Category Archives: cinema

Red Camera, nothing but hype

Red Digital Cinema recently dropped all specs on its Scarlet and Epic product range as Nikon and Canon bring out cameras of equivalent performance (Ie Canon 5D MkII).  A month later they announce a totally re-vamped vision with what one … Continue reading

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Canon 5D revolution and on PhotoGeek

Recently Canon released a new camera  called the EOS 5D MkII.  This camera can shoot video as well as being a 22mega pixel stills camera.  I was on the Photogeek.tv podcast last week talking about it.  You can find some … Continue reading

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A Film makers tool of choice. FLASH based HD recorder.

A while back I reported that we would soon see portable flash momory based, high quality recorders to strip onto an HD-SDI based camera available. Well here is a great first attempt at this technology.. From http://www.convergent-design.com/ we have the … Continue reading

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Shoot Film or Shoot Digital, that is the question.

Lately I have been talking to a number of people involved in the production of films in Australia.  From those with some budget to those with little.  A common question I like to ask them is.. “Do you plan to … Continue reading

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Now we have tapeless workflows, we still need tapes

This week on “The Digital Production Buzz“, they had Rob Willox of Sony Professional product line (VTRs Hi-end Digital Cameras).  This was an interesting interview as it shows how Sony are reacting to the trend towards Tapeless Workflow.  This includes … Continue reading

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