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320 from 1 Dec 2004 to 7 May 2026
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2026 2

  1. Prolost Watches
  2. Maxon Autograph

2025 2

  1. My App Will Harm You Physically, Using Math
  2. Cameras, Phones, and Log — What’s the Juice?

2024 5

  1. gaining in popularity and accessibility
  2. Kino: My New Favorite iPhone Video App
  3. Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses
  4. iPhone ProRes Log in Peru and Taiwan
  5. What I Want to Do in Apple Vision Pro

2023 2

  1. What Does and Doesn’t Matter about Apple Shooting their October Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max
  2. Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro

2022 4

  1. Jurassic Punk
  2. Lightroom Adds Video Color Editing, with Prolost Presets
  3. Mac Studio and Studio Display
  4. M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-term Report

2021 3

  1. alternative input devices
  2. The M1 Max MacBook Pros
  3. Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES

2020 9

  1. wrote about this
  2. Apple’s “EDR” Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays
  3. Magic Bullet Suite 14 and Trapcode Suite 16
  4. Circle of Stone
  5. Introducing Prolost Beta
  6. Read more →
  7. Read more →
  8. Read more →
  9. Read more →

2019 4

  1. December 17, 2019
  2. November 14, 2019
  3. talked about
  4. my tutorial for King Pin Tracker

2018 8

  1. October 30, 2018
  2. Shortcut
  3. July 03, 2018
  4. Tank
  5. April 04, 2018
  6. April 03, 2018
  7. February 20, 2018
  8. February 16, 2018

2017 11

  1. December 08, 2017
  2. November 23, 2017
  3. November 20, 2017
  4. against Adobe’s recommendation
  5. November 09, 2017
  6. November 07, 2017
  7. October 25, 2017
  8. August 01, 2017
  9. turn motion-smoothing off on their television
  10. March 06, 2017
  11. Movies at High Frame Rates

2016 18

  1. December 16, 2016
  2. December 06, 2016
  3. December 05, 2016
  4. whole post
  5. announcement post
  6. September 29, 2016
  7. Prolost Flat
  8. August 25, 2016
  9. August 11, 2016
  10. May 19, 2016
  11. May 10, 2016
  12. April 22, 2016
  13. previous post
  14. March 07, 2016
  15. February 18, 2016
  16. February 11, 2016
  17. map its linear sensor data to a JPEG
  18. January 12, 2016

2015 41

  1. December 21, 2015
  2. November 10, 2015
  3. October 17, 2015
  4. October 14, 2015
  5. pretty hard time
  6. launched
  7. October 05, 2015
  8. mentioned here before
  9. September 25, 2015
  10. September 23, 2015
  11. September 01, 2015
  12. street photography
  13. June 16, 2015
  14. releasing
  15. June 08, 2015
  16. June 08, 2015
  17. Prolost Burns
  18. May 06, 2015
  19. obsolete
  20. April 28, 2015
  21. April 22, 2015
  22. Lrpresets2
  23. April 09, 2015
  24. How to Kick the Tires on a Color Corrector
  25. April 02, 2015
  26. March 31, 2015
  27. March 31, 2015
  28. Bay Area Lightroom Users Group
  29. February 18, 2015
  30. hacky workaround
  31. February 11, 2015
  32. February 09, 2015
  33. February 05, 2015
  34. Mb12tuts
  35. Magic Bullet Looks 3.0
  36. very first
  37. January 26, 2015
  38. Lightroom Iron Chef
  39. Prolost Graduated Presets
  40. Dehaze
  41. Prolost Graduated Presets for Lightroom

2014 40

  1. December 10, 2014
  2. December 09, 2014
  3. December 02, 2014
  4. November 04, 2014
  5. October 20, 2014
  6. October 15, 2014
  7. October 13, 2014
  8. September 29, 2014
  9. September 26, 2014
  10. little to do with audience experience
  11. September 10, 2014
  12. September 09, 2014
  13. September 09, 2014
  14. August 26, 2014
  15. August 15, 2014
  16. Offload
  17. July 17, 2014
  18. July 15, 2014
  19. July 11, 2014
  20. July 04, 2014
  21. Magic Bullet Colorista
  22. mask tracking
  23. June 27, 2014
  24. Lightroom for your camera
  25. May 27, 2014
  26. May 16, 2014
  27. May 05, 2014
  28. May 03, 2014
  29. April 28, 2014
  30. April 24, 2014
  31. April 17, 2014
  32. April 07, 2014
  33. March 27, 2014
  34. March 25, 2014
  35. March 12, 2014
  36. March 10, 2014
  37. March 06, 2014
  38. February 07, 2014
  39. January 15, 2014
  40. January 06, 2014

