- Angénieux Optimo Prime Introduction
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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.- FDTimes August 2019 Edition #96Film and Digital Times August 2019 Edition #96 is now online for subscribers. Print copies are going out the week of August 12. Read all about the Angénieux introduction of Optimo Prime Lenses at the Cannes Film Festival. SIGMA Full Frame Classic Art Primes and fp Full Frame camera. “The Innocents of Florence” by David Battistella, shot with RED and... read more...
- July 20, 1969 – One Giant Leap for Mankind
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon. They had lifted off in the Apollo 11 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969 and splashdown back on Earth was on July 24, 1969. Armstrong had a Hasselblad (HDC Data Camera) Medium Format Camera with a ZEISS Biogon 60mm f/5.6 lens fitted to his chest harness to shoot stills of the lunar excursion. An Angenieux 6x25 16mm format zoom lens in the Command Module shot live color images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their trip to and from the moon. A 16mm Maurer camera with Angénieux 75mm f/2.5 prime lens was also shooting film of the Lunar Module’s separation and docking maneuvers from the porthole read more... - Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM Prime Lens
Mark Forman tests the new Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM. "It really delivers. This prime at f/1.8 brings more low light opportunities. When shooting landscapes at magic hour or at night, the lens is sharp edge to edge at f/1.8 and even sharper when stopped down to f/8." read more... - Koerner Pacific Northwest Lens Summit 2019
Koerner Camera Systems hosted the third annual Pacific Northwest Lens Summit on a sunny Saturday, May 4th, in their spacious Portland, Oregon facility. The Lens Summit is a single-day event focused on cine optics. You can meet two dozen lens, optical and accessory vendors and ogle their products with few distractions. Perhaps 500 people attended, twice as many as last year. read more... - Cine Gear 2019
Cine Gear 2019. This is probably the first time I can remember wishing a trade show actually lasted longer. Cine Gear 2019 was bigger and more packed with people than ever. It was impossible to see all the exhibits and stay on schedule with all the meetings in two days. Here's a report on new announcements and a slideshow of Cine Gear highlights. read more... - Tribe7 plus One: Alexander Schwarz
After more than fifteen years as Senior Director of Worldwide Key Accounts at Vantage Film, ASC Associate Member Alexander Schwarz has decided to move on. Effective June 1, 2019, he has been directing worldwide sales strategy and business development activities at Tribe7 — the technology start-up founded by Bradford Young, ASC and Neil Fanthom. Tribe7’s first venture is with the new Blackwing7 lens system - a highly creative, tuneable range of cine optics for large format image capture. read more... - ZEISS Supreme Primes Special Report
FDTimes Factory Tour and Special Report about the new ZEISS Supreme Prime lenses. Download 44-page 11MB (high rez) PDF. ZEISS Supreme Primes cover a FULL FORMAT image area up to 46.3 mm diagonal. They are incredibly small, lightweight and fast. The focus barrel has a unique, advanced square helical thread that is as smooth as cams and even more rugged. There are 13 lenses planned so far. read more... - ARRI Large Format Camera System
This is a standalone, 64-reprint of the ARRI Large Format Special Report from FDTimes February 2018 Issue 86. Download 9 MB PDF here. ARRI ALEXA LF Why Large Format? Stephan Schenk, Marc Shipman-Mueller Klemens Kehrer, Achim Oehler, Thorsten Meywald Building an ALEXA LF ARRI Signature Primes Signature Prime Lens Manufacturing New LPL Mount ALEXA LF Test by Matias Boucard ALEXA LF Dimensions ALEXA... read more... - 8/29/19 – 8/30/19
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- NEW K35 Primes by ServicevisionThose Full Frame Fanatics from Barcelona are at it again. The same Servicevision team who designed and built the FFA Scorpiolens Anamorphic 2x primes have developed a completely new series of lenses with matching characteristics, flares and bokeh to augment the original, venerable, vintage Canon K35 sets. These new lenses are called NEW K35 by Servicevision. The set includes a 15mm T1.5... read more...
