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May/June 2005  Issue 1

About this New Newsletter

2

Lighting with Paint: 

3

Rembrandt van Rijn, “Philosopher in Meditation”

 

Andrew Laszlo, ASC “Every Frame a Rembrandt”

 

Camera Reports

3,14

Digital Intermediate, SD20, Genesis, DALSA, Arriflex 235 Accessories, Hydroflex 235 Splash Bag, Super 16, Aaton a-minima, a-cam, Cooke, Bolex Super16, HDV, Sony HVR Z1U

 

How to Shoot Steadily at Sea

4-5

Arriflex 235
Sony HDR-FX1 HDV
Panasonic DVX-100a
Canon XL-2

 

Kodak Look Manager System (KLMS)

6

Intro to the New Arriflex 235

7

Arriflex 235 quick review

8-11

Arriflex 235 Parts, Camera Comparisons  

12

235 Setup; Loading Mags

13

JDC 235 Splash Bag 

13

Opening Credits: Howard Preston 

13 

Microforce Zoom control and lens controls, FI+Z, Speed Aperture Computer, Microforce lens motors

 

Hylén System from Panavision

14

Camera History: Sept 1922

15

Sept 35mm camera

 

July/August 2005 Issue 2

NAB: The Year of HD, HDV, HDTV

 2

Cine Gear: The Year of Moving Cameras

 3

Cranes, Cars, Remote Heads

 4

Low Angle Shots

 5

Lenses

 6, 7

Lens Accessories

 8

Power, Batteries

9

Video Assist

 9

Digital Cameras

 10

Arriflex 235 Accessories

 11

Painting with Lights

 12

Lighting with Paint

 12

AKS, Bags

 13

Books, Software

 13

Kodak 7299 Film, KLMS

 13

Opening Credits

13

Water

 14

Camera History: 1895

 15

October 2005  Issue 3

SONY Z1 HDV Jumpstart Guide

 

Digital Intermediates

2

SONY HVR-Z1

4

Z1 Menu

7

Lighting with Paint

14

Vermeer “The Geographer,” “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”

 

3D Digital Projection

15

January 2006  Issue 4

Peepshows and iPeep: Apple iPod Video

3

Cooke 15-40mm CXX S4i Zoom Lens

5

Tiffen Filters

6

Glimmerglass, Digital Diffusion DFX, HDTV FX, Nude FX

Retrofit Syndrome: mounting ARRI EXD-1 External Display on Arriflex 235 camera

7

Lens Pen

7

JVC GY-HD100

4, 8-9

High Definition and Your TV Spot by David Friedman, djm Post Production

10

Opening Credit: Barbara Lowry

11

Director, Cooke Optics

Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC on why he is a Cinematographer, not a “Director of Photography”

11

Lighting with Paint

12

Thomas Eakins “Singing a Pathetic Song,” “The Agnew Clinic”

Lighting in Tight Places

12

Matthews MAX, Finnlight Toplight, ARRIMAX 18/12, Litepanels Mini

Lowel Ego Light

14

Eye Cushions and Chamois from Bluestar – Lentequip

14

April 2006   Issue 5

Super 16mm from Rune Ericson to now

1, 3

Astrid Preston, artist

1

New HD Cameras and Lenses

2

Pre-release Arriflex 416 whispers

3

New Aaton Super 16mm camera: XTRprod2

4

Super 16 Lenses from Cooke, Canon and ARRI

4

Sony XDCAM HD PDW-F350

5

How to do a Digital Intermediate

6, 7

John Dowdell and Tim Spitzer of Goldcrest Post Productions

Sensitometry in English, by Bart Durkin

8

Super 16 and Digital Intermediates, by Michael Phillips, AVID

9

CamTram

10

P+S Skater Mini and Scope

10

Raw Files, by Tom Reid

11

Kodak KLMS 2

11

Lighting with Paint: Masters of Darkness

12

Rembrandt “Self portrait as the Apostle St. Paul,” Gordon Willis, ASC

Lowel Caselite4

13

Kinoflo 4Bank

13

Doggicam Sparrow

14

Opening Credit: Garh Thielges

14

Ikonoscop a-cam Super 16

14

June 2006 Issue 6

Arriflex 416 unwrapped at NAB, RED revealed and Sony F23 prototype introduced at NAB

1

Cinematographer Style Feature Documentary: 110 Interviews

2

Lighting with Paint: What’s wrong with this Jan de Hooch Picture?

