Irreverent and Informative Director/DP Jonathan Yi had the opportunity to put a pre-production model of Canon’s new C300 thru the paces.  He created a humorous and informative film which pokes fun at the genre of test films. Even though the film is very kind to the C300, according to Jonathan, it’s tone was a little too much for Canon’s delicate sensibilities. The announcement of the C300 was clouded over by the same...

DSLR News Shooter, reporting from BIRTV 2011 in Beijing, posted a story about the KineRAW s35 Digital Cinema Camera.  The seems to be China’s answer to RED and Alexa. While not a sexy as those two cameras, the $8000 KineRAW from Kinefinity has an impressive feature set. 1. Super35mm Sized CMOS Sensor: Record format 2K; 2. Dual RAW Recording: True RAW as CinemaDNG, and also Cineform(tm) RAW to 2.5″ KineMag SSD or Other...

Introducing, Vimeo PRO from Bill Bergen on Vimeo. Vimeo recently announced a new PRO service that makes it “easy” for businesses to add high quality video to their site.  You’re even able to create video sites with the benefit of SEO features. What you get: 50GB of storage, 250k plays (additional space and plays can be added) No bandwidth caps or time limits High Definition video (up to 1080p!) Mobile, tablet and...

  If you haven’t seen it yet, check out episode 2 of the Great Camera Shootout documentary by Zacuto. I just watched it and it is quite interesting to see how all well these cameras perform.  From where I sit, its clear that we should all be able to create fabulous images with cameras in just about any price range.  I am particularly impressed with the AF100 and F3 (and probably the FS100 had it been available for the...

  Australian cinematographer, John Brawley along with director, Kate Dennis, and colorist Stanly Lopuszanski, performed a very interesting test of some of the latest digital cinema cameras.  I’m not going to list the cameras. Figuring out which is which is the fun part of the test.   The challenge they set for themselves was to see how this new breed of movie making machines would preform in some very difficult...

Check out this video posted to Vimeo by Mehdi Mostefaï. In the clip, the RED One, AF101 and Canon 5D are put thru some rather extreme lighting conditions in an effort to compare their respective performances. Now, I’m not so sure I agree with their methodology. It doesn’t really look like an “all things being equal” situation. None the less, it’s worth a look see. I’m eager to hear your...