An iPad can do three jobs on set. It can be a screen, a video monitor, or the place you tether into Capture One for iPad. The problem is that each job needs something plugged...

Replacement caster wheels fixed what made my tripod dolly useless on city streets. The dolly’s weight on stairs is a separate problem.

One 16 mm pin, three mounts and an elbow. How the Baby Pin Pro, HEX, BLOQ and CODO fit together, from tripod to cart.

One plate, nine parts, and the order I put them on. A walkthrough of the full LAMINA system, with what each part fixes and where it stops.

A superellipse sits in the gap between a rectangle and an ellipse — take an ellipse's equation, raise the exponent above 2, and the curve flattens along the sides while the corners soften without sharpening....

A travel router and a base network look alike on a spec sheet, but they do different jobs. Here’s when a digital tech should carry a GL.iNet Slate and when a UniFi Express 7 belongs...

A router has no natural place on a digiplate cart. It arrives in a bag, gets held on with velcro or gaffer tape, and stays wherever it happened to land. I wanted it to have...

In April 2025, five people at UC Berkeley saw a colour that doesn't exist in nature. A laser called Oz activated only the M cones in their retinas and produced a blue-green more saturated than...

This is the first of a new series on the Gelatin blog — The Onset. Short interviews with the people who actually make production sets work: digital techs, photographers, producers and everyone around them, like...