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Pixiq.com was an ambitious attempt by Sterling Publishing (Barnes & Noble) to build a popular photography mega-blog owned by traditional corporate media. Apparently the owners decided to abruptly end the experiment and pull the plug. When you visit the Pixiq website, you get a spartan message “Sorry, this website is no longer active. For information about Pixiq books, please visit www.sterlingpublishing.com”. All the content on the website, thousands of articles per Google search is now gone and the authors and readers have been abandoned without a chance to save their content and favorite posts or comments! 

Blackmagic downsizes the BMCC, calls it the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, charges $1k This is insane. Basically we have a greatly shrunken version of the BMCC with the same proven sensor DR and IQ that records 1920 instead of 2.5K to SD cards in the same compressed codec of ProRes and in a new compressed version of RAW DNG. Oh yeah…and it’s going to cost one thousand bucks. So what’s the point ?  Well.  the camera is tiny.  I mean it’s kind of ridiculously tiny.  A tiny camera means you can get shots you can’t get with any other camera.  Think of car rigging for example.  but also anywhere you have a tight spot that you’d struggle to get a regular BMCC or full size camera into. It’s also going to be great for more covert or discrete uses.  The camera looks like a regular NEX style point and shoot camera so if you wanted to slip under the radar or you’re out in the general public it could easily go more unnoticed. Frankly though, it’s insane that you can  get the same DR into a camera that’s so small.  Theres no reason you couldn’t slap regular super 16 lenses on there and get the great BMCC look from this camera.  It would take some pimping up to make this into a production camera but frankly, I think the camera is best in its naked form. The lower cost also means its easier to put the camera into more risky shooting scenarios where the camera might be damaged, like stunts. Blackmagic has a page for it here. I just hope there aren’t shipping delays as there were with the original BMCC. rest at johnbrawley
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Blackmagic downsizes the BMCC, calls it the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, charges $1k

This is insane.

Basically we have a greatly shrunken version of the BMCC with the same proven sensor DR and IQ that records 1920 instead of 2.5K to SD cards in the same compressed codec of ProRes and in a new compressed version of RAW DNG. Oh yeah…and it’s going to cost one thousand bucks.

So what’s the point ?  Well.  the camera is tiny.  I mean it’s kind of ridiculously tiny.  A tiny camera means you can get shots you can’t get with any other camera.  Think of car rigging for example.  but also anywhere you have a tight spot that you’d struggle to get a regular BMCC or full size camera into.

It’s also going to be great for more covert or discrete uses.  The camera looks like a regular NEX style point and shoot camera so if you wanted to slip under the radar or you’re out in the general public it could easily go more unnoticed.

Frankly though, it’s insane that you can  get the same DR into a camera that’s so small.  Theres no reason you couldn’t slap regular super 16 lenses on there and get the great BMCC look from this camera.  It would take some pimping up to make this into a production camera but frankly, I think the camera is best in its naked form.

The lower cost also means its easier to put the camera into more risky shooting scenarios where the camera might be damaged, like stunts.

Blackmagic has a page for it here.

I just hope there aren’t shipping delays as there were with the original BMCC.

rest at johnbrawley

Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
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Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
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Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
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Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
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Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
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Whenever anybody complains to me about how ‘wrong’ Instagram photos are, I show them “pictorialism” photos from 100 years ago.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of “creating” an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.

showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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showslow: Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.
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Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing a very original world. His photographs are exhibited all around the world.

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