Aug 29
Video cameras are so last decade. Cinema cameras are the hot new thing. While companies like Canon, Blackmagic
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Jul 31
Glass hasn’t exactly been revered for its brilliant image quality, but that’s not stopping Google from making a push among budding filmmakers. The Glass Creative Collective, a partnership with film and design schools, is intended to familiarize students at a handful of institutions with the video-capture wearable. Several colleges, including the Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA and the University of Southern California are on board — students will reportedly begin exploring the device as a filmmaking tool beginning this fall. Glass could be a fit for documentary filmmaking, and for capturing point-of-view footage, of course, but performance limitations would likely prevent it from taking on a starring role in any production. We’re a bit skeptical that the Creative Collective will be a booming success, but Google’s promised to circle back with results once the program gets off the ground.
Filed under: Cameras, Displays, Wearables, Alt, Google
Via: CNET
Source: Google Glass (Google+)
Apr 26
The BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera is exactly what it sounds like. It was announced earlier this month and promised to deliver super-sharp image quality in a tiny $1000 device. By the looks of the first bits of footage to hit the web, it won’t underwhelm. More »
Apr 16
One element has enormous power to alter the look of a person on film or video—lighting. Cinematographers and photographers are intimately familiar with this fact, but this video really brings the point to life. More »
Apr 15
The Zoom H4N has clinched the spot of go-to audio recorder for DSLR videographers everywhere. With the announcement of the H6, Zoom may have made the best in class even better. More »
Apr 08
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: RAW Video In the Palm of Your Hand for $1000
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The film/videomaking world was set aflame last year when Blackmagic Design announced its Cinema Camera. It looks like the rogues are back for more with a RAW-shooting, $1000 video camera that fits in your pocket. More »
Apr 05
A new piece of filmmaking gear was just announced that could completely re-invent the complex process of camera stabilization. It’s currently being tested and endorsed by Vincent LaForet, who’s given us a little taste of what it’s capable of. More »
Jan 24
Spanning the 50 year transition from tremulous black and white to razor sharp hi-def, “Attenborough’s Life Stories” essentially serves as a David Attenborough retrospective dished out in three installments, all hosted by the legend himself. More »
Oct 15
‘Samsara’ creators Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss the digital filmmaking divide (video)
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We’ve set up shop in a conference room above Third Avenue in Manhattan, a Canon 5D trained on Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. I find myself apologizing awkwardly for the setup, several times. There’s a long boardroom table in the middle and a customary junket breakfast spread to the right. It’s about as plain as meeting rooms come, save for a few movie posters lining the walls, advertising films distributed by the indie film company that owns the space. Hardly ideal for our purposes, but here were are, all clumped into a single corner, with the director and producer of Samsara flanking a cardboard poster for their movie, leaned atop a stand. It’s not the welcome befitting the creators of a big, beautiful sweeping cinematic masterpiece. But they’re tired — too tired to care about such things, perhaps. They dismiss such apologies, clip their lavaliere microphones on over their shirts and sit down.
Fricke motions to the single SLR seated atop a tripod, explaining that he used the same model on a recent commercial shoot. “We have a solid background grounded in shooting in film, and that just stays with you,” he adds. “When I’m shooting like with a 5D, like what you’re using now to shoot this interview, I’m working with it like it’s a 65 camera. It’s my frame of reference, my background. I’m just wired that way.” The world of filmmaking has changed dramatically in the two decades since the duo first unleashed Baraka on the world, a non-narrative journey across 25 countries that became the high-water mark for the genre and a staple in critics’ lists and film school syllabi.
Filed under: Cameras, Home Entertainment
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