Recent content by Misha Engel

Banned from youtube, available on Vimeo. https://planetofthehumans.com/

Apple quietly increases build-to-order Mac pricing by 10% outside US. https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/23/build-to-order-mac-pricing/. You no longer need enemies with such...

8K vs 4K TVs: Double-blind study by Warner Bros. et al reveals most consumers can’t tell the difference https://www.techhive.com/article/3529913/8k-vs-4k-tvs-most-consumers-cannot-tell-the-difference.html Despite all this, moving to 8K makes sense for cinematographers, because of the expanded...

https://htj2k.com/ The standard is royalty free and brings lightning fast image compression and decompression. Use it with your existing images and workflows: all the features of JPEG 2000 plus lossless transcoding. It is designed to be used by all the current JPEG 2000 family of users such...

New database for MTF measurement's, it's pretty new but more lenses are added rapidly. https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/MTF.aspx

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/03/mtf-results-for-recent-sigma-art-lenses/ Sigma keeps on going making great lenses for both stills and moving pictures. Just an example:

BRAW? BMD just dumped cDNG because of patent issues. When RED was the company who filed this complaint, then here is a big thank you to RED from our side, BRAW is so much better than cDNG.

https://www.cinema5d.com/sony-a6400-review-is-the-end-of-manual-focus-lenses-near/ When not, then it's at least nice to have in certain situations.

And another codec... https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/01/05/jpeg-xs-being-used-by-nhk-to-broadcast-8k/

Important news for all internet users. https://www.inrupt.com/

NiSi is working on another series of manual full-frame cine lenses targeted for use with mirrorless cameras. Appear to four fixed focal lengths, 35mm, 55, 75mm and 100mm, all of which should turn out very bright with T1.1. Initially, the Sony E-mount will be used, although the optics will also...

Laowa makes a 25-100mm T2.9 PL zoom lens https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/09/22/laowa-makes-a-25-100mm-t2-9-pl-zoom-lens/

It's only UHD, but it supports sRGB, AdobeRGB, DCI-P3 and HDR10 and since most of us don't shoot for the cinema this looks like a really good editing/grading monitor for the price. https://www.benq.com/en/monitor/photographer/sw271.html...

So Nisi and Kinifinity bring the same lenses to the market for the same price and they have an image circle of at least 46.5 mm. The lenses come with a PL, EF and Sony E mount that are user changeable. 25 mm T2.1, 35 mm T2, 50 mm T2, 75 mm T2, 100 mm T2 and 18 mm T? on the way. Price around $...

Kinefinity is here to stay, so it seems..... and keeps innovating. https://www.cinema5d.com/kinefinity-mavo-6k-cinema-camera-lens-family/ Or when your Mandrin is good, look over here http://www.kinefinity.com/mavo/