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GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition and Hang Gliding

Posted by Ryan on 26, November 2012 with No Comments

The GoPro family have products have been hugely popular among hang glider pilots the world over. The light weight makes mounting the camera around the glider a breeze. Because hang gliders are controlled by weight shift, mounting a camera on one side usually requires adding equal weight to the opposite side, to keep the wing balanced. The lightweight GoPro’s don’t require any counter-weighting. The other feature of the GoPro that has led to it’s...Read More

GoPro Hero 3 Black 2.7K 24fps Cine Test With Leah Petersen Stunt Motorcyclist. 4K & 2.7K Downloads

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Posted by Jared Abrams on 11, November 2012 with 9 Comments

The strongest attribute of the new GoPro Hero 3 Black is the 2.7K 24fps Protune Cine mode. Chris Collins hooked up this shoot with Leah Petersen. We decided to stick with the 2.7K 24fps Protune rather than drop down to any other resolution. We know what 1080 x 1920 60P looks like and forget about 720 x 1280 120fps. We wanted the best resolution possible. The 4K would have been nice but I do...Read More

GoPro Hero 3 Black 4K Video Demo. Cineform 1.3.2 Update link. RAW 4K file

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Posted by Jared Abrams on 08, November 2012 with 7 Comments

We got our hands on the new GoPro Hero 3 Black edition. Here are two 4K examples. Choose “Original” resolution for full res in You Tube. The new GoPro Hero 3 Black has a 4K cine and 2.7K cine option that we tested before an upcoming shoot. There are a few things to sort out before the new black edition has all of the promised features. Here is what it took for me...Read More

Red, Sony, Canon & Pansonic 4K.

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Posted by Michael Sutton on 03, November 2012 with 15 Comments

So it was a big week for all us gear heads. Sony announced new cameras and a recorder, Red slashed prices and Canon started to trickle ship C500 EF cameras. One thing that all three companies offer is 4K but only two offer 4K video outputs. I mention this because I think its very important. Codecs get better and workflows become more efficient. Things change down the line as technology progresses. 4K resolution is...Read More

Sony Announces New F5 Cine Alta 4K Cinema Camera.

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Posted by Jared Abrams on 30, October 2012 with 1 Comment

Sony announced the new Sony F5 Cine Alta 4K cine camera. This puppy looks bad ass! It will however set you back quite a lot of dough. I am guessing that the camera will cost in the $22K range with the 4K recorder set at around $16K. I could be way off here but these are the rumored prices. I will update when available. The feature set is quite expansive with the optical viewfinder...Read More