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A Les Blank Film Premiere… Just 42 Years Late
The late documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s feature length bio-pic of Leon Russell, A Poem is a Naked Person, premiered Monday…
ISO: What Works for You
Since the beginning of film, cinematographers have sought to assign their own speed ratings to film. The same is now…
ISO: Is It Really What You Think It Is?
Does a camera’s ISO setting actually represent reality? Maybe. Here’s a way to test it using a gray card and…
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Making a Pinhole Camera Out of a Sony F55
Years ago I turned a low-end SD camera into a pinhole device by covering the lens port with black wrap…
Is P3 the New 4K?
New OLED monitors are able to display most of the DCI P3 color space, something that was previously impossible to…
Review: Canon XA25 HD Camcorder
Over the summer I wrote and directed a short film that was shot with the Sony FS-700, which is an…
Resolve 10 Waveform Values for the Unsure
Every time I download a new version of Resolve I have to fill out the little questionnaire that asks me…
Review: Blackmagic Cinema & Pocket Cinema Cameras
REDs for the rest of us? The $1995 Blackmagic Cinema Camera and $995 Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera are interchangeable-lens, single-sensor…
Pixelpeeping, or the Fine Art of Overanalysis
Being detail oriented is a great thing. Obsessing over the wrong detail costs a production in both time, money and…
Trusting My Meter: The Perception of Brightness
Ever since my days working in film I’ve tried to find some way to equate my sense of brightness to…
Shooting S-Log2 Without a Net
One of the greatest things about the Sony F55 is that I can shoot S-Log2 inexpensively. One of the worst…
An Interior Lit with Two Lights, Part 2
In my last article I wrote about lighting a dramatic library scene using only two lights. Here’s how I lit…