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13th June 2019

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Backing up your videos and photos in the field

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13th April 2017

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Gear P*rn: Metabones Cine FZ – EF mount/ Lumapad V2

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8th October 2015

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1 of 3 posts dedicated to the art of aerial filming!! Part 1: Flying and shooting with the Phantom 2 and Vision 2+

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19th April 2014

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Trying out the Canon C100 Autofocus…does it actually work? Can autofocus in video ever truly work?

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28th March 2014

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A hugely improved Stereo Mic from RODE and a very exciting Video Mic HD to come

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18th January 2012

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Essential add on for GoPro users. The LCD bacpac

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15th February 2011

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  • Following on from the previous post, the “Band Photo” retrospective, this is probably the best of all of them and it was also the photo that made me realise how amazing the #Pentax645z was. This is in Vanuatu and such an amazing moment. Most of the photos were done on a tripod and in timelapse mode to get as many poses as possible but this one was taken by one of the people we were filming with. If you look at the second photo you will see what came out and of course I was gutted. Little did I know that bringing the exposure up by almost 5 stops and shadows up 100% it was all there! The jpeg is what the camera shows you and yes, as the photo was raw much can be brought back but I’ve never seen this much recovery on an camera before or since. There was NO NOISE after bringing it up that much. None. The Fuji GFX 100 has been the closest since, it does have the same sensor but different processing internally, but it was never as good as the Pentax. The GFX 100 is much worse as you can imagine due to its 100 megapixels. No full frame camera has come close either. If only that camera was able to shoot raw video what a beast that would have been! At least the video from the GFX 100 is stunning even though it’s “only” 10 bit 4:2:0 H265 4K. Tomorrow I will share another one. I will add each photo to an album on Flickr (linked in my bio) so you can see them in their full 51 megapixel glory!!
  • The “band photos” from The Wonder List were some of my favourite things about shooting the series. I will share some of my favourites the coming week. First up though are two unused ones from Vanuatu and the Everglades. The actual Vanuatu one is probably the best one and I will share that first in a separate post. All band photos were taken with the #pentax645z Sadly I only came up with the idea halfway through the first season so not all the episodes have them. @julianquinones @cassiusmk @billweircnn and Juan Castaneda.
  • That time I filmed an active volcano and didn’t die. As opposed to the time that I filmed an active volcano and died, which so far hasn’t happened! #flashbackFriday #vanuatu
  • ...following on from the last post here is a photo taken on that shoot, one of my favourite photos ever. Sony A7Rii and Canon 100-400 L. #ThrowbackThursday Check the link in my bio Linktree for the video of this.
  • Been a while since a posted this. Time for a revival! Filming in Botswana with the Sony A7S on a @letus35 Helix jr for “The Wonder List” Photo with Ricoh Theta.
  • Here is an example of why the @venuslaowa 24mm probe lens was the joint winner of “Best lens of 2019” in my “Best camera gear of 2019 video” (link in bio) It’s just such enormous fun and sparks your creativity especially when coupled the terrific @gudsenmoza Slypod E (video coming next month) but you could use any motorised slider really. Manual slider is more likely to introduce wobble. Shot with the @sonyalpha A7III at a rather high ISO of 12,800 as I needed to stop the lens down to about F35 to get the depth of field to the right balance of keeping as much of the subject in focus but still having the background out of focus. Very challenging when you are literally a couple of millimetres from the subject! Wide open at F14 the depth of field would have also been millimetres! It is of course a Lego version of me in a toy version of my actual car, a Fiat Barchetta that I have owner for 22 years! By my side is a lego version of my beloved and much missed cat Noodle. I have loads of silly things like this all over my edit suite including lot of Star Wars stuff, a dozen or so Instax photos of my family and cats and much more! The BTS camera was the Sony A7RIV with the other joint winner of my “Best lens it 2019”, the Sony 35mm F1.8 FE. Music from @audionetwork
  • Harriet doesn’t sit on just anything, she’s super choosy about the gear that she thinks is good enough for her. Clearly she rates the Aputure 300D II 🙂 #CatGeatReview @thebloomcats
  • This could well be the perfect vlogging set up. The @sonyalpha A6600, @sigmauk 16mm F1.4, @rodemic videomic NTG and the new Bluetooth hand grip from Sony. Check out my in-depth blog post in my website (link in bio) for all the reasons why I think this. 🙂
  • They say good tripods and tripod heads outlast cameras by a long time. Here is proof... I needed to use my 100mm bowl hi-hat this evening to get my @sonyprofilmmaking FX9 in the right position. On the Hi-hat is my @sachtlersytems Video 18 head which I think is probably about 30 years old now and is still going strong. It will probably still be going strong in another 30 years! The detectives amongst you won’t find it hard to work out what’s being reflected in my lens. Just look at my recent posts!

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