Sony’s XDCAM format cameras.
I’ve always wanted to test a camera’s dynamic range by beautifully lighting a room using one punchy light placed outside a window. I finally got my chance. When RED released…
The FS7 is an amazing camera for the price, but sometimes I wish that I could pay a little more and get the camera I really want. Here’s what I…
My exploration of the PXW-FS7 large-sensor shoulder-mount camera continues. If you haven’t already seen ‘em, my First Look and Part 2 articles provide background information for what I’ll discuss. Moving…
My explorations of the prototype PXW-FS7 “Vérité” continued this week with the receipt of two E-mount lenses and the XDCA-FS7 extension unit. Getting a Grip In Part 1 I whined…
[Updated 18:40 PDT 12 Sept 2014: frame grabs and photos.] As I post this, Sony is announcing the PXW-FS7 “Vérité” at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam. The FS7 is a large-single-sensor…
Here’s part two of my CineGear presentation, in which I take an uncomfortably close look at flesh tone and overexposure… First, read Part One. Then, watch this video: I’m fascinated…
Adam Wilt and I put on a show at CineGear about the Sony F55. Here’s part one of my side of the talk, possibly with more information than I gave…
I’ve done a lot of testing with the Sony F55, and I’ve shot a couple of 4K projects in XAVC, but until recently I hadn’t used this camera for green…
Recently I shot some comparison tests between Sony’s older SGamut color space and their brand new one, SGamut3.cine. For several years I’ve been fascinated by camera color rendition. Every camera…
Still photographers love histograms. Cinematographers hate them. Here’s why our world is so different from theirs in this regard… This is a normal histogram, pulled from Resolve 10. Histograms count…