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"STABILGO" STABILIZER For GoPro
Nobody wants a tripod anymore it seems… Nowadays it is all hand held brushless gimbal rigs and no tripod in sight. So it is no surprise that a rig has been made for the popular GoPro POV style cameras. STABiLGO is a motorized, handheld camera stabilizer perfect for smaller action…
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The Raw Time-lapse Tutorial: How To Shoot Day To Night Time-lapses
As many people have proclaimed, day to night or night to day time-lapses are the ‘holy grail’ of time-lapse shooting. They tend to draw the attention of viewers because of their assumed complexity. At the same time, what people don’t understand is that they aren’t as tough to achieve as…
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Phantom Flex Filming
Okay, Sony probably took the needed precaution to keep the Phantom Flex paint-free, but this high-speed camera lives up to its name by demonstrating how a filmmaker can take a 3 second shot of paint cans exploding and turn it into a minute and a half long kaleidoscopic opus.…
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Where is RED DRAGON? Upgraded Camera Spotted in the Wild
It has been relatively quiet on the RED front regarding their fire-breathing beast known simply as DRAGON. We saw the first actual images from the camera back in February, and there was mention a few weeks ago that some internal power supplies needed to be redesigned as they were getting additional noise in the…
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Hands-On with Freefly's MōVI
They are coming. Gyro-stabilized camera rigs, that is. Some of you are officially not impressed, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t about to be inundated with stabilizers. So what’s the big deal? Should you even care? The answer probably depends on the kind of work you do, but in the…
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Digital Bolex – des nouvelles
Après un long silence, des nouvelles plutôt positives du projet Digital Bolex, et c’est plutôt réjouissant suite aux tristes nouvelles de la part d’Aaton. Pour rappel, Digital Bolex est un projet Kickstarter, initié par deux américains en partenariat avec Bolex. Le projet: construire une caméra avec un capteur de la…
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'Palindromes' DP Tom Richmond: 'The Grammar of Filmmaking is a Good Place to Start'
Here’s another awesome Craft Truck interview to munch on. Cinematographer Tom Richmond, who has shot some insane movies with the likes of Todd Solondz, Roger Avary, and James Gray, puts emphasis on composition and understanding that photography in a film is its own language. They discuss the grammar of the language…
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BulletProof Beta
The FREE BulletProof Beta is HERE You’ve got a great camera, you’ve got a great editor — how do you manage everything between them? Offload, backup, organize, review, color, deliver. BulletProof is a complete media prep solution that bridges the gap, with a workflow that simplifies how you handle footage every…
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RED Scarlet-X
La nouvelle « Scarlet-X » est la variante d'un modèle l'EPIC. En héritant de son capteur CMOS Mysterium-X de 14 millions de pixels au format APS-H (28,7 x 19 mm), elle filme pour commencer en exploitant l'équivalent du format Super 35mm en définition 4K (4096 x 2160 pixels), contre du Full…
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RODE sort un micro stéréo pour iPhone
La compagnie australienne RODE a montré au CES son noveau micro stéréo pour iPhone/iPod/iPod Touch. Le micro iXY se branche dans le port 30-pin laissant la prise d’écouteurs libre pour monitoré la prise de son ou pour brancher directement dans son DSLR. Votre téléphone peut alors presque remplacer un H4n. Ce…
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On Set with James Bond: Behind the Scenes Footage from 'Skyfall'
Have you you ever wondered what a twenty minute montage of making a James Bond film (and the first digital one at that) would look like? Fortunately, the web provides. I’m usually rather apathetic towards Bond movies before the fact — but this raw, unnarrated behind-the-scenes footage has got me…
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The new iMac
We sat down to watch the Apple presentation from San Jose today in glorious HD on our Apple TV. Mac Mini and iPad Mini were no big deal for us, we were completely sold on the new iMac. From December this could be the fastest Final Cut Pro X machine…
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Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!
