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Judgement Day – VMI Publishes Lens Comparison Videos

12 April 2023

FINALLY, THE FILMS ARE READY! In a break from tradition demos, VMI invited 40 camera department professionals to come and shoot their own tests across full frame lenses from Cooke, … Read more

Not Another Boring Lens Comparison Event Mar 7/8, Acton

2 March 2023

In a break from tradition demos, VMI would like camera department professionals to come and see some of our new FF lenses and help to create a ‘real world’ comparison … Read more

VMI New Products Day 6/7/8 Dec. Limited Availability

1 November 2022

*** FREE EVENT – LIMITED AVAILABILITY *** VMI’s biannual New Products Day is this week! This is a big deal for us, as we only host this once every 2 … Read more

We did it! Superheroes raised over £60K in past 3 years to make world landmine-free

15 July 2019

8 riders calling themselves, “The Superheroes” raised £27,000 for MAG International to help make the world landmine-free by 2025 by riding from London to Bristol and London to Amsterdam in 2019 for the 3rd year … Read more

Account of VMI Anamorphic and Large Sensor Event in January

4 March 2019

VMI hosted an Anamorphic and Large Sensor event in late January at the newly opened CVP Creative Space in Newman Street Fitzrovia, an elegant new showroom over four floors. The three-day event was well … Read more

Shooting Tyger on SIGMA Classic Primes

New British indie feature Tyger has finished filming with a Canon C500 II and SIGMA Classic Primes, a combination picked to enhance the emotional impact of an ex-soldier’s internal conflict. … Read more

Sigma Cine Primes and Canon C700 capture the post-apocalypse 

To survive in a world destroyed by global warming a family needs to make a heartbreaking decision which could split them apart forever. This is the dystopian vision of writer-director … Read more

Tracking the shots on Midsomer Murders… with Ronin 4D 

You’d be forgiven for thinking that time moves rather slowly in the rural villages of Midsomer, but behind the scenes technology has not stood still. For the evergreen ITV crime drama’s … Read more

Apple TV’s Earth At Night In Colour  

Natural History DP, Mark Payne Gill shoots a series entitled Earth At Night In Colour using Astrograph lenses and Canon ME20 with 4m ASA in order to shoot entire episodes being lit just by the moon.

An account of a successful Sigma Lens Day held on 13 February 2020 at VMI

VMI held a Sigma lens day on 13 February 2020 in London.

Sigma Cine Primes and Zooms – all you need to know

This article seeks to introduce the range of Sigma Cine Primes, Classic Primes and Film Zooms and to explain why we like them as much as we do.

Judgement Day – VMI Publishes Lens Comparison Videos

In a break from tradition demos, VMI invited 40 camera department professionals to come and shoot their own tests across full frame lenses from Cooke, Gecko, Tribe and Sigma on either Sony Venice or ARRI Mini LF. No agendas. No hard selling. Just creative people doing what they do best.

The Creative and Technical Differences between Full Frame and S-35

Fully Updated Article, April 2023:  To shoot Full-Frame or S-35? Are there really artistic reasons for shooting on FF?

What are the advantages and what gear will I need?

Vintage Lenses are Still Cool

To reflect that VMI’s wide range of vintage and vintage-look lenses, we have redefined the vintage category on our website to now includes 14 different types of sets of Vintage/Vintage-look … Read more

Mid-range cameras don’t mean compromise

At VMI we’ve noticed a recent trend among filmmakers and wondered if you agree? We’ve spotted that a significant number of productions are ‘trading down’ from using traditional top of the range cine-cameras…

New generation of Auto Focus lenses now available with E and EF Mounts

Auto Focus is here to stay and whilst this is not a panacea to force all focus-pullers to retrain, the increased adoption of Full Frame (which necessarily makes focussing more critical than S-35 or APSC formats) and the enhanced development of the technology, makes this functionality more useful and as a result, we are noticing an increased interest in it.

Beginner’s Guide to Depth of Field

This article is written mainly for those who want to know the very simple concepts which allow camera operators to manipulate the Depth of Field in order to make them look more cinematic.

Anamorphic and Full Frame Lens Tests, including a 57 Video Playlist.

Do you ever wonder what a Zeiss Supreme looks like next to a Zeiss Masterprime?  or what about a Tokina Vista next to an ARRI Signature prime, or even how … Read more

E-Mount Lenses – perfect for the Sony FX9, FS7, AS7 & FS5

Article introducing the native E-Mount lenses

VMI Guide to Film Lenses

Article introducing the differences between film lenses and explaining the terms and factors which distinguish them.

A Filmmaker’s Guide to Sensor Sizes and Lens Formats

This article aims to help questions such as:
– “Will this lens work with my camera?”
– “Will this lens cover 8K?”
– “Will this lens cover full frame.”
– “What will full frame lenses look like on a S-35 sensor.”

The difference between the Phantom FLEX 4K and Phantom VEO 4K

This is an article illustrating the differences between the Phantom FLEX 4K and Phantom VEO 4K and including essential Information about the Vision Research Phantom VEO 4K that you really need to know before your first production.