Tag Archives: f3

Footcandles to expose image on F3

Posted on October 20th, 2011

Since I left behind the world of shooting with 35mm adapters where I was working with effective ISO’s from anywhere between 50 and 160 to a bright new world of 800 ISO with the F3, lately I’ve been obsessing over different light fixtures and their output performance combined with what’s exactly needed to expose a [...]

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Sony F3 time lapse sunset

Posted on October 14th, 2011

This is a short time lapse I did of a sunset over a lake using the interval function built into the Sony F3 video camera.   The time lapsed was about an hour with the F3 set to record 1 frame every 5 seconds. I started with the built in ND filter set to 1 [...]

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Sony PMW-F3 PL mount removal

Posted on October 3rd, 2011

After having my own extreme difficulties removing the Sony PL Mount from the PMW-F3 (and not feeling good about having to tell people it was me doing it wrong) I thought an illustration showing exactly how to do it would be a good idea. It also would have been well appreciated in the user manual but is not located in it [...]

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Sony PMW-F3 Super 35mm video camera

Posted on September 12th, 2011

In early 2008 the DSLR Revolution took us by storm, and in response largely to the DSLR revolution mainstream manufacturer giants such as Panasonic with the AF-100 and now Sony with the PWM-F3 are finally listening to the demands for larger sized sensor video cameras. (Or likely caught on after watching record breaking sales on Canon DSLRs.) On November 8th 2010 [...]

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