Every wondered how the Sony Alpha series delivers a live view image from a very small sensor in the viewfinder housing without cropping, mimicking the field of view of the main CMOS, while enabling super fast phase detect AF at the same time? (Deep breath). Well, it seems Panasonic did wonder this, and plan to bring such innovations to a range of lenses previously not fully compatible with mirror-less bodies.…
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I’ve rounded up some juicy quotes from Panasonic’s broadcast / pro division product manager which you may find interesting. “This camera (the AF100) delivers an uncompressed HD output, if you want to by pass the AVCCAM codec, you may” That’s good news to say the least. This means you can record uncompressed RAW 1080p on Nanoflash via HD-SDI. The biggest gains in HDSLR video is not going to be from…
Tools have become available to reverse engineer the Panasonic GH1’s firmware and to create custom camera features, much like the Magic Lantern hack for the 5D Mark II.
[vimeo]10949526[/vimeo] Thought I’d do a Bob Dylan video! Philip Bloom recently shot a short near the coast with the latest Panasonic broadcast camera – the HPX370. To see how the humble GH1 compares on a similar shoot I went along to see the north coast of Taiwan at Gingshang taking along my GH1 and simply the kit lens.
As mentioned in a recent blog I stopped by DCView’s HQ here in Taiwan last week to share some thoughts on HDSLRs for people new to video. This video interview is about the basics of using HDSLRs but I managed to fit in a bit about the Zacuto Z-Finder! Very pleased with the way it turned out, it’s the first time I’ve done something like this but it wasn’t a…
“indistinguishable” – Rick McCallum In an interview with Cinema 5D at NAB, the Star Wars producer revealed that the Canon 5D Mark II was used for footage in Lucasfilm’s new movie Red Tails starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and written by George Lucas. Philip Bloom was behind the B camera.
Above: the DCView team discuss HDSLRs Last week I was asked to do a video interview with Taiwan’s biggest camera website www.dcview.com.tw about HDSLR video technology. In Asia of all places! Countries like Japan and Taiwan aren’t short of technology – they make most of it!
Amazingly the rumours were right once again, and somebody from NAB leaked the AF100 to 43rumors a day before the press release was due. The implications here are enormous.