Breakfast foods grow odder and odder: It’s a wise child that knows its own fodder. — Ogden Nash, “Snap, Crackle, Pop” As with foods, so with lights: between LEDs, HMIs, plasmas, and fluorescents, it’s hard to know exactly what you’re…
Veydras are cine primes designed primarily for micro four thirds cameras, though they’re also available with C- and E-mounts. I tested prototypes of the first four lenses—16mm, 25mm, 35mm, and 50mm—in December 2014; customer shipments commenced in February 2015; the…
Two shirts, two different colors, exactly the same fabric… why does one moire and one not? The answer goes to the root of how single sensor cameras work… The CEO wanted to wear his company’s shirt during the interview. I…
“What is that?” my gaffer invariably jokes as I pull out my light meter on set. Meters are rare in the HD world, but I’m revisiting my film roots and using them more and more. These days I won’t be…
The first series of Sony OLED pro monitors looked green to me, and until recently I didn’t know why. It turned out I wasn’t hallucinating, and I now know a little more about what I didn’t know I didn’t know.…
On heels of my recent article/brain dump on lenses, here are some thoughts on filters: why they’re good, when they’re bad, and why digital filters never look the same. Filters never add, they always subtract. For example, a warming filter…
I don’t know a ton about lenses. I’ve always focused on cameras and film technology, but I’m slowly building a library of information in my head—partially from what I’ve learned over history, and partially from new experience. Here’s a short…
Do sensors have a native color balance? What does that even mean? I’ve got a theory… read on! When the original RED One M camera was released, RED stated that the native color balance of the sensor was 5000K. At…
Log and raw are not the same thing, and they are good for different things. Here’s how I differentiate the two… The first thing we need to do is define one against the other. Raw and log are occasionally used…
Color is something that has fascinated me for a long time.This is what I’ve noticed about trends in cameras over the years. When I started out in this business as a camera assistant every film stock had a signature. Companies…