MPEX Experience, Photography News, Tips and Tricks

How to create natural light with flash – Profoto

This article originally appeared on Profoto.com here: How to create natural light with flash – Profoto All photos by Adam Angelides How to Create Natural Light Using Flash with Profoto Lights One of the potential problems with using artificial light is that it can look just that- artificial. Check out this video on how photographer Adam Angelides uses flash […]

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Gear Review, MPEX Experience, Tips and Tricks

Wireless Pro Audio For All with Guest Blogger Erik Naso

This is a guest blog post by Erik Naso! When in the market for a wireless system you want to find a solid performing system with a good quality lavalier microphone. These two don’t usually come together but it does with the RodeLink Wireless Filmmaker Kit. It comes with a version of the proline Rode Lavalier! Same high quality […]

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guest blog, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience, Tips and Tricks

Gear for a “Same-Day-Edit” Wedding Video by Brad Seidenfeld of Oceanwide Studios

Gear for a Same Day Wedding Edit by Oceanwide Studios This is a guest blog post by Brad Seidenfeld of Oceanwide Studios. Check out Oceanwide Studios website to see more of their work! Normally, we always are shooting our Canon C100s and C300s because of the wonderful images and great dynamic range. But, because we were delivering […]

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Guest Blog: Motion Control Time-Lapse with Fabian Lackner and Syrp

Beating Heart of Europe  An Alpine Time Lapse Movie Beating Heart of Europe will be the first time lapse movie showing all of the most famous and beautiful parts of the Alps. The Dolomites in Italy, Mont Blanc (highest of the Alps) in France, Matterhorn and Aletschgletscher (biggest glacier within the Alps) and the beautiful […]

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MPEX Experience

5 Reasons to Shoot a Sony Right Now

Sony is consistently putting out groundbreaking cameras and this is just a short list of reasons why you would want to shoot a Sony digital camera. Here we go: 1) In-Body-Image-Stabilization (IBIS) in a full-frame camera We were surprised to hear that the Sony A7II was going to have image stabilization built in to the body. […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

The Panasonic GH4 is Still the 4K Camera to Beat

The Panasonic GH4 is an anomaly among current cameras. It shoots 10 frames per second. It has a full set of video specs. It shoots 4K Ultra High Definition video to SD cards. It is light and small, yet weather-sealed. It is the size of a miniature DSLR, yet has some specs of a full […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

The Magically Awesome Canon 7D Mark II

The Canon 7D Mark II is the optimal APS-C DSLR on the market. It’s 65 all cross-type autofocus sensor makes the camera perfect for shooting video. Not only does it have the autofocus technology, it also boasts a frame rate of up to 60 fps shooting 1080p video in either MP4 or MOV. With the […]

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Hometown Heroes, MPEX Experience

Hometown Heroes: Earcatcher

Back in March, I came into work one morning and TJ immediately demanded that I watch a couple of videos that a customer of his had made with a recently purchased BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera. My first reaction was a mixture of maniacal laughter and childlike handclapping. My second reaction was that I had to […]

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MPEX Experience

GoPros, Bows & Bros

Levi is the newest addition to our MPEX sales team, and while he loves photography, he’s also a dedicated outdoorsman. When Moishe found out that he and Levi shared a love of archery, they decided to take a trip to Velocity Archery Range. I was more than happy to tag along. Archery is not an […]

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MPEX Experience

Going Under with the Latest Nikon 1

I’ve exalted the virtue of mirrorless systems before on this blog, and I still stand by my claim that mirrorless are great alternatives, both for their size and their flexibility. Not to mention that they just keep getting more and more powerful (see: Sony Alpha 7 and 7R). The Nikon 1 AW1, Nikon’s latest in the […]

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