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Zacuto's Great Camera Shootout Concludes with Motion Artifact, Color, and Skin Tone Tests

10.8.11 @ 12:11PM Tags : cameras, charts, shootout, test, tests, zacuto

Zacuto‘s excellent behind-the-scenes look at the Single Chip Camera Evaluation concludes with a comparison of motion artifacts, color and skin tone on the ARRI ALEXA, RED ONE-MX, Sony F3, Panasonic AF100, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, Nikon D7000, Kodak 35mm film, and a few others as well. Here’s the trailer; click on the image below for the full 25-minute episode. More »

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What do musicians earn? What if we had these statistics for filmmakers?

05.20.10 @ 12:18PM Tags : analytics, charts, distribution, music, revenue, sales

For a musician to earn a meager living (defined here as a minimum wage of $1,160 a month), how many self-pressed CDs do they have to sell out of the back of a truck every month? If they have a record deal and their music is listed on a subscription service like Rhapsody (a former employer of mine), how many streams do they have to generate to take home the same amount? David McCandless, author of the book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia, has published detailed statistics for musicians (included below). What if we had these same numbers for filmmakers? More »