Category Archives: Video
Watch Garrett Brown Demo Two New Steadicam Designs
This Music Video Sculpts With Light
editoriARC: What’s A Game Changer?
This editoriARC is written by Iain Marcks, a filmmaker and writer living in New York City. All opinions are his own. Have you heard about the MōVI? It’s a hand-held, gyrostabilized camera rig that allows the operator to capture smooth, Steadicam and Technocrane-like movements in situations where a Steadicam or a Technocrane would otherwise be impossible [...]
Digital Bolex D16 Closer to Becoming A Reality
Red Scarlet, Sony F5 and BMCC Compared
2012 Highlights in Video Tech
With manufacturers’ hands revealed, we can comfortably take stock of the trends and legacy of this momentous year for filmmakers. Sony FS700 – Slo-mo for the rest of us High framerate HD has long been the domain of luxury car-priced specialty cameras like the Phantom Miro. Sony changed this with its sub-$10,000 FS700 super 35mm [...]
The Cinema EOS Gambit: Report from the Canon/Adorama Presentation
It’s easy to forget how recently film lorded over the Hollywood; how absolute, how unquestionable it’s dominance as the medium of choice. Sure, digital was convenient, and certainly there was that mysterious theoretical crossover point at which image quality could uncannily pass the Turing test of a trained DP’s eye, for film. But there was [...]
Interview: ROGCS Administrator Bruce Logan, ASC
I had the good luck of running into Bruce Logan, ASC, at PhotoPlus. The administrator of last summer’s revelatory Zacuto Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout camera test and a storied DP, having shot features like TRON and Star Trek, commercials for a who’s who of major brands and music videos for the likes of [...]
The Blackmagic Cinema Camera has Landed at ARC!
Blackmagic Design made history at NAB in April, transforming itself overnight from a niche supplier of high-end I/O and software solutions for the filmmaking industry to a mass market camera manufacturer. Eight months on, its name is uttered with hushed and quivering reverence in the filmmaking community. How did it achieve such a feat? With [...]