Kiel Johnson is an American sculptor and painter that creates a lot of his work using cardboard. Among his works are a collection of cardboard cameras that are extremely realistic (given that they’re cardboard, of course). Now all he needs to do is team up with some brilliant engineer that can help him figure...
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However much I plan new equipment purchases, jobs come up that demand kit you can’t rent or borrow so the longed for toys have to wait again whilst you fork out for the basics. I have been nursing a little pot of cash that may have bought a brace of 32GB SxS1 cards, or...
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Image courtesy of Philip Bloom. Click through for his actual coverage of the show.
Canon Expo kicked off with a bang as the venerable imaging giant stunned crowds with its working prototype 4K camera! Is this the future of digital cinema?
Ug. I think I...
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Have been filming in Banff, Canada for the last week. Helicopters over the rockies, meeting bears whilst hiking, riding chairlifts over forests, filming cocktails being mixed and food being presented. Alright already, some jobs, you’re the statue and some jobs you’re the pigeon. This was a full-on pigeon job. But as I tried to...
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One of the newest technological advances in today’s (mostly point and shoot cameras) is face detection. Cameras with face detection attempt to identify people in a scene (using complex algorithms), focus on the faces, and adjust settings to render the people in the pictures correctly. Most often this technology works very well. Most snap...
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After my Fetishists post, I was invited by Mike Seymour to join he and Jason on Red Centre to discuss in greater detail the points I raised. It was a welcome opportunity both to drill down on each of the specific issues, and to clarify a few things tha...
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I was having a bit of fun today combining the 3D Camera iPhone app (Alex Lindsay’s pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly yesterday) with Plastic Bullet (his pick a few weeks ago). After brunch at the amazing Brown Sugar Kitchen, I stopped by one o...
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Here’s the scenario: you’ll be shooting talking head ‘voxpop’ interviews, you have to shoot hand-held, and you’re shooting DSLR. The problem is that DSLRs are an absolute handful to hold steady. The longer the lens, the worse the jitter, and the jitter makes shots hard to watch. So there’s two branches one can follow:...
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DxOMark has expanded their website to include lenses in addition to camera bodies. They’ve tested a good number of lenses from quite a few manufacturers, with each lenses tested on a large number of camera bodies. You can then compare how certain camera and lens combinations perform against one another. Lens rankings with DxOMark...
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@tylerGinter sent us this tidbit – it isn’t specifically HDSLR related, but a good cause that was launched today.
“100cameras is a nonprofit organization that identifies children living in unjust conditions and gives them cameras to document their lives. Their photo narratives are used to raise awareness and capital to meet physical needs and...
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