Posts by Author: John Aldred

John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

    Laowa gets serious about video with 25-100mm T2.9 and 12mm T2.9 cinema lenses
    Apr 18, 2019 John Aldred

    Although Laowa does make a cinema mod version of their crazy 24mm f/14 Probe lens, they’re not really known for their cinema lenses. Because they haven’t…

    This long term timelapse camera can run for a month off four AA batteries
    Apr 17, 2019 John Aldred

    Timelapse is a subject that many photographers and filmmakers have tried. But sometimes, a couple of hours just isn’t long enough to shoot the sequence…

    How to set up a 2-camera interview using a motorised camera slider and pan-tilt head
    Apr 17, 2019 John Aldred

    While we were visiting NAB 2019, we took the opportunity to have another chat with Ben from Syrp. We wanted to find out more about…

    The SmallHD Focus 7 and 702 Touch monitors have super bright IPS screens for daylight use
    Apr 17, 2019 John Aldred

    Two of the products we were keen to check out in person at NAB 2019 were the new SmallHD Focus 7 and upcoming 702 Touch…

    G-Technology shows how their kit can integrate into DIT carts on movie shoots
    Apr 16, 2019 John Aldred

    The Digital Imaging Technician Cart (or “DIT Cart”) is where all of the media is ingested from a shoot and organised once it’s captured. G-Technology…

    SmallRig shows off new cages for the Sony A6400 and Blackmagic Pocket 4K
    Apr 16, 2019 John Aldred

    Whenever a new camera is released, the first company to produce cages and accessories for them is usually SmallRig. We use a lot of SmallRig…

    First look at Manfrotto’s new Nitrotech 600 series fluid video tripod heads
    Apr 16, 2019 John Aldred

    Manfrotto’s new Nitrotech 608 and Nitrotech 612 fluid video tripod heads represent the latest in Manfrotto’s fluid head technology. Designed to offer the smoothest level…

    Feelworld upgrades the F6 field monitor with a touchscreen UI in the new F6 Plus
    Apr 16, 2019 John Aldred

    Feelworld’s range of entry-level monitors have become quite popular over the last couple of years. Although they don’t offer all the bells and whistles we…

    The Shark Slider Nano is a whisper quiet camera slider for shooting video or timelapse
    Apr 16, 2019 John Aldred

    There are quite a lot of sliders out there these days, and many of them are excellent for timelapse, but quite a few of them…

    Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 16 now comes with “Content-aware Fill” style features for video
    Apr 15, 2019 John Aldred

    The big news lately from the Adobe camp is Content-aware Fill for video in Adobe After Effects. But Adobe isn’t the only company who has…