Marty Stalker, who is an Belfast based documentary shooter worked on a production in Palestine. Read what he thinks about it and why you shouldn’t shoot during Ramadan!

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS integrated with CINEFLEX® is the ultimate gyro-stabilized solution for aerial cinematography. The CINEFLEX® is a multi-axis coordinated gimbal control system that provides layered isolation, steering, and fine correctional movements to stabilize a wide selection of precision optics to a sub-pixel level.

Wally Pfister, who is the cinematographer of Inception talks about his work, tools and why he stills likes analog film

Several years ago Leica was economically depressed. The analog cameras weren’t selling as good as the years before. Then they introduced the Leica M9, and later the M9-P and joined the digital world. The company got tremendously popular again and long waiting lists existed for that camera.

I talked to Enrique Pacheco about his work, his passion and more over his upcoming workshop!

I bet you know some camera models in this nice animation!

In the meantime there are dozens of social networks available on the internet. Every single one has a different principle. Some are successful, some not.
When I first discovered Path through @appinator, I really liked its concept and design. It was simple, usable and competitive to the existing networks. Kinda like the better version of Facebook. Even thugh of its super features, not many friends joined it. It was (and still is) iPhone only and has no real web interface, which is a handicap for many.
Nevertheless, I found a super awesome usage for it: FOOTSTEPSAPP

The National Association of Broadcasters today released preliminary figures for the 2012 NAB Show, the world’s largest electronic media event covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums.

If you are someone who does timelapse with DSLR and has to do calculations to determine the appropriate interval or duration of your event, then this application will certainly interest you. It’s called time-lapse Toolkit and it is now available for both iPhone, iPad and Android.

It was one of the most popular questions at NAB: “What is your favorite product at NAB 2012?”
Now I’d like to know this from all my friends at NAB and also from those, who followed the news at home. Plese leave a comment on this page with your opinion! In the next days, I’ll summarize the answers to a write-up about the exhibition!

All the major product releases are sufficiently covered by several news websites like DSLR News Shooter, planet5d, Wideopencamera, etc.. But I also found several nice products, which I personally like best.

Beside the presentation of the Canon EOS C500, Canon also released the details of the new EOS-1D C.
Equipped with an 18.1-megapixel full-frame 24mm x 36mm Canon CMOS sensor, the camera records 8-bit 4:2:2 Motion JPEG 4K video to the camera’s CF memory card at 24 frames-per-second (fps) or Full HD 1920 x 1080 video at selectable frame rates from 24p to 60p.

Just a few days before NAB, Canon released the anticipated new 4K camera. It is called C500, which means it is the big brother to the C300, which was released November 2011.
The camera can record full 4K (4096 x 2160-pixel) resolution digital motion imagery with uncompressed RAW output for external recording.

The guys from Kessler Crane are going to release a few more really handy products for your sliders.
The first one is Low Profile Ball Head, which is basically a ultra-low profile ball head system with 62 degrees of total adjustability. The next one is a Multi-Angle Mounting Plate, which allows a 45 or 90 degrees rotated mounting. The third product is a Multi-Angle Cheese Plate. It can be easily attached to the Mounting Plate. The new Kwik Release System is a one hand mounting system