Usually it is the second AC's job to keep the lenses clean, but with shrinking budgets many cameramen struggle to keep their optics spotless. Fortunately, a new start-up company, Visualnary inc., has come up with a web-based lens cleaning service.
Greatest news is, that they currently offer the 3 first cleaning ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology tagged 2k, 3971, 4k, build 16, comparison, digital cinema, Film, future, hd, patience, queue, RED, sd, waiting
It's probably been in the cards for a while, but we have ordered our Red One camera. Sometime before the end of the year (fingers crossed), we'll be able to churn out pictures at such high resolution that they can be used for digital cinema. We'll be able to use ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Technology tagged birger, canon, eos, explanation, glass, graphs, lens, lens test, lenses, link, paper, power, RED, resolution, Reviews, tests, theory, wide
Found a great paper by Canon on lens theory, which also explains the common terminology used in lens construction. The paper also includes an extensive collection of graphs showing the optical resolution of all Canon lenses, both wide open and at F8.
Great resource if you have a Canon stills camera, ...
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Posted in Film, Life tagged brida, download, excerp, god, great, Life, path, paulo coelho, pdf, quote, way
Disappointment, defeat and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
From Paulo Coelho's great book, Brida. If you want to hang it on your wall, here's a PDF version.
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Posted in Film, Humor tagged ad, ad agency, advertisement, Advertising, agency, commercial, film school, Fun, humor, joke, youtube
What life is like for a fresh director on his first job on an ad shoot: (strong language)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrxg2N97ucA[/youtube]
And the truth about advertising (same concept).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_VtqtxCHY[/youtube]
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Busy and exciting times here, thus only irregular updates.At times you find yourself in a situation where you need to know where the sun will be at a given time. It might be that you need to film a sunrise, simply to know when the light starts in an unknown ...
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