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Evolve Digital Cinema Baits the Hook for NatGeo’s Wicked Tuna, Season 2
Brothers Joel and Jesse Edwards run their boutique production company Evolve Digital Cinema in Chicago as one tight ship, often handling full production and remote or in suite editorial, graphics and color grading for a single client. National Geographic Channel, …
Kenny Stoff on Shooting Dave Grohl’s Sundance Doc Sound City
Housed in a pair of nondescript warehouse structures in Van Nuys, California, Sound City Studios hardly had the outward appearance of a rock and roll Mecca. Yet for 40 years, it served as the launching pad for some of the …
Canon Announces Two More Cinema EOS Prime Lenses
Canon went wide and long with the announcement this week of two more EF-mount prime lenses for its Cinema EOS System. The new CN-E14mm T3.1 L F and CN-E135mm T2.2 L F lenses will extend the line-up on both ends …
Nikon’s D800 Gets Down and Dirty for Dexter
Dexter, Showtime's award-winning series that sprang from the 2004 novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, entered its seventh season last fall with a renewed perspective on the tale of a forensics analyst who also happens to be a vigilante serial killer. Says …
Panasonic Releases Updated AG-AF100A Camcorder
Panasonic said it released the AG-AF100A, a new version of the micro-four-thirds AG-AF100 camcorder that adds 10-bit 4:2:2 output via HD-SDI for smoother color gradations when recording to external devices. Previously, the AF100 offered only 8-bit 4:2:2 output. Also new …
Sound Devices Adds ProRes 4444 to PIX 240 Recorders
A free v3.0 firmware update to the PIX 240 and PIX 240i production video recorders now enables 330 Mbps Apple ProRes 4444 recording from sources that send 4:4:4 RGB or YCbCr over 3G SDI. The new capability makes the recorders …
Q&A: Marco Solorio on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Marco Solorio is the owner of OneRiver Media in Walnut Creek, CA. As an early user of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC), he's employed it on a number of projects, shooting ProRes most of the time but switching to raw …
Q&A: The Diamond Brothers on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Based in New York City, Jason and Josh Diamond, aka The Diamond Brothers, have been among the first users of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC). They've put the camera through its paces on music video and TV shoots. We got …
Why 120 FPS Is the Sweet Spot for HFR Shooting
As head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) — home of the MP3 and H.264, among other crucial digital content creation technologies — you can imagine Siegfried Foessel has been taking a …
Sony Prices the F5, F55, and More
At a launch event last night in Los Angeles, Sony officially announced the U.S. prices for its upcoming F5 and F55 cameras and accessories, due in February 2013. Keep in mind that these are list prices. As resellers start announcing …