Posts Tagged ‘2k’

Feb
27
2014

New Panasonic Varicam 35 announced - competition for RED/Alexa/Canon

In a press conference today, Panasonic announced a new Varicam 35 to go after the higher end cinema market plus this new camera will have capabilities to do live broadcasts - so this will have a wide variety of uses.[adrotate group="6"] While I understand that…
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Nov
14
2013

How useful is 4k video? Does the pain outweigh the gain?

More is better most of the time. More is better in video pretty much all of the time. HD is better than SD; a larger color space and longer-lasting batteries are a big plus. 4K, according to David Shapton, Managing Editor of RedShark News, 4K…
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Oct
17
2013

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Review

If you're wondering why there are so many articles and reviews about the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, this review by Brian Hallett on Pro Video Coalition will provide the answer. The author thoughtfully provides video files you can download and color correct yourself. In short,…
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Sep
9
2013

KineRAW mini Review

We spotted this review over the weekend and just had to share - the look of the video is quite nice. We haven't been exposed (bad pun) to the KineRAW much, but it looks like a pretty capable camera from the video and it isn't…
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Aug
29
2012

Canon adds 2 new Cinema Zoom lenses for 4k and 2k digital cinema cameras

Canon also this morning announced these two new 4K and 2K digital cinema zoom lenses. It may help to review the Canon EOS C300 announcement as they discussed several other new cinema zoom lenses at the time. [caption id="attachment_23072" align="aligncenter" width="550"] CN-E30–105mm T2.8 L S/SP[/caption]…
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Aug
1
2012

Interviews with the Digital Bolex team from Kurt Lancaster

Kurt Lancaster (author of "DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video" and Associate Professor at the School of Communication Northern Arizona University) interviewed Joe Rubinstein and Elle Schneider of Digital Bolex in LA last week and has sent them to planet5D first - thanks…
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Mar
13
2012

Remember the Bolex? It is back in digital form and shoots 2k RAW video

I wasn't shooting video back in the days of the Bolex, but I remember seeing them around in the 70's - and now there's going to be a new digital version - and, it is going to shoot 2k RAW video that has XLR audio…
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Dec
30
2010

4k hack firmware for Canon Rebel T2i/550D coming on Jan 1? *update 5 1/1

Found this on Philip's blog - thought it was significant enough to report to you... user Earz62801 on youtube has posted that he'll be delivering a firmware hack to allow the Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews) to record video in 2k, 3k, and 4k at 24fps.…
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