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Starship Flight 9: Photographing History, Triumph, and Turbulence

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When have you felt most locked-in behind a camera? Was it on the sidelines, framing a game’s do-or-die play? Or perhaps glimpsing a rare animal after days of patiently waiting in harsh conditions? For me, it’s the instant all 33 Raptor engines ignite beneath SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle, the ground literally trembling as the rocket […]

How To's

Breaking Down One-Shots in Cinematography

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The Oner – A cinematographer’s boss fight that really tests one’s ability to choreograph a scene from front to back and expertly flex their skills with a camera. While the Oner (or commonly called a one-shot) was certainly always a novelty, with recent technological advances and current trends in cinematography, the Oner has pushed itself […]

Geek Articles

A Technical Review of the Fujifilm GF 30mm Tilt Shift

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I’ve had a Fujifilm 30mm GF f/5.6 tilt/shift lens on loan from Lensrentals for about three weeks, and I’ve done the basic testing. I had hoped to get some time using the lens the way it was intended, but testing this complex lens turned out to take all the time I’d allotted to the task. […]

GFX100 Focusing

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A Deep Dive Into Manually Focusing MILCs

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This post is of interest to any user of a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC). I’ve illustrated it with images from the Fujifilm GFX 100. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Use as much magnification as you can subject to 2, below Use a low peaking sensitivity to produce visible peaking at the chosen magnification. The […]

Recommendations

A Technical Review of the Nikon 58mm f/.95 Noct

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This is an outstanding lens. I’ve worked with f/0.95 lenses before, and they’ve all been severely optically compromised. You can’t say that about the Nikon 58mm f/.95 Noct. It’s sharp across the frame wide open, and amazingly so stopped down to f/1.4. It has few aberrations by any standard, and amazingly few for such a […]

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