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10Jul Canon 24mm f1.4 II vs the Sigma 24mm f1.8 lens Review
I often correspond with Dave Dugdale from learningdslrvideo.com about camera equipment and gear in general. Dave’s questions usually get me thinking about different ways to take advantage of items in my kit. After a discussion about my choice of prime lenses over zooms, we thought it might be interesting to combine forces for this head to head lens […]
08Jul Ravelli ABSL Photo Backdrop Stand
In the past, if I needed to shoot green screen or hang a backdrop I would usually just head out to the garage and hang my backdrop from the rafters or head down to the public access station and use their green screen. I didn’t have enough room inside to set up a proper stand. But now […]
06Jul Canon 40mm f2.8 STM lens Hands on Review Video
The Canon 40mm f2.8 lens sits in a sweet spot between Canon’s 50mm f1.8 and 50mm f1.4 lens offerings. At f2.8 it probably wouldn’t be my first choice for low light shooting, but it’s compact size and focusing distance of .98 feet make it a very interesting travel lens. Sharpness on the Canon 40mm […]
30Jun 4DSLR ZOOM H4N cradle adapter and Manfrotto 15mm rail mount – Video Review
There are two reasons to buy the 4dslr Zoom h4n cradle. The first is if you have stripped out the threads on your Zoom h4n. The second is if you want quick access to the battery compartment. Sure the Zoom h4n has a 1/4 20 mount on the back, but it’s close enough to the battery […]
23Jun Switronix TorchLED BOLT light panel – Video Review
First, a correction. In the video I say “660mAh battery”, that’s actually a 660Ah battery which equals 6600mAh. After taking the TorchLED BOLT out on a weekend long shoot and spending some time with it, I have to say that I’m very impressed. If you’re in the market for an extremely bright compact battery powered LED light, […]
13Jun Switronix TorchLED BOLT on camera Dimmmable LED light – First impressions
You might have noticed my extreme lack of posts on LED camera mount lights. That’s mainly because most of the low priced camera mount LED units don’t output very much light and the color temp is hard to match. But there are always cases were it can be very handy to have a few on […]
23May H005 Real Pic 5.6 inch 1280×800 hdmi monitor – first impression/last impressions
The H005 Real Pic monitor showed up yesterday (shipping from china was surprisingly fast). The package was your standard brown paper bag wrapped around the product with some bubble wrap. No cellophane around the box and it looks like it has been opened before. The monitor itself is packaged in a nice foam cut out and comes with […]
02May Fostex PM0.5n 70W 5″ Active Nearfield Studio Monitors
I’ve received a number of e-mails asking what I use to compare audio samples in some of my tests. Besides a nice set of studio headphones I also use a compact but decent set of Near field Studio monitor speakers. If you’re not familiar with the term “nearfield” it simply means that the speakers are designed to be in […]
13Apr Transcend 400x 32GB CF Card speed test.
As with all my other speed tests I’ve done, for this set of tests I’ve used the H2testw 1.4 flash drive testing program. A few of you have asked why I choose to use this program and the main reason is that it writes a series of 1gb files to the card until the card is […]
01Apr Canon 5d mark III Hands on Video and my first impressions.
So far I’m very pleased with the 5d Mark III’s performance, although I will need to spend some more time testing the audio inputs. As of right now I’m not sure if it’s the camera or the mic that is the source of the noise and I haven’t had a chance to test out other microphones yet. More […]
