Photography, Filmmaking, Gadgets and More
I’m going to take a photo as I write this with both my Ricoh GR and Samsung Note 4 cellphone.
Photographers will be able to tell the difference. The Ricoh has more detail (photo, right), blurs the background a bit (f 2.8), has more natural colors, etc. However, both photos would be deemed the same quality to most people.
I could never get Magic Lantern to run on the EOS-M without some difficulty. So I bought a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC). What I didn’t expect was how easy it is to shoot with the camera. Davinci Resolve, software primarily designed to color grade footage, can now create time-line edited videos.
There are many blogs that point out shortcomings of the camera.
For the past couple of weeks I have been looking for a small video camera to complement my Sigma DP1 and DP2S, which take superlative photos, but unusable video. Knowing I’d want short focal-length, shallow depth of field, I ruled out a camcorder.