ZEISS Nano Prime High-Speed Cine Lenses

As mirrorless becomes more dominant and relevant to filmmakers, manufactures have started to produce more lenses for their platforms.  Mirrorless mount physics should make possible a better quality of lens than what was possible before. Zeiss has released this interesting set of lenses with 6 focal lengths all at T1.5: …

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RED Digital Cinema V-RAPTOR [X] 8K VV

This small cinema camera is targeted at a niche audience with its $30,000 price tag.  It’s still good news for all of those who produce video as technology, given enough time, tends to trickle down and become more affordable.  An affordable full-frame global shutter sensor may come our way given …

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OCTOPUS16 Super 16 Cinema Camera

Octopus Cinema has a camera in development that looks amazing to us.  There hasn’t been a good 16mm digital cinema camera for a while since Blackmagic abandoned that sensor size and let’s not talk about the Bolex D16.  And the price is said to be under $1000.  The unfortunate reality …

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Tuner by Module 8: Give Your Lenses a Cinematic Look

The term cinematic look is overused.  However, this innovative product found a way to amplify the aberrations in your image so to emulate some expensive vintage lens looks.  We will need to wait for more reviews to come in to see how close they actually got, but this product is …

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