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Alister Chapman

@stormguy

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love my job! I get to film the incredible, meet the incredible, experience the incredible. Via my blog & workshops I try to help others share the incredible.

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Berkshire, UK

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Alister Chapman

@stormguy

3 years

Updates for Catalyst Browse and Resolve 18.5 Beta

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This is just a quick heads up as I’m on the road right now.Sony have released a major update for Catalyst Browse and Catalyst prepare that is packed full of bug fixes. In addition Black Magi…

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3 years

Sony FX3 and FX30 get a major firmware update. Adds Anamorphic and 24p.

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3 years

Optical Filtration – Formatt Hitech Soft Gold.

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In this modern age where almost any look can be created in post I find that there is still something extremely satisfying about creating as much of the final look of your content in camera as possi…

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3 years

Day For Night With Infrared.

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Many of you may have already seen articles about how DP Hoyte Van Hoytema used a Panavision System 65 film camera paired with an Alexa 65 modified to be sensitive to infrared light to shoot day for…

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3 years

What do the FX3 and FX30 zebras Zebras measure when using the Cine EI modes?

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This is a question that keeps popping up:What do the zebras measure when shooting S-Log3 using the CineEI modes in the FX3 and FX30? The convention for zebras with the majority of cameras is that z…

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3 years

Not all ND filters are created equal.

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Over the last 2 weeks I have been shooting some tests for a major feature film. The tests involved a special process that involves the use of Infrared light and shooting outdoors. On the test day …

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3 years

You Don’t Always Need To Over Expose S-Log3!

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For some reason many people now believe that the only way you can shoot with S-Log3 is by “over exposing” and very often by as much as almost 2 stops (1.7 stops is often quoted).When So…

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Alister Chapman

@stormguy

3 years

Catalyst Browse Invalid Licence Issues

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Alister Chapman

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3 years

FX30 V1.02 Firmware update and FX3 V2.02 Update.

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Sony have now released new firmware updates for both the FX3 and FX30. The FX3 now goes to firmware version 2.02 and the FX30 to firmware version 1.02FX3: These are mainly stability releases that f…

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Alister Chapman

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3 years

Using The S-Log3 LUT To Bake In The EI

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Many people wish to bake in the cameras Exposure Index settings when shooting using CineEI in order to avoid having to make an exposure correction in post production (given that the cameras are ISO…

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Alister Chapman

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3 years

Don’t Charge Very Cold Lithium Batteries!

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To be honest, not many of us have to charge extremely cold batteries, but on my Northern Lights trips my batteries often get very cold and often I will charge them while they are still very cold. I…

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Alister Chapman

@stormguy

3 years

Use GyroFlow to stabilise Sony (and other camera) footage.

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Alister Chapman

@stormguy

3 years

FX6 and FX9 R and B Gain values – don’t worry about the odd numbers.

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I’ve noticed some users concerned or confused by the R and B gain values that they see in the cameras white balance settings after dialling in a custom white balance and tint, or after taking…

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3 years

Northern Lights 13-14 January 2023

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I’ve just return from the arctic cabins that I use for my Northern Lights Aurora tours following a great trip where the group got to see the Aurora on 3 nights. In this video there is footage…

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3 years

Norway and the Northern Lights 2023

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In a few days I will be heading off to the north of Norway for my annual trip to shoot the Northern Lights. This year I really do hope to stream the Aurora live. I’ve tried to livestream the …

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Alister Chapman

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3 years

Zebras and Log – Use a narrower window/range.

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If you are using Zebras to measure the exposure of a log gamma curve you should consider using a narrower Zebra window.Why?From middle grey to white (50% to 90%) in the world of standard dynamic ra…

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3 years

Hot Pixels or bright pixels on the FX3, FX30, A7S3 etc

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When you have millions of pixels on a video sensor it isn’t surprising to find that every now and then one or two might go out of spec and show up in your footage as a white dot. These “…

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3 years

XAVC-I or XAVC-L which to choose?

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THE XAVC CODEC FAMILYThe XAVC family of codecs was introduced by Sony back in 2014. Until recently all flavours of XAVC were based on H264 compression. More recently new XAVC-HS versions were intr…

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3 years

New LUT -Incandescent- added to my LUT collection.

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This is the 3rd and final LUT in the free three LUT set I promised by the end of 2022. Incandescent goes with my Elixir and Solitude LUT’s to complete the set of 3 film style LUTs. Elixir is …

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3 years

Bright Tangerine Rigging Options for the FX6

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Bright Tangerine are a UK manufacturer of very high quality camera accessories such as matte boxes, base plates etc. They are based not far from me and I have know them for many years. They also ha…

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