Monthly Archives: March 2012
Gerhard and Bernhard at Leica
There has been a lot of activity at Leica lately. Gerhard Baier is now Managing Director. He shares the title with Erik Feichtinger, who previously shared the title with Iain Neil. Gerhard will be responsible for production and marketing, Erik for finance and operations. Iain continues as principal lens designer and CTO of the Leica Summilux-C Project. Bernhard Kratzer is… read more…
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Gloveless Wireless Lighting
Litepanels gives us gloveless, scrimless and wireless LED lighting. It revolutionizes the way sets and locations can be lit. I tested the new Sola 4 from Litepanels for several weeks with Alexa, RED, Canon and Nikon cameras. I was mostly interested in how the light looked. (The quality of illumination was excellent: even, balanced, consistent, color-correct.) Then one day I… read more…
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Alain Derobe
Alain Derobe, Stereography Supervisor, passed away Sunday March 11, 2012. Internationally renowned 3D expert, Alain Derobe had just finished supervising the live 3D shooting of the feature film “Astérix & Obélix: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” directed by Laurent Tirard. Before that he had supervised the 3D shooting and grading of “Pina” by Wim Wenders, which was nominated for best… read more…
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Canon EOS C300 Best Practices Guide
Canon has just posted a 14-page Guide “Common Steps to Prep the EOS C300 for Shooting.” It’s a helpful companion to the C300 product manual, and a quick reference guide on location or on set. For example, when you can’t remember how to set Canon Log–here’s an excerpt: The EOS C300 and C300PL can record video files using “Canon Log”… read more…
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Canon 5D Mark III
Three things will encourage you give your “old” 5D Mark II to your kids, so you can race out to buy the new Canon EOS 5D Mk III: 1. Headphone jack. 2. ISO speeds to 25,6000 (expanded to 102,400). 3. Improvement in noise reduction by 2 stops. That means 3200 ISO images on the new Mk III look as good… read more…
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Sony F65 Training
Sony F65 digital motion picture camera workshops will be conducted on Stage 7 at Sony Picture Studios in Culver City, California beginning in March. The sessions are intended for qualified directors, cinematographers and other film industry professionals and will demonstrate the entire production to post process. On set will be two F65 cameras with Leica Summilux-C and Fujinon lenses, a DIT, and a… read more…
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