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Easily Calculate Crop Factor, Focal Length, and Depth of Field with RED's Cinephotography Tools

10.28.12 @ 8:37PM Tags : cameras, cropfactor, cropfactors, depthoffield, red, reddragon, redepic, redscarlet

To round out the good amount of RED-related news we’ve covered recently, Jarred Land has recently posted about something not directly related to their cameras or software. While not busy working on their new sensor or getting a bunch of SCARLETs ready for shipping (hopefully to you), RED has been working on a few online tools to calculate the inter-connected nature of sensor crop, focal length, and the field of view of your final shot — among other things. Read on for more details. More »

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Think You Understand Depth of Field? Take the Black and Blue DOF Test to Find Out

06.4.12 @ 1:29PM Tags : cinematography, depthoffield, dof

So you just started using DSLRs and you think you’ve got an idea about this newfangled “depth of field.” Or maybe you’re an experienced professional AC and you know the depth of field chart by heart for a 40mm Master Prime. Regardless of your experience level, depth of field is an extremely important concept to wrap your head around if you want to shoot with large sensor cameras (like those DSLRs you might be using). Camera Assistant Evan Luzi over at The Black and Blue has created a quiz with 20 questions to test your depth of field knowledge. More »