Posts Tagged ‘arri’

The ALEXA Mini provokes the same feeling I had decades ago when I first saw the Rollei 6006 medium format single lens reflex: I may not be good enough for it, but if I just hold it, I’ll learn from it and get better. I…

The Alexa 65 is something truly fascinating: a 6.5K sensor; claims that it looks better than film; a clean, clean, clean user interface; and a set of repurposed Hasselblad/Fujinon still photography primes as its launch optics package.  [adrotate group="6"] Right.  Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I…

It would have been noteworthy if James Cameron himself had shot AVATAR 2 with this gear, but this is for the student film JAGON. Yeah: a student film. Is this even possible? [adrotate group="6"] The gear list is jaw-dropping, but the actual footage is compelling, too…

Canon C300 takes top honors, but Sony's F5/55 garners attention. Thanks to our friends over at Cinescopophilia for alerting us to the 2014 Televisual Production Technology Survey. Televisual questioned 100 executives at “leading TV, film, commercials and corporate production companies in the UK” to determine…

Zeiss Cine Zooms sell for $20K each. Are they worth it? Our friend Den Lennie, of F-STOP ACADEMY, shot "Escape" for Zeiss to showcase their two new Cine Zooms. You can see both lenses in action[adrotate group="6"], the Zeiss 70-200mm T2.9 Compact Zoom CZ.2 Lens,…

Some people (camera geeks like me) are often wanting to know what camera or lens a movie or scene was shot on... and come to find out the Indiewire folks also decided to collect that info for films shown at Sundance this year. The good…