Production
Lens hacking
Often, people who can’t afford a set of Sigma Classic primes will ask whether a set of low-cost stills...
Production
A lens I’d like – One lens for a single chip camera
It’s hard to object to the way moving picture production has drifted away from small-sensor, three-chip cameras toward single,...
Post Production
Meet the New Grunge
The modern fashion for something we’ll term grunge in film and television pictures is something that future generations might...
Production
Mixing Up Colour
1010 For most of us, the idea of mixing colours from red, green and blue primaries is more or...
Production
Defining Color Correction in Production – Spending Less to Achieve More
We spend a lot of time here discussing the technical minutiae of film and TV pictures. Every so often,...
Production
Defining Color Correction in Production – From RGB to CRT to HDR
Back in the day, color was simpler. A show could change stocks and play around with printer lights, but...
Production
On saturated light: making two lights emit the same colour
Writer’s note – I’ve been accused, in the past, of spoiling the fun for people who design and use...
Post Production
How are modern computer hardware battles impacting production and post?
It’s great, if you’re a manufacturer, to feel like you’ve got control over a market. If you’re the only...
Post Production
LED video walls. Amazing technology, not all the same
Mandalorian. There, now we’ve established what we’re talking about because if there was ever an example of a particular...
Production
Capturing the Foo Fighters at 12K
Most people don’t get enough time to test out camera equipment before it’s put into use. During his eighteen-year...
