As some of you may know, the FreshDV team gathered in Chicago this last week to put some filmmaking gear by top manufacturers under scrutiny. After 5 long days of extensive testing we managed to find some very interesting results. Lighting kits, follow focus units, matte boxes, and much much more. We will be posting extensive written reviews as well as complete video coverage via our FreshDV Podcast. Just a quick shoutout to some sponsors who provided us with some much needed support gear even though we didn’t directly test their gear. Special thanks to our friend Bruce Allen for providing us with his light meter. Special thanks to Fletcher Chicago for providing us with a Zeiss 85mm PL lens to test our gear on. Zeiss also helped us by providing us with a set of their ZF primes to test gear on as well. Below are some pics from the week. Thanks to the following manufacturers who provided us with gear:

Lowel Lighting
Mole Richardson
Arri
Zacuto
Chrosziel
16×9 Inc.
Petroff
Cinetech Inc.
Redrock Micro
Indie Dolly
Cinevate
Ikan
Bartech

Matt taking notes and entering data, and setting lights.

Kendal conducting follow focus and DOF test.

Chrosziel follow focus unit.

HVX200 with matte box Redrock FF unit, Zacuto Rods and Baseplate.

Running through calibration test on the Bartech wireless follow focus unit.