G-Connect – Wireless Storage for your iOS
iOS devices – specifically the iPad (which just reported that it soared to 68% of the tablet market share in Q1 2012) – are becoming increasingly prevalent. Many of the users are buying them for one task: media consumption. Movies, music, documents, magazines, games – you name it. And increasingly, people are using their smart phones for the...
NAB Recap pt. 2: Support and Accessories
Accessories are a BIG part of NAB – it’s not just about the cameras… Here are a few of those tools that caught my eye and that I think are relevant to this blog’s readership. Pictured to the left is the Kessler Fusion. I wrote a post on this a few weeks before NAB when Kessler launched...
Setting up your Canon 5D MKII (and MKIII etc.)
A month ago I decided to put this piece on the ideal way to set up your Canon 5D MKII for video. I had an inclination that the release of the 5D MKIII was imminent – but these settings and principles behind them (although the menus will change) will more than likely apply just...
Nokia 41 MP Camera-Phone
This week, at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Nokia announced a couple of new smart phones that they plan to enter that market with. However, one in particular stood out among the rest – as it comes equipped with a 41MP camera sensor (and you thought the 8MP on our iPhone 4s was impressive!)....
Gear Review: Nexto DI
The Nexto DI has been out for a couple of years – it is essentially a portable hard drive that accepts CF cards (SD, and MemoryStick as well), downloads them to internal memory, and is navigable by a small LCD screen. It’s easy to see how this could be an extremely useful tool for photographers...
Push/Pull Moves with Kessler Gear
How to Do Push Pull Moves Using Kessler Gear – Full Length from Preston Kanak on Vimeo. For all of my productions that involve time-lapse, I have always utilized Kessler gear. Because these rigs are motorized and have built in controls that allow you to execute a certain move over a specific amount of time,...
NEW GEAR: Litepanels Sola 4 and Croma
LED Lighting will continue to grow in my opinion and become a greater and greater part of how we light things in the cine/docu/photo world. To date a major limitation has been power… most LED cannot output enough light to fight daylight. But as you’ll see in the upcoming year or two –...
Rocking the RC Heli
I wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Tabb Firchau of Freeflycinema. Tabb has been piloting helicopters (RC and real ones) for close to 2 decades and I’ve know him since my first HDSLR productions including "JOB First Look." We’ve worked on several productions together over the years including...
Black Friday Gadget Guide
I have an upcoming post for the holidays that will involve a few charities as I think that giving back and helping others is one of the best things anyone can do. Today unfortunately, I’m going to digress into a more materialistic world… on the eve of the day Americans call "Black Friday" where they...
These are interesting times for filmmakers – the tools keep getting better
Just last week Canon unveiled the Canon C300 and C300PL cameras. A series of cameras with incredible sensors with wide exposure latitude and incredible low light performance that shoot 1080p video up to 30fps on CF Cards. A little over an hour later – Red announced the Scarlet camera. An equally compact camera capable of...
3 Years later… “Mobius” and the Canon C300 / C300PL
HDSLRs were born a little over 3 years ago – and my life and that of many others has forever been changed as a result. What an incredible time it’s been for many of us! And that is about to change again today… The number "3" seems to have an unusual relevance to this...
“Mobius” / C300 Post will go live at 5:35PM PST
Check back in one hour – I will be posting my short film, "Mobius" shot on the new Canon C300, along with a BTS and my thoughts on the camera specs.
