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  • Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE121)
    Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE121)
    Seagate

    You can make a Thunderbolt adapter for your RED SSD Reader with this!

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    This is a foodie magazine beyond compare! Current Issues are under $10, issue #1 is over $185 today!

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    Bongo Ties - What would I do without them!

  • Delkin Devices DDSS-SCOPE2 Complete Digital SLR SensorScope Cleaning System
    Delkin Devices DDSS-SCOPE2 Complete Digital SLR SensorScope Cleaning System
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    Aerobie AeroPress Coffee and Espresso - w/zippered nylon tote bag
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    This is an awesome little coffee maker, the best, least bitter coffee I have ever made!

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    See my post in the Food blog, if I was going to recomend one book for a cook who wants to improve, this would be it!

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    The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
    by Timothy Ferriss

    A very sensible guide to eating that doesn't feel like a diet and provides results!

Entries in Camera (4)

Monday
Apr162012

RED "Meizler Module"

 

You might have heard about the new RED Epic "Meizler Module"

I thought I would say a little about Steven Meizler, to give you an idea of why he is the ideal person to come up with this development. Steven Meizler was the first Assistant Cameraman to ever do a feature with the RED One camera. It was the Che Guevara bio-pic directed by Steven Soderbergh, this was with prototype cameras. It was the Summer of 2007. Besides working on Soderbergh films he has done many Steven Spielberg movies as well as the last few David Fincher films. Take a look at Steven Meizler's IMDB page - impressive isn't it?

He is the most professional camera asssitant I have ever met. Prepping that first camera was a challenge to say the least, RED has come a long way!

Monday
Apr162012

Blackmagic Cinema Camera - $2,995

Blackmagic Cinema Camera 

"Get one of the world’s finest digital film cameras with a beautiful design that features a machined aluminum chassis, interchangeable optics, high resolution 2.5K sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and 12-bit RAW uncompressed and compressed ProRes and DNxHD file formats! Includes sun shield, power supply, carry strap, UltraScope waveform monitoring software and a full version of DaVinci Resolve Software for Mac OS X and Windows."

I made an excerpt of the pertinent information below, because the Blackmagic site is just getting hammered right now. Hey it is the first day of NAB 2012!

Lens Mount EF and ZF mount compatible with electronic iris control
Sensor Size 16.64 mm x 14.04 mm
 

Sensor Size - Active 15.6 mm x 8.8 mm 

Comparison, Panasonic AF100 is Approx. 17.8 mm (H) x Approx. 10.0 mm (V)

Sensor Resolution 2592 x 2192
Storage Type Removable 2.5” SSD
Uncompressed Recording Formats RAW 2.5K CinemaDNG
 

Compressed Recording FormatsApple ProRes and Avid DNxHD. 

All compressed recording in 1920x1080 10-bit YUV with choice of Film or Video Dynamic Range.

Sunday
Apr082012

Duclos 11-16 mm

This is an awesome lens. It is becoming some of my friends favorite for their sports shooting.

Matt Duclos has taken a Tokina still lens and did an awesome job of making a cinema quality barrel housing to hold the elements. For the price, US$3495, it is really hard to beat. Seems like they are really back-ordered as well.

The lens is small and light. Check out the photo of the carry-on Pelican case with 2 Epics and 2 Duclos 11-16 mm lenses a RED Mag SSD Card case, and 3 LCD touch screens. This was for a 3D shoot, which this lens is great for. Another case had the other body and batteries and 2 RED EVF.

Duclos 11-16 mm 

Sunday
Apr082012

Great tool for your Digital Cinema Camera

I am around a lot of crews that are using digital cinema cameras of different types. Sometimes they are surprised when I pull out a SensorScope. This is the modern day version of "checking the gate" to me. It is a magnifier that lets you look at the sensor, more accurately the OLPF glass in front of the sensor. There are kits available that include swab wands in sterile type bags and a simple hand blower-bulb. They were made for digital still cameras but they work great for cinema style CMOS cameras. It has a built in light to illuminate the body cavity also.

I check the sensor during prep and if I am outdoors in a dusty situation I will check during the shoot day as well. Usually the hand blower-bulb gets most of what I notice. This is the brand I have been using, I know there are others available but this one has worked really well for me. They are pretty reasonably priced I think a kit is under U.S.$100.  It is piece of mind, not having some out of focus crud in your images. It surprises me when I meet people who don't have one of these.