I’m about due for a new digital SLR. My old one, a Canon 20D works perfectly, but we have, uh, grown apart. Things were going swimmingly, until I bought a mint-condition “used” Canon EOS 3 from Map Camera in Tokyo. Remarkably, it is still on the Canon Australia website for AUD $2,199.00. Mine cost AUD $300.
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If you were wondering about (digital) exposure, you could do worse than this excellent run-down by Stu Maschwitz, with some log theory to boot. If you were ever wondering why video and film are so different this is a good start… Ignore all references to the RED camera and REC709, though, as it tends to […]
We were the main VFX vendor for a reasonably budgeted VFX film. One of the major sequences we did was the creation of a digital creature, a deformed (er, secret thing) which was based on marquettes made by a well known (er, secret) prosthetics workshop. Although initially, we were only contracted to do clean-up on […]
There is quite an interesting (old) post on Indie 4k about Birger Engineering’s 35mm stills-lens mount adapter for the RED One. The interesting bit is not the lens mount itself, but that you will be able to control aperture and focus from the camera, as well as getting “metadata” (much like the Cooke /i Technology), […]
Is it just me, or does the news of the US shooting down a giant, degrading, flying fuel grenade, evoke an image of Major “King” Kong riding that A-bomb out of a B52? But now that China and the US are one-for-one, what’s next?