Ruh-Roh – What Can We Trust Now?

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We can no longer trust our eyes. In case you've missed it - say, distracted by the dumpster fire that is our government in Washington DC these days - a number of technological developments are threatening to obliterate our ability to tell if a documentary (or Video Blog posting, or…
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New 4K Camera

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New camera! [caption id="attachment_755" align="alignright" width="300"] New Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K[/caption] Today at the NAB convention, Black Magic Design unveiled the recently teased successor to their pocket cinema camera.  Other than the dslr form factor, which makes handheld documentary production a challenge, it seems to have overcome all…
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Cameras the cool kids use.

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[caption id="attachment_710" align="alignleft" width="150"] Sony FS7-ii [/caption] I look forward to seeing this sort of survey every year, but that just marks me as a gear freak.  It seems pretty clear that shooting in 4K, and using a log color space and at least a 10 bit, 4:2:2 codec (to allow…
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