Posts Tagged ‘sensor size’

Ace cinematographer Shane Hurlburt’s recent article titled “Blackmagic Cinema Camera: The Perfect Training Ground for Cinematographers” really struck a chord. I cannot recommend it too highly. In effect he is advising that we emulate the means and methods of Super 16mm analog filmmaking in order…

We received a veritable firestorm of commentary following our post on Tony Northrup's video. In that video, he challenged the industry -- and conventional wisdom -- about the true nature of differences in performance among full frame and crop sensor cameras and lenses.  Now, dpreview.com…

A few days ago we posted the story about "Magic Lantern adds 3x multiplier (zoom) to RAW video for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III" after discovering that the new RAW video module could also do a virtual lens zoom for your video - essentially…

With all the excitement coming from the Canon announcement this afternoon (updated rumor from canonrumors.com), I thought it would be helpful to discuss a bit about sensor sizes and why they're important in shooting stills as well as video. Rumors are that today's video cameras…