New year, new site
It is 2020 and I’m working on a new site, if you are looking for the old page, it is available at https://v1.rodrigopolo.com
Exposing x-log using false colors
There are plenty of tutorials online teaching on how to expose video, there are many ways to achieve this, using the camera exposure indicator, the histogram, using luma waveforms on an external monitor, and the most accurate and simple way I have found, using false colors. The main issue while exposing for log has to […]
Marring a camera system
Some years ago I didn’t have any DSLR/Mirrorless camera, but I was interested in getting one for both, photos and video, to create content for YouTube and Instagram. After watching tons of reviews online, after talking to many friends and trying some cameras my friends borrow me, I chose Canon, and here are some of […]
Canon EOS R Crop Factors
There is a lot of controversy around this camera about the 4K-UHD video crop factor and other specs, nonetheless, I believe it is one of the best vlogging cameras out there, but you have to understand the meaning of certain specs. 4K is a marketing name, there are two main 4K specs, 4K-DCI (Digital Cinema […]
4K isn’t worth it, and here is why
Yes, 4K (and UHD) looks beautiful, if you have a huge expensive screen, a recent Blue-ray player, and a good movie that was recorded and mastered in at least, 4K-DCI. But If you are looking forward to create online videos in 4K, you are wasting valuable resources into nothing, ande here is why. Most users […]
Chroma subsampling
One of the many things that I am passionate about is digital video, and one of the factors that many seem not to be understand is the famous chroma subsampling, a process by which the amount of color information in the images that produce a video are reduced in order to make it easy transfer […]