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BlackMagic introduces 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000

via EOSHD.com:

For too long the big corporate giants from Japan have been neglecting a huge burgeoning demand for a true next generation filmic camera for the masses… Despite stumbling ass backwards into it in pole position.

Now a company with a fraction of the resources best know for their external recording boxes (like the Hyperdeck Shuttle) BlackMagic Design has dropped a bombshell. They have entered the digital cinema market with a $3000 cinema camera that records 2.5K RAW with 13.5 stops of dynamic range to an SSD, with Thunderbolt and HD-SDI. A true next generation camera.

This is just a picture making box. Like Apple, BlackMagic seems to get that adding simplicity rather than complexity makes for a better product. It is a machined aluminium block and the crucial interface ports are just as robust. HD-SDI and XLR.

This feels like the opposite of the Canon 1D C announced a few days ago. Who knows which way this goes in actual execution. Odds are that it won’t be OMGINCREDIBALLS but it could be enough to change the market for indie cinematography.

Read the rest of the deets at EOSHD.com

Be still our hearts! Check out a video review right here.

Source: eoshd.com

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life:

Every party must come to an end and when it does, there are kisses and promises and waves goodbye. Here, LIFE, er, salutes the wave — and all the emotion in those quick flicks of the hand…

Pictured: Legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong waves to his fans, calls it a night.

Source: life

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This Week in Vimeo! Oct. 3rd

We’ve been really into Drew Christie’s work for a while and just recently got to ask him some questions to learn more about his interests and creative process. Check out his hand-drawn music video, Empress of the North, above!

First thing’s first, introduce yourself.
My name is Drew Christie and I am an animator and an illustrator. I live in Seattle, Washington with my girlfriend and fellow animator Amanda Moore. I have a collection of old time music instruments such as banjos, guitars, mandolins, etc.

Can you recall the first time you felt that you wanted to be involved in videos?
Playing around with our family video camera is one of my earliest memories. It was a very large Panasonic, the kind where you put a VHS tape in. I would make movies with my action figures set on my ewok fort and do the voices behind the camera. Essentially, I am still doing the same thing I was doing at the age of 5.

You have a very distinct aesthetic, it feels nostalgic. Can you tell us about this? Is there a particular time in history or area that interests you?
I am interested in just about anything old, but in particular, I am interested in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The textures and styles and instruments and sounds from that time carry me away and inspire me. I cant explain why this is- it is a total mystery to me.

Your animation ‘The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln’ sounds like it came about in a very D.I.Y. way, can you describe the process of working on this?
Making The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln was interesting because I made the entire thing at my old job. At this job I sat in a truck in various parking lots taking donations from people and then driving the donations to thrift stores that bought the donations. I came in contact with a lot of old science fiction paperbacks (nice aged pages) that i appropriated and animated in. I used the driver’s side mirror as my lightbox. The animation ended up filling up about 12 paperbacks. I am very much interested in the lesser figures of American history.

First video you ever Liked on Vimeo?
The first video I liked was the Books Promo for STG that my girlfriend Amanda Moore made.

One Vimean that inspires you?
I like Colony

You can check out the rest of Drew’s work by visiting his profile. From everyone here at Vimeo, we hope you all have a great week!