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ALEXA Mini & Gates MINI Housing — Initial Field Tests

ARRI ALEXA Mini & Gates MINI Housing – Initial Field Tests by John Ellerbrock Bob Cranston and I spent the weekend of July 11/12 diving Catalina Island with the new ALEXA Mini camera and Gates MINI housing.  This is a fun part of my job:  testing all the new underwater rigs.  J   What follows are…
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Switching from DSLR to RED

Switching from DSLR to RED by Nuno Sá Dive Photo Guide has published an article authored by Nuno Sá that follows his move from DSLR to the RED Epic camera for underwater imaging. He describes in detail the trade-offs and salient considerations of moving to a powerful, high dynamic range digital system that records in a…
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Gates MINI Housing for ARRI ALEXA Mini

Gates Underwater Products announces new MINI Underwater Housing A compact, travelable 4K cinema system, the Gates MINI housing brings ARRI lineage to Natural History productions. Poway, CA – 23 February 2015– Gates Underwater Products – home of the worlds more reliable underwater housings – today announces an original new underwater housing, the MINI. Specifically designed…
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The DSLR as a Video Camera

The DSLR as a Video Camera Or: Reasons Why the DSLR is no longer a tool for professional filmmaking by Jonathan Bird / Jonathan Bird Productions A few years ago, the DSLR came into fashion as a filmmaking tool for one very simple reason: it was the only way one could get the look of a…
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