Blackmagic Design is on a roll! A brief history: – BMD acquires DaVinci, turns $250k DaVinci 2k system into $999 DaVinci Resolve for Mac and $30k Resolve for Linux – BMD acquires Teranex, drops price from $80k to $20k. Then releases redesigned models for $2k and $4k including 3D and Thunderbolt support – BMD acquires Cintel and… turns the […]
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As you probably know, I live in a very small town, with limited resources, in the middle of nowhere. When I first moved here, I could get my film processed at quite a few locations, many offering B&W and slide processing in addition to negative and all the regular services. Their prices were the same […]
Read More Canon, film, hobby, homebrew, homebrewing, nikon, pay its way, photography, Sony, Super 8, too expensiveAs I mentioned in a previous post, a few months ago I color corrected a documentary film called “Wings of Thunder.” There were a few shots that had scratches and emulsion dust on the negative. I used an After Effects plug-in from Red Giant called Film Fix. The video below is the original test I […]
Read MoreI just got back from the Oregon coast where I was shooting a friend’s wedding on Super 8. I shot 10 rolls: some B&W, some 64T reversal and a bunch of Kodak’s new Vision3 500T. Depending on how the 500T turns out, I could see dropping the 64T reversal in favor of using the faster […]
Read MoreThis reel was extremely over-exposed. Bringing the blacks back from gray really emphasized the dirt on the film. So I applied Red Giant’s Film Fix plug-in suite in After Effects. This is on the default settings for the Dirt Removal plug-in. Dirt Removal is very important for black and white and negative film, but less […]
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