2011 was an important year for cameras, photographers and filmmakers. In the wake of the HDSLR revolution brought about by the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, manufacturers finally got the message (more or less) that what independent filmmakers want is a large sensor, interchangeable lens camera, with a professional feature set, at an affordable price and responded with the Panasonic AG-AF101, Sony PMW-F3, Sony NEX-FS100 and Red Scarlet. But, it wasn’t just about large sensor camcorders. Panasonic understood the need for a small(ish), full HD, broadcast quality camcorder and released their answer to the 8 bit 4:2:2 Canon XF305 – the 10 bit 4:2:2 AVC Intra AG-HPX 250. On the stills front, Fuji realised that real photographers want real cameras in small packages and released the retro styled Finepix X100. However, the much anticipated and widely rumoured Canon 5D Mark III, Nikon D4 and Nikon D800 were nowhere to be seen and the Sony A77 and Sony NEX-7, though announced, were delayed by floods and earthquakes. So what can we expect in 2012? Well given that it is both a Photokina and an Olympics year, a fair bit Actually. Continue reading “New Cameras in 2012”
Category: Sony F3
Happy Birthday to Me!
The Paul D TV blog is one year old today! To celebrate, here’s the top 20 posts from the past year: Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Me!”
More Victims
It seems that my friend Chris Carr just can’t stay away from award nominations. Not content with the two Webbys we almost won for The Toadlickers, his latest production Victims has just been nominated for Film London’s Best of Boroughs Awards 2011. Continue reading “More Victims”
The Great Camera Shootout 2011
Last month, Zacuto invited me to the London Screening of their Single Chip Camera Evaluation, in which Robert Primes ASC put 12 cameras through 15 tests. The results were shown to industry audiences around the world and the discussions that followed were filmed, edited and combined with Primes’ test footage, to create ‘The Great Camera Shootout 2011’. Like the 2010 Shootout, this latest documentary is being released in three monthly instalments, the first of which is available now on Zacuto’s web site. Continue reading “The Great Camera Shootout 2011”
Victims
Yesterday I found myself with Chris Carr at a shoot on a London council estate…which makes a change.
On this occasion I was there purely as a spectator. Chris is producing ‘Victims’ a short film about domestic violence, starring Hattie Morahan (Outnumbered, Sense and Sensibility) and Briana Corrigan (formerly of The Beautiful South) and invited me down to meet the cast & crew and see the new Sony F3 in action. Continue reading “Victims”