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Scarlet, Canon C300, and “Super 35”

Sensor size isn’t everything, but it’s worth examining how many different definitions of a “Super 35mm” -sized sensor there are when thinking about last week’s camera announcements.

The Scarlet X has a larger sensor than the Canon C300, but you won’t be using it all to make...

Magic Bullet Looks in FCP X

Red Giant wasted no time in porting Magic Bullet Looks to Final Cut Pro X, but the all-new Final Cut is a young platform and there have been some hurdles. We’re almost there, but we’re working with Apple to resolve a critical bug (theirs, ...

Dollars to Datarates

NoFilmSchool has an insightful analysis of the perceived vs. actual price difference between the Canon C300 and the Red Scarlet X. For all intents and purposes, both of these cameras are $16k (without lenses), and both of them are shipping in 201...

From the Canon C300 FAQ

The Devil is in the details. Canon has posted a FAQ for the C300, and there are some interesting tidbits to be found therein. This is a brand new sensor, “designed from scratch by Canon, entirely for cine and video applications.” The nati...

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Not content to deliver a clear and simple message at today’s launch, Canon also revealed an “EOS Movies” “concept camera” today. I’m just going to let Engadget handle this one: Promised to be “ideally suited ...

Scarlet X

The Canon lens makes me think of those “Who wore it better?” celebrity fashion pieces. As promised, Jim and Red revealed a new incarnation of Scarlet tonight, Scarlet X. Gone (for good it seems) is the fixed-lens, 2/3” sensor configur...

Canon C300 And Mobius

Canon has announced the EOS C300, a Super-35 digital cinema camera—along with a slew of new cinema lenses. Coverage here. Two models: One with a Canon EF mount, the other PL 8.3 megapixel 2160–3840 Super-35 CMOS sensor (4K resolution) wit...

New Super 35 Camera

Wow, today is a big day! A new Super 35mm camera has been announced. Litterally.  

Avid Media Composer 6

Darker. Grayer. Press release here.

Live Unicorn Coverage

Today promises to be a big day. At 3pm PST, Canon will make a product announcement at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. And although the slogan above is theirs, presumed to indicate a digital cinema offering of the kind we’ve been begging them to ...

Buy a Kindle, Be a Part of Something Important, And Maybe Even Write a Book

Kindles are now cheap.1 Many people predicted that there would be a major upset in the publishing world when the Kindle dropped below $99. They were wrong—it happened well before that. Independent authors have been able to self-publish their wor...

Real Men Comp With Film

Be careful having dinner with Mike Seymour. He was sharing with me his nerd-joy over being able to interview Jon Alexander at ILM about the history of optical compositing. I offhandedly mentioned that I had once, out of pure lifelong curiosity, re-crea...