Equipment
Lighting in the world of low-budget, small-crew filmmaking is always a balancing act. Whether shooting a narrative project or a documentary, you’ll rarely be providing all the light in a scene using your own gear. Far more often, you’ll be supplementing and modifying light sources that are already on location, mixing various degrees of intensity […]
Equipment
Released in early 2020, the Fujifilm X100V was the latest iteration of their X100 line, and is known to be a tried and true rangefinder-esque walkaround camera that didn’t cost the prices of something from Leica or other competitors. However, over the last few weeks, the Fujifilm X100V has become one of the most desired […]
Equipment
A common question when bringing off-camera flash to your repertoire is whether you should invest in studio strobes, or if you should be using consistent lighting for your photography work. If this were ten years ago, I’d say to invest in strobes, and this advice would look more like a tweet than an actual article. […]
Lenses and Optics
We have a lot of gear in our inventory, which means we also have a lot of broken gear in the middle of repairs. When it comes to lenses, one thing we see a lot in the repair department is front element scratches. And that makes sense, when a lens is mounted, it’s the single […]
Equipment
Professional video batteries are a constant source of confusion for our customers. So constant, in fact, that this isn’t the first time we’ve written an article on this topic. First, Erik Morrison wrote a beginner guide in the bygone days of 2011. I then updated that article with some more information and context in 2020. […]
