The Alexa Studio only shoots 2K and HD but apparently the consumer world has decided it is rubbish and we should all rush out and buy 4K cameras and displays. Hence the semi-pro JVC HMQ10 which goes on sale in March is the first 4K camera to break under the $5K mark or ÂŁ4K. I’ve been keeping an eye on what JVC are doing with their quick Falconbird processor lately…
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“Don’t be afraid to cannibalise yourself” said Steve Jobs. “If you don’t do it, someone else will”. In an interview with Imaging Resource, Toshiyuki Terada of Olympus speaks candidly about Sony and Nikon.
Why is the buzz all about cameras? People are crazy for gear. When the Canon 1DX was announced it was in the top 10 trending topics for the UK on Twitter for most of the day, despite the fact nobody can own one until March 2012. Here EOSHD offers a possible explanation for why gear, rather than filmmaking itself, gets so much more attention.
Get the Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD upgrade kit brand new on eBay for $529 Like FCPX Apple shipped their 2011 MacBook Pro models somewhat under-specced for video editing. Despite having a quad core model I was still getting pretty shoddy performance in Premiere Pro CS5.5 with Apple’s default configuration of 4GB of RAM and a 750GB 5400RPM hard drive on occasions. Although the processor is an absolute beast, it isn’t…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilhsfnSCQYE[/youtube] (Above: new 1080p D4 footage shot in Germany – view full screen in 1080p mode – still looks pretty soft though) Comprehensive technical information and preview of the Nikon D4 at ImagingResource, source of the Q&A Nikon have answered in depth a huge range of video related questions for the new Nikon D4. EOSHD gives you the good, the bad and the ugly…
Canon will release a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera in 2012. Japanese website DCWatch has the first interview where Canon have spoken in detail about the development of the new system. There’s so much in this interview. But the translation is very rough. So take my interpretation as just that for now – an interpretation. Note: I have also corrected some grammar in the translated quotes for easy reading.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34698590[/vimeo] I came across this today which is really quite incredible. It is made by Patryk Kizny of DitoGear who create timelapse sliders with inspiration from Greg Downing at XREZ Studio (they developed the interactive GigaPixel panoramas). From a static timelapse shot a virtual camera movement can be created, which means the camera can move on a virtual path and the timelapse footage is used to texture a 3D model of the…
EOSHD takes a first look at the Nikon J1 If you are doing personal work as a lone artist the Nikon J1 might be of interest. Whilst many filmmakers quite reasonably would think of this thing as a toy, creatively it does have a purpose and there’s also some interesting technology in it. The J1 is the first outing of Nikon’s extremely fast Expeed 3 chip (a beefed up version…