Barry Braverman.com

There have always been fads, in cinema like in everything else.

To be sure, it’s a tantalizing idea.

Bad sound happens.

With the advent of camera-to-Cloud recording, will in-camera recording media be relegated to the dust bin of history alongside the Jaz Drive and the Sony Memory Stick?

With the advances in artificial intelligence, post-production rotoscope tools are now so good that some DPs are asking if we still need to use green screen at all, or at least, in quite the same way.

For the last decade, in the halcyon years before COVID, documentary, corporate, and other non-fiction DPs, were already assuming a greater role in post-production.

The elimination of the mirror box from DSLRs brings significant benefits to shooters, as evidenced by the raft of new full-frame cameras around, like the Panasonic Lumix S1, Sony Alpha 7, Canon EOS R – and the Nikon Z6.

Increasingly, major players like Netflix and Amazon are demanding high-quality HDR masters, and DPs must respond accordingly.

With the introduction of Apple’s iPhone XR and XS models, the mobile do-everything wünderdeviceis are again drawing attention as a viable alternative to a traditional video camera.

The advent of the continuously variable neutral density filter (VND) raises an interesting issue: Do we still need a lens iris at all?