Gear
CineBack turns your Sony into a modular box cinema camera
Dec 22, 2023
John Aldred
Creating the perfect camera rig isn’t easy. This is especially true when it comes to small mirrorless cameras. Because they’re so much smaller and lighter…
Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 gains cloud and direct Davinci Resolve integration (Beta)
Dec 21, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
Blackmagic often updates their gear. It’s one of the reasons they are so popular despite being such a young company. (Well, that, their pricing, and…
Light Lens Lab releases a new retro-style 50mm F/2 “Rigid-SPII”
Dec 21, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
You might not have heard of LLL (Light Lens Lab). It’s a niche company that often makes gear in the style of classic film-era equipment….
Watch: 90 seconds of Insta360 beating the heck out of Ace Pro action cameras
Dec 21, 2023
John Aldred
It’s always fascinating to see products going through durability testing. This one from Insta360, though, is particularly satisfying. It’s 90 seconds of the Insta360 Ace…
Brightin Star AF 50mm F/1.4 APS-C is the company’s first autofocus lens
Dec 21, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
2023 will be the year when lens manufacturers who were focusing on manual focus lenses start to experiment with autofocus lenses. (pun 100% intended). We…
Cosina announces Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical for Canon RF
Dec 21, 2023
John Aldred
Cosina has announced the new Voigtlander Nokton 40mm F1.2 Aspherical lens for Canon RF mount cameras. Voigtlander’s a name that’s commonly associated with well-made lenses,…
Nextorage releases its fastest CFexpress A cards to date
Dec 21, 2023
John Aldred
A little over a year ago, Nextorage released what was at the time, the world’s fastest CFexpress Type B memory cards. Now, they’ve targeted Sony,…
Why the industry needs to move to open-source cameras
Dec 19, 2023
Sagiv Gilburd
Over the years, we have covered our fair share of open-source cameras, including the cine-oriented Cinepi, the SITINA 1 full-frame mirrorless, and the Night vision…
Here are five last-minute gifts for photographers, under $50
Dec 19, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Christmas is just around the corner, and some of you may still not have bought gifts for photographers or filmmakers in your life. Or maybe that photographer or video creator is you. Either way, Jay Ducker comes to the rescue with five last-minute and affordable gifts that will make every creative happy.
The decision of Power: How to decide between Windows and Mac
Dec 18, 2023
Markus Hofstätter
I was interested in working with AI on a local system instead of all these cloud solutions, where you often don’t know what happens with your data. My first contact with local AI solutions was pinokio, a system that automates localized AI installations. Pinokio runs lots of Python scripts locally, and I have lots of respects of these scripts, because they could do anything on your system. That’s one reason why I wanted to run them on a non productive computer of mine. The second reason is, that lots of AI models rely on Nvidias Cuda cores and wont even run on a Mac. The third reason is that I thought that I can speed up my workflow with very large scans with a system that has more ram (I was wrong on that one).