Wonderful short film by Sun Koh. Funny but poignant at the same time. Winner of – 1. Silver Hugo (Short Narrative 15 minutes and over), 38th Chicago International Film Festival, 2002 2. Best Director 2002 (Short Film Competition), 15th Singapore International Film Festival, 2002 3. Prix Du Public Du Meilluer Court Metrage 2002 (Audience Grand Prix for Best Short Film [...]

This is one of the best short films that hail from Singapore. It won a Special Achievement Award for Short Film during the 15th Singapore International Film Festival. In my opinion, Roystan Tan is definitely one of the most talented young filmmakers from Singapore. Unfortunately, the video at YouTube is of the wrong aspect ratio. It should be widescreen 16:9.

Yesterday in the late afternoon, I got an overnight loan of the yet to release Sony NEX-FS100 video camera. With about 1-2 hours of daylight left, I quickly drove to a nearby place and put the camera to test. It was at the end of a long day of work fixing some Avid issues and I initially thought I was [...]

A short film made from test footages of Canon XF305 video camera, shot at MacRitchie Reservoir in Singapore. Settings – 1080p25 50Mbps – Cine V picture profile – Everything else default Footages are largely ungraded except to correct some exposures. Colour is what you get from camera. Impressions Lens The label on the lens speaks volume: “Canon HD Video Lens [...]

Sony HDW-750P HDCAM with Canon HJ17ex7.7B lens – ungraded 1080p25 footages of the new Admiralty Park at Woodlands, Singapore. Compressed at 10Mbps H.264 using Sorenson Squeeze. Codec didn’t handle some compression well, so the artifacts, if any, come from the H.264 compression. As this is in 1080p, watch with HD off unless you have a fast bandwidth.

This is a test on JVC GY-HM700 with Canon KT14x4.4KRSJ lens. It has been out for a year but I have only gotten my hands on one recently. First of all, I must admit I fell in love with this camera at first sight. I feel it is the sexiest and most beautiful video camera around, having the best of [...]

This experimental short film was shot using the HDSLR camera, Canon EOS 7D. My brother bought one recently for photography and I have borrowed it to try it out and understand what the HDSLR craze is all about. Unfortunately, he only has the kit lens, EF-S 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS zoom lens and a EF 50mm 1:1.8 II prime lens. It [...]

This is an experimental short film to test the video capability of the iPhone 3Gs. iPhone only has a very basic implementation of video. The only option, apart from the Start/Stop recording button, is to touch the targeted area on screen to focus. After shooting, you can trim the scenes in the phone itself. There is very little colour grading [...]