Hot Cinematography Posts
News: NAB 2010 - Jag35.com DSLR cage system
Seems like a super light, compact and inexpensive system for mounting add ons to your canon 5D
News: Don't Kill the Messenger, or the Makeup Artist!
I’m terrified of you. Yes, you- Director of Photography (DP). Your framing is beautiful, but your lighting could kill me, and my career. I am the Makeup Artist, and I don’t believe we’ve met.
News: Hot Rod 7D with a custom PL Mount
Can't wait until the 5D or 1D4 versions come out and I get a chance to shoot with real anamorphic lenses.
News: Outsight Creamsource Professional LED Light
At 10 Feet about 525 Foot Candles Spread over 6 Foot Range - Spot. 216 Diffusion, get 10 foot spread and 80 foot candles.
News: NAB 2010 - Redrock Micro iPhone Remote Insanity
An amazing price for a full featured wireless micro-remote, using the iphone or ipod touch as its brains.
News: NAB 2010 - Litepanels Micro Pro Hybrid Strobe & Light
Allows a WYSIWIG approach to shooting with strobe LED lights, interesting concept, I guess the advantage is battery life vs using the light continuous.
News: NAB 2010 - Red Day Videos
Red Epic 5K being shown, working and recording images at NAB 2010. Ted Schilowitz of Red gets interviewed.
News: Zeiss Compact Primes CP.2 for Canon DSLR or PL Mount
I really want these, the best of all worlds, DSLR mount and a PL mount option on the same lens.
News: NAB 2010 - Panasonic 3D VariZoom for the AG-3DA1
Adjust the convergence while your 3D camera is on a boom. Then watch on a Panasonic Bt-3DL2550 - 3D monitor to see if your convergence is correct. Panasonic introduced the new BT-3DL2550, a 25.5-inch 3D LCD production monitor with full 1920 x 1200 resolution. The BT-3DL2550 provides 3D display with true-to-life color in a durable, production-tough LCD panel package. Use special glasses to view the display in 3D, great for setting up shots while on the set.NAB 20210NA
News: NAB 2010 - Panasonic Camcorder AG-3DA1 & AG-AF100
Panasonic's new video camcorders, 3D and one with removable lenses and a larger sensor but it shoots to an awful codec.
The Job Board: "Don't be an asshole"
The Job Board is a weekly entry of the most ridiculous Cinematography related jobs posted online. DP
News: Arri Alexa - World Cup Short
Lots of smoke and soccer balls.
The Job Board: Best all-time job posting
The Job Board is a weekly entry of the most ridiculous Cinematography related jobs posted online. Note: This posting was from a year ago.
News: ASC DP shoots on 5D, looks like crap
For as much as Shane Hurlbut ASC's name is ostensibly everywhere right now for all the wrong reasons (re: Christian Bale, 5D challenge, etc.), as a cinematographer I think he's extremely talented. The photography and camera work in "The Greatest Game Every Played" are very underrated and the futuristic look he gave to "Terminator Salvation" is both stunning and unique.
News: Aerial Video with Canon 7D
These guys know their DSLR stuff
News: Canon 5D to PL5D in 20 Easy Steps
Simply follow these easy steps and your Canon 5D will soon have a PL Mount. . . . PS: Don't forget to PRAY!
News: Panasonic's new 3D camera
So if anybody makes it to NAB, please keep and eye out for this guy and report back, what you find out.
Hammock - Breathturn (DP: Larkin Seiple)
I hesitate to even post screengrabs from this piece. The storytelling by this creative team (dir. David Altobelli & DP Larkin Seiple) is so perfect that taking stills out of context doesn't do it justice. At first, I was disappointed that the automatic thumbnail Vimeo chose was so nondescript but ultimately it's for the best. Here's just a tease:
The Job Board: "Help the future of rock n roll"
The Job Board is a weekly entry of the most ridiculous Cinematography related jobs posted online. DP for Music Video (Los Angeles)
News: Red One Basics
Video: Assemble the RED ONE into a film style camera. Video: Navigate the RED ONE video submenu.
News: DSLR to Film Comparison
So watching this I think what is so interesting is not what film does better, but what the differences are between the DSLRs. Give me Kodak indoors and Fuji outdoors any day, but the 5D really does shine, it becomes hard to see why you should shell out for a RED, or most Sony products especially for a anything without guaranteed theatrical release. Documentary I believe remains a whole different question and workflow is still a headache but when the name of the game is make this beautiful ...
News: The Role of a Gaffer
Both on and off the set, the Gaffer or Chief Lighting Technician is one of the most important positions around. Though the average movie goer most likely has no idea the job even exists, they probably don't know what 99% of the other crew is/does either.
News: Features of the new Arri ALEXA
It looks so simple...
News: Arri D21 - Digital Cinema - Video Comparison
Arri D21 introduced at IBC Arri D21 vs 35mm Film
News: Why We Fight - DSLR HD footage from Afghanistan
Shot on the 5D by Specialist Tyler Ginter: 55th Combat Camera Company and owner of the coolest job in the military.
News: Sensor Sizes
Tyler Ginter, creator of Why We Fight - the beautiful collection of never before seen footage of the Afghanistan Special Forces shot on the Canon 5D, put together this comprehensive and helpful lineup of sensor sizes.