Here is a collection of posts and articles for anyone interested in cinematography in general.
- Is This The Age Of The Small Camera Part 2
- Do I Need To Always Overexpose S-Log3?
- Why Doesn’t My Footage Grade Well?
- The Wingman by James Friend – shot on Burano
- Why doesn’t every camera have a global shutter?
- Sony Launches New Burano CineAlta Camera
- Cooke SP3 compact lenses – I’m in love!
- The Creator, shot with the FX3.
- Optical Filtration – Formatt Hitech Soft Gold.
- Day For Night With Infrared.
- Not all ND filters are created equal.
- Zebras and Log – Use a narrower window/range.
- Origins of the term “High Key” in video lighting.
- The Rise Of The Small Cinema Camera.
- FREE LUT DOWNLOADS.
- Cinegear Expo LA 2022
- Camera Test Charts To Print At Home
- Tokina 16-28mm t3.0 Cine Zoom Review.
- A Review of the Tokina Vista Prime Lenses
- Timecode doesn’t synchronise anything!!!
- CineEI is not the same as conventional shooting.
- Should You Use In Camera Noise Reduction Or Not?
- Sony Launches Venice II
- New Sony CineALta Camera to be announced on November 15th
- My Exposure Looks Different On My LCD Compared To My Monitor!
- Chroma Key and Greenscreen – Should I use S-Log3 or might Rec-709 be Better?
- Pixels and Resolution are not the same thing.
- What Benefits Do I Gain By Using CineEI?
- New addition to Sony’s Cinema Line On The Way
- Aliens Might Think The Earth Is Perpetually Dark!
- 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
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