Macro Lens, what is it? A Macro Lens is a unique lens that allows photography or video that is really close to your subject. The official standard for a macro lens is a lens that can project a subject at a 1:1 ratio onto the camera’s sensor at the minimum focal...
RED Komodo Disruption The RED Komodo was released by RED Digital Cinema in October of 2020, an arguably unprecedented and disruptive year for everyone in and beyond the film and video industry. Over the course of the last two decades, as digital motion picture capture...
Canon Sumire, what is it? Canon describes their newest line of Full Frame Cinema lenses, the Sumire’ (Soo-mee-ray) Primes “… like the petals of a flower, our lenses are most beautiful when fully opened.” The Canon Sumire lenses were designed to be used with a...
Lens Control, what is it? If one aims to control a lens, one must know what lens control is, and how a lens works with a camera and other devices to achieve control. Lens control is image control. Lens control is a camera operation activity that manages the...
Top Ten Most Influential Cameras in the Modern Digital Era In 1999, I was 16 years old, and like most teenage boys, I was obsessed with the movie The Matrix. This movie utilized a fascinating filmmaking process called Bullet Time, which involved the stitching...
RED Gemini and EasyRig Vario 5, are they the right run-and-gun solution? The RED Gemini Digital Cinema camera is yet another great run-and-gun camera solution for a variety of productions. The EasyRig Vario 5 pairs very well with compact camera systems such as the Red...
