Pebble appears to be doing that most famous of Silicon Valley shifts: the pivot. Not in an entirely new direction, mind you. Pebble still makes low-cost smartwatches (starting from $99 vs. $349 for the Apple Watch). But it's now appearing the Palo Alto-based upstart is shifting its strategy and targeting the fitness tracking...

UPDATE: I wasn't pleased with the noise on my first cut. I re-shot some tests with Raven using ISO 320. Also I used REDlogFilm instead of REDgamma4, and used Lumetri Color to grade (not exactly a strength of mine). You can see the results at the end of the...

I felt like Bryan Cranston was looking over my shoulder, "There she is!" Like in Refn's Drive, as I unboxed the new RED Raven camera, I felt as if I was in the vicinity of something packing ungodly power, cloaked in an inconspicuous body -- though certainly sexier than a Chevy Impala. It's serial...

Update 5.3.2016: Problem solved. I cancelled my pre-order. That a company would bump loyal customers is definitely odd, but especially odd and possibly disturbing is that VR, a promising, futuristic digital technology, would require us to trek to a brick-and-mortar called Best Buy. Interesting news today out of the world of VR. Oculus, one of...

Pebble continues to be the smartwatch to beat. And, now, a quick tip below on how to customize vibrations on your Pebble. Yes, as I've written before on Stark Insider, the Palo Alto-based start-up does face an ongoing struggle to compete against giants -- Samsung (Tizen), Google (Wear), Apple (WatchOS)....

Now that the Canon EOS 80D DSLR camera is here, it's time to take stock of some of the good, as well as some of the bad. I primarily shoot video, and have been using the 80D for a few months now. So far I've used it to shoot interviews, b-roll,...

The Stark Insider Road to RED continues. Yesterday I received the much ballyhooed (at least amongst the REDuser community) "allocation email." The brief communication simply means a camera, in this case a Red Raven, has been allocated in my name, and will ship shortly: Nothing too exciting. Move along. In other news... Sure, but...

Tips and tricks and what to know about shooting video on the Canon EOS 80D DSLR camera. Includes videos shot on 80D, plus recommended accessories.

I have the handle. Now all I need is the camera. But this isn't just any ordinary camera handle. No, that's because it's designed and engineered for a RED camera. That means a few things. For one, it must, by law of the land of RED, have a wild name. So: "DSMC2 Outrigger...

10 years ago Loni and I started Stark Insider. I opened up a Netscape browser, loaded something called Typepad and "wrote" this piece of profundity.  I guess we still haven't really grown up, refusing to leave the creative bubble this site affords our lives. It's hard to believe a decade has already...