Photo: Wilk They’ve been indicted by the U.S. government for conspiracy and briefly thrown in jail, but Kim Dotcom and his partners in the digital storage locker Megaupload have no intention of quitting the online marketplace. Instead the co-defendants plan to introduce a much-anticipated new technology later this year that…
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What could the new MacPro look like? How about a flexible modular design?
3D designer Peter Zigich has been using Apple workstations for over 20 years. He like many others has been frustrated by the lack of a MacPro update. So why not let the imagination run and design your own? Well that's exactly what he did! Tim Cook has publicly said that…
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Ridley Scott Talks RED EPIC and Explains How We Can Save the Theatrical Experience
Digital technology is racing to replace celluloid in the theatrical space at an incredible pace. With many of the top professionals in the industry moving solely to digital, the landscape is changing drastically. Just recently we had one of the more respected cinematographers working today, Roger Deakins, talking about his experience using the Arri Alexa.…
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La tendance est au Full Frame
La vague des DSLR qui font de la vidéo a commencé avec la Canon 5D mkII, une caméra “Full Frame”. Depuis, peu de fabricants ont offert d’appareil “Full Frame” préférant les APS (35mm) et micro 4/3. Cependant, le vent semble tourner. En quelques semaines les manufacturiers ont annoncé quatre nouveaux…
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Convert your Mac Mini to an XServe, add more PCIe cards & a Thunderbolt ExpressCard reader from Sonnett
A range of clever hardware devices from Sonnett Technologies Inc. From the large 'XServed' Mac Mini to the ExpressCard reader, these boxes expand your Mac using Thunderbolt. The first product from Sonnett that caught our eye was the $1,295 xMac™ mini Server. This is for the hardware expansion kit, you have…
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Canon Announces World's First 4K Video Shooting DSLR
Canon has dropped its bomb — the EOS-1D C . The world’s first 4K video shooting DSLR. Equipped with a full-frame 24mm X 36mm CMOS sensor that offers an APS-H sized area for video capture, and recording 8-bit 4:2:2 Motion JPEG 4K video to CF cards at 24fps, this camera…
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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-party Lightroom users have also tried to bolster their own photo management…
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Turn your iPhone into a Hand-held Video Rig
Buy the The iPhone Video Rig at the Photojojo Store! You couldn't wait for your new iPhone. The new auto-focus camera! The promised buttery-smooth video! HD 1080 on the iPhone 4S! Spielberg, Lucas, Wes Anderson... They all had to start somewhere, right??! And then you realized The World's Thinnest Smartphone…
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The iPhone SLR Mount. Yes, it's really real.
Buy the The iPhone 4 SLR Mount at the Photojojo Store! Ever since the iPhone camera was invented, it's aspired to be what it simply never quite could be: a DSLR. Sure, apps have helped your camera phone inch forward with simulated focusing and faux filters. Faux no more. The…
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Viewfinder Apps for iPhone & iPod Touch Now Version 2.7:
DIRE Studio announces the immediate availability of version 2.7 of their highly acclaimed Viewfinder family of apps for iPhone and iPod touch. Along with small fixes and enhancements, this new version brings three notable new features: Volume Shutter – Users can now save the current view the same way they take…
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Custom DIY Wooden Dolly Pulls Off Amazing Timelapse:
Just how did they pull of those rad moves in the super cool timelapse video FADE? With a very cute custom made DIY Wooden Dolly of course. The guys had a neat compact wooden dolly that uses four different gear motors for controlling the speed manufactured by Designed&Made. Joshua VP…
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The Fletcher 2012 Camera Comparison Chart:
Download the Fletcher 2012 camera comparison chart PDF. Fletcher Camera & Lenses are well known for sales and rental of cine camera gear to big and small productions and now they have released their updated camera comparison chart for 2012. The Fletcher Camera Comparison Chart covers all the important things…
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Alphatron EVF-035W-3G Full Specifications Revealed:
Alphatron released a full specification sheet on their new TVlogic developed and manufactured camera Electronic View Finder the EVF-035W-3G. You want a crystal sharp display on EVF that includes both HDMI and BNC in one sleek unit? The Alphatron EVF has that plus the two professional inputs and outputs as…
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