It is a pretty disgraceful state of affairs around raw support and new camera releases at the moment and heads need banging together in my opinion. However help is at hand from Adobe who have released the pre-release version of the new Lightroom 4.1 – and it is free. Adobe Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate (RC) can be downloaded at Adobe Labs here
Month: April 2012
NAB 2012 is just around the bend and already some rumours have started to circulate about what Canon are up to. I’ve heard the same thing now from multiple people. I’m not a rumours site but if I was I’d give this a pretty good rating – although please do take this for what it is, a rumour!
First and foremost – a huge thank you to James Miller for the inspiration and guidance Disclaimer: I accept no liability, nor can I recommend this risky operation on your camera unless you are totally insane! Over Easter I disassembled my 5D Mark III. The aim is to remove the optical low pass filter that sits in front of the sensor block, a drastic operation pioneered by James Miller last…
Good news for Nikon D800 owners. Mosaic Engineering are currently working on anti-aliasing filter for the camera. Because the sensor line-skips to produce HD video, the custom-designed optical low pass filter should almost eliminate any moire and aliasing on the D800 if it works as well as it did on the Canon 5D Mark II.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/39341733[/vimeo] Above: a short Nikon D800 full 1080p example – click through to the Vimeo page here to download the original D800 file Nikon’s people say their downsampling technique for the D800’s video mode is classified info. So Falk Lumo has gone and found out for himself, with a great technical analysis of the Nikon D800 and how it obtains 1080p video from the huge 36MP Sony sensor inside.
Kunihiko Miyagi, Director of Pro Video at Panasonic in the factory in Kadoma, Osaka has given a glimpse of what Panasonic have in store for NAB later this week. To quote verbatim from his blog: A new visual world created by the new AVC Ultra platform Panasonic jumping in to the world of ________ Further evolution in P2 cards! What the next generation of cameras will look like
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/39953108[/vimeo] Feel like I’ve had a breakthrough with the 5D Mark III on this shoot.
Above: Shane Hurlbut ASC shoots a talking heads promo trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones with the Canon C300 (right) and Arri Alexa (left) How is this for a camera test to end them all? Shane Hurlbut was asked to shoot a trailer for Game of Thrones and he took along a couple of C300s to use as C & D cameras to the Alexa A & B. How do they compare?