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  • Are cheap mics worth the money?

    Introduction When it comes to capturing high-quality audio in various professional settings, shotgun microphones have become an indispensable tool for filmmakers, broadcasters, and audio enthusiasts alike. These microphones excel at capturing focused sound from a specific direction while minimizing unwanted noise from the surroundings. However, the market offers a wide range of shotgun microphones at…

  • Meike 8mm f2.8 for MFT review

    Ultra wide, non fish-eye lenses are a type of camera lens that have a wider field of view than standard lenses, but do not produce the distortion often associated with fish-eye lenses. These lenses are ideal for landscape photography, architectural photography, and other types of photography where a wide field of view is desired. And…

  • How to normailize audio for YouTube with DaVinci Resolve

    Audio mastering/normalization is very important. If your audio levels are too low, viewers will not hear well. If they are too high, clipping and distortions will lower the quality. On top of that, platforms like YouTube expects you to upload materials with certain loudness. If your loudness is too high, YouTube will lower your videos…

  • Spring HDMI cable for a field monitor

    I had no idea that connecting a field monitor to a camera can be that hard! Yes, mount or a small head is important, but the biggest problem is a HDMI cable. It turned out that my Panasonic Lumix GH5 mark 2 needs around 30cm long HDMI cable to connect to Feelworld F6 PLUS field…

  • Ulanzi VL110 RGB tube light review

    Ulanzi VL110 are small but pretty powerful RGB tube lights. Each tube light has 3 modes (white, pulsing, RGB), USB-C charging, an OLED display, and 1/4” tripod mount. On top of that, Ulanzi VL110 can be stacked together to make bigger and longer light. Pretty cool!

  • How to exit VIM? 4 simple ways

    VIM is one of the best pieces of software ever created. But the way you are supposed to exit it can be a major PITA. Of course, only if you don’t know how to do it. Here are four ways of exiting VIM with and without saving your work.

  • Wide zoom Olympus 9-18mm 1:4.0-5.6 ED review

    Good lenses are usually expensive. Turns out, there is a reason for that. I wanted an ultra-wide lens for my YouTube studio. I have a small room and wanted to have more breathing room in the shots. The Olympus Digital 9-18mm 1:4.0-5.6 ED was the cheapest ultra-wide zoom lens for Micro Four Thirds mount and…

  • Caddx Vista is dead – DJI pulls the plug

    The FPV news of the last few days is that Caddx Vista is dead. Or rather, there will be no new manufacturing of Caddx Vista digital VTXes as DJI decided to stop cooperation with Caddx. As Caddx never manufactured Vistas, only cameras, this means that ultimately, Caddx is unable, even if wanted, to produce more…

  • NFTs does not work like you think they do | NFT for beginners

    Have you heard about this picture of a monkey sold as an NFT for more than 2 million dollars? Crazy. Everybody gets that NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) are secure and work based on blockchain. Most don’t get what exactly that means. Because no, having an NFT is not proof that you legally own something. Or…