3

Depth of Field in Cinematography, by Mark Craig Gerchman and Jon Maxwell

4

The Gods of Focus, by Howard Preston

6

Preston FI+Z Hand Unit3

6-9

Back Focus and Zeiss Sharpmax, by Michael Bravin

10

One Chip or Three Chips? by Laurance Thorpe

12

End Credit: Herbert Raditschnig

September 2006 Issue 7

Demise of the Video Store

1

Superstars

1

Lighting with Paint

2

Caravaggio, “St. Jerome,” “Christ at the Column” Lighting is Overrated, by Paul Ryan, ASC

3-5

Picasso “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”

Focus Issues with HD and SD, by Denny Clairmont

6-7

Panavision Lenses, by Elina Shatkin

8-9

Vantage Anamorphics, by Peter Martin

10

Cool Tools

11

Anamorphic lenses and contrast glass from Joe Dunton, Tie-down screwdriver from Boston Camera,

JL Fisher Accessory shelf and low-mode attachment

BrainDrain for Batteries from Lentequip

12-13

Checking Flange Focal Depth of Arricam and Arriflex 235

14

November 2006 Issue 8

Lighting with Paint: Vincent Van Gogh, “The Weaver”

2

ARRIMAX and Maxmover

3

Lenses at Cinec

4, 5

Cooke CXX 15-40
Zeiss/ARRI LWZ 15.5-45
Angenieux 15-40
Angenieux 28-78
Cooke SK4 Super 16 lenses
Hawk lenses
JDC lenses
Preston Cinema Systems lens controls
Cinematography Electronics
cMotion

Light and Grip at Cinec

4-6

Transvideo 4 inch Starlight Monitor

7-10

Zeiss, Digis, Masters, and Ultras

11-12

Cinematographer Style Film and DVD

13-14

Jan 2007 Issue 9

Camerimage, Cooke, Lodz

1, 2

Band Pro One World HD Expo

2

SONY F23 HD 2/3" Camera

3

SONY HVR-V1U HDV Camera

4

Lighting with Paint & Mirrors

5

Cooke Tour: Lenses in Leicester

6-7

JVC GY-HD250U HDV Camera

8-9

Practical Info on Focal Length

10-11

Arriflex 416 Intro Notes

12-13

Color Temperature & Gossen 3-F

15

March 2007 Issue 10

Sci-Tech Awards

1

Richard Edlund, ASC

2,3

New Monitors from Transvideo

4

Rainbow II RF UHF, Rainbow II Extrem, CineMonitorHD6, Starlite DV

Wizards of Wireless

5-7

Lens control systems honored at Sci-Tech Awards

Preston Cinema Systems, cMotion, ARRI

Cooke /i dataLink

8

Camera Tracking 101: Pixel Farm and Avid

9,10

Sony F23

11

Tiffen Steadicam Merlin and DFX Digital Filter Suite

12

Digital Dustbuster: Kodak Digital Ice and ARRISCAN

12

16x9 Inc 1.5x Tele Converter for HDV Camcorders

13

JVC PL Mount Adapter

13

Canon XHA1 and XHG1 Camcorders

14-15

Kata Camcorder Guards

16

Setting grads, Formatt Grads

16

ARRI at NAB

17

MasterPrimes, 416, 235, Lighting, D-20

Lighting with Paint

19

Rembrandt Portraits

June 2007 Issue 11

Red, Green, Blue

1-3

RED camera, Lwel Rifa, Canon HV20

Aaton Penelope

4

Phantom HD AND 65

5

Oli Laperal at NAB

6,7

Cooke Tour: How to Build a Lens

8-13

Lighting with Paint

15

Bellini, Titian

Sept 2007 Issue 12

iPhone

1-3

Tiffen Dfx Software

4-5

Hedén Lens Motors

6

Oli in Asia, Infocomm and Cine Gear Expo

7-9

Still Life: Canon EOS 40D, EOS-1Ds Mk III

10

ARRI Updates: 416, 235, Arricam Lite

15

Lighting with Paint

12-13

A tale of Two Caravaggios: The Fortune Teller

Cinematographer Style in Rome

15

Dec 2007 Combined Issues 13 & 14

Jena Optical Museum

3-5

Lighting with Paint

6

Leading Ladies

Sony EX1 and Z7U

7-11

ASC and Avid on Color

14

Zeiss PL Still Camera

15

Transvideo HD Monitor

12-13

12 Days of Bogen

16-17

Hawk V-Lites

18

Cooke Sees Red

19

Panavision G Series

20

Lentequip SR3 Adapter

21

NY Pro Tech Expo

22-23

Oli at ARRI and IBC

24-25

Primal Streams

26-27

Canon Confluence

28

CineBags

29

16x9inc EX Wide

15

Good Books

30

 
 
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