If you missed Canon’s Sunday night presentation of the new 1D C and C500, Adam Wilt was nice enough to post all the technical slides that Larry Thorpe shared. You can check them out on the PVC ProBlog. There were two films shown. One by Shane Hurlbut, shot on the 1D c and another by Jeff Cronenweth, shot of the C500. I guess we’ll have to keep an eye on Vimeo for the release of those films. ...

UK DPs Stephen Murphy & Ed Moore posted a very interesting test/comparison of the diffusion qualities of various rags and bounce sources.  Check out the results in the Vimeo clip below.  You can find a detailed description on their method on Stephen blog. You can also find Raw 5d photos of the test at Ed Moore’s blog. ...

The folks at Sony seem to be pulling out all the stops in an efforts to get some serious foot traffic at their NAB booth this year.  The Pre-NAB announcements just keep coming. The latest is the PMW-100 XDCAM HD ($4500).  This looks to be quite a mini beast of a camera. Run-n-Gun and reality shooters are gonna want to take a close look a this one. The features include: Small Form Factor Full 1920×1080 (1/3″) 10x zoom...

Looks Like the Sony FS700 might  be for real. Check out these picts.  Notice the ND filters and the HD-SDI.   Sony NEX FS700 ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 5

Quick Review of Redrock’s Livelens MFT(and why it’s going back) By Eric Martin  I received the Livelens MFT from Redrock Micro yesterday afternoon and while un-boxing also got a last minute call to work (early) the next morning. I took the mount with me and was able to use it for the majority of my shoot. I have some good things to say about the RRM Livelens MFT but also some critical things. First, the good. The...

Well folks, it looks like its on now. There are reports showing up that Sony will be showing off a big brother to the FS100. The FS700 ($8000) will have some key features that will make alot of us take this product line a bit more seriously. 4K via 3G HD-SDI 3 internal ND filter (Finally!) New SlowMo Speeds 960 fps (reduced rez) 120, 240 & 480 (resolution not yet announced) F3 Gamma Curves I haven’t seen any...