Comment on the forum Last week I had an insight into just how responsive Sony are becoming in rolling out support for their cameras. As users like myself and Paul Antico discovered soon after the FS5 was released the image had some issues. The very week I bought my camera Sony were in touch by email – I was then tasked to shoot some tests and send the XAVC footage to their…
Month: January 2016
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJfTfsXFbLk[/youtube] The Revenant is an obvious candidate for one of the most cinematographically poetic films of the past year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had a documentary crew following him from the start of principal photography in October 2014, following a gruelling shoot, 20th Century Fox have uploaded the entire 45 minute documentary to YouTube. Watch it above and have your say on the EOSHD Forum.
Download original files here (note: pre-production firmware). I am really pleased to say the video quality of the X Pro 2 is seriously impressive. It’s not 4K but it’s enormously satisfying, sharp and detailed. What’s great is that now we can finally shoot moving images with Fuji’s superb film-like colour science, without having to worry about image quality.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy07XV8rEQw[/youtube] Whilst movies are a form of escapism in the sense that they’re warm and comforting, some try to use that escapism to bring us pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVBWxmawws Of the Oscar nominated films this year I’ve rounded up the best picture and cinematography nominees and dived into the technical department.
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/112820539[/vimeo] Here’s Rodney Charters (DoP, 24) musing on his use of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera as a POV B-camera to the Alexa. (The Pocket has also recently been used separately on Warner Bros motion picture American Sniper). Meanwhile the new Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K has begun to find its way into the hands of DPs with beta firmware. Daniel Peters is the latest to shoot a mini-project with it which you…
The signs are that the NX1 and NX500 are shortly to be discontinued in the US.
How does the new Nikon D5 compare to the Canon 1D C flagship for 4K?