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  • How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    Marie Gardiner

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    1. Minimum Viable Camera: How to Get a Good Enough Full-Frame Digital Kit For Less

      Minimum Viable Camera: How to Get a Good Enough Full-Frame Digital Kit For Less

      Tutorial • Beginner

      What makes a camera viable? There are many answers to this question but I firmly believe any reliable camera that meets your needs is viable. You don’t need...

    2. Before You Buy a Better Camera, Buy Better Lenses

      Before You Buy a Better Camera, Buy Better Lenses

      Tutorial • Beginner

      It can be hard to determine what piece of equipment will help you take your photos to the next level. With all the marketing around new cameras being...

    3. Composition and Design Fundamentals for Photographers

      Composition and Design Fundamentals for Photographers

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Here's a preview of what's planned for the Envato Tuts+ Photo & Video section this week, including an interview about an upcoming courses on design...

    4. DSLR Video in 60 Seconds

      DSLR Video in 60 Seconds

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Do you wonder whether to choose a camcorder or DSLR when filming? Maybe a professional camcorder is out of your budget and you're wondering if a DSLR will do...

    5. Video Lights For All: How to Build a Complete 3 Head Kit on a $100 Budget

      Video Lights For All: How to Build a Complete 3 Head Kit on a $100 Budget

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Create a super useful and versatile lighting kit with parts from your local hardware store! The best part is you can get all the parts for about $130.

    6. Five Fantastic Film Cameras for Under $100

      Five Fantastic Film Cameras for Under $100

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Film is alive and kicking but to find out just how lively it is, you need a film camera. These fantastic film cameras will get you shooting film without...

    7. How to Calculate the Sharpest Aperture for Any Lens

      How to Calculate the Sharpest Aperture for Any Lens

      Tutorial • Advanced

      Lenses aren't equally sharp at all apertures. Some are better than others. In this tutorial, I look at how to calculate the sharpest aperture for any scenario.

    8. Five Fantastic Film Cameras Under $1000

      Five Fantastic Film Cameras Under $1000

      Tutorial • Beginner

      If you have never used film before, or haven’t in some time, now is a great time to rediscover analog image making. Film is still viable as a photographic...

    9. Create a Vacuum Photo Copy Rig From a Computer Case

      Create a Vacuum Photo Copy Rig From a Computer Case

      Tutorial • Intermediate

      Grab some old PC case, fan, metal, and hot glue cause we're gonna make a vacuum photo copy rig!

    10. Gettin' Round: How to Make a Spherical Image with Google Camera

      Gettin' Round: How to Make a Spherical Image with Google Camera

      Tutorial • Beginner

      With Google camera you can create immersive photo spheres just like the ones you see when using Google Maps’ Street View function. Viewing a photo sphere is...

    11. Choosing Data Storage Media for Photos and Video: When Not to Use Optical Media

      Choosing Data Storage Media for Photos and Video: When Not to Use Optical Media

      Tutorial • Beginner

      There is a variety of storage media available for data storage, but use optical media—CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs—with caution. This article explains why.

    12. Pics or It Didn't Happen! Making Memory and Meaning in the Age of Overload

      Pics or It Didn't Happen! Making Memory and Meaning in the Age of Overload

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Today, stories, claims, accomplishments, or experiences are not valid unless accompanied by a picture. The result is not that we have better records of...

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