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There's a bit of difference, of course. I think it's a subtle enough filter that 1/4 is kind of a "barely there"--I generally use 1/2 or 1.

Ha, no, a bit before my time. I was still been in high school when this was taken! But to be fair, I was only 19 when I did make it to my first workshop a few years later, in Rockport ME.

Paul, I remember those cameras too, we had a variation of them in my high school's TV studio. I agree with you that the images in the chess feature are quite clean in comparison to what I recalled from those cameras, but I would also suggest that the locations were likely lit to a high stop to...

Because of my involvement renting out the old cameras, I'm aware of the increased interest through inquiries, plus there's just general chatter out there. I know of various younger DP's seeking out older cameras for specific projects, or to mess around on. It's a little hard to pin it all down...

Percentage of humanity--or of content creators? I'm seeing a pretty significant amount of interest in old tech--camcorders of various vintages getting snapped up. Nostalgia waves can indeed be short-lived or longer lasting, so it is hard to predict. Remember when vinyl started to re-surge years...

Alexas do this, the WB capture by default is a box in center of frame. Most of the time I find myself using the white balance feature is when shooting under existing lighting where we'll be matching our sources to that, like funky LED in a warehouse or supermarket (don't see too many...

I remember in the early RED days that it was common wisdom to shoot in the 5600 range because that sensor worked best that way, which ushered in a mentality of always light interiors to 5600 that I found strange. It's more logical now with so many LED instruments being at least bicolor...

Well, this was a fun thread while it lasted

That is pretty classic. I generally suggest that to really achieve what most people think of as a VHS look, take it down two generations. Then you start to see the errors and artifacts really show up. That's what we did with the opening of this clip. SDX900's (late model standard def three chip...

DV cameras are SD cameras. Do you mean analog (vs digital)?

Your interest is in getting the "crispest" image out of an SD camera--have you tested the HVX200? Still has plenty of the retro look to it since it was only a few years after the DVX, but you don't have to jump through as many hoops. And you can record to cards! Or take the component out through...

It's definitely not for everyone. The Innovative style is more suited for rugged situations (the Kartmaster has two pneumatics and two smaller casters). The top shelf of the Kartmaster is rated for 200 lbs so not a lot of cases going on that, and they'd slide off anyway. But the footprint that...

Curious if anyone else uses a Kartmaster HD-500S. I've had one of these for so many years I can't count them (at least 25). I don't use it all that much, it has to be a pretty specific use case, but it is built to last and quite flexible, it can be used as a vertical or horizontal handtruck, or...

That sounds like a cool setup! Can you post a pic, or is it hush hush?

I really should aggregate all the little things I came up with over the years and only made one-offs, and subsequently saw similar versions come to market. At least I got the ZeeGee out there (eventually). My early days working with an ancient Steadicam was what got me into designing custom...

Just one year later I had this system much more refined, via a custom baseplate. I was working on a next gen version with cable management through the bottom and other fancy things, but I started booking more legit work with "real" cameras. I had lots of conversations with 3rd party vendors...

Back in the nascent 5DMKII days of 2009/10 I fashioned a viewfinder system out of a loupe and coroplast over a Marshall monitor. At NAB that year I took a much cleaned up version of my DSLR setup to NAB and had it on demo in a booth, I can't remember whose now. I showed it to the SmallHD guys...

For me it's the size of the units. The other setup feels like small panels or tubes. I was using large diffusion, all large sources. Obviously everyone who shoots interviews with multiple subjects is used to dialing the levels on the various units depending on the subject's hair, skin tone etc...

I don't want there to be any confusion on this because the same chair was used both sets of interviews. While I would call my work that day serviceably decent, the interviews I didn't shoot...well, I have notes. I was overseen on this shoot and told what the lenses would be, that we would...

A couple of years ago I shot some BTS interviews for the Paramount series "Fatal Attraction". I realized I hadn't seen the footage after I shot it, so I hunted it down and turned up this featurette. The BTS producer told me it would be two cameras on sliders, I didn't have a say in the matter...