Z Cam Opens Up Their Budget Full Frame 6K And 8K Cinema Cameras For Pre Order

Z-Cam was pretty much unheard of until relatively recently, but they made quite a big splash at NAB earlier this year. They had a pretty sizeable stand offering up some pretty big promises for the filmmaking industry with a set of 4K, 6K and 8K cameras. The 4K Z-Cam E2C was announced just over a week ago, and now the company has followed through with their full-frame E2 F6 and E2 F8 models, capable of shooting 6K and 8K respectively....

March 27, 2023 · 3 min · 442 words · Mr. James Koch

3 Easy And Inexpensive Setups For Shooting Product Videos

Product videos are a lot of fun to shoot. As is product photography. Coming up with different unique ways to show off a product is an exciting challenge. Doing it on a low budget, even more so. In this video, filmmaker Todd Blankenship creates three product ads with minimal kit and shows the gear, sets and lighting setups used to make them. While some of these setups might seem fairly expensive for stills photographers, but the principles are quite easy to adapt to less expensive versions....

March 26, 2023 · 3 min · 626 words · Christine Vasquez

3 Tips To Take Great Photos Even In Bad Locations

As photographers, you’ll often have to deal with the unknown. You won’t always be able to scout locations before the shoot, and sometimes you’ll just have to work with what you have. Photographer Manny Ortiz shares three tips that will help you shoot even in really bad locations. You need to take the most of what you have, and these tips will show you how to do it. 1. Focus on the details 1....

March 26, 2023 · 2 min · 423 words · Tracy Patterson

5 Tips To Get Steady Handheld Shots Without A Gimbal Or Monopod

It’s nice that we have all kinds of camera support & stabilisation systems today. As well as the more traditional tripod, we’ve got monopods, sliders, gimbals and all sorts of things. Sometimes, though, you just want to pack super light with the camera & lens, or perhaps you’re caught off guard and need to shoot some nice smooth clips. In this video, Rob Nelson from Rob & Jonas offers up 5 tips (they say 4, but there’s kind of a bonus one in there) to get great handheld footage....

March 26, 2023 · 3 min · 634 words · Jason Clark

500Px S New Raw App For Ios Lets You Shoot Edit And Sell Photos Right From Your Iphone

Another one to not hang about, 500px are also jumping onto iOS10’s new raw shooting capabilities. Not only do they want you to shoot and edit with raw on your iPhone, but they want you to sell from it, too. It’s an interesting app, and one I’m curious to see how well it will take off. The new raw capabilities of iOS10 are great. Are enough people going to be shooting to sell with their iPhones, though?...

March 26, 2023 · 4 min · 695 words · Ashley Murphy
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