Even with the digital revolution, photography hasn’t changed substantially since its invention. Whether you’re using film or a sensor, you’re counting photons. There are some adjustments you can make after the fact, mostly exposure-related, but where you focused and your depth of field can’t be changed. Until now. … Continue Reading
Miniature cameras have given filmmakers and photographers new options that not too long ago would have been a great way to lose or destroy expensive cameras. They have greatly reduced the number of “impossible” shots. These little cameras have blasted off into space, ascended gracefully on weather balloons, and I’ve personally dropped them hundreds of feet underwater on nothing more than fishing line.
After much negotiation, fiddling and drinking, PhotoCine News is thrilled to introduce two new blogs that have joined the PhotoCine News Media Group. … Continue Reading
When the 5D Mark II hit the market it completely revolutionized the way that film making happened. On a full scale film shoot, these cameras are seen as disposable. It was better to put a $2,500 5D Mark II in a precarious position than the far more expensive cameras. When I attended one of Shane Hurlbutt’s lectures at last years PhotoCine News Expo, he talked about placing cameras in the line of live fire (some of which didn’t make it) and in a car as he crashed into a river. In effect he could start getting the angles that were too risky, or too inaccessible for the larger and more expensive film cameras.
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There’s this idea floating around that the big debate is whether you should shoot with Canon or Nikon. The two big names are duking it out on “This vs. That” forums and racing each other to see who can pack more megapixels into a sensor. All the while, quietly and steadily, Sony is gathering a stable of loyalists. … Continue Reading
There are some things that I feel I just can’t change. The amount of leg room on my flight, technology becoming out dated right after I buy it, and never being able to find the perfect backpack for my camera gear.
When it comes to transporting camera gear, each situation seems to require something different. I have packs for the city, the backcountry, overnight trips and dry-bags for the ocean and jungle. For travel I have pelican cases, carry on cases and shipping cases.
In a last-ditch effort to find something that would work everywhere, my brother and I cannibalized our old packs to try making something that would work. Something with internal support, that doesn’t have to be taken off every time you need to get into it, is waterproof and protects gear from a beating. Something that felt like a hiking pack, but functioned like a camera pack.
I ended up with a Pelican case bolted on a pack frame, he ended up with something I can’t really explain.
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