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Filmmaking With A Digital Camera

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

What is filmmaking exactly? It’s really just putting pictures into motion. You can add sound for even more of an effect, but sound isn’t truly necessary to make a “Motion Picture”.
I often hear people making up excuses as to why they can’t shoot a film. Some of these excuses are really bad, some not quite [...]

35mm DOF Adapters for Cinematography: Getting 35mm Depth of Field with Video

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

You’ve been hearing the buzz, but have you been wondering what exactly is a 35mm Depth of Field Adapter (aka DOF adapter)? There’s a great description on them over to Konvas.org called What’s a 35mm DOF adapter and can it use OCT19 mounted Lomo lenses?, which discusses the pros and cons of the different DOF [...]

High Definition & Film Comparison!

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

I’ve been waiting for this one to get a little more updated, but what the heck. I can’t wait anymore. News is news, right?
Using Zeiss lenses, CML guru and founder Geoff Boyle did a CML comparison of the big boys. Thanks Geoff!
The comparison was between two film stocks and the real HD cameras (not the [...]

Frederick, Westminster, & Mount Airy for Film Makers

Monday, March 19th, 2007

It’s a slow news week, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to write about three of the best kept filming secrets of Maryland.
Frederick, MD is the second largest city in the state and the capital of Frederick County (which happens to be the largest county in Maryland). Located 1 hour west from Baltimore [...]

From Russia, with Love

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Seems like some interesting work has been going on over to Kinor.
It appears they are not only building 2K cameras, but now 4K cameras! To top it off, they are also buying back old Kinors - Something sounds really good here.
Their pics show the Digital Kinor’s side-by-side with
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Shooting in HD versus 16mm

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

High Definition is definitely the new rage. But shooting HD versus 16mm?
In our business, we’ve found a majority of the people that originally wanted us to use 16mm were really just wanting something better than Standard Definition, but felt the price of 35mm wasn’t in their budget. When we started offering HD, the people interested [...]

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