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Email reply to questions from a student filmmaker in Malaysia

Posted in 24P, Apple Color, Canon 7D, GH-1, Indie filmmaking, Malaysia, color correction, image stabilization, lighting, road movie, story on Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:22 am | Leave a Comment »

Got an email this morning from a student filmmaker in Malaysia with a lot of questions, no doubt shared by other budding filmmakers. Usually I’m just too busy with a million other things to answer well emails like this (because I don’t even have time to answer well emails from friends and family). But this [...]

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Future is Now: New Canon EOS 1D Mark IV has greater low light sensitivity than human eye

Posted in 24P, Canon, Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, Indie filmmaking, LaForet, Red Camera, Red Epic, Scarlet, cinematography, photography on Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 1:29 pm | 3 Comments »

Canon (and Vincent LaForet) have done it again. LaForet shot another brilliant little short movie at night on Canon’s (unexpectedly) about-to-be-released EOS 1D Mark IV in the worst lighting conditions he could find in LA–using NO lights (other than streetlights) at ASA 6400. The results are amazing. It looks like a Hollywood movie that a [...]

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Panasonic Lumix GH1: First Impressions + English Manual

Posted in 24P, AVCHD, Final Cut, GH-1, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, how-to, lenses on Sunday, 10 May 2009, 10:15 am | 3 Comments »

A friend of a friend brought my svelte new Panny GH1 back from Tokyo last Monday. But I had such a crazy week I didn’t have much time to play ’til this weekend. It’s well-built and wonderfully small. Here’s mine with the included 14-140mm lens, next to a U.S. $10 bill and a Hong Kong [...]

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NAB ’09 3 Coolest Things: Red Pro Primes + GearNex Gear Head + Panny GH1

Posted in 24P, 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Cineform, Criterion, Epic, GH-1, Gearnex, NAB, Panasonic, Quicktime, RPP, Red Pro Primes, Red accessories, Redrock Micro, Scarlet, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, handheld, high-definition, lens mounts, lenses, maps on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 12:45 pm | 6 Comments »

[UPDATE, 20 April, 8am: added some thoughts on post-production as P.S. at the end of this post] OK, so this is admittedly subjective but here are three about-to-be-released things that will create a lot of buzz at NAB–which I’m likely to buy for my budding boutique indie feature film studio here in Hong Kong: Red [...]

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Wanna make movies? Check out the Canon HV40

Posted in 24P, Canon, HV30, HV40, cameras on Thursday, 8 January 2009, 10:24 am | 3 Comments »

Scott Simmon’s Editblog alerted me to a new camera in Canon’s HV line of super small high-def cameras, the HV40. (Stu Maschewitz and other “dv rebels” have been touting the HV20 (and HV30) for a while.) The big feature is “native 24P” mode and a custom button for saving presets. Not sure if you can [...]

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