- Angenieux Tribute to Nguyen Phan Linh DanNguyen Phan Linh Dan will be honored at Cannes at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2026 in the Buñuel Theatre of the Palais des Festivals. She will receive an Angénieux endowment for her next project. She graduated with a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2018. Credits include MY SHARE OF SKY (2026), PICTURE HOUSE (2026), CU LI NEVER CRIES (2024 Berlinale, GWFF Best First Feature), SECRET OF THE WIND (2019 Busan International Film Festival), GIRL FROM THE PAST (2023 Best Cinematography Award at the Vietnam Film Festival), etc. read more...
- Akiko Ashizawa JSC Cannes Angénieux Award
Akiko Ashizawa, JSC is a legend in Japanese cinema. With more than 70 feature film credits, she worked with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Tokyo Sonata (Jury Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2008; director Kôji Fukada's Sayônara (2015) and The Man From the Sea (2018). Akiko Ashizawa, JSC will be the recipient of the 2026 Pierre Angénieux lifetime achievement award at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2026 in the Buñuel Theatre of the Palais des Festivals. We met at NAC Image Technology in Tokyo on April 30. read more... - DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Premieres at Cannes
C'est Cannes! If you want to make a splash at Cannes, book a ballroom at the exclusive Majestic Hotel. Introduce the new DJI Osmo Pocket 4P.
Pourquoi Cannes? DJI says, "By unveiling the Osmo Pocket 4P at one of the most prestigious places in global filmmaking, DJI signals a bold evolution of the Pocket series from a creator tool into a cinematic imaging device capable of professional-grade storytelling."
The Osmo Pocket 4P is a small, dual lens, 3-axis gimbal stabilized camera system with 10-bit D-Log2 internal recording. More details to follow. read more... - Mark Patten, BSC on YOUNG SHERLOCKYOUNG SHERLOCK is the episodic origin story developed by Peter Harness and Guy Ritchie, who also directed two episodes. Earlier, Mr. Ritchie directed SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) and SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (2011), both starring Robert Downey, Jr. The game is afoot in this new series distributed by Amazon Prime Video. A larcenous 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes is whisked off to Oxford in an effort to keep him out of trouble. Trouble comes quickly when he befriends young James Moriarty. There’s enough action and intrigue to fill the entire season with chase scenes, a stolen Chinese scroll, fights, stunts, adventure, Paris, Istanbul...Mark Patten, BSC was the cinematographer on the entire YOUNG SHERLOCK series. read more...
- Eurocine 2026 Eurocine opens on May 8 and 9 at HungExpo Budapest. With Budapest among of the busiest places in Europe, this is a two-day event with hands-on equipment exhibits, screenings, discussions and instruction. Support comes from the National Film Institute Hungary, Hungarian Society of Cinematographers, the Hungarian Cinematographers Association, Budapest Film Academy, IMAGO, IMAGO Technical Committee, Women in Cinematography and... read more...
- Canon CINE-SERVO 40-1200mm T5.0-10.8You climb a mountain because it’s there. Canon makes a new lens because they can. And probably when users ask. Clearly, cinematographers were calling to go wider and tighter.
Canon introduces the new CINE-SERVO 40-1200mm T5.0-10.8 zoom lens in PL or RF Mount. That’s a zoom range of 30x.
Remarkably, the lens is the same size and weight as the Canon 50-1000 mm 20x zoom introduced 11 1/2 years ago, in October 2014. https://fdtimes.us/Canon40-1200 read more...
- ARRI acquired by RiedelARRI has been acquired by Thomas Riedel, founder and owner of Riedel Communications and the Riedel Group.
As I sailor, I've admired the great video and audio coverage of SailGP high speed "F1 on the water" races. The reason has been the same Thomas Riedel, co-owner of the SailGP Germany Team with F1 champion Sebastian Vettel.
Both ARRI and the Reidel Group are family-owned. ARRI was founded in 1917 by classmates August Arnold and Robert Richter on Tuerkenstrasse in Munich .
Thomas Riedel founded Riedel Communications in 1987 in Wuppertal, Germany. The story goes that he started with five walkie-talkies. Today, with more than 1000 employees, Riedel operates from 30 locations worldwide. They are a major manufacturer, distributor and rental company of video, audio and data equipment for live entertainment, sports, broadcast, events, etc. In addition to SailGP, that includes the Olympics, Red Bull, Eurovision, etc. read more...
- Tim Sidell, BSC on “The Night Manager”This is a shortened version of the April FDTimes cover story -- publishing soon on paper, online and at NAB 2026.
Tim Sidell, BSC was the sole cinematographer of all 6 episodes of "The Night Manager" Season 2: "A key thing that we wanted to do on 'Night Manager' was to articulate what is in the script, which is an exploration of identity. In Season One, Jonathan Pine is more of an action hero. Here, in Season Two, he has questions—he’s less sure of himself."
Read full interview: fdtimes.us/night-manager read more...
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- Tim Sidell, BSC on “The Night Manager”
- VENICE 2, Leitz Hugo, Mamiya 645, Optimo Zooms
- Blake McClure, ASC on “Rooster” with URSA Cine 17K 65
- Claudia Raschke, ASC — Dancing with Camera
- Takuro Ishizaka, JSC on “Rental Family”
- Natasha Leonnet on Grading “Rental Family”
- Chris Field on Macro and Laowa Probe Zoom
- Christophe Casenave of ZEISS on Character & Change
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