- Bright Tangerine Drumstix
Drum roll please. Bright Tangerine’s new Drumstix Sterling Titanium Support Rods are incredibly lightweight and very solid—¼ of the weight of stainless steel lens rods. read more... - Vocas LPL and PL Mounts
The Vocas camera accessory line will be shown at NAB 2019 in the booths of several leading brands such as Angenieux, Atomos, Panasonic, Spirit Labs, etc. read more... - Sony α7R IV – 61 Megapixels
Sony launched their new full-frame mirrorless a7R IV (model ILCE-7RM4) today. With a new 61 megapixel sensor, this is Sony’s highest resolution full-frame camera. It has a totally new sensor—the first major update for Alpha still cameras since 2015. The full-frame sensor measures 35.7×23.8mm. We estimate the pixel pitch around 3.6 microns. Maximum resolution for stills is 9504 x 6336. Gone may... read more... - SIGMA Classic Primes
At the SIGMA launch in Tokyo, CEO Kazuto Yamaki kept pulling rabbits out of the hat. Actually, no rabbits and no hat — just gasps of astonishment when a SIGMA Classic Prime appeared in his hand on stage. Uncoated inside, mildly coated on the outside front and rear element surfaces, these are flarey, classic, vintage primes that will make Samuel... read more... - SIGMA FP 4K Full Frame 12-bit RAW Camera
Fortissimo Pianissimo. fp. The New SIGMA FP camera was introduced in Tokyo on Thursday evening. SIGMA CEO Kazurto Yamaki calls it a “deconstructed digital imaging device.” It seamlessly bridges the gaps from still photography to video, from smart phone to Directors Finder. Astonishingly, it shoots Full Frane 4K 12-bit RAW internally. It has an L mount (20m FFD) and is... read more... - SIGMA L Mount & E-Mount Lens Launch
Today in Tokyo, SIGMA introduces the first 3 models in a new series of full-frame lenses for mirrorless cameras. The SIGMA 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN | Art is a large-diameter, ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for L-Mount and Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras. It is astonishingly compact – almost impossibly small. The SIGMA 35mm F1.2 DG DN | Art is described by SIGMA as "The world’s first autofocus 35mm F1.2 L-Mount and Sony E-mount lens for full-frame mirrorless systems. F1.2 maximum aperture." The SIGMA 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary is an all-purpose lens that is intended to travel with the camera at all times, ready for rapid street photography and any other shot you might want to grab at a moment’s notice. read more... - Hasselblad X1D II 50C
This is the next episode in Game of Formats, and a very exciting saga it promises to be. Hasselblad introduced their new X1D II 50C mirrorless Medium Format digital camera today. It has the same lens mount as the original X1D introduced in 2016 and many improvements. The XCD lens mount has an 18.3mm flange focal depth and ~61mm Inside Diameter. That's an extremely short distance from the lens mount to the sensor, which is nice. Google "Hasselblad XCD Adapters" and you'll see many mechanical mounts. The 50 megapixel CMOS sensor has 5.3μm photosites. It measures 43.8 x 32.9 mm, which is 54.78mm diagonal. read more... - Panasonic S1H: Full Frame 24p, 6K
S1H The Panasonic Lumix DC-S1H launched at 12:30pm at Cine Gear on May 31, 2019. The S1H is a full-frame, 36mm x 24mm sensor, 24p, 6K video camera “hiding” in the body of a DSLM. The shape makes it great as a grab camera, handheld, on rigs, gimbals, drones, or fully outfitted with a studio rig. It gets interesting when... read more... - FDTimes June 2019 Online & at Cine Gear
Film and Digital Times June 2019 Issue 95 is now online. Go to fdtimes.com top left for details and download. We are also at Cine Gear. Visit us in booth 207 in the New York Streets. read more... - Angénieux Optimo Prime Flying In
Enroute AF 072 CDG-LAX. May 29. Flying in to Cine Gear
Across the aisle on Air France 072 from Paris to LAX is a 40mm prototype Angénieux Optimo Prime. It is carefully hand-carried by Angénieux executives Severine Serrano, Christophe Remontet and Emmanuel Sprauel -- heading for Cine Gear this Friday-Saturday. See the framegrabs in the post as well. read more...
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