OWC Mercury Accelsior ‘E2’ PCIe SSD Includes Two eSATA Ports (Mac Performance Guide) One of the fastest upgrades you can make for your Mac is now available with 2 eSATA ports. I love cards that combine features, such as CalDigit’s eSATA/USB3.o card, as I’m always running out of slots on my Mac Pro. But like […]
Read More 1d c, 5D, accelsior, Canon, canon 1dc, drobo, esata, owc, philip bloom, raw, SSD, time lapse, timelapseRecently I got to work with “Yosemite Steve” Bumgardner on an episode of his series, Yosemite Nature Notes. He did a “One Day” project with 30 different filmmakers spread all over the park. It resulted in a large mix of cameras, formats, white balance settings, etc. Steve edited the piece in Premiere Pro from the […]
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This is a question I get asked a lot. Over the past few years I’ve taught classes on filmmaking to high school and college students, and I was also in charge of hiring interns for different action sports production companies. Many want to know what I did to get into filmmaking, and what they can […]
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Canon has put up a page of sample videos from their upcoming 8-15mm f/4L fisheye lens. The first video, “With” was shot using 5D and 7D cameras. The second video is “With” Behind the Scenes. According to CanonRumors, the lens probably won’t be available until January Update: As posted on CanonRumors, this lens has been delayed […]
Read More 5D, 7D, Canon, fisheyeThere’s some confusion out there on what “35mm depth of field” is when it comes to all the different HD cameras currently available. The sensor size has a direct effect on field of view, which influences the depth of field (but they’re not the same thing). For example, the 1/3″ sensor in the HPX170 has […]
Read More 35mm, 5D, 7D, Abel, depth of field, Field of View, IMAX, Panavision, PhantomWell, we definitely had too many cameras and too little time. A total of 8 for only a few hours. Thus, we were only able to run 4 tests. And those 4 tests were not nearly as detailed and in-depth as we were hoping. But still, I think everyone would agree that this was an […]
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