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Prime L Scream

By Jon Roemer On 8 Jan ’13 · Leave a Comment

Hot on the heals of his 2011 world’s best test video of a new camera, director/dp/editor Jonathan Yi brings us a look at Canon’s new Cinema Primes vs. Canon’s L Series Prime lenses.

Warning: Not so safe for work.

Canon Cinema Primes main competition are Zeiss Compact Primes. The ACS, [...]

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On set. Princeton, NJ. January 4, 2013. Photo by David Hopkins. Click to enlarge.

Franken-boots and All

By Jon Roemer On 4 Jan ’13 · Leave a Comment

On set today shooting a portrait for an ongoing ad campaign. This was setup #2. The first was in the adjacent control room.

To build on yesterday’s post, this is an example of what’s so good about professional quality LED lighting. Setup #1 was in the adjacent control room. The LED lights (2 – [...]

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Litepanels 1x1 with OEM 4-way barn doors.

1000 Points of Light but No Barn Doors

By Jon Roemer On 3 Jan ’13 · 5 Comments

Well, I should have known better and if the pace of things was slower, e.g I had more sleep, I would have thought of a very simple way to test first, before buying. The 4-way barn doors for the Litepanels’ 1×1 lights are a major fail. I thought it might be the case [...]

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George Bisacca, Painting Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Conservator

By Jon Roemer On 14 Nov ’12 · 5 Comments

I have alluded to this assignment in two prior posts, The End of the Affair and A Peek Behind the Curtain. In early September I had the opportunity to photograph George Bisacca, Paintings Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

George is one of an extremely small group of specialists worldwide who [...]

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Dan stands in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. Canon 1D X with 1x1 Litepanel as key, Sola ENG as highlight on background painting. Only custom WB to file, no other work.

The End of the Affair

By Jon Roemer On 1 Oct ’12 · 2 Comments

I have written about the Canon 5D Mark III since it was announced last March and since receiving mine shortly after. As someone who had been using the 1Ds Mark III for just over four years, the 5DM3 seemed to be the next logical step given that I am not a full time [...]

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Still from video. Click to enlarge. Princeton, NJ. September 16, 2012.

Butterfly Man – C300 720p Test

By Jon Roemer On 18 Sep ’12 · Leave a Comment

In between jobs I’m continuing to test the C300. This past weekend was a chance to run it in 720/60p mode and see how it fares vs. 1080/24p.

The two modes are pretty indistinguishable though as expected 1080 has the edge in detail. What’s nice to see is that 720 is not compromised as [...]

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Canon C300, C-log (same images as above) + quick grade via FCP X. Formal setup. Click to enlarge to full 1920 x1080 size.

C Notes

By Jon Roemer On 2 Jul ’12 · Leave a Comment

This past Thursday was my first assignment with the C300. So, a chance to use it in the field in a typical under-pressure situation. I had about ten interviews to film and lots of b-roll to get while bouncing between four locations.

The crew was myself and two assistants plus the client who interviewed [...]

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Canon EOS C300.

The Eagle has Landed

By Jon Roemer On 28 May ’12 · 1 Comment

After four months on order, my Canon C300 has arrived. The C300 is the first of Canon’s line of Cinema EOS cameras – inverting what was the standard with their DSLRs. In this case, creating a camera designed from the ground up to shoot video not stills.

Its form factor is [...]

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