Final Cut Pro X plug-in specialist CrumplePop continues its push into audio with a whole new type of plug-in – Magnetic Stereo, designed to automatically fix unbalanced stereo recordings. High quality stereo audio continues to come to the fore as more dedicated stereo mikes appear…
Korean moviemaking accessories manufacturer Motion9 aka Motionnine has launched its camera cage for the Canon EOS 7D Mark II. If I owned a 7D Mark II, I would snap one up in a heartbeat. If you are a 7D Mark II owner, you may wish…
In Canon’s behind-the-scenes movie, Australian fashion photographer and Canon Master Georges Antoni describes it as “The Impossible Brief” — 1600 ISO, a windy beach at dusk, images projected on a model suspended over the water and high resolution output at what looks like 48-sheet poster…
A new range of products that made me regret not being in Las Vegas during CES 2015 wasn’t a consumer electronics product. It was G-Technology’s Rugged Family of hard drives, an exciting move by the San Jose-based company into truly portable, ruggedized and waterproofed hard…
Now that 3D LUT packages have become established in the color grading workflow, more LUT developers and more LUT collections continue to appear on the scene. The latest to come to our attention is a competitively priced, full-featured set of filmic looks LUT by British moviemaker Kevin…
Danish moviemaker Michael Medgyesi has formulated a revolutionary cinematic photo style for the Panasonic Lumix GH4 and it is already making waves. The primary difference between his and other cinematic photo styles? It is based on Portrait. The second? It results in far less time…
In his end-of-year review article Ways of Seeing: From Stills to Motion at the Time magazine website’s LightBox section, influential art director/creative director Phil Bicker mentioned Cinemagraph as evidence of a key trend in image-making in 2014 – merging still images with moving pictures.[adrotate group="6"] "Elsewhere Gifs and…
Zhongyi Optics, maker of the Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 lens for Sony E-mount, nicknamed ‘The Dark Knight’, has now entered the Micro Four Thirds world. Zhongyi’s first two MFT lenses – the Mitakon 42.5mm f/1.2 and the Mitakon 24mm f/1.7 – are affordable, characterful and…
Our counterparts over at ePHOTOzine have reported on Canon’s release of firmware updates for moviemaker favorite the 5D Mark III and stills professional’s much-loved 1D X. Both updates improve autofocus control in Live View mode when using wide angle lenses. [adrotate group="6"] Owners of recently…
Panasonic has finally released the Lumix GH4 update originally scheduled for mid-December 2014 and it is great news for cinematographers using HDMI output from their GH4 cameras and from YAGH units to the Atomos Shogun recorder with 7-inch monitor. For the rest of us, not…
