I finally got around to re-do my showreel, which I hadn't updated in years. Thing is, it is already outdated again, but that's just how these things go...
Anyway, if you have quicktime installed, have a peek.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sneak preview: Showreel", url: "http://modifoo.com/2008/06/14/sneak-preview-showreel.html" });
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Film, Life, Technology tagged 8mm, burn, burned, burned frame, Film, fire, flash frame, mussorgsky, super8, youtube
One thing I do and will miss when editing video/digital film are those flash frames. The few frames that are exposed when the camera gets up to speed, and when it stops again, the gate is checked, the mag is changed, the film is laced.
As a side line, we do ...
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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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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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