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By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) If you've been watching the Rio Olympics, you've probably seen that cool Google commercial where people are capturing their priceless moments on their mobile device and they run out of storage space. It's an ingenious bit of marketing. The iPhone is incapable of … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Despite many misconceptions, the most important part of cinematography and photography isn't the camera but the light. Finding the right time to shoot something outdoors is a bit of a feat, but fortunately there's an app for that. GoldenHour.One is a simple iOS … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Samyang has announced a super fast 20mm lens as part of their ongoing 2016 Summer Samyang Blockbusters promotion, where they planned to introduce five new lens over the course of five weeks that began on July 18. The lens comes in two configurations: the … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) 4K and above requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth, even when you're moving edit files from one work station to another. Proxies help, but when you're reading the mastering phase, or recording at super high frame rates, you'll be moving a huge amount of data. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) We all know how the faithful at RED love to use the RED RAW R3D codec to capture the most detail and image information as possible, without having to break the bank with an uncompressed data file. Now Sony wants in on that action, so they've created their own … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) When you're a high profile government agency like NASA, you and the companies that support you, have to record everything you do. EVERYTHING. So when NASA had to test their new solid rocket fuel boosters, they wanted a camera that could see more detail than any other … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Photographers who are down in Rio for the Olympics Games will be like a kid at a candy story for the next two weeks. Not because they will be shooting video and photos of the grandest athletic spectacle on the planet, but because Canon has coming to the games with … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo Summertime. It's time for vacation, travel and making memories. It's also time for action videos as we enjoy our time off with wild abandon. But just because you're enjoying your getaway, doesn't mean you can take the footage you capture and get in on a little competition to boot. … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) What we can do with cameras these days is incredible but we always want more. Unfortunately, "more" tends to come with a heavier price, and sometimes it's not even necessary, which is why the maker/hacker crowd has been invaluable with things like Arduino, Linux, … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) If you missed out on the RED 8K Helium sale this week and still want someplace to use the Super 35mm PL lenses you have, well, there is an adapter called the Veydra 1.2x PL-Mount to PL-Mount expander, which will let you use them on larger format cameras, and Duclos … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo In what is sometimes a sign of something new on the horizon, AJA has announced a mammoth 50% price drop in their Ki Pro Rack file-based recorder and playback device. And there's a new firmware coming along with it. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) The growing action camera market is a big reason why GoPro sales are starting to peter out. With lower cost competitors coming to the U.S., and most of the distribution going with portals like YouTube vs. GoPro's, action geeks have a solid 4K alternative to abandon … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Venus Optics announced their Laowa 12mm f/2.8 lens via a Kickstarter campaign and has already blown far past the initial $10,000 pledge goal. In fact as of this writing it's at $273,559 with 28 days left to go in the campaign and for good reason. The features of … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) RED's Fire Chief Jarred Land listed 20 Helium WEAPON cameras for sale through Facebook and the REDUser Forums, and even before a quarter hour was up, they had all been sold. Well, that was the quickest way to earn a million dollars! … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) PolarPro has been steadily climbing the ladder when it comes to providing high quality accessories at a competitive price. Up to now, they've been focusing on products to enhance the action camera experience, but now they're branching out to supporting mobile phones … [Read more...]
