Jon Fauer's Film and Digital Times

Cannes + Cine Gear
June 2013: Issue 54

Now online. Paper edition ships week of May 20.

Complimentary copies in our booth #43 and everywhere at Cine Gear, May 31- June 1.

FDTimes anamorphic edition, NAB after-party and the Cannes + Cine Gear mid-year celebration of new cameras, lenses, lights and accessories.

Premiere of Preston Cinema Systems MDR3, Charts of Anamorphic lenses from Angenieux, ARRI/ZEISS, Cooke Optics, Hawk, Panavision, Servicevision Scorpiolens.

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Jon Fauer’s Film and Digital Times is a "sporadical," publishing on paper and online roughly every two months. Depending on events, introductions and technological breakthroughs, we sometimes combine issues into larger editions. Join us for the adventure and subscribe online. We talk about products and procedures in practical production—here’s the job at hand: how do we use tools and techniques to get the results we want?

Film and Digital Times is an inside-the-industry look at the nuts and bolts of high-end prodcution: how-to and how not to, technique and technology, style and strategies, tips and trends for Cinematographers, Directors, Producers, Rental Houses, Manufacturers, Camera Assistants, Camera Operators, Photographers, Videographers, Gaffers, Grips, Students, and Faculty.

About Jon Fauer

Jon Fauer, ASC is an award-winning cinematographer and director who has written 12 bestselling books, famous for their user-friendly way of explaining things as if you’re right there on location with him.

Jon Fauer on location in Paris. Photo: Howard Preston

Over 120,000 of his books on cameras, cinematography, film and digital video have been printed. Think of this bimonthly Journal as Fauer’s next book — arriving a year early, with up-to-the minute information brought to you in episodic format.

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News

J.L. Fisher Open House
Saturday’s J.L. Fisher Open House 2013 took place on a cloudless, beautiful day in Burbank. This annual event, held at J.L. Fisher’s sprawling complex and stadium-sized parking lot, is sponsored by the SOC, ASC and ICG guilds and supported in part…
I Shot It Website
This is in the “why didn’t I think of it” category. There have been film and photo competitions online, but here’s a self-supporting one. Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, majority shareholder of Leica Camera AG, has acquired a 25.1% stake in the…
Cine Gear Expo, “After Earth,” Awards
Cine Gear Expo – FDTimes in booth 54. 4K screening of “After Earth.” Lifetime Achievement Awards to Haskell Wexler, ASC and Cooke Optics and Les Zellan.
FDT Issue 54 now on iPad
Film and Digital Times June 2013 Issue 54 iPad Edition is now ready on the Apple Newsstand.
Angenews: Excellens
Angénieux is an official partner of the 66th Cannes Film Festival and will honor French Cinematographer Philippe Rousselot, AFC, ASC with the newly established Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography event at the Palais des Festivals. The ceremony will include…
Cooke NAB Anamorphic Evening
The annual Cooke NAB Dinner once again unfolded at Del Frisco’s in Las Vegas for Jurassic-sized steaks (in the words of Danys Bruyere), marvelous Malbecs, celebratory champagnes, pronouncements on production, and lectures on lenses. The key to admission seemed to…

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Events

05/15 – 05/26
Cannes Film Festival
66th Cannes Festival
05/30 – 06/02
Cine Gear Expo 2013
We're in Booth 54 - NY Streets

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New Products

Red Dot on Red Carpet
I’m at the Cannes Film Festival trying out new Leica M. While 4500 members of the press are covering this event, which I’m told gets more coverage than the Olympics, the presence of an M is noteworthy. It turns heads….
Preston MDR French Translation
For our French colleagues at Cannes: a translation of pages 6-7 from current June 2013 edition on Preston’s new MDR3. Translated by Pierre Souchar.
Digitaloptik Image Circle Extender
There are a lot of great lenses, especially zooms, designed in the days of the Academy format, that have been relegated to back shelves when Super 35 and larger sensor cameras came out. Despair no more; dust off your venerable…
Dragons and the Chocolate Factory
It was like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for camera geeks at NAB. South Lower Hall had a working RED camera assembly area, complete with clean room, sensor installation, nitrogen freezing and vibrating QC. RED Epics were upgraded on the…
Easier EasyFocus
EasyFocus just got easier–and smaller, lighter, more ergonomic. Gabriel Bauer, AAC (left), designer of Moviecam and Arricam, introduced the second generation of his touch-screen focus-puller’s best friend. The new model is about the size of a laptop, with a new…
Cooke Series II & III Revived
Give them your tired, your poor, your old Cooke Series II and III Panchros yearning to be breathing free. If you’re looking for a vintage Cooke Series II and III Panchro look, here’s the real deal. Colin Sanders (right) and…
OConnor’s Killer Donuts
Killer Donuts? No, Thye’re not the latest lethal offering from craft service. OConnor’s new anti-reflection rings (donuts) were two of the most simple-why-didn’t anyone-think-of-them-before innovative products of NAB. Prototypes were seen at Cinec and Cine Gear — now they are…
Fujinon Cabrio 14-28 T2.9 Update
Fujinon usually has a surprise under glass at NAB. This year’s revelation was a pre-production Premier PL 14-28 mm T2.9 Cabrio wide angle zoom (model ZK2x14). It will join the 19-90 T2.9 and 85-300 mm T2.9-4.0 Cabrios around the end…
MōVi
If FDTimes gave awards, MōVi would probably win most innovative new product of the show. It reminds me of a stabilized head (like Russian Arm, Libra, Scorpio) that goes handheld. Or think of it as a stabilized helicopter mount minus…
New Fujinon Cabrio 14-28mm
Fujinon announces a new Cabrio for NAB. On display at their NAB booth will be the new Premier PL 14-28mm Cabrio wide angle lens (model ZK2x14). Focal length from 14-28mm at T2.9, with 200-degree focus rotation. This is the 3rd…
This is what has been cooking at Angénieux and Cooke
Anamorphic Lenses At the AFC Micro Salon in Paris a few weeks ago, Angénieux CEO and President Pierre Andurand and Cooke Chairman Les Zellan were seen tête à tête. FDTimes has learned that Angénieux and Cooke technical teams worked together…