Sensor Color Balance: What It Really Is
Do sensors have a native color balance? What does that even mean? I’ve got a theory… read on! When the original RED One M camera was released, RED stated that…
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Canon Cinema EOS: Which Camera?
Last autumn and winter I had the opportunity to shoot with both the Canon C100 and 300 cameras. Not surprisingly, I now want to join the ranks of Cinema EOS…
Live View? Not So Fast…
Bob Shaw’s 1966 short story “Light of Other Days” and 1972 novel “Other Days, Other Eyes” are built around the idea of “slow glass,” a substance through which light travels…
To Monitor or Not to Monitor: That is the Question
Monitors can be contentious things on set. Here’s how I make them work for me, rather than the other way around. Toward the end of my career as an assistant,…
To Monitor or Not to Monitor: That is the Question
Monitors can be contentious things on set. Here’s how I make them work for me, rather than the other way around. Toward the end of my career as an assistant,…
The Odyssey7Q and Sony FS700 Tests
Originally posted on Dashwood Cinema SolutionsI was very excited last week to hear that Convergent Design had finally released the highly-anticipated firmware update for the Odyssey7Q that added ProRes422 and…
NAB Tips For Trade-Show Rookies
How to… Budget your time, Listen and Learn, Concentrate and Shift your Focus. In the 25 years I’ve been regularly attending NAB, I’ve learned a few tricks. For instance, when…
Sony SGamut vs. SGamut3: Battle of the Color Spaces
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…
Raw and Log: How to Easily Differentiate the Two
Log and raw are not the same thing, and they are good for different things. Here’s how I differentiate the two… The first thing we need to do is define…
A Short History of Camera Color
Color is something that has fascinated me for a long time.This is what I’ve noticed about trends in cameras over the years. When I started out in this business as…