Protist Lab Films, run by former water lab technician and sound engineer Fabian Weston, has been able to capture the microscopic world on film like never before, thanks to an innovative set up including a camera created by Aussie film-tech company Blackmagic Design.
Fabian, who has won multiple awards for his microscopy, built an innovative 6K camera setup mounted to a microscope using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K digital film camera to shoot microscopic single celled protists, some of the Earth’s smallest creatures.
Since the beginning of 2022, Weston has been using the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K to capture the amazing world of these tiny creatures. Relying on the camera’s ability to work with a number of different high quality microscope objective lens types and its easy to build onto design, Weston created a unique custom setup to connect his microscope directly to the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K.