Category: ‘Filmmaking’
Footcandles to expose image on F3
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 “good” image with the F3. …
Sony F3 time lapse sunset
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 (1/8th – which equals 3 …
Sony PMW-F3 PL mount removal
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 at all. Some caution on …
Sony F65 Sneak Peak at CSC
It was a pleasure to attend the Canadian Society of Cinematographers meeting held at Videoscope in Toronto on September 27th, 2011 where I got to see the Sony F65 extremely up close and personal. (Yes I touched it!) I had the opportunity to meet Ando (seen above) who is one of the Sony engineers flown in from Japan that worked …
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