Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology that allows you to refocus your shots after shooting them morphs into a compact solution providing shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount. Attach a telephoto, wide angle, macro or fifty prime — you name it — you’re on your way to that 35mm shallow DOF look. Mashable notes some caveats: your images will be upside down, due to the fact that SLR cameras have a mirror inside them which flips the image right-side up – something that iPhone obviously doesn’t have. Oh heck, that’s no biggy; the Brevis adapter did this in its initial iteration (the footage for this spot and this spot came out of the camera up-side-down). A simple Photoshop script should help you batch rotate stills, while doing so in FCP might be a bit of a manual task. This device is clearly useful as a supplement to you existing kit. For instance, you’re traveling with 5 or 6 lenses; you put a couple of your lenses on say a Canon 7D and 5D that you’re shooting video with simultaneously, you can throw on one of your remaining lenses onto your iPhone to get a third shot. This guy will set you back $249.

Photojojo iPhone SLR Mount

Time to blow your photographic mind: refocus a photo after the fact.

Hardcore technology out of Stanford becomes start-up Lytro, via Techcrunch:

Rather than just capturing one plane of light, it captures the entire light field around a picture, all in one shot taken on a single device. A light field includes every beam of light in every direction at every point in time. Experimentation in this field started in the mid-1990s at Stanford with 100 cameras in one room. Lytro’s innovation is making it small enough to fit in your pocket.

Check out the science inside this camera that makes “living pictures.” This seems to us to be the technology which will eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field after the fact, doing away with the need for physically large lenses full of sculpted pieces of glass. We can imagine how images captured using small lenses on smartphone devices will be manipulated automatically or manually into the focal lengths of various lenses. Not to mention making obsolete funky iPhone accessories (no matter how much we love them) such as the Olloclip and Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount. This innovation will either be a blessing, a curse or somewhere in between for focus-pullers everywhere.

In any event, bring on the music video concepts leveraging exclusively this focus gag, the fantastic “focus-pulling” in narrative films, and undoubtedly a Scientific and Technical Academy Award.

Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV)

Not to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas. Like iPhone 4 photography accessory hits like The Glif and the Olloclip, Dot is a Kickstarter project. Brought to you by makers of full-sized panoramic video devices Kogeto:

Dot lets your iPhone capture immersive, fully navigable, panoramic video in real-time – and share with friends on your phone, as well as on Facebook and Twitter, or streamed online using our awesome panoramic video web platform and player.

The video is swipe-navigable.

Kickstarter

Like other grip and lens as well as panoramic solutions for the iPhone 4, Oona is being pioneered via Kickstarter. The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.

Kickstarter

Official video from Sony on their is a new E-mount professional camcorder the NEX-FS100E. The unit comes equipped with a Super 35mm motion picture sensor and is a further addition to Sony’s 35mm line-up.

All about Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, NEX FS-100

Sony NXCAM HD NEX-FS100 Super 35mm Sensor Camera (Video)

Sony Professional - NEX FS100E: Affordable Super 35mm (Video)

Sony NEX FS 100 Prototype from F-Stop Academy (Video)

Videomaker Demos Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, the NEX FS-100 (Video)

Sony NEX-FS100E review by Nigel Cooper on DVuser

This is the pro alternative to the NEX-VG10. The NEX-FS100 is an E-mount camcorder, but can be adapted to accept a wide range of lenses such as Nikon or say Zeiss primes they already have in their kits like this, this, this or this. The NXCAM comes equipped with a Super 35mm CMOS sensor specifically designed for shooting motion pictures. The large-format sensor’s high sensitivity shoots 1080p60 content at up to 28Mbps to SD to Memory Stick (or an optional 128GB SSD) or output uncompressed 4:2:2 footage over HDMI. Includes a top-mounted, swiveling 3.5-inch LCD display.

