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J.L. Fisher Open House

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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…

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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…

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Cine Gear Expo, “After Earth,” Awards

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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

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  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…

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Cooke NAB Anamorphic Evening

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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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Fauer’s Fake Anamorphic Bokeh Kit

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The sight of so many Maglites shining down the barrels of the latest anamorphic lenses at NAB sent shivers down the spine and flashes of dollar signs in the eyes. Surely there’s more to the anamorphic look than oval out-of-focus…

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FDTimes NAB Debrief

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Après NAB, le deluge. FDTimes  begins the data dump, debriefing, pictures, and posts. It was one of the busiest NABs, with lots of exciting new products: Cooke, Angenieux, Scorpio, ARRI/ZEISS anamorphic lenses, image shaping (filters, post, lens adapters), rigs (MuVi,…

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FDTimes Issue 53 Online

FDTimes Issue 53 April 2013 NAB Digital PDF edition is now online and ready to download.

AJA Updates

AJA announced support for Adobe’s next versions of editing software, including Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade with AJA Video’s Io Express, Io XT, T-TAP and KONA Families. AJA will be in NAB Booth SL3816. New Mac and Windows device drivers and…

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