There is a great interview in Variety with James Cameron and his perspective on 3D films (pun intended). Of course, what he says is quite convincing, and salient. I met him once. He made some convincingly salient points then too. Via Daring Fireball, via John August.
RED announced the following new cameras, which I am sure will be dissected and analysed (and changed) over the next year or so. Release in 2009:
SCARLET - 3k resolution, supposedly under $3000; 2/3 sensor; fixed lens 8x T2.8 zoom. http://www.red.com/nab/scarlet. More information here. And a off the floor video via Videomaker:
EPIC - 5k resolution, ~$30,000; […]
May we all see like insects: light fields and plenoptic lenses. There could well be an interesting shift in specialised photography where extracting 3D data from digital images shot with either special lenses or sensors (and with a lot of post-processing/number crunching) become useful tools for VFX practitioners.
(Full disclosure: like most people, I’ve had a lenticular […]
Kubrick — via Bagelturf — shooting in candlelight using a modified Zeiss f/0.7 lens originally intended for spy satellites. I don’t think I saw the f/0.7, but I am pretty sure the f/1 Zeiss he had modified to mount onto a Mitchell camera was at the Kubrick exhibition in the ACMI […]
The latest edition of Monocle has an article about the traction that film maintains in Japan [Film Stars]. While the numbers may be small (film cannot best the onward march of digital), it does in my opinion, illustrate something which oddly fits with the Japanese psyche. Retro cool? Sentimental regret? Just another Japanese subculture to enjoy?
The […]