DP Review Tuesday November 9, 2021
DJI’s newly announced Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine drones bring dual camera systems with improved sensors, omnidirectional obstacle sensing, improved flight time and more, notes DP Review. Both the Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine feature a Hasselblad-branded L2D-20c dual-camera array that couples DJI engineering with Hasselblad's proprietary Natural Color Solution (HNCS) technology. Inside the main camera, which can capture 12-bit Raw files, is a 20MP Four Thirds sensor behind a 24mm (full-frame equivalent) lens with a variable F2.8-11 aperture. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 9, 2021
If you remember fashion in the'90s, you remember Claudia Schiffer. She was one of the supermodels who defined the supermodel era at its zenith, along with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda
Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. Now, with nostalgia for the '90s at an all-time high (per Harper's Bazaar, which should know), Schiffer is recapturing the glamorous glory of the era in a new book … Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Monday November 8, 2021
Actor Andy Serkis certainly knows about motion-capture tech. He was the human behind Gollum in Lord of the Rings, the chimp Caesar in Planet of the Apes, and he’s directed films like Mowgli and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which have incredibly heavy VFX work for characters. In a recent interview with Total Film magazine he talked about where motion capture is going now. And it’s going places that are pretty weird, notesNoFilmSchool. Read the full Story >>
CNN Monday November 8, 2021
Photographer Rebecca Nason's closeup of a Kumlien's gull's eye has been named the overall winner of this year's British Ecological Society photography competition, notes CNN. Nason photographed gull — a subspecies of the Icelandic gull — on the island of Shetland, off the coast of Scotland. “I started photographing the eye detail, noting a gorgeous granite colored iris with dark speckled plumage detail around the eye," said Nason. "It was only when I got home I realized that the speckled patterns were in fact lice clustered around the eye.” Read the full Story >>