Twitnuuz: HDSLR Cinema

  We’re in an age of a preponderance of choice.   And while having the privilege of making choices is a luxury – it can also at times be a bit overwhelming.  The search for the “perfect camera” is a fruitless…

 Canon just announced the EOS C100 today – the little brother to the C300 if you will – and it is scheduled to be available in November.     I think this camera will likely put a noticeable dent in the use of mid- to upper-…

In Hollywood, making movies is big business. And where there is big business, the workers unite to form unions. The following list is a sampling of the unions that every large production in Los Angeles will work with in the process of making a film. This…

John Hess pulls back the curtain of simple explaining how something can be two things at once and why there probably isn’t an alternative universe where Hitler wins World War 2. Episode 61 Listen Audio Only Subscribe to our Podcast Feed Subscribe…

Brad McCarty writes an eerie, fascinating story at The NextWeb. Samsung allegedly flew two Indian bloggers to Germany ostensibly to cover a Samsung event at the IFA show in Berlin, but then threatened to strand the bloggers if they didn’t dress…

The forthcoming Panasonic GH3 has some big shoes to fill, especially given the popularity (in hacked form) of its predecessor, the GH2. That camera came out on top in a poll we conducted as the favorite scene of NoFilmSchool readers in the 2012 Zacuto…

Unless you’re shooting with cameras like the Blackmagic Cinema Camera or the Arri Alexa, you’re probably recording internally to a somewhat (or very highly) compressed format. Even though compression schemes have improved greatly since the…

Not many reviews have come out for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera as it is just starting to ship, but a select few have been able to get their hands on the BMCC and shoot some footage as well as give their impressions after working with the camera. Rick…

Click here to view the embedded video. “The F%^&ing D800 vs. Canon 5D Mark iii Shootout” It starts like a regular camera comparison and then takes a dip into the absurd. Canon 5D Mk III: $3400 – 22.3 Megapixel Nikon D800: $3000 –…

Tweet The smallHD DP6 monitor has been a quite successful product with filmmakers over the past year. At NAB many booths had cameras equipped with exactly this monitor. Granted there are not many alternatives in terms of size, quality and price. Another…

The external monitor market has exploded in the last few years, and companies like SmallHD and TVLogic have a ton of new competition. As filmmakers we now have plenty of exciting options like ikan’s 5.6″ D5 monitor, which features HD-SDI and…

In what was seemingly lost in the commotion related to another big camera announcement, the C100 (from a small company called Canon), Sony is replacing its NEX-5N mirrorless camera with a brand new model and another confusing name, the NEX-5R. The new…

I’ve been working on an ePub about the “Business of Video”. I have one ePub selling now and ePub #2 another one at the formatter, and I finally had  time over the weekend to fill in, the middle chapters of the “business” pub.  I had…

Before “South Park” and “Book of Mormon”, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a musical for Troma about people eating Colorado explorers in 1993. Trailer: From Troma: “Cannibal” is the true story of the only person convicted…

The discontinuation of Polaroid film in 2008 led to much despair among its fans. The Impossible Project, founded in the same year, set out to recreate the out-of-production films that Polaroid users had come to depend on. In advance of a new 8x10…