As cinematographers we are painters of light, The camera is simply a blank canvass. Optical snoots are great devices for shaping light, but up until just a few years ago snoots were too heavy, expensive, and unwieldy for small production teams. Not anymore, so today...
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The Cinema Variable Neutral Density Filter by PRISM LENS FX is a pleasant surprise. Made in the USA (surprise #1), it offers exceptional quality while maintaining a reasonable amount of affordability. At roughly $145 (77mm) it's not by any means cheap, but generally speaking you'll...
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Currently, Pergear has an excellent sale on CFexpress Type A cards. These (typically) obnoxiously pricey cards are almost solely used in high end Sony cameras, and are often twice the price of a SDXC V90. But for the next while, Pergear is selling the 512GB...
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A Director’s Monitor is a fairly high-end device. Typically, you need to be working on a larger production for them to be useful— on smaller projects the “director” is behind the camera and the producer/client is either in front of the camera, or asking the...
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I started playing in guitar in the 9th grade. And though my time and devotion has waxed and waned over the last four decades, I have accumulated a lot of experience on the instrument and I own acoustic, electric, classical, ukelele, and bass versions of...
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The optical snoot (my that’s a funny name) is a light modifier that focuses the light from an existing instrument… LED light, in such a way that you can use a gobo to shape the light, creating designs or breakups. Gobos are one of the...
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It’s not surprise that “smaller”manufacturers like Neewer and K&F Concept have entered the high-end V Mount battery field. It’s actually more surprising that it’s taken so long, especially given how generic the rechargeable battery technology is. Their competitive price-point advantage has been narrowed by mid-level...
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Smallrig’s HawkLock series aims for innovation, and it does a surprisingly good job of doing so. It’s hard to design something new in the tiny playing field of quick release accessories. Smallrig has created a series that includes releases dedicated for monitors, as well as...
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When it comes to audio, cinematographers and videographers tend to focus on shotgun (or super cardioid) style mics because they're problem solvers. The most common problem we face is environmental noise, and these mics do the best job of eliminating the background. But they don't...
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