2013 50

  1. ’Twas(n’t) the Software Patent Before Christmas
  2. How to Take Good Photos for Under $1,000
  3. What I Do With My iPad Part 1: Storyboarding
  4. “Pixar’s 22 Rules of Story,” Analyzed
  5. Thanksgiving Sale at the Prolost Store
  6. The Perils of Home Theater
  7. Nikon Df vs. Canon 5D Mark III vs. Fuji X100S
  8. previous post
  9. Run Like Hell
  10. Bias in the Negative
  11. M is for Marmalade—Watch and Vote!
  12. Creative Cloud? Give Me a Cloud That Can Cook
  13. September 25, 2013
  14. September 14, 2013
  15. September 09, 2013
  16. September 02, 2013
  17. August 20, 2013
  18. August 12, 2013
  19. August 06, 2013
  20. BulletProof
  21. July 26, 2013
  22. July 23, 2013
  23. July 11, 2013
  24. July 10, 2013
  25. July 09, 2013
  26. July 08, 2013
  27. stood up
  28. May 30, 2013
  29. May 21, 2013
  30. May 16, 2013
  31. May 15, 2013
  32. May 13, 2013
  33. May 08, 2013
  34. May 06, 2013
  35. May 02, 2013
  36. April 24, 2013
  37. April 18, 2013
  38. pitched
  39. announced two really cool-sounding cameras
  40. switched
  41. April 04, 2013
  42. April 01, 2013
  43. March 18, 2013
  44. February 25, 2013
  45. February 21, 2013
  46. February 20, 2013
  47. February 03, 2013
  48. January 28, 2013
  49. it’s stupid, just like it was last year
  50. January 17, 2013

2012 43

  1. Let’s Cook
  2. 24 fps
  3. Reading Screenplays on the iPad mini
  4. September 10, 2012
  5. September 10, 2012
  6. September 05, 2012
  7. my review
  8. three years of making cameras
  9. August 22, 2012
  10. August 15, 2012
  11. August 10, 2012
  12. July 27, 2012
  13. July 22, 2012
  14. plain text
  15. June 11, 2012
  16. follow up post
  17. June 04, 2012
  18. May 24, 2012
  19. not a “camera blog.”
  20. April 13, 2012
  21. April 10, 2012
  22. April 09, 2012
  23. makes perfect sense
  24. March 20, 2012
  25. March 15, 2012
  26. follow-up
  27. March 13, 2012
  28. March 12, 2012
  29. Dslr movies pros and cons
  30. March 08, 2012
  31. March 02, 2012
  32. March 01, 2012
  33. February 28, 2012
  34. February 25, 2012
  35. February 24, 2012
  36. February 17, 2012
  37. What I Do With My iPad Part 2: Writing with a Keyboard
  38. February 10, 2012
  39. February 08, 2012
  40. January 31, 2012
  41. this page
  42. January 06, 2012
  43. January 04, 2012

2011 48

  1. 2011 on Prolost
  2. Screenplay Markdown Lives!
  3. Why We Fight
  4. Holiday Gift Ideas 2011
  5. This is How You Shoot a Camera Test
  6. low-end Super 35mm digital cinema cameras
  7. Pimp Your After Effects
  8. large sensors
  9. Magic bullet looks in fcp x
  10. Canon c300 and mobius
  11. The RC Podcast Episode 100
  12. Scarlet X
  13. C
  14. From the Canon C300 FAQ
  15. Dollars to Datarates
  16. Live Unicorn Coverage
  17. Avid Media Composer 6
  18. New Super 35 Camera
  19. indie publishing
  20. reverse-engineered
  21. he knew who I was
  22. Plastic Bullet for Mac
  23. recommended back in 2011
  24. I advised
  25. podcasts
  26. in chorus
  27. complained about Netflix
  28. my first music video
  29. Magic bullet mojo for fcp x
  30. Screenplay markdown
  31. Killed by a ninja
  32. Boundaries
  33. Magic Bullet Suite 11
  34. blogged back and forth
  35. storyboarding on the iPad
  36. company
  37. Mostly coherent
  38. failing
  39. Introducing movie looks and noir plus plastic bullet free fo
  40. Final Cut Pro X
  41. Colorista Free and LUT Buddy
  42. 3D doesn’t make movies more immersive
  43. The DV Rebel’s Guide became available as an eBook
  44. epic conditions
  45. eschew experts
  46. Color correcting food with colorista ii
  47. The Shot You Can Make
  48. written

2010 3

  1. Brick & Steel
  2. Plastic Bullet
  3. Ipad for filmmaking day six report

2009 6

  1. I don’t like camera tests
  2. Nocturne
  3. Psyops announced
  4. tried to draw to a close
  5. very beginning
  6. I wrote

2008 7

  1. shoot unnoticed in public places
  2. writing about nothing
  3. I wrote back in 2008
  4. Its happening
  5. backwards
  6. Reverie
  7. Everybody clips

2007 4

  1. abusive automation
  2. cinematic color
  3. Magic Bullet Looks 1.0
  4. finish in After Effects

2006 5

  1. hilariously
  2. wasn’t Nuke
  3. Less is More
  4. A Take of Three Blurs
  5. obsolescence

2005 4

  1. with a little straight-line portion at the base
  2. Using the elin color model in floating point apps
  3. Learn you up some elin
  4. extends naturally through 1.0

2004 1

  1. 2004 Stu