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Music Video Stills

I worked as DP on a music video today which was a great experience as it was my first shoot with a Director, actors and a real storyline. The music video is for a band called Kuda and the video has one scene which takes places in an underground gambling...

Another Peli

I like to look after by gear and now that I’m regularly using a 35mm adapter and taking a selection of lenses, mics and other damageable bits of kit out on jobs I decided to invest in a second Peli case to protect them along with the 1560 I use...

SG Blade & EX1

Shoot35 have started posting some footage from their new 35mm adapter, the SG Blade, mounted on an EX1 with their flip module. The footage shows quite a lot of porthole vignetting but Shoot35 claim that this is due to the 20mm lens they used and not the adapter. Apparently they...

Cinevate Proteus rails

When you attach a 35mm adapter to the front of your camera you ‘re adding a lot more weight than the threads on the lens were ever designed to hold. To help support this extra weight and allow you to attach other devices you use a set of support rails....

WD TV Media Player Review

As a mac user the one thing I’ve found really frustrating is that there’s no easy way to watch the HD videos I’ve made using my mac on my HD TV. The most common solution to this problem is to burn blue-ray disks and watch them on a blue-ray player...

Exporting for the web

I’m often asked what settings I use when I’m exporting my video for the web. Until recently I used different settings for YouTube than Exposure Room and Vimeo, but now that YouTube are also delivering HD content I use the same settings for all three of the sites. The following...