Zack Young

Zack is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Ridgewood, Queens. He’s spent much of the past decade in Brooklyn making shorts, web series, branded docs, and a feature film. He also hosts interactive performance art around the city and publishes a bi-monthly zine about dreams.

Latest Articles

GoPro Unveils MISSION 1 8K Compact Open Gate Cinema Cameras

4 days ago

GoPro is taking a bold leap forward with their new MISSION 1 line of compact cameras. Billed as the world’s smallest, lightest, most rugged cinema cameras, initial offerings include the MISSION 1 PRO, capable of 8K60p and 4K240p, the…

Cinema Cameras

Compact Cameras

Godox Unveils Super-Compact LT1 Alongside Powerful Litemons LEDs

5 days ago

Godox continues to build out an expansive lineup of LEDs with the tiny programmable LT1 Creative Pixel Light, along with the Litemons LE600R, LE300R, and LE200R RGB lights, rated at 635W, 330W, and 230W, respectively. These new tools can help you get more creative on your next video or photo…

LEDs

Video Lighting

Virtual Production: LED Displays and Cabinets Buying Guide

1 week ago

Looking to learn more about the LED volume walls used in the burgeoning field of OSVP (on-set virtual production)? These walls are a key component of the process, serving as true-to-life backgrounds, sets, and locations for OSVP. Volume walls are composed of multiple LED displays (also called cabinets) that are seamlessly joined together to form a custom-size screen on which your background…

Virtual Production

LED volume walls

PTZOptics Releases Rise 4K Broadcast PTZ Camera with 20x Zoom

1 week ago

PTZOptics is stepping up their professional offerings with the new Rise 4K broadcast-ready PTZ camera, which sports a 1” Sony CMOS sensor, 20x optical zoom with phase-detection autofocus, optical image stabilization, auto-tracking and more. The Rise 4K also…

PTZ Cameras

Insta360 Unveils X6 360° Camera with 1/1.1” Sensors and 8K50p

2 weeks ago

The new Insta360 X6 360° 8K camera represents a solid step forward for one of the brand’s most popular product lines. With upgraded 1/1.1” square sensors, triple AI chips, 8K50p 360° video, and longer battery life, the X6 should prove popular with content creators, filmmakers, athletes,…

360 Cameras

8K Cameras

Best Monitors for Video Editing

1 month ago

Many budding filmmakers have toiled away on the color correction and grading of their first masterpiece, watched it over countless times, hit the export button, pulled it up on a TV, and been shocked. "This looks nothing like I was expecting. The colors! The contrast! The saturation!" Although there's no universal fix for differences in how devices display an image, the most common culprit of…

Editing Monitor

Computer Monitors

Holiday 2025

Back to School: 10 Important Tools for Film School

1 month ago

Whether it's a four-year undergraduate program, a two-year graduate school, or a single class, studying film production is different from other fields of study. Film production classes are more like being in a trade school. Students learn and apply work skills, as well as film theory. Most importantly, you will be shooting at least one short film, and to make that film you need equipment, tools,…

Filmmaking Education

Back To School

Sony's New FX5 5K Cinema Camera Makes Hollywood Handheld

Sony's FX5 5K Cinema Camera Makes Hollywood Handheld

1 month ago

Sony is squeezing professional cinema features into a handheld package with the new FX5 5K cinema camera. Key specs include 3:2 open gate recording, internal 16-bit X-OCN, three base ISOs, high frame rates, expanded monitoring options, and more. The camera has a new 16.6MP full-frame fully…

Cinema Cameras

SmallRig Releases TRIBEX PRO Hydraulic Monopod Alongside New Tripods

1 month ago

SmallRig has new tripod and monopod offerings, bringing their popular one-touch deployment technology to the monopod space with the SmallRig x Potato Jet TRIBEX PRO X-Clutch hydraulic monopod, available in four versions with different head and feet configurations. All versions have a quick-deploy X-Clutch for…

tripods

monopods

MOFAGE Details POCO II Drop-In PL and EF Adapter Kits with VND

1 month ago

The original MOFAGE POCO lens adapter grew from a Kickstarter hit to an industry mainstay, and now its successor is here. The POCO II Drop-In Filter Adapter has the same core feature set as the original, but adds an interchangeable front mount, a redesigned inner chamber for increased lens…

Lenses & Accessories

B&H Launches Virtual Production Category and Educational Hub

1 month ago

B&H is excited to announce that our new Virtual Production and XR (Extended Reality) category is now live. Initial offerings include products for cinema capture, broadcast, live events, sports, education, and more, with an emphasis on LED volumes, IMLs (Interactive Media…

Virtual Production

FUJIFILM Releasing GF 19-35mm T3.5 PZ Lens with Image Stabilization

1 month ago

FUJIFILM expands the possibilities of their large-format cameras, the GFX ETERNA 55 especially, with the announcement of the GF 19-35mm T3.5 PZ OIS WR lens. The 19-35mm marks the widest angle-of-view available in GF-line cine lenses, and includes a bunch of much requested…

Large Format Cameras

Medium Format Lenses

ARRI Details ALEXA 35 Live Xtreme with High Frame Rates over SDI

1 month ago

ARRI has officially announced the ALEXA 35 Live Xtreme, a new camera body capable of 120 fps (2x slow-motion) in UHD and 480 fps (8x) in HD over SDI. The camera provides simultaneous live output with variable flame blending and is compatible with existing ALEXA 35 Live accessories. The…

Cinema Cameras

SmallRig Releasing Versatile Portable SSD and T99 V-Mount Power Bank

2 months ago

SmallRig is stepping up the game for content creators with the new Multifunctional Portable SSD and T99 V-Mount Power Bank, both powerful and flexible options for your next video project. The SSD, available in…

SSDs

Batteries & Power