Category: gear

The BrushKnob USB dial wants to help you speed up your Photoshop workflow

John Aldred

External dials and gizmos have been common in the movie industry for years.  Their sole purpose in live is to help speed up workflow and productivity, assisting with things like editing and colour grading.  Now, they’re starting to become more popular for the regular desktop and stills editing with Photoshop. BrushKnob, developed by Japanese concept artist, Wataru […]

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These cheap Soviet lenses are as out of this world as their “Jupiter” name would imply

John Aldred

Jupiter was a class of lens made by manufacturers of the former Soviet Union.  There were quite a few different lenses in the Jupiter lineup, and in this set of videos from Mathieu Stern, we’re going to learn about four of them. A lot of people tend to ignore older lenses, but I picked up a Jupiter-9 85mm […]

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Has the 5D Mark IV been spotted out in the wild?

John Aldred

If windsurfer, Levi Siver’s Instagram feed is to be believed, we appear to have the first shot of the impending Canon 5D Mark IV. During what EOSHD describe as a “Red Bull sponsored surf shoot”, Levi appears to have posted a photograph of the crew to his Instagram feed, with a caption that mentions “the new unreleased Canon camera”. […]

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Here’s 50 ways to use gaffer tape and some of them might surprise you

John Aldred

In the words of Jay P Morgan, “If you can’t fix it with gaff tape, it probably does not deserve to be fixed”, and he’s right.  Gaffer tape (or gaff tape, if you prefer) is one of the most useful and versatile things you can keep in your camera bag. Probably the most common use […]

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Canon could release new 1000mm lens in time for the Olympics

John Aldred

Companies put out patents for new stuff all the time, and Canon have filed 4,134 of them, many of which will never actually exist in reality, but every now and again, one comes along that looks gives a very strong indicator for eventual release. Patent No. 2016-102852, reported by Canon Rumors, appears to show that Canon […]

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DJI’s new follow focus lets you remotely focus your drone’s camera lens from 3 miles away

John Aldred

Designed for both the land and air, the new DJI Focus remote follow focus system wants to change the way we record our aerial footage. No longer are we limited to hyperfocal distance and infinity focus lenses that have everything sharp. Now, we’re able to nail focus on our subject and use cinematic focus pulling techniques while shooting from […]

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This portable LED puts out as much light as a 1.5K tungsten with a Bowens mount strobe sized form factor

John Aldred

LED lighting has come a very long way in just a few short years, and Aputure wants to take on the sun with their new COB 120t LED light. The 120t certainly isn’t the first LED powered light to offer the benefit of a Bowens S-Type mount, but it does have a couple of neat features. […]

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Want to shoot 3D photos and video with your phone for $35? Well, soon you can… maybe

John Aldred

When I first heard the phrase “dual cameras” used in relation to mobile phones, 3D is what first came to my mind.  How disappointed I was to find out that it was nothing to do with recording videos or shooting stills in 3D. Now, Weeview want to fix that, having announced the Eye-Plug 3D Camera at Computex. […]

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