Using video for stage presentations-Part 1 When you are planning to use video as part of your use presentation from stage, the presentation of your video will need to be planned and coordinated carefully. Ideally, your presentation is rehearsed and your lighting and sound technicians need to be able to easily turn the lighting off [...]
Fix it all in post…Lytro Cinema Camera If you have been following the British Cinematographer magazine for the past five years or more (and I hope you have) you will have seen various discussions about the Lytro camera and the implications for cinematography going forward. My original article was written rather tongue in cheek, yet [...]
Video tip of the day I am often asked for different video tips and so I decided to give you a tip of the day from now on. Come back here to get more valuable tips. These tips will range from relatively simple areas such as bags and transport of your gear to why video [...]
Cameras are getting smaller. It's official. Looking around at the wide variety of cameras available it's clear to see the trend is firmly towards cameras becoming smaller and more compact. Looking back only a few years the thought of a 4K capable moving image camera was a thought only imagined by a few visionaries. Red [...]
DSLR cameras such as Canon 5D Mk3 and Nikon don't work exactly like a moving picture camera. They are stills cameras that happen to have a feature to record a sequence of video. As a stills camera they work really well and make great images, yet when it comes to shooting anything more than a few [...]
Survey results We now have the first results from the survey, and that has really helped me a lot is deciding what to concentrate on for the future. I wasn't surprised, and in many ways it was as I had thought, so that was very reasssuring. Thank you for responding and helping give [...]