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Sirui 35mm F/1.8 Anamorphic lens review
The Sirui 35mm F/1.8 is a manual anamorphic lens with a Micro Four Thirds mount. When recording video in 16:9 the footage needs to be squeezed in to a 2.40:1 aspect ratio to be displayed correctly. This can be done
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Low price, premium look? 25mm cheap lens review
Cheap lenses don’t always have to feel cheap. The Meike 25mm F/1.8 is a lens that feels like a premium vintage lens even though it’s quite the opposite. The 75 Euro/USD lens is made for crop APS-C cameras. It equals
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Easy wireless video monitoring: Hollyland Mars 400s review
Just a few years ago I got my hands on some brand-new wireless video transmitters. At first, I didn’t expect much because for me it seemed like magic to get a video signal on an external monitor without a cable
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Nikon D780: N-Log Color Graded Footage
I recently got the new Nikon D780 full-frame DSLR for an hour to test and used it to see how well it performs when recording 4K N-Log footage. You can see the before and after shots below. Nothing special, just
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Fujifilm X100V: Graded Footage (Hand-held)
I recently got a Fujifilm X100V to test for a day. Spoiler: It’s not a camera that is meant to be used to capture video. It has a fixed 23mm F/2 lens (35mm in full-frame) and no IBIS or OIS.
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Edelkrone SliderPLUS review & HeadPLUS
Motion controlled timelapses look great but are often complicated to setup and require a lot of different components. I have used several sliders and pan-tilt heads over the past six years. But often found them to be impractical to use
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Zhiyun Crane-M2 review: Gimbal for small cameras
The Zhiyun Crane-M2 is designed for point-and-shoot cameras, action cameras, smartphones and very small mirrorless camera setups. But I think that the best use for it are point-and-shoot cameras due to the right size fit and the full compability. One
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Panasonic Lumix point-and-shoot: Small cameras – big problems?
While the sales for compact cameras are declining due to the increase of good smartphone cameras there are still a lot of reasons to use those small cameras. We have been using point-and-shoot cameras as B-cams on certain Projects and
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Zhiyun Crane 3 Lab: DSLR gimbal review
With its unique design, the Crane 3 Lab from Zhiyun is definitely an eye catcher. Only the axis on top give away that this is even a camera gimbal. The handle and button setup look rather like a joystick in
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Cinematic motion control film gear – SYRP Genie II review
The SYRP Genie II pan tilt is a motion controlled head that can be used for timelapse and real time video shoots. The device can pan 360° which can be useful for panoramic shots and it tilts 180° which means
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Edelkrone SliderONE V2 review & HeadONE – motorized timelapse gear
The Edelkrone SliderONE version two is a small camera slider made to capture motion-controlled video, stop motion and timelapse shots. You can watch our video review below: The slider’s motion can be operated and adjusted by using Edelkrone’s phone application
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Ultra wide-angle lens review: Fujinon 8-16mm F/2.8
The Fujinon 8-16mm F/2.8 is a lens that has long been missing in the X-lens lineup. The 10-24mm wide-angle has been around for a few years and is certainly a good lens but the biggest downside has always been the