Review: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K

The new Super35 6K Pocket Cinema Camera from Blackmagic was delivered into a few lucky people’s hands last week, and my friends at Stray Angel Films were one of them. They gave me a week with it, shooting some stuff for my artist friend Chase Lock surrounding his new gallery at Olympia Club in Santa Monica, and I’ve put together a sort of review/overview …

Lomography Sprocket Rocket pt. 2

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. I finally used the Sprocket Rocket in “ideal” conditions, exposing exactly where it falls apart and where it succeeds. In my initial review, I discovered that I enjoyed taking the Sprocket Rocket out. It didn’t add any weight to whatever I had it in, it was a great conversation starter, …

Matthew Duclos guesses Cheap vs Expensive Lenses

In which we head over to Duclos Lenses to show lens expert Matthew Duclos some footage we shot with a Canon “Nifty” 50mm and an Arri Master Prime 50mm to see if he could spot the differences.

GoPro HERO7 Black Review // ProVideo Coalition

[This is an excerpt. The full article was written for and originally appeared on ProVideoCoalition.com] The big question is, how does the footage look? Well, if you have a HERO6 Black you know, as the 6 and 7 share the same GP1 sensor, but since I don’t I was quite impressed. I did note that there’s a certain way you …

In Use: Canon C200

I was sent the Canon C200 to review, and while there are a handful of pretty comprehensive reviews from a more clinical perspective, in an effort to shed light on its usability I just grabbed the thing and started shooting. Here’s how that shook out. To start, I’ve shot 99% of OWL BOT’s content on a C100mkII, so I’m already familiar with the body …

LED Lighting is King

Kenny stops by Stray Angel to talk about the current crop of LED lights for film and television and just how far they’ve come. Lights Used: Litepanels Gemini Arri Skypanel S60-C Hive Hornet 200-C Kino Flo Freestyle