David Williams

Canon 4K HD

David — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:18:54 +0000

Canon are showing an interesting 4K camera at the Canon Expo. Not a prototype, more a proof of concept apparently. Very little detail is available though.

Canon 4K

New Canon Camcorders

David — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:11:48 +0000

Canon have just released details of two lower end versions of the XF series. Still providing 50Mbit 4:2:2 to CF cards is good news.

Canon XF105 and XF100

Alexa In Use

David — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:33:48 +0000

Everything I’ve read, and seen for myself of the Alexa has been very impressive so far. Art Adams has posted a great article of the Alexa in production use.

Alexa and Art

Substation Media

David — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:04:29 +0000

The Substation Media website has gone live. The short One Moment is their most recent project, which I shot for writer/director Rob Innes.

A.C.S. Annual General Meeting

David — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:37:49 +0000

The A.C.S. AGM held at Lemac tonight was somewhat under attended due to work commitments of many members. A new executive was voted in, and we are ready for another good year.

Malcolm Richards from Cameraquip brought his nice new Alexa which he kindly allowed me to play with. It really is a very nice system, able to produce an amazingly clean image from very low little ambient light.

Alexa in Melbourne

David — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:43:33 +0000

Cameraquip received their ARRI Alexa this morning. Looking very good.

Victorian A.C.S. AGM

David — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:30:24 +0000

The Annual General Meeting for the Victorian branch of the Australian Cinematographers Society will be held 7pm, Tuesday 10th August at Lemac. There will also be screening the Shots reel, which is a round up of the worlds best TVCs.

This is the time to get yourself onto the General Committee and help us keep the Society rolling.

Red MX Dynamic Range

David — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:27:26 +0000

Red has had a decent improvement in dynamic range with it’s recent MX upgrade. Still, 11 actual stops is a far cry from the claimed 13.5 it’s marketed as having.

Art Adams tests the MX

Alexa Walkthrough

David — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:09:22 +0000

Gary Adcock has posted a short walk through of the Alexa menu, buttons and connector systems on Vimeo. The layout looks very nice and simple.

Alexa Systems

Red Colorimetry

David — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:57:38 +0000

Art Adams has nice article up covering the improvements to the Reds colour science since build 30.

Red Colorimetry