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DSLRs, “Democratic Technology” and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 2

By Paul | Published: June 24, 2010

This is the second of two posts considering the rewards and challenges of using DSLRs for cinema work. If you’ve not read the first post, start there.
At the end of the last post we had assembled a Canon 7D camera, a Canon 17-55 f/2.8 lens with Image Stabilizer, a Zoom H4N audio recorder, and PluralEyes [...]

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DSLRs, Democratic Technology and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 1

By Paul | Published: June 22, 2010

DSLR filmmaking has been much ballyhooed in the last year or so. Cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D have been hailed as the lastest in a long line of “democratizing” motion picture technology — inexpensive cameras that produce cinematic, shallow depth of field images that seem to rival the look produced [...]

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My Two Favorite Resources on DSLR Filmmaking

By Paul | Published: June 18, 2010

My absence for the past few months has been due to the fact that I’ve been woodshedding, as folks in the Jazz world would say.
One of the things I’ve been doing is writing. When I’m writing, I find this blog takes a back seat. Sorry, dear readers. That’s the way it goes. As for [...]

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Tape is dead! Long live tape!

By Paul | Published: November 24, 2009

It struck me today that For Memories’ Sake will probably be the last movie I’m involved with that uses videotape. Ashley began shooting the documentary with the venerable DVX-100 in 2006 and, for consistency’s sake, we stuck with that camera through production. All the new projects that I have on the horizon will be shot [...]

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Final Cut Pro tips: Here Comes Mr. Jordan

By Paul | Published: September 21, 2009

I started noodling with Final Cut Pro soon after it came out (ten years ago!) and taught myself how to use it. By taught, I mean that I learned to hack my way around and accomplish what I needed. But it wasn’t pretty or fast.
After a few years, I really started feeling the limitations [...]

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