“I've got no great love lost for film grain and I think I can say I think I've managed to go all of 2022 without using film grain once. It's something you know, if the client says, 'Hey, we're doing film grain, give me your best version of it', then my answer is of course... Continue Reading →

"Zipper durability has indeed been a challenge across certain product generations. And while we've made improvements over the years, upgrading materials, tweaking stress points and refining construction, we clearly still have work to do." - Peak Design "Every single one of my Peak Design bags that I've used daily has experienced the same failure. After... Continue Reading →

If proper color management, working scene-referred or HDR are important to you, avoid the Dehancer plugin. For starters, it is limited to the Rec.709 color space. “Since Dehancer asked me to make an honest review, I will talk about them [the bad things]. The first one, which would instantly be a deal breaker for many... Continue Reading →

Frank Glencairn fancies himself a senior colorist, so it's baffling why he would recommend a YouTube tutorial filled with blunders that any experienced colorist ought to be able to spot at a glance. EXPOSURE (1) The YouTuber recommends zebras and waveforms for exposure, but bewilderingly overlooks false color, one of the most useful exposure tools... Continue Reading →

Much streamed HDR content is virtually indistinguishable from SDR. Nate McFarlin, Staff Content Engineer, Dolby Laboratories, says that film schools are partly to blame for failing to teach HDR acquisition and post-production. Joey D’Anna: Are people adopting HDR more now than they have before? Or is it still kind of that niche, nerdy thing for... Continue Reading →

The following excerpt is from S6 E5 of The T Stop Inn with guest Michael Cioni and host Ben Allan, ACS on 21 March 2025. We highly recommend listening to the entire show. Michael Cioni: I used to own a post house called Light Iron, and we did everything from The Social Network, we worked... Continue Reading →

A lot of people are seeing technically higher quality - they're seeing HDR, they're seeing 4K - higher quality on a purely technical level on the device that's in their pocket than what they're seeing at their local cinema. - Ben Allan, ACS The following excerpt is from S6 E5 of The T Stop Inn... Continue Reading →

https://youtube.com/shorts/VhSA1i4t-B4?feature=share All four of our Sigma DC DN ‘Contemporary’ APS-C lenses for RF Mount - the 16mm f/1.4, 23mm f/1.4, 30mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.4 - worked fine on our RED KOMODO until we updated to their latest firmware version 1.8.3. The aperture indicator on the camera changes continuously, the camera’s physical buttons and on... Continue Reading →

A calibrator sharing his experience matching a DIT’s LG client monitor with his Flanders XMP310 writes, “One of the trickiest parts? The ABL (automatic brightness limiting) on these two monitors kicks in at very different points, forcing us to rethink how to treat the LG TV.” He observed that the FSI XMP310 began to limit... Continue Reading →

Returning Greatness to Film Grain: Introducing AV1-Compatible Film Grain Modeling for ExistingHEVC-Based Video Codecs. By Dan Grois, Alex Giladi, Thomas Guionnet, Thomas Burnichon,Nikolay Tverdokhleb, and Mickael Raulet Do the conclusions of this study, which presents an implementation of the existing AV1 film grain synthesis applied to HEVC-based video codecs, justify such a bombastic title? For... Continue Reading →

"And now if we think further about negative emulation, all kinds of other interesting questions come into play that kind of go along the lines of what we were just talking about, like what are the great things and also the limitations of a film negative. Here’s one that is not popular and people don't... Continue Reading →

CineD begins its write up of the Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K like so: “While some camera manufacturers keep postponing 8K camera models due to the industry’s slower adoption of the very high resolution and the massive data rates that come with it, other companies are moving in the other direction.” Is that so? Let’s see…... Continue Reading →