There is a great new series on BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds called “This Cultural Life” where broadcaster John Wilson talks to creative people about their life and influences. I was listening to the episode

I saw this amazing film (Director’s Cut) at the cinema last week. My first time. Absolutely loved it. I was so impressed by the cinematography, particularly the submarine interiors. The tight spaces t

Hi all- We’ve got an event coming up at our new Long Island City facility, for those of you in New York who might like to attend. Cinematographer Mandy Walker will discuss her work, share her insights

How available technology shapes and enables the language of cinema and its evolution over time. Also, are advances in production tech (VR, ML, AI, etc.) about to obsolete actors / sets / cameras / dub

Some of you may have seen this, it was new to me (from financial writer Barry Ritholtz' daily reading list emails). This is apparently the *short* version of an article about disruption on the creativ

Topic for next Wednesday? If nothing else, we might expand on last week’s discussion of how available technology shapes and enables the language of cinema and its evolution over time. Adam Wilt techni

Hi, I am working on a project where we are using a Panasonic BGH1 in an underwater robot and need to get more information about the IP protocol. It looks like the majority of the traffic required for

Hi all, prepping to shoot plane-to-plane from a low-wing Beechcraft Bonanza. The doors retract and camera and lens can remain out of the air stream. I’ve done this before with a stills camera and reli

Greetings, I am posting this on behalf of a friend who had his Sony Venice Stolen from his vehicle on the 8th January in Chiswick London. Sony Venice s/n 0010433 DVF-EL200 s/n 10296 Raising awareness

I posted the below in VFX but got no answers. Hope someone else may be able to answer it here. "Would like to know what's out there and what people have used to replicate vehicle vibration and movemen

No topic specified. Wednesday: LA 10am, NYC 1pm, UK 6pm, western Europe 19:00, India 23:30. https://zoom.us/j/94426303343 Recorded discussions: https://www.cinematography.net/CML%20-%20Zoom%20Discussi

18.4mm x 9.7mm 4K panels aren’t beyond the realm of possibility. The more salient issue is: how are you going to make that EVF’s image subtend enough of a visual arc to make that additional resolution

Nanlite has more new LED lights. And yes, Panasonic will be shipping a camera (two, actually) with phase-detect AF before hell freezes over. What else is going on that’s worth a chat? Adam Wilt CML te

Garrett is still at it. https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/steadicam-zeen-mobility-aid/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=41c12df828-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_01_12_02_54&utm_medium=email&utm_te

We’ll learn about the underwater cinematography of “Avatar, The Way of Water” with many of the folks responsible for it: - John Brooks, 3D camera systems producer - Patrick Campbell, 3D camera system

Note the later-than-usual start times! Wednesday: LA 1pm, NYC 4pm, UK 9pm, western Europe 22:00; India Thursday 02:30, Australia Thursday 8am https://zoom.us/j/94426303343 Adam Wilt CML technical serv

This article from the NYT is quite critical of the HFR deployed in Avatar. The reviewer sounds at least moderately knowledgeable, but it's interesting to get a non-insider take. The NYT is normally a

MARTY MULLIN Director of Photography mmullin4@... Los Angeles Begin forwarded message: From: Marty Mullin <mfmullin4@...> Subject: Cutting hand held and tripod shots Date: January 9, 2023 at 7:33:39 P

Dear colleagues the article of X-H2S camera can be seen now on IMAGO website in English https://imago.org/news/evaluation-and-cinematography-study-of-the-fujifilm-x-h2s-camera/ and in Spanish on the A

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/1/u01c8jzlqn6451ddp7c2w5ul9tsh5f Owen Roizman, who passed on January 6 aged 86, was one of Hollywood’s most important cinematographers, he defined the look of Ame