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Crooked Path Films’ Online Guide to the Sony NEX-FS100

 A Little Background… As a DSLR user and author of the Online Guide to 5dMkII Cinematography, I’ve been waiting for video camera companies to adopt the large sensor and interchangeable lens into a fully functional cinema camera based on the overwhelming popularity of  DSLRs.  I went to NAB and spent hours researching the large sensor cameras. The [...]

Crooked Path Flat – Picture Styles for Canon DSLRs

Here’s a list of what’s offered and descriptions about each. A NOTE ABOUT USING FLAT PICTURE STYLES: The purpose of using a flat picture style while shooting video is useful if you plan to color grade the footage in post production. The picture style is not intended to be used as an in-camera method of [...]

Crooked Path Films’ Online Guide to the Canon 5dMkII

(UPDATE: I modified this to reflect the firmware release 2.0.8.  which makes all versions of Magic Lantern unusable, therefore I am removing the Magic Lantern options until a stable release is released.) The 5d2 is not made to be a video camera.  It’s a digital still camera with video capability.  But like the inventors of [...]