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Simple Sunday Survey #2 – What’s the best camera brand?
Well, ‘what’s the best camera brand’ may not be the exact way I worded this Simple Sunday Survey, but essentially that’s what it is all about. When I asked “What brand of camera do you own?” I think it...
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Panasonic Lumix GH4 Firmware Update 2.1 Is Great News for Atomos, HDMI & YAGH...
Panasonic has finally released the Lumix GH4 update originally scheduled for mid-December 2014 and it is great news for cinematographers using HDMI output from their GH4 cameras and from YAGH units to...
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“DSLR Top Features” Survey Reveals Canon’s (and Others’) Challenges
We like asking Kickstarter entrepreneurs what kind of market research they do when planning new products, and that got us thinking about the process used by the big boys – and our own recent survey on...
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Last Minute Sale: WPPI Specials
In this installment of “Whoa, Stuff on Sale,” we cull items on sale from B&H like the Panasonic GH4 in honor of The Wedding and Portrait Photography Conference+Expo at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas....
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Walks All Over Panasonic GH4 in Image Stabilization Test
planet5D readers, we need your help. In a Peter Hurley “sha-BANG” kind of moment, footage taken with the in-lens image stabilization of the Panasonic Lumix GH4 appears to be trounced by the 5-axis,...
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Mitakon 42.5mm f1.2, Canon 4k rumors, Film grants, Macbook air, and more:...
Via Deejay Scharton @DSLR Film Noob: Episode 16 of the DFN podcast, Mitch from planet5D joins me to discuss Mitakon 42.5mm f1.2, Canon 4k rumors, Film grants, New Macbook, and more. You can find the...
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New Kid in Town Samsung NX1 Puts Pressure on Sony a7, Panasonic GH4. Again.
With a Gold Award win from dpreview, the Samsung NX1 [B&H | Amazon] is the best reason yet for accelerated release dates from Sony for an a7s Mark II and from Panasonic for a GH5 You’ve read about...
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Panasonic Gives The GH4 a Little Sister with the New Panasonic G7 4K Hybrid...
Panasonic has announced the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 4K hybrid video plus stills camera. Soon 4K video and 4K stills modes will be affordable for enthusiasts and professionals alike. While the G7 could...
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Frustrated with No V-Log L for Your GH4? Try Matthew Mosher’s M-Log Cinematic...
If like me you have been more than a little frustrated by seeing all these alluring movies shot using beta versions of V-Log L, the Panasonic GH4 version of Panasonic’s true logarithmic photo style,...
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A Big Lens in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Fujinon XA55 on a...
In this first installment in our new series “Where to Spend the Dough?” (maybe we should call it “Odd Couple” instead – what do you think?) we look at the $60,000+ Fujinon XA55 lens mated to the...
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Last Week Today: Our Take on the Sony a7r II Announcement
If it lives up to the hype, the Sony a7R II [Preorder at B&H | Amazon] may be THE camera that ushers in the end of an era. It’s the most exciting new camera announcement we’ve seen in years....
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NEW BoomBooster – the “freestyle agility” grip handle for Birdcage A7/GH4
I’m an a7S shooter and with that, you get many good and bad things. I’m not one of those people that think my camera is perfect. In fact, many mirrorless shooters like me are starting to feel the...
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Report Predicts Video Pro Use of DSLR to Tank; Canon Profits Plunge
Futuresource Consulting points to 41% drop in 2014 European shipments of DSLRs for pro video and predicts dramatically accelerating erosion in market share; Canon profits drop 16% in Q2 2015 on weak...
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Say goodbye to 2k? TEST: GH4 4k at 2k VERSUS Canon 5D Mark III/ ML RAW
SITUATION: I don’t want to sell my 2k camera yet because cable won’t be ready for it for years. Still, I always want the sharpest picture in the 2k world we live in now. So, I need two answers before...
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Instant Improvements for Your Panasonic GH4 with Miller & Schneider’s G-Cup...
After the success of their Kickstarter-funded C-Cup for the popular Canon C100 digital movie camera, Miller & Schneider has come out with a similarly indispensable eyecup for the even more popular...
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What is Sharp? An Interview with DxoMark.com’s Hervé Macudzinski
Perhaps THE definitive web site for objective lens and sensor measurement – and free! – DxOMark.com is the lab and consumer face of DxO. The parent company is a highly regarded software developer...
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Create Quality Vintage Look with SLR Magic Anamorphic Prime Lenses
Every filmmaker has, at one time considered the importance of aspect ratio when shooting your film. How could you not? Interesting and non 16:9 aspect ratios are a vital part of the film look. Most of...
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V-Log L LUTs by Cinematographer James Miller of DeLUTs: First V-Log L LUTs...
In-demand UK cinematographer James Miller has been making and using LUTs in his stills photography and cinematography for longer than many of us have been shooting LUTless or not. Mr Miller’s previous...
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We Take a Peek at Panasonic’s GX8 and the 4K, Leica-Lensed HC-X 1000
In this installment of “Last Week Today,” we visit the Panasonic booth at PhotoPlus Expo and come to understand why colleague Karin Gottschalk – among many, many others – really likes the Panasonic...
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Electronic Tilt-shift, Sun spots, and more on DSLR FILM NOOB Podcast
Via Deejay Scharton @DSLR Film Noob: planetMitch from planet5D.com joins me to discuss Electronic Tilt-shift, Sony rumors, Sun spots in the a7 line, Micro SDXC cards and more. You can find the show...
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