David Carsten’s Experience With the AJA Cion Prototype
Cinematographer David Carsten found himself subject to an interesting opportunity in June of 2014, that being the chance to be one of the first individuals in the industry to …
New Blackmagic Design Firmware Adds 4K at 80fps & 3:1 Raw Recording to the URSA Camera
Blackmagic Design have been beefing up their camera range with solid firmware updates this year since the beginning of the summer. The 4K URSA debuted at this years NAB …
VisionColor Lets You Use BMDFilm Without DaVinci Resolve
It’s not uncommon for an aspiring colourist to have cut their teeth with the processing of still photography using the likes of Adobe’s CameraRAW, Lightroom, and Photoshop applications. Similarly, …
GH4 To Get HDMI Timecode Out & Trigger Record for Convergent Design & Atomos Recorders Soon And Possibly V-Log
As we get closer to the end of the year most manufacturers are trying to make sure they get their products they announced in the Spring at NAB get …
Fast and Easy Blackmagic Raw Editing Workflow in Premiere Pro CC
Despite the more intensive system and storage requirements, shooting in raw gives us a ton of options, the most flexibility and the highest possible image quality out of the camera. It is …
Veydra Mini Primes Are Purpose-Built 4K Cinema Lenses in Micro 4/3 Mount for the GH4 or BMPCC
Over here at 4K Shooters, we dig filmmaking gear creators, who go against the grain and take their ideas/prototypes to the community via crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter, in order …
BeeWorks 5 Camera Stabilization and Control System
The 3-axis handheld camera stabilizers continue to evolve at warp speed. Following the tremendous success of already popular models such as the Freefly Movi M10, Movi M5, DJI Ronin, AllSteady 5PRO and many …
LockCircle Announces “BirdCage” for the Sony A7s and Panasonic GH4
LockCircle make some really nice products for video professionals. From their PrimeCircle cine-lens modifications to HDMI port protectors, an very smart sliding mattebox, and now they are adding a …
Colour Grading New Sony FS7 S-Log3 Footage
Modern digital camera and sensor technology have reached the point where now everyone can afford to shoot in high-quality codecs, such as Raw and ProRes recording (now in all …
Podcast 023 – New JVC 4K Cameras, DJI Inspire 1 4K Drone, New Sony Sensor Rumours and More
Podcast 023 – Stop Smooth Motion on Your TV Petition, New JVC 4K Cameras, DJI Inspire 1 4K Drone, New Sony Sensor Rumours and More Posted by Ogy Stoilov …
Cinemartin Releases ProRes & H.265 Plugin for Adobe After Effects
Just like some camera manufacturers such as Blackmagic Design are giving us new and affordable ways to capture our stories in robust and high-end codecs like ProRes, in addition …
The SkyGlide X-Car RC is Your New Favorite Toy
In the not so distant past, most of us working on a budget had very limited options when it came to moving the camera in a smooth or innovative …
Apple iMac Retina 5K vs. Mac Pro: Weighing the Benefits and Drawbacks For Video Professionals
Currently, Apple sells two desktop solutions to benefit a wide variety of consumers and professionals alike. Last year Apple announced the highly-awaited Mac Pro with plenty of fanfare. The …
Crazy Un-Scientific “Fatal Four-Way” Shootout: Canon 5D Mark III vs. GH4 vs. Sony A7s vs. Canon EOS C100
Studies have shown that quite a few of us really, really like cameras. Big cameras, small cameras, very expensive cameras and somewhat less expensive cameras. Comparing two of them …
New Review of the Blackmagic URSA 4K Camera
After seeing some fantastic slow-motion 4K footage that came out of the URSA camera and an excellent short experimental film called “Petit Bateau” that we recently covered on the blog, …
DJI Launches Inspire 1 – The World’s First Professional 4K Drone That Everyone Can Fly
No strangers to innovation and pushing technology to the limit, DJI just took things to the next level with the uber futuristic INSPIRE 1, the World’s 1st 4K ready-to-fly platform that …
JVC Launches a Super 35mm Sensor Micro 4/3 Mount 4K Camcorder for $4K Plus 3 Other 4K Cameras
If you think Sony has released quite a few cameras this year, JVC has just upped the ante by announcing 4 new 4K camcorders comprising a new range of 4K …
Run a RED Epic/Scarlet Remotely from a Macbook Pro or an iPhone/iPad with Foolcontrol Apps
RED Epic is still one of the top rented high-end cameras on the market today. The Dragon sensor upgrade solidified the popularity of the independent camera manufacturer’s flagship camera …
Rumor is We’ll Probably See New “PRO” Line of Sony Mirrorless Cameras in Early 2015
Five years ago, Canon got lucky with the 5D Mark II in the video world. Then, (supposedly) they simply responded to a request by journalists to implement high-definition video as …
The Most Favourable Settings For Shooting Video With the GH4
The GH4 became one of the most popular and highly demanded cameras for video shooters available on the market in 2014. As with any other camera system, it takes …