Momento360, who have made a sort of specialty of dealing with 360° imagery has just let me know it has just released Plan Drawing support. What this allows is showing the location of a 360° image over the top of a floorplan or other drawing. You can add markers for...
Setting up an MSM Star Tracker
I have always had a fascination for Space. Even before the first Moon landing, as a kid I had tens of books on it and used to draw with a compass and pencil images and diagrams of the solar system. I even made a rocket “console” out of cardboard boxes...
Shooting for the Stars. An Astrophotography Primer
I thought I’d stay on the photography theme a little while longer and touch on a subject I have been playing with off and on for a while now, and that is astrophotography. I first approached this at the beginning of the millennium when I still lived on the Northern...
This could be the most fascinating $200 you’ll ever spend.
Way back when, when I was editing Videocamera magazine, there was a distinct line between the subjects we covered, and this carried over into Australian Videocamera when I struck out on my own. That is, there was little blur between camcorder reviews, editing software reviews, special effects creation, audio and...
Photographing / Videoing the Total Eclipse. How to get that Killer Shot!
You may have heard that tomorrow night (Tuesday 8th Nov) in Australia we’ll have the pleasure of a total lunar eclipse. This happens when the Earth gets between the Sun and the Moon, thus cutting of most of the light that we normally see reflect off the Moon’s surface. What happens...
First Look: PhotoPills APP with Augmented Reality for photographers / videographers
PhotoPills is one of those rare pieces of software – available for iOS and Android – that anyone interested in landscape, sunset, sunrise, timelapse or astro photography / videography should have. As I have written over the last few weeks I am investigating (again) the fascinating world of astrophotography and...
We want to chat!
Whether you are a filmmaker or a vendor to the industry, we’d like to talk to you! If a filmmaker – small or large – our readers want to know what you are doing, how you do it, your thoughts on the industry and so on. If a vendor, what...
Steve Kilsby appointed Head of Technical Services at Videocraft and Digistor
Furthering their continued and significant expansion and commitment to the Australian market, Steve Kilsby, one of the industry’s best-known and respected operations specialists, has joined Videocraft and Digistor as Head of Technical Services. Kilsby is known in the industry for being an experienced director of operations with a long and...
Interview: A Chat With Videocraft’s Director James Taylor about its recent acquisition of Digistor/Adimex
With the recent acquisition by Videocraft of the Digistor and Adimex companies, I thought it might be a good idea to sit down with Videocraft’s Director james Taylor and have a chat. I was particularly interested in how the acquisition would affect each of the companies operations, in addition to...
New Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Major New Enhancements.
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 18.1, a major new update that adds support for editing in vertical resolutions such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram TV, as well as automatic locking of individual timelines within bins for multi user collaboration. This update adds DaVinci Neural Engine enabled AI dialogue leveler...