Aputure

    13 essential camera movements to get amazing footage with your gimbal
    Jun 16, 2017 John Aldred

    A motorised gimbal is one of the most useful tools you can get today for camera stabilisation. They’re much easier to get to grips with than…

    Create cool lighting effects for video and photos using a projector
    Jun 1, 2017 John Aldred

    Adding a projector to your kit might seem a little old fashioned these days. But projecting images toward your subject or the background can be…

    Aputure announces three new lights including a 300Watt monoblock LED
    Apr 25, 2017 John Aldred

    Another show, another round of new gear announcements. This time it’s NAB and Aputure’s turn to show off some new lights and modifiers. There’s the…

    DSLR Audio: Aputure A.lav vs. RodeLink Filmmaker Kit vs. Rode VideoMic Pro
    Apr 20, 2017 Udi Tirosh

    When it comes to DSLR and audio you really don’t want to use the microphone in your camera. It involves echo, directionality, mic quality, sound…

    How to easily create four natural lighting effects with LED studio lights
    Mar 30, 2017 John Aldred

    Recreating practical lighting effects for video and photography is a fairly straightforward process. You just need to think about how the lights are constructed in…

    6 essential tips to get the best sound and comfort out of a boom pole microphone
    Mar 7, 2017 John Aldred

    If you shoot video for long enough, and you’re interested in getting quality sound (you should be), then at some point you’re going to use…

    The best LED video lighting kit you can get for $500
    Feb 22, 2017 John Aldred

    With as much competition as there is in today’s LED marketplace, it can be tough to know what’s worth buying. There’s so many models out…

    5 Tips for lighting a green screen for a clean key
    Dec 2, 2016 John Aldred

    One would think that lighting up a green screen would be similar to working with something like a white seamless backdrop. But there are a…

    Indestructible LED panels, Sub $500 vectorscope monitor and wireless variable ND filter
    Sep 29, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    During photokina we payed a visit to the Aperture booth, had a chat with Ted Sim, and we totally fell in love with their new…

    Aputure’s versatile new light is the size of a credit card and costs only $49
    Jul 18, 2016 John Aldred

    Small lights are fantastic and well designed ones are extremely versatile. Whether you’re shooting stills or video, you can throw them in dark corners to balance…