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Philip Bloom
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Philip Bloom's personal blog at philipbloom.net covers culture. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Philip Bloom's blog covers filmmaking and photography gear, with camera tests such as low-light Sony a7S footage and DSLR video, plus RED and industry news. Commenters link it as a reference for these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Philip Bloom is a British DP, Director and Filmmaker known for his DSLR filmmaking, blog and workshops.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/makingtheswitch/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-24
- /2010/06/06/whichdslr/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-07
What Hacker News says?
There have been dramatic happenings around RED for some time. http://philipbloom.net/2011/12/10/nomoreepic/
Comment linking /2011/12/10/nomoreepic/
on “My Final Post”Submitted Can you achieve success AND have a life? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionActual encoding for renders is all CPU based: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2122549 Personally, I use DaVinci Resolve, but the results are largely the same, with exports being largely entirely CPU dependent: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/DaVinci-Resolve-1... Looks like Puget Systems does a lot of performance shootouts, including some Premiere ones: https://www.pugetsystems.com/all_articles.php Philip…
Comment linking /blog/makingtheswitch/
on “Building a Lightroom PC”Submitted Live chat on Planet 5D as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMost of them are still pretty Mac heavy, I said 'moving to PC'. The agencies I work with and worked at have begun to purchase more and more PCs over Macs. Adobe Creative Cloud apps tend to work better on PC now so this is a big reason. The areas I mentioned (video, photography, audio, gamedev, 3d etc) are moving to hefty PC machines that need 64GB/128GB/256GB+ of ram, latest GPUs, many drives and many cores (16-40+)…
Comment linking /blog/makingtheswitch/
on “Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows”> It almost has a tilt shift kind of quality like it’s you’re focusing on one point. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that knows anything about cameras that if you don't have the lens lined up properly you'll get a tilt-shift effect. This is basically a rig that does controlled "lens whacking", where you don't mount the lens but you hold it freely to let light bleed through the mount and mess up the focal plane…
Comment linking /blog/the-art-of-lens-whacking-real-lights-leaks-and-ones-done-in-post/
on “Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens”I don't see that. Actually professionals (in general, but also people I know) don't update that often. Think 5-6 years timescale. They need a stable base, and they don't even upgrade OSes or computers. So, in all the time FCPX is out, they are still 1 or 2 FCP versions behind. They might get on the FCPX bandwagon on v2 or even 3. In another field I know even better because my brother works on it, professional music…
Comment linking /2012/02/07/fcpxeditors/
on “Andy Hertzfeld on the Demise of the Mac Pro ”If you are looking for a lo-fi digital camera, try Digital Harinezumi - http://www.superheadz.com/digi2 May be fun to use, kind of a review here - http://philipbloom.net/2009/11/08/lo-fi-heaven-digital-harin...
Comment linking /2009/11/08/lo-fi-heaven-digital-harinezumi-digital-super-8mm-camera/
on “A digital camera inspired by Holga”The tech/work behind Avatar is far more expensive then Toy Story. There are plenty of poor quality animation that pop up in films by major studios. And there are a number of quality cg animation by students for example http://vimeo.com/1470875 Avatar is really an edge case, majority of the shows on Hulu don't cost that much. For example: http://philipbloom.net/2010/04/10/house-season-finale-shot-e... The finale of a…
Comment linking /2010/04/10/house-season-finale-shot-entirely-with-canon-5dmkii/
on “Apple to Buy Hulu? ”These party videos are from the first time I used my 7D. Even though the focus is wack I was pretty excited about the quality of this video. This is after filming skateboard videos for years using VX2000s and the like. http://vimeo.com/rdouble/videos I've since got a special lens and a Zacuto z-finder and have been very happy with the results after practicing a bit more. Philip Bloom's blog is an essential resource…
Comment linking /2010/06/06/whichdslr/
on “Video on DSLRs: why I don't care”I have a Canon 7d that takes beautiful video. I spent a fair amount of time learning to make beautiful videos with it, and I also spent a fair amount of money buying low light lenses, filters (vari nd filter), and still need to buy audio (zoom h4n), steadycam (zacuto) and follow focus gear. The thing is, I intend to make a documentary so I do want it to be as good as I can possibly make it so I will end up spending…
Comment linking /2010/06/06/whichdslr/
on “Video on DSLRs: why I don't care”a7s goes up to 409600 ISO, and some would say the results at 80000 ISO are pretty damn usable [ http://philipbloom.net/blog/a7s/ ]!
Comment linking /blog/a7s/
on “Sony Sees Next Big Hit at 1,000 Photos a Second”Just an example of what a prosumer camera could do 12 years ago from a Sony A7s: https://philipbloom.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SONY... This camera is capable of iso 409,600, 4 stops higher than this image. I mean this is turning night into day.
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SONY-A7S-COMPARISON1.jpg
on “Ring owners are returning their cameras”- Life advice type stuff: Mark Manson ( https://www.markmanson.net ), Alain de Botton ( https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel ) - Photography/Film making: Philip Bloom ( http://www.philipbloom.net/ ) - Tech: DHH/Jason Fried/Basecamp ( https://m.signalvnoise.com/ )
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on “Ask HN: Who are the experts that you follow religiously in your niche(s)?”
