There is certainly staff in charge of making certain that each theater is projecting the correct movie and trailers at the appropriate time, but there is no “projectionist” in anything close to the meaning of the word back when movies … Continue reading →

“I’m still shooting on celluloid; I’m still shooting on 35mm film,” he said. “I love film and I’m not planning any time soon to convert to the Red Camera [or] to shoot a digital movie. I guess my first digital … Continue reading →

Hence, 70mm is considered better than 35mm because it can project more colours, more detail, more everything out onto the screen. In the days before digital projectors, 70mm was sort of like the equivalent of IMAX. You only ever saw … Continue reading →

1920 x 1080 is a 16:9 aspect ratio. What is the width in 1920×1080? 1,920 pixelsIn the case of a monitor with an industry-standard Full HD 1080p resolution, this display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080. This means that … Continue reading →

about 60 minutes. Thankfully, BMPCC 6K Pro goes a different route with battery than the Pocket 6K or 4K, with a larger NP-F570 battery. If you’re shooting 6K RAW at 24FPS, it will last about 60 minutes. In comparison, the … Continue reading →

When it comes to looks and handling, the BMPCC 6K Pro is more mirrorless than camcorder, but this is no stills camera as the quality of footage it captures is staggeringly good. In use, the ergonomics of the body makes … Continue reading →

8K is a higher resolution than 4K—and that’s it. 1080p screens have a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels. 4K screens double those numbers to 3,840 by 2,160 and quadruple the number of pixels. 8K doubles the numbers again, to … Continue reading →

A smartphone camera image sensor is a device that takes the light that enters the camera through the lens and produces a digital image from it. The surface of a sensor contains millions of photosites also known as pixels which … Continue reading →

The Structure of CMOS Sensors Such chips contain large arrays of transistors, which in CMOS sensors are each composed of a photodiode and amplifier. The photodiodes accumulate electrical charge when exposed to light, and those charges are then converted to … Continue reading →

1/50th of a second. The Brownie No. 2 Model F’s shutter speed is fixed at 1/50th of a second, while the Kodak meniscus lens is limited to a maximum aperture of f/11. What was special about the Kodak Brownie camera? … Continue reading →

Color negative film is the kind of film usually found in convenience stores. It uses C-41 chemicals for processing, and you get negatives and prints from it when processed normally. Color negative film is very much “What you see is … Continue reading →

Leica. The Leica shutter is a very simple mechanism built with a minimum of parts. It consists of two blinds with the slit formed by a time delay. The leading blind is mounted on a spring roller with the tapes … Continue reading →

The camera is programmed to take photographs of the rear of any vehicle travelling over the stop line or entering the intersection after the lights have turned red. The camera is not triggered by vehicles crossing the stop line on … Continue reading →

Dolby Atmos Music is an immersive music experience that adds more space, clarity, and depth to your music. Instead of just hearing your music — with Dolby, it feels like you’re inside the song. Does music have Dolby Atmos? That’s … Continue reading →

Invented by Bryce Bayer at Kodak, the Bayer pattern dedicates more pixels to green than to red and blue, because the human eye is more sensitive to green. The additional green pixels produce a better color image. In contrast, a … Continue reading →