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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Richard Leacock, RIP

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Richard Leacock, one of the founders or inventors of direct cinema style of documentary film making (a close cousin of cinema vérité) and a prolific documentary filmmaker, has passed away.  A good obituary and discussion of his work is on the blog All These Wonderful Things by AJ Schnack.  Ricky Leacock's own web site doesn't…
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