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I could tell stories from inside Panasonic, but then I'd get in lots of trouble as I signed a non-disclosure on the way out. I took over as Cinema Product Manager a year after the LT was announced and literally three weeks before we sneek-peeked the EVA1 at NAB. Let's just say there were a lot...

Former Panasonic Cinema Product Manager here. The RAW file structures are similar between the cameras but the sensors and their OPLFs are different. Well, the two VariCams are the same but the other two are different. The VariCam Pure has the biggest, richest data files. 12-bit uncompressed...

There's a trick to still use the Odyssey in this situation if you're shooting HD. The Odyssey needs a signal in either SDI A or HDMI to function. So if your SDI A is broken the HDMI input should still work. But here's the trick: most people don't know that in HD the Odyssey is a two-channel...

Thanks, it's been about seven years but I still get asked about the Odyssey all the time.

For anyone uncomfortable doing this CD put out the word recently that they will replace the battery for a modest fee.

For the best iPhone/iPad monitoring solution, the Accsoon SeeMo can't be beat. There are all the monitoring tools one would expect from a proper field monitor, plus backup recording and live streaming. It performs better than Monitor+ or any other solution I know of.

This makes two years in a row for Prolycht. Talk about your LIGHT DONE RIGHT! Thanks Matt. ​​​​​​https://www.newsshooter.com/2022/12/22/newsshooters-favorite-products-of-2022/

https://industrycity.com/event/lux-lighting-cinesocial-ny-2022/ In case people didn't already hear. It's a free event and there's a dozen or so manufacturers showing their gear. Prolycht will for the first time in North America be unveiling the production version of the new Orion 675 FS with...

With the Orion 675 FS soon to ship, we're beginning to share some new information. There have been many updates large and small since we first debuted the light at NAB just four months ago. The Prolycht Prolock is a breech-lock positive-locking clamp for Bowens mount light modifiers. It is...

The Orion 300 FS just had a new firmware release today. In addition to small improvements and bug fixes, the Orion 300 FS received a new X/Y Coordinates mode. https://www.cined.com/prolycht-orion-300-fs-light-firmware-update-new-x-y-coordinates-mode/

And to continue what Charles was saying, Michael Ballhaus owned pretty much at least one of everything ARRI, because they always JUST WORKED for him with sensible design and controls. And in the digital age it is much the same, as I can assure you that as the guy who used to sell 'em, many DPs...

I referenced Michael Ballhaus. He is now deceased. He shot on film.

Esteemed cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, ASC owned his own camera & lens packages, usually whatever was the latest/greatest from ARRI. Maybe in his early Fassbinder days it was a budgetary thing, but later on he could shoot with whatever he wanted. He knew the cameras and lenses so well he...

Ha, well no matter where you or I started, we're talking about motion picture production. That industry was started on 35mm running 4-perfs vertically through the camera gate, aka Silent Aperture or now Super-35. It was decades later that Leica realized that they could make a camera for the...

I met up with gaffer John Roche today to test out the new Nanlite Projection Attachment for Bowens Mount with 19-degree lens (that's literally the full name, code PJ-BM for short). This is basically a Source Four Leko barrel and lens that's designed to mount onto the Nanlite Forza 300 & 500 via...

Bill Wages, ASC switched over to the Fuji 19-90 about seven years ago. He also carries a Fuji 80-300 when he needs to go long but rarely uses it. For awhile when he needed a lightweight rig he would use a Panasonic GH5 and some tiny primes, but a few years back he switched that over to an EVA1...

I will note that theoriginal Fuji Premier zooms were from more than a decade ago when lens prices were at a different level because so far fewer were sold to that then-smaller market. The newer Premista lenses are still not what anyone would call cheap, but the market for high end full frame...

This is what I was referring to. Fuji absolutely knocked it out of the park with the Premier 18-85 T2 zoom. A lens of such high performance that it had two different PL mounts included, one for use on a film camera or a lens projector/collimation bench and one for use with a digital camera...

I think most of this comes down to "What sort of work do you do?" Clearly for Sam his choices make sense, but even in the world of large crew studio productions we can see that Charles has a different view from John. No one is "wrong" here, simply what is most appropriate. Some of that answer...

Given a proper modern optical design the only advantage of a prime over a zoom is wider aperture and size/weight. Optical performance is not a significant factor or even a true differentiator. I think it is telling that in the late 1990/early 2000s as Angenieux and then others were making...