Has anyone by any chance got a BenQ SW2700PT? Im having some weird issues with the calibration settings. Michael. Michael Sanders: London based Cinematographer/Director of Photography. reel/credits/ki

CineMatch, which I have been beta testing for months, has now been release at https://www.cinematch.com/ I know that most of you will dismiss this but it really does work, maybe not as well as another

This week the CML weekly discussion will be on Monochrome. Shoot it monochrome or convert to monochrome in post? 9am in LA, New York at noon, 5pm in London, Amsterdam 6pm, Mumbai at 22:30pm, midnight

This is a public health warning... If you get an offer to upgrade from the iDisplay that a lot of us use to the new SpyderX bear in mind that the “Pro” version is anything but a professional piece of

PANASONIC M DECK INQUIRY - I am working on a big archival heavy doc project and some of our material is in an obscure tape format called Panasonic M (which came out before MII) and we are trying to fi

CML Web Discussion Wednesday 23rd September 9am LA, Noon NY, 5pm LON, 6pm AMS, 9:30PM BOM, 11pm BKK Colorists and Cinematographers, perhaps the most important relationship a Cinematographer can have i

CML Web Discussion Wednesday 23rd September 9am LA, Noon NY, 5pm LON, 6pm AMS, 9:30PM BOM, 11pm BKK Colorists and Cinematographers, perhaps the most important relationship a Cinematographer can have i

Hi I have been asked a question today and I want to check my answer. This particular DP wants to shoot 4K on a Sony Venice. End format is an uhd streaming service. So shooting with 2.0x anamorphic len

Hello. I have a recent enquiry into shooting a presentation. One of the references given is an Apple Keynote type presentation. Does anyone have an idea how they are shot? With a speaker in front, wha

Good morning CML, I have a project where we're shooting live action scenes that will have animated 2D characters added in post. Several of the scenes involve seeing animated action on the screen of a

A big thank you to everyone. Very interesting answers. As we still have a good 10 days before shooting, we decided to test a few this coming week from various upload locations. Cheers, Manny Emmanuel

Greetings, What is currently a good and cost-effective way for transferring large files ( circa 100GB/200GB) per day. A European solution would be more practical, as based in Germany. Thanks beforehan

Dear VFX gurus. So I’ve been playing with the C300-3 and wanted to put RAW lite to the test. To that end I shot a chromakey with the C300mk3 in RAW, the FX9 in XAVC300 and F55 is class 480 and 300. I

Hi there, With the recent downtime from work I have been taking the opportunity to read up on new technology, specifically ACES. I recently watched the ACES for cinematographer’s online zoom talk. As

Hi all, I've read on a blog another article from an industry player about LUTs and Transforms on the internet earlier today: there are quite a lot on the web that are often between "lacking precision"

Hello everyone! I have a few questions about how to create a show LUT and how the test footage should look like. 1. What is important when creating test footage for a show LUT? Different Color Charts?

This is the topic that got the most votes on the CML poll, 36% of voters wanted this. This will be a non-colour science discussion about the advantages, and the disadvantages, of an ACES workflow. Eve

Ed Moore BSC, Geoff Boyle NSC and Misson’s Head of Colour Pablo Garcia will present a seminar explaining how ACES can help cinematographers ensure creative intent preservation for the future and commu

I’ve been doing some research online, but I can’t find what the history of Digital Green (and Blue) is for screens and what their technical parameters are compared to the older Chroma Green (and Blue)

Hello everyone, I’ve been playing around with ProRes Raw in the new Beta of Adobe Premiere and I’m struggling to work out a reliable colour workflow. The issue is that Premiere seems to debayer the fi