Adding camera movements to your video or timelapse footage is one of the simplest ways to add some more interest in your footage, bump up production value, and take your work to the next level. It’s why many of us buy camera sliders in the first place. But sometimes a simple slide move isn’t enough, and we want to be able to pan the camera while it’s sliding across the rail....
We took the Glyph Atom Raid for a spin (excuse the pun), and we were super impressed. It is the fasted drive we have worked with to date! But first let me share some background about SSDs, hard drives and some other nerdy terms. When you are working with 4K files over long periods of time, moving files over becomes a burden. It takes time, it needs “babysitting”, and it hogs computer resources....
The more I’ve travelled to shoot photos and video over the last few years, the more I’ve come to appreciate the benefits of smaller and lighter kit. Ok, so I haven’t done much travelling in the last year… Ok, I haven’t done any at all, really, but the point still remains that smaller is often better suited to the task when you’re out exploring. And today, Insta360 has announced something very small to help document your exploration adventures....
Without light, there would be no such thing as photography. But simply having light isn’t enough. Cameras turn our three dimensional world into a two dimensional flat image. Light allows us to bring that third dimension back into our images. In order to do that, we need to know how to read it and how to control it. In the first of a new video series from The Slanted Lens called Laws of Light, Jay P....
The release of the new Samyang 35mm f1.4 autofocus lens for the Sony E mount system has grabbed everyone’s attention. Owning both this lens as well as the Sony Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4, I have been constantly asked to do a comparison review. In this comparison, I will go through everything showing the differences between the lenses. 1:00 – Build Quality6:29 – AF for video and stills11:40 – Bokeh14:50 – Vignetting16:03 – Sharpness21:18 – CA & Lens flare...
