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Canon Cinema EOS 1D C

From Canon: With an 18.1-megapixel full-frame 24mm x 36mm Canon CMOS sensor, the camera records 8-bit 4:2:2 Motion JPEG 4K video to the camera’s CF memory card at 24 frames-per-second. Well that’s one way to create a sharp 1080p image. N...

Prolost Flat

For shooting video, I’ve set up every Canon HDSLR I’ve owned the same way since the very beginning, and the 5D Mark III is no different. Start with the Neutral Picture Style Set Sharpness to zero—all the way to the left Set Contrast...

Plastic Bullet for iOS on Sale

They did what to my instathingy? Facebook just bought Instagram for $1 billion. A lot of Instagram users are worried about what will become of the service they love. The free service that they somehow thought would never go away or change. I guess they...

What I’d like to see in a Lightroom iPad Companion App

I get the sense that Adobe is thinking a lot about tablets and Photography. They’ve released Photoshop Touch for iPad, as well as Carousel Revel, which is like a cloud-based Lightroom-light that syncs across mobile and desktop platforms. Third-p...

Canon 5D Mark III Graded

Dan Chung posted some camera-original clips from his new 5D Mark III. I grabbed one and did a quick color correction.  Magic Bullet Denoiser II at default settings Three passes of Colorista II To my eye, in this highy subjective and non-conclus...

The Passion of the Bolex

My last post focussed on some concerns and questions I had about the Digital Bolex Kickstarter campaign. Despite stating numerous times that “I really want these guys to win,” I didn’t spend much time talking about what I liked about...

Digital Bolex

My inbox this morning was crammed with mentions of a new Kickstarter campaign for a 2K digital cinema camera called, with the blessing of the nominal company, the Digital Bolex. Philip Bloom has done a terrific job of summing up the camera’s spe...

Writing Kit for iOS Adds Fountain Support

Writing Kit for iOS ($4.99 on the App Store), one of my small handful of go-to mobile text editing apps, has just released an update with Fountain support. From the Writing Kit Blog: Today I’m excited to announce Fountain support in Writing Kit ...

Write Better With Fountain

Integrated Story Outlining in Plain Text What you set up with the inciting incident… The simplest way to begin screenwriting with Fountain is to open any text editor and start typing something that looks like a screenplay. You can then send that ...

Why I Bought a 5D Mark III

Image courtesy fxphd.com You probably saw this one coming. I just pre-ordered a Canon 5D Mark III from Amazon. Here’s why. A Focus on Photography I shoot a lot of stills with my 5D Mark II. It’s a great camera. But it’s a camera out o...

Canon 5D Mark III

The Canon 5D Mark III has been announced and is already up for pre-order at B&H and Amazon. $3499, availability said to be late March. Canon has shown restraint with the megapixels, which is nice. But they seem to have shown restraint eve...

Denoiser II

From the Red Giant blog: We’ve developed Magic Bullet Denoiser II from scratch (completely new code) to bring you the quality of Denoiser 1, but with more stability. Red Giant owns this code 100%—which means the product is not going anyw...