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I’ve had the Sony A7s for about a month and It’s a fun camera with some great features, but I just can’t seem to get comfortable with it and a few things just frustrate me. Please understand that this is all my opinion and if…

planetMitch note: Eric has allowed us to reprint this story from his site eriknaso.com "Panasonic GH4 96fps Test. How Good Is It?" I decided to get out of my edit bay this afternoon and shoot a little test footage from the GH4 in 96fps. I…

planetMitch note: a guest post by Erik Naso - printed with permission I was lucky to have my pre ordered Panasonic GH4 arrive today from Texas Media Systems much sooner than I expected. It wasn’t supposed to be here until the end of April. To…

One big issue we all seem to have with the Canon C100 is the viewfinder. Clearly an oversight. Light gets in the viewfinder when shooting outdoors and the hard rubber feels terrible on your forehead. The good news is a new Kickstarter campaign has started…

I have been sick as a dog for the last few days and my hopes to go out and shoot some video with the 70D this weekend pretty much is a bust. I decided to mess around at home and try a few things out.…

The Atomos Ninja 2 is a very popular and affordable recorder, and Atomos is improving it with new firmware. This new Atomos OS4 update also adds some new interface functions that look really good.  A stand out is the audio meters. with two different looks,…

So you got yourself a 4:2:2 ProRes and DNxHD ready Atomos Ninja 2. Let's get this baby setup so you can get out the door fast! The C100's AVCHD codec is actually pretty darn good, but if you need more, or are delivering to broadcast,…

We all want to work faster right? I hate digging in the menu to find and then change a setting while I'm at a shoot. Did you know the Canon Cinema EOS cameras have fifteen assignable buttons for camera functions that can be mapped to any of…

You can create a mood with lighting just by the angle of the light on the face. The flat look is fine for broadcast interviews but if you want to make it more interesting try out these three different techniques. Short lighting, split lighting, and…