Recent content by John Brawley

I’m always amazed at how willing vendors are to let you test. I ask all the time if I want to try something out. You can go direct to a re-seller who often have demo units, or you can go to the manufacturer or local / intra-country distributor. They will often have demo stock as well. JB

Number 1, with lighting it's hard to believe what any of them say, because they're all very inconsistent. They often lie. Or at best come up with bewildering number that you can never hit in real life. Best way of course is to measure. Foot-candles / Lux at a given distance is the usual way...

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By the way I used Zeiss Superemes, which are very nice and very expensive. You can get practically the same lens as a Zeiss Milvus though. If it were me I'd get the Nikon F version so I get a real iris ring and ask for the EF mount version of the Nikon F which Duclos can do for a small extra...

I'm a fan of the Convergent Design 7Q. Mostly because it's OLED screen is way better for judging critical work and for years it was the only recording on-set monitor that could be calibrated. On my last show we'd occasionally use an Atomos on the third camera and it was so annoying. The...

If it works on your show mate, go for it. Everyone has their own way or thinking and working. Exposures generally match on my set. Once i set the light level and the ratio I don't tend to change the exposure on the lens. You start with with a single 50mm and you're lit and exposed to T1.3...

Been doing small cameras for a long time, back on the first RED EPIC back on an Aaton A-Minima It's not new. Hence the vehemence of what is only my opinion about the HDMI position being in the least inconvenient place. Look at the behind the scenes on Extraction with Australian director and...

As part of pre for my about to be dropped on Hulu series The Great, I did a bunch of large format camera tests with some of the lenses I was interested in looking at. Cameras are DXL2, Alexa 65 and Venice. Lenses were Cooke S7 Primo 70's Arri DNA TLS Vega Panavision H series Zeiss Super...

Yes, you could type out a novel using an iPhone, but why would you if you didn't have to ? JB

I started off shooting reversal 16mm film and Betacam. You learned to work around the DR limitations, like one does in any creative endeavor. Few things... Alexa isn't the only 16 bit linear mapped to 12bit log and dual gain sensor. There is another company that does this. And what I find...

You've left off a few key parts. The CFA, the de-mosiac algorithm, the color Matrix table, the clock speed (integration time), the calibration techniques and choices. The choice of IR filter and choice of OLPF could also arguably affect spectral response. These choices are all PRE-RAW or...

The more interesting lenses I've tested recently that aren't on this list.... Masterbuilt https://www.masterbuiltlenses.com/ Blackwing7 (Bradford Young and Neil Fanthom ex Arri who basically did all the leg work on the DNA's then decided to have a TAKE 2 and make these) https://7isatribe.com/...

Have you built a camera ? Ironic that we’re in a thread that’s talking about a guy who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else and brags about how easy it is to make a camera.....turns out he’s going out of buisiness. You have zero credibility. Especially when your links to how you’d start...