November to Tuesday 3rd December, products on Bright Tangerine’s online store – as well as with participating retailers – will be discounted by 20%. In addition to the sale, this year’s Black Friday sale also includes a charitable donation, … Continue reading Bright Tangerine Sitewide 20% Discount for Black Friday.
This is the 3rd and final LUT in the free three LUT set I promised by the end of 2022. Incandescent goes with my Elixir and Solitude LUT’s to complete the set of 3 film style LUTs. Elixir is the base LUT with a neutral film style look, the second LUT is called Solitude which … Continue reading New LUT -Incandescent- added to my LUT collection.
Although I wouldn’t normally recommend removing the screws from Sony cameras there are times when this is something you need to do, for example to remove the microphone mount on an FX6. Most of the small screws have a thread locking compound applied to the threads to prevent them from shaking or vibrating loose. This … Continue reading Removing Screws From Sony Cameras
PAL and NTSC are very specifically broadcasting standards for standard definition television. PAL (Phase Alternating Line) and NTSC (National Television Standard Committee) are analog interlaced standards specifically for standard definition broadcasting and transmission. These standards are now only very, very rarely used for broadcasting. And as most modern cameras are now high definition, digital and … Continue reading Why Do Cameras No Longer Have PAL/NTSC Options.
This has cropped up a few times in the comments and in various user groups so I thought I would go through what you need to do to use a B4 2/3″ lens with the FX9’s S16 2K scan mode. Not all B4 2/3″ lenses will directly cover the FX9’s Super 16mm sized 2K scan … Continue reading Will My B4 Lens Cover The FX9’s 2K S16 Scan Mode?
I’ve covered this before, but as this came up again in an online discussion I thought I would write about it again. For decades when I was doing a lot of corporate video work we shot greenscreen and chroma key with analoge or 8 bit, limited dynamic range, standard definition cameras and generally got great … Continue reading Chroma Key and Greenscreen – Should I use S-Log3 or might Rec-709 be Better?
Scan Modes This article was written before version 2 firmware added the FF 5K scan mode. Please see this video for more information on the scan modes in version 2: The PXW-FX9 features a 6K Full Frame sensor. With this sensor it is possible to select various scan modes and frame sizes. It is important … Continue reading More on the PXW-FX9’s Scan Modes.
UPDATED WITH NEW INFO, Nov 23rd 2019. What is the “Venice Look”? Sony had often been criticized for having a default look to their cameras that wasn’t “film like”. This was no accident as Sony have been a leading producer of TV cameras for decades and a key thing for a broadcaster is that both … Continue reading More about S-Cinetone and the so called Venice Color Science.
So this landed in my inbox today. Atomos are releasing what on paper at least is a truly remarkable new recorder and monitor, the Shogun 7. For some time now the Atomos Inferno has been my go-to monitor. It’s just so flexible and the HDR screen is wonderful. But the new Shogun 7 looks to … Continue reading New Atomos Shogun 7 with Dolby Vision Out and 15 stop screen.