cameras

Sony HDR-AS100VR POV Action Video Camera

Sony HDR-AS100VR POV Action Video Camera

This POV camera has some significant advantages over the GoPro Hero 3+. Most notable is that you can view and control the camera via a smartphone or the optional Live View Remote which you wear on your wrist. The Zeiss lens is very sharp. Sony's image sensor 1x 18.9...

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

April 25 - 27 every year is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Pinhole photography is photography without a lens. Instead of a lens, there's a tiny hole in the camera box. Light enters the camera through the hole just like it would through a lens. The light forms an...

Black Betty Camera

Black Betty Camera

It looks like a 16mm film camera, but it's a custom-designed housing that includes a Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini Camera Head and an Apple Mac Mini. The camera head produces digital cinema class 2048x1152 resolution. This SI-2K Mini camera head has been used as a second...

Panasonic GH4 Shoots 4K

Panasonic GH4 Shoots 4K

The new GH4 from Panasonic is due out this spring. It looks a lot like the GH3. In fact, the external battery grip is actually the same as the GH3. Some of the differences between the GH3 and the GH4 are the new camera sports a 1024x768 OLED viewfinder, the shutter...

Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens From Tamron

Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens From Tamron

150-600mm for full-frame and APS-C format DSLRs The 4x "ultra" telephoto zoom has a focal length range of 150mm - 600mm. . When mounted on an APS-C camera, the focal length range effectively increases to 233-930mm. That's ideal for filming wildlife and sports, but I...

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Although small and "consumer like" in physical appearance, this is not a consumer camera. It captures more information than camcorders or DSLRs. Here's what it's got: Super 16mm Sized Image Sensor Active Micro Four Thirds Lens Mount 13 Stops of Dynamic Range Records...

iPhone 5s Slow Motion Video At 120fps

iPhone 5s Slow Motion Video At 120fps

Slow motion makes nearly everything look better. Apple's new iPhone 5s can do something no other smart phone cannot do - shoot 120 fps. The Canon 7D, the Panasonic GH3 and G5, Sony NEX 5, 6, 7, as well as my own Sony Ea50 all shoot 50p/60p. Straight out of the camera...

Panasonic Camcorder AJ-PX270

Panasonic Camcorder AJ-PX270

Panasonic’s handheld AJ-PX270 camcorder records 10-bit, 4:2:2 video using a new codec based on its AVC-Ultra recording format. The new camcorder has 1/3-inch 3MOS sensors and a 22x optical zoom lens with separate zoom, focus and iris rings. Video recording is to...

A Lens Adaptor That Increases Speed

A Lens Adaptor That Increases Speed

Nothing Short Of Amazing! We Sony NEX camera owners don't have tons of lens choices until you look at some of the options for adaptors. The Metabone's Speed Booster is a pretty amazing device. It adapts Canon EF lenses to Sony AND increases your maximum aperture by 1...

Realities of Shooting 4K

Today there are smart phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 that can shoot 4K video. There's already a sub $1000 4K TV set (although most 4K TVs are $5000 - $6000.) Even YouTube now accepts 4K video. What It Is 4K is also called “Ultra HD. It carries four times the...