Filmmaking blog

When traveling, a small camera setup is often necessary to get shots quickly and to avoid causing too much attention. Our favorite setup for travel filmmaking is this small camera and this medium seized stabilizer to capture smooth tracking shots.

We had the chance to test the Google Pixel 2 phone for a few hours and decided to go out and capture some autumn impressions in Frankfurt’s Eastend. You can watch the video in 2160p below. If you’re wondering why

Meet us at the Aputure Booth NO : C2143 NAB Show Keynote Commercial filmmaking Insights on our production process and how YouTube can help you to grow a video production company. Tuesday, April 10, at 2 p.m.

In late December 2017 and January 2018 I travelled across Java. I decided to take the Fujifilm X-T2 with the 10-24mm and the 55-200mm lens to capture some video. Both lenses are ideal for hand-held shooting because they have image

If you want to see how the files captured with the X-H1 look like, feel free to download some of our 4K footage and raw photos taken with Fuji’s latest mirrorless camera. DOWNLOAD ISO 12.800 VIDEO SAMPLES DOWNLOAD ETERNA &

Fujifilm just released a big firmware update for the Fujifilm X-T2. What does that mean for X-H1 owners or everyone who’s thinking about getting Fuji’s latest 4K mirrorless camera? It actually changes a lot because thanks to the company’s philosophy

Sony is putting their professional XAVC codec in a lot of new cameras. They also introduced a new codec for consumer cameras a year ago called XAVC S. Some of their newer models already have that codec on board but

Two years ago we were in Thailand and filmed a short film called THAILAND’S DIVERSITY with the Canon EOS 650D (Rebel T4i). You can read more about the production here. The film was mostly filmed in the country side but

There are a lot of reasons to use ambient sound and sound effects in a film. Recording sound effects is a great thing but in a lot of cases it’s hard to achieve really professional sounding results. Don’t get me

I recently spent some time with old analog Leica R lenses. I was excited to try them out because I’ve never really shot anything on vintage glass. I expected some scratches on the glass and maybe some vignetting – but

Everybody who owns a long slider knows the trouble of making sure the slider is steady and stable. When only mounting one tripod in the middle it’s almost impossible to get a straight shot while moving the camera from one

In my next to last post I talked about an easy technique for getting tracking shots with a tripod. We got a lot of responses and many people said that using a monopod would be even better. I couldn’t really