Rod Lawton

Opinion Do you have a special and unique ‘look’ that you’ve perfected? Then what you SHOULDN’T do is tell people how you did it…

Opinion Misty-eyed photographers swoon over this mysterious property, but where does it come from and how does it work?

Opinion I own a bunch of Canon zooms, and I see first hand how they are pushing digital corrections into whole new territory

Jargon explained Don’t say ‘codec’ when you mean ‘file format’ or ‘container’ – video experts will get very upset!

Jargon explained When you shoot JPEGs with a digital camera, you’ll usually get a choice between sRGB color and Adobe RGB. What’s the difference?

Jargon explained 8K is 8K, right? Not quite, because there is more than one standard for the horizontal resolution and aspect ratio.

Jargon explained You can’t get far in photography these days without hearing about 4K and 8K – but what exactly ARE they?

Feature You might think that 4K video would have replaced full HD/1080 video, but today’s cameras still offer both.

Jargon explained 8-bit video capture is the basic option, so what’s different about 10-bit video and why would you need it?

Jargon explained It’s become a major selling point for microphones and audio recorders, but what is it and do you need it?

Feature RAW video is like raw files for photographers – the actual image data captured by the sensor. But do you need it and can you handle it?

Jargon explained These are two different color spaces used in video production, so which is the one you should be using?

Jargon explained You’ll see this choice a lot on hybrid cameras. 4:2:0 is ‘basic’ video, 4:2:2 is better quality. But what does it actually mean?