Achieving More From Your Production Budget Other A guide to answering questions of How to compare rental prices from competing rental companies? What equipment to use? Whether to buy or hire? Or, if buying is considered, then when is the right time to buy?
Ronin & MōVI Gimbals – all you need to know Grip This article explains the benefits and limitations of using these Gimbal systems and provides essential information if you want to use one in production. Revised June 2021. Introduction This is … Read more
Guide: How to Shoot Bullet Time Cinematography A VMI guide with video, courtesy of Stephen Roach and Jermaine Allen of Merchant Cantos showing just how easy it is to create unique ‘Bullet time 360″ videos for the ultimate ‘hero’ selfie.
The Canon C300 Mk II vs C300 – What’s the fuss about? Cameras Article exploring the differences between the Mk I and Mk II C300 camera.
Types of Apple Prores Codecs Media, DIT and Streaming A brief introduction to the various types of Apple ProRes formats with a link to download the full Apple White Paper.
Lighting – a short walk through the minefield of location lighting for Film & TV Lighting This is a short article examining the most popular lighting fixtures and technologies.
VMI tripods are now supplied in HPRC tripod tubes as standard Grip What is the collective term for tripod tubes? We think that it is a pyramid! Back in 2018, VMI elected to replace the soft bags of Sachtler Video 18, … Read more
What it is like to shoot with Uncoated Lenses – Duncan Telford DoP Cinematography, Lenses DoP Duncan Telford shot a Weetabix commercial with Uncoated Cooke Mini S4s and describes in this article what it is like to shoot with uncoated lenses and how this look varies between different types of lenses
2016 revised IATA Guidelines on air transport of Lithium-ion batteries Other, Technology The rules have on air travel with Lithium-ion batteries have become much more restrictive over the past few years and you have to be aware of recent stricter limitations for transporting Lithium-ion batteries. This article has been completely updated with the guidance of IATA in July 2016 to help make you aware of these new rules.
Do we adopt 4K now or wait for 8K? Cinematography A short summary of the big IBC dilemma: adopt 4K now or wait for 8K (AKA UHD-1 or UHD-2).
How Infrared light affects Cinematography Cinematography Infrared cinematography opens up a whole new spectrum of light not visible to the unaided eye. This has the potential to give otherwise ordinary scenes a surreal and dream-like appearance … Read more
UNCOATED lenses – what you need to know Cinematography, Lenses This article seeks to explore the effects that removing the lens coatings can have on an image. ‘uncoated lenses’
Shooting with B4 mount Video lenses on large sensor cameras. Cinematography A short article to explain how to shoot with B4 (traditional HD) lenses on large sensor cameras.
Improve Phantom VEO 4K workflow by using 10Gbit network port Media, DIT and Streaming, Super Slow Motion This is an article about configuring and using the built-in 10Gbit ethernet interface of the Phantom VEO 4K to take advantage of the most efficient and fastest workflows from internal RAM to hard drive, which can be even more efficient than the workflow of the Phantom FLEX 4K.
12 bit RAW capture ARRI, Panasonic, Sony, Canon and other cameras using Odyssey 7Q/7Q+ RAW Recorder Media, DIT and Streaming, Technology This article explains how 12 bit RAW capture of ARRI, Panasonic, Sony, Canon and other cameras is possible using the Odyssey 7Q/7Q+ RAW Recorder.
LENS COVERAGE AND CAMERA COMPARISON TOOL Cinematography, Lenses This is an excellent application written and designed by Sam Measure of CVP. Every day customers ask us a variation on this question: “Will this lens cover that sensor?” … Read more
Shoot the best quality 200fps available using Odyssey 7Q and Sony FS 700/C500 Media, DIT and Streaming The Convergent Odyssey 7Q is a new off board 4K recorder with 8” OLED screen that offers outstanding slow motion capability at very high image quality when used in conjunction … Read more
Shallow DoF for Streaming Media, DIT and Streaming A shallow Depth of Field can reduce the bandwidth requirement of video, which is good for the internet.We wanted to test this theory and this article explores this idea and concludes that you can save around 10% bandwidth by shooting with a large sensor camera compared with a small sensor camera, as the shallow depth of field means that you capture only the bits that you want in fine detail and as background is defocused.
HDR reality and monitoring – a DOP’s Perspective Cinematography THESE ARE SOME EXCERPTS OF A CML THREAD ABOUT HDR AND MONITORING HDR, WHICH I HAVE REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION FROM GEOFF BOYLE AND ART ADAMS. IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND IS ABOUT HDR FROM THE DOP’S PERSPECTIVE.
The Case for and against 4K Cinematography An essay arguing the case for and against 4K, written in 2014.