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SmallHD 702 Bright is the best 3rd party on-camera monitor I've worked with so far. It's very bright, it has a lot of video assist tools, LUTs support and for pulling focus I consider FullHD monitors a huge step forward compared to HD monitors.

Hi there, after one year of on-field testing, I decided to share a custom made picture style that I consider a little improvement over the classic Technicolor's Cinestyle. It has about 1/3 of a stop less "reach" in the shadows, but it delivers higher midtone contrast (that I find very helpful...

Hi there! I just wrote this review: www.luciolepri.it/nwp/canon_eos_80d_review.htm I was curious to check the new sensor performances and to see if this camera could be a good second body for shooting events. I was mostly attracted by the Movie Servo AF feature. Unfortunately, video noise, as...

Thank you for watching, Cgdillan!

Thank you for your advice, Cgdillan. I don't use Resolve, but I can give your workflow a try. Usually, I import the DNG to Camera Raw, apply the color correction/grading, export a 14 bit PSD sequence and import everything in Premiere for the video export. But as soon as I convert the PSD into an...

Thank you all for the comments! I didn't have time to run anymore crop mode tests yet, so nothing new. But I'm still using ML to shoot video raw and it's just great. I'm just struggling to find a way to keep the original raw quality once turning the stills into video with Premiere. It looks like...

I know it doesn't look impressive, but it is, if you think that the young boy close-up is 150% zoomed in (to help the VFX) and heavily color graded! https://vimeo.com/91358512 BTW, this is a pilote episode of a web series that is also an online short film competition with very interesting...

Title says everything... I'm definitely amazed by the potential of using the crop mode shooting macro: https://vimeo.com/96759229

I'm not interested in this lens, so I don't care much about this rumor. My only hope is that putting a little focusing ring at the bottom of the lens and a big zoom ring at the top, like in the Tamron 24-70/2.8 and in these pictures of the Sigma 24-105, won't become the new trend... I can't find...

Yes, you record 1:1 from the sensor, so no line-skipping and so no aliasing issues, but... 1- With such a high crop, you convert a wide angle lens into a tele. This could be good to reduce your equipment, but it also means that you can forget about wide angle shots. 2- You see 5x, but you record...

Just did it... it gives you picture of what kind of company you're dealing with. At least, I bought the card through Amazon, to get a refund should be painful. I attempted a recovery with a couple of softwares I have, but it was not helpful and I soon gave up, I prefer to use this time to get...

Actually I didn't. Which software would you suggest?

My first camera was my father's Pentax MX with a Takumar 28-80, a Pentax M 50/1,7 and a Pentax M 200/4. It was already the AF era, so old manual lenses were relatively cheap in the second hand market. I loved wide angles and I found a mint Pentax K 15/3.5 for a crazy low price. It was a first...

Yes, I guess I had to learn it the hard way... Now I just hope I'll still be able to get a nice editing. After a fast look at the footage, I think I will, but it will definitely cost me more, in terms of time and headaches, than what I tried to save buiyng that @#?!* card. The fact is just...

Yeah... [guiltily] I didn't mention it on purpose... [slighty emphatic] In my defence, I have to say I read so many good reviews about this cards... [emphatic] and I even used them for a couple of short movies, without experiencing any issue... [very emphatic] I just wanted to believe that...

I just bought a new CF to use it with a 5D MKIII. As usual, I ran some tests to be sure everything was OK, I shot H264/RAW video untill the card was full, checked the footage, everything was fine. Yesterday, I used this card for a "Trash the dress" and when I came home 30% of the footage was...

Obviously, all lenses stabilizers need a bit of time to star working, but the VC of the lens I tried took way too long. That's the other reason why I guess VC has something wrong in that sample. Anyway, they already gave me another sample, I hope I'll be able to run some tests in the next few...

You mean the one that came out with the EOS 5? I liked it...

In may experience, most of the time, during the "crucial" moments of a wedding, photo/videographers take the best spot to shoot from and it's very rare that a guest could interfere (the most brave do, but it's rare). In the other situations, it's usually quite easy, even for a videographer, to...

I'd just like to add that many people shoot video using the standard picture style, which has a high nasty sharpening. Using the "Neutral" profile, with which sharpening is set to "0", things are already much better. And for video, sharpness is good enough this way, with a 6D. Obviously, this...