All about Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, NEX FS-100

Sony NXCAM HD NEX-FS100 Super 35mm Sensor Camera (Video)

Sony Professional - NEX FS100E: Affordable Super 35mm (Video)

Sony NEX FS 100 Prototype from F-Stop Academy (Video)

Videomaker Demos Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, the NEX FS-100 (Video)

Sony NEX-FS100E review by Nigel Cooper on DVuser

Nigel Cooper at DVuser has an extensive review of the Sony NEX-FS100E, and the conclusions he draws are not good:

All-in-all, the FS100 feels like a rushed camcorder. The ergonomics are frustrating, the fixtures and fittings are poor quality, the switches, dials and knobs are all way too small and they feel plasticky with a vague feel i.e. you don’t really know if you have actually pressed a button; you need LCD menu feedback to confirm. The hand-grip on the side wobbles, even when tightened up, so to does the top handle/mic holder, which feels like it is hanging on by its fingernails. Everything about this camcorder feels wrong to me; except the sensor and the quality of images it produces.

DVuser

All about Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, NEX FS-100

Sony NXCAM HD NEX-FS100 Super 35mm Sensor Camera (Video)

Sony Professional - NEX FS100E: Affordable Super 35mm (Video)

Sony NEX FS 100 Prototype from F-Stop Academy (Video)

Videomaker Demos Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, the NEX FS-100 (Video)

Sony NEX-FS100E review by Nigel Cooper on DVuser

With one of only two prototype NEX FS 100 cameras in the world, Den Lennie walks you through the newest model in Sony’s prosumer line. The video also includes test footage in the form of a music video.

We especially wanted to push the low light capability and use the in camera media. It shoots to SD cards, Sony Memory sticks and also has a 128GB FMU which is a solid state pack that integrates with the camera and will give up to 10 hrs record time at 24mb/s AVC HD.

We shot everything at 24mb/s AVC HD and ingested into FCP and transcoded to ProRes 422 using Log and transfer.

Shot over a 36 hr period in one weekend on one of only 2 prototype NEX FS 100 Cameras in the world.

We used 3 lenses:
A Sony Alpha 50mm f1.4 with alpha to emount adaptor
A E mount 16mm f2.8
The Stock lens 18-200 f3.5-5.6

All about Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, NEX FS-100

Sony NXCAM HD NEX-FS100 Super 35mm Sensor Camera (Video)

Sony Professional - NEX FS100E: Affordable Super 35mm (Video)

Sony NEX FS 100 Prototype from F-Stop Academy (Video)

Videomaker Demos Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, the NEX FS-100 (Video)

Sony NEX-FS100E review by Nigel Cooper on DVuser

The Glif was designed to be small, simple, and elegant. This must-have piece of gear for any iPhone 4 user and video shooter got its humble start on the web pages of Kickstater. The simple design emerges countless uses. Mount your iPhone 4 to a tripod for taking great pictures or making movies. Prop your iPhone up for hands-free FaceTiming or to watch videos. All of that and more in a compact design that is manufactured in America.

The Glif

This guide is the first in a series of upcoming educational initiatives that B&H Photo Video plans to offer and our cinematographer pal Christopher Gallo who shot on our corporate film for Harman International was a contributor to the project.

B&H HDSLR Guide


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B&H Photo – Video – Pro Audio

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Harman International Corporate Film

We Did It: Harman Shoot

BCP Client: Harman International

BCP Client: Farm

Harman International Corporate Rip Team

George Spyros, Executive Producer & Director

Christopher Gallo, Director of Photography

Knut Adass, Director of Photography

Phil Guye, Gaffer

Martin Bourgund, Gaffer

Sebastian Hoppe Fuentes, Assistant Camera

Armin Karahasanovic, Assistant Camera

Kevin Skaggs, Grip

Birgit Adolf, Grip

Michaela McKee, Production Coordinator

Alexander Brönner, Production Manager

Harman International Corporate Rip Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Arri Compact HMI 2500 Watt Fresnel Flicker Free

Arri Compact HMI 575 Watt Fresnel Flicker Free

Arri Compact HMI 200 Watt Fresnel Flicker Free

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System