Just quickly thought I would post this presentation by Thomas Lund of TC electronics who neatly describes the current situation of mis-managed loudness/peaking and the detrimental effects of codec data reduction (which begs the question, with the amount of bandwidth we now have available at our disposal, is it really necessary?). Well worth a watch, […]
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore Toto… This is definitely not a pair of headphones you want to stick into a youngsters iPod. Not that you would really have that problem… Really. To make an analogy the Beats headphones from Monster could be considered the Lamborghini Countach of cans: very pretty, but about as useful for […]
So I’ve just gotten off a week long set of an American short film production with a couple of these puppies in tow. I got them literally two days before the principle shooting begun and didn’t even get proper adapters for my Sennheiser G3 transmitters until two days into the production (will talk more about […]
So, to the second and happier part of this mini-series of a blog post (this is taking forever!). With all of that rage swimming throughout my head during the inevitable downtime in the film making season around new years, I summoned up to courage to finally go “big” in updating my microphone kit. With great […]
So it is coming around to that time of year again. What?! I hear you say, “New year as already passed you by!” Well, that’s true, and, also not. Being of Chinese descent, I am generally forced to celebrate both the lunar calendar new year (Chinese New Year) and the regular new year, by a […]
With Leica, the makers of the almost mythical M series rangefinders and the legendary lenses that accompany them, recently announcing first quarterly profit increases of almost 30% and the continuing meteoric rise of the recently Cosina revived Voigtlander rangefinders and lenses, it would seem that the losing party of the SLR/Rangefinder war of the 1960s […]
Leica, photography, rangefinder, holga
Bonjour! (now you know how to greet in French!) Recently, I shot my own film with my own equipment. As part of the lens set that I shot on I had two incredibly lovely Canon L series lenses, the 16-35mm MKII (amazing contrast, fantastic sharpness throughout the aperture and zoom range and ridiculous handling of […]
Robert "Chum" Li 