Panasonic GM1 review - another pocket cinema camera
The GM1 is a mini GH3 with some rather interesting new technology under the hood (a sensor that does a full pixel 4.5K readout in silent shutter mode) for just $749 (with…
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Grant Petty reveals origins of Blackmagic cameras (concept was offered to major manufacturers)
Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty has revealed he approached camera manufacturers in 2011 with the idea of producing a DSLR-style model with high dynamic range and increased video quality but was turned down…
F0.74 - new Metabones Speed Boosters break boundaries
Today Metabones release two new Speed Boosters for Blackmagic shooters. I've been using some demo samples for this special review and I'm absolutely stunned. Metabones and Caldwell Optics have given us a…
Exclusive review - Sony RX10
Super 8 and Super 16 movie cameras took a free-roaming Henri-Cartier Bresson style to documentary filmmaking and "run & gun" for the first time (as early as the 1960's). Cadid footage of…
Sample video - comparing the Sony RX10, A7R and FS100
Download the original file at Vimeo Note: This is an early-days test I did quickly before a shoot today. A larger one encompassing more cameras (GH3, D5200, 5D Mark III, Blackmagic Pocket…
On test - first impressions - Sony RX10 and A7R
More than any camera that came before it even from Sony themselves, the A7R marks the end of the DSLR era and a transition to a future. Next to this camera the…
On test - the final SLR Magic Anamorphot 50 x 1.33
View 10 frames from a rehearsal shoot with Bunny Suit, a Berlin based band I'm currently working with on a music video Disclosure: I have worked closely with SLR Magic in refining…
Kinefinity KineRAW MINI review
Aside from Blackmagic there's only one other company endeavouring to give us affordable cinema cameras at the moment and that's Kinefinity. The MINI is a smaller cut down version of their S35…
New H.265 codec on test - ProRes 4444 quality for 1% of the file size
CineMartin are the first company I know of to give us H.265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) conversion with the just-announced CINEC v2.7. It supports up to 4K resolution and you can…