Recent content by Mark Toia

As far as I'm concerned. The Scarlet Weapon is officially the best bang for buck camera in the RED fleet. I'm one of those working Pros that is in a lucky position to be able to purchase what ever cameras I want. I'm also one of those guys that has a very pragmatic yet logical view and I...

So I'm in the cinema and the trailer for Hateful 8 pops up. ... mmmmmmm I'm looking at it thinking ? Is that light bloom? ok ok... thats old lenses, and they would have lots of character as age is against them. Then blown out highlights pop up... ok ok... maybe the DP slipped up and...

Email mark@toia.com Will pay 35-45k depending on condition. Thanks in advance.

John Coyle from Queenstown Aerial cameras and the actual inventor of the famous CINEFLEX and SHOTOVER camera systems, Plus Brett Mills of Queenstown Camera Company NZ asked if I would have some free time available to film from the air the 2015 'Race To The Sky' using their SHOTOVER system rigged...

Bit of fun for the day, We jammed this shoot in-between other jobs. Was all a bit of a rush to be honest. Almost canned it. The post boys did well considering they only had 3 week to pull of a little miracle. We had a 6 hour window to shoot in. Glad we did it now... I threw the script in...

As alot of you may know, I do shoot alot of aerials within my commercials, as most of our jobs are quite large so we are lucky enough to be able to get some big toys on set to be able to shoot images that are somewhat to expensive for most. I feel very lucky and blessed to be in this position...

Hello NEW YORK, I'm after a company who owns and runs a gymbal in NY. SHOT OVER PREFERRED. PM or email me at mark@toia

SHOOTING CARS IN TEXAS / WHOS THE BEST CAR PRODUCTION COMANY TO CALL. Needing all the toys and a hot local production company with car experience to throw it all together. PM or email mark@toia.com Ideas welcome. Cheers.

I just read Jim's ( 2nd to last ) post again. Was a good read. Reputation intact... Is he kidding! The guy saved us all by bringing in a camera that completely changed the world @ 1/16th the price of anyone else. And it shot 4x the resolution of anything else. He quite literally...

Love this camera !, Seriously could not have done this project without it. https://vimeo.com/118023701 YOUTUBE LINK FOR FOR VIMEO STARVED COUNTRIES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVLQ1lsxIis

A year or two ago, I was asked to walk around town and shoot some small life style inserts of Brisbane for some stock footage. Stumbling over the hard drive a few weeks back, I thought it a waste not to make something cool from it. So in my spare time I have dithered away more as stress...

The new 7 inche touch screen is a must have. The 5 inch models are and always will be the perfect size for run and gun, but the 7's color fidelity and over all onset accuracy is something always needed. Now i can set meta data grades on set on the run. Such a over all time saver. DP's...

Just walked out of the cinema... Looked great, As you would suspect... Typical Ridley EPIC. Looked the most 'filmic' of all movies I've seen so far shot on RED. Some stunning images.... Only thing that let it down for me was the some of the acting, Some questionable casting and the dialog...

I'm currently in Indonesia shooting a project and had time to knock off a few portraits between scenes of some of our back ground talent who had some really interesting faces. Only spent a quick couple of minutes grading up some of the shots in FCPX, but am still really amazed with Dragons...

Pumped this out a few weeks back in Cape Town. Was a crazy few days with baboons, Seals, Penguins, Antelope running through the back of shot. Its like working in a zoo ! I really like the tones the Dragon puts out with the new OLPF2. Very filmic. https://vimeo.com/108092928