I’ve just caught the end of a BBC film that had Suzanne Sanders (no relation!) credited as Best Boy and it just seems very strange to me. Obviously its a role we all understand but it does slightly de

Can anyone explain this oddity... So I’ve bought an Aja U tap and when using it on Tuesday one of the cameras (the F55) wasn’t working. Although after a bit of replugging it was rock solid until we tu

I wanted to get some opinions on a mount option decision. I have three original Baltar lenses that currently have some sort of obscure BNC screw on mount. Getting the lenses rehoused is financially ou

This week is going to be a very open Q&A with nothing being excluded and nothing too basic. I was very impressed by the Cooke sessions this week and want to steal a a little from them. I realizes that

Hello Everyone! During today's discussion we started talking about cinematography books – and how you can learn so much just from reading about the theory of light and cinema. While there were many am

Well, I've tried to support them during difficult times but I've given up. Their payment system has defeated me and life is too short to keep banging my head against that wall. Hopefully someone else

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Hi: I am getting ready to start a documentary that requires a lot of traveling and changes of location. Mostly interviews in interiors and some B-roll, insets. Technical requirements are that it doesn

Hi all, I have a drama coming up, shooting on the LF and we have a scene with paparazzi flashes. First job on the LF - will we have rolling shutter / artefact problems with the paparazzi flashes? Many

Hi George- Vimeo and Youtube are spectacular noise reduction tools, for better or for worse. I remember a series, produced many many years ago, that shot on broadcast cameras at +9db to create a “film

Join us for this weeks web discussion... Are virtual festivals and conferences a complete waste of time? Should we just wait until we can get together again? How can organisers of these events get it

I have a TV spot scheduled to shoot on an iPhone 11 and wondering if I can record the output of the iPhone to an external recorder. I can get a lightning to HDMI adaptor and feed that to an external r

ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) is hosting a webinar on Covid Safety on Set today at 3pm ET. While ASMP's focus is on the still side, I believe this will be relevant to motion sets too.

I’ve just got a schedule from the AD done on shotlister which has Scene 1 shots A, B, C etc Yet when we slate with Movieslate we have it set to is scene 1, slate/shot 1, take 1 I think my head might f

So today I was catching up on tech sessions at the virtual SMPTE 2020, which has just ended. I always make it a point to attend sessions on codecs, since these days we live and die by them. Below is w

Hi Everyone I was wondering if there was a way that didn't cost the earth and I can use my mac to convert an icc monitor profile to a lut profile. Basically i bought the new xrite i1Pro+ to calibrate

A friend in Italy shared this link with me: Famous Photographers Tell How from the internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/FamousPhotographersTellHowD.D.TeoliJr.A.C. Includes interviews with: We

Been waiting to announce this so here goes. By the way this is for the students and young professional camera people. Cooke Optics brings a new spin on virtual peer networking to Virtual Camerimage 20

thought this might be of interest coming from a fellow cml member rich lerner mostly retired dp usa http://daveyoung.co.uk/project/dispatches-divided-states-of-america/

As I've just signed my life away to Sony to get access to a PDF, I needed to rant a little bit about camera control protocols. I just don't understand how even now, a good 15 (20?) years into the digi