Monthly Archives: February 2018
AbelCine Field-of-View Tool 2
Quick. You’re shooting with an ARRI Alexa Mini and a new Alexa LF. The Alexa Mini has a 21mm ARRI/ZEISS Master Prime. What lens do you choose to match the same field of view on the Alexa LF? What happens if you put the 21mm on the LF? You also have many other important, but vexing questions: image circles, crop factors,… read more…
Canon EOS M50 Mirrorless 4K APS-C
Canon’s new EOS M50 Interchangeable Lens Camera (ILC) is a mirrorless still camera that shoots 4K video. The 24.1 Megapixel sensor is APS-C format, approximately 22.3 x 14.9mm. Although Canon calls the EOS M50 “an all-around, entry-level camera” it has many interesting and innovative features that surely will trickle up to other products in the Canon camera pyramid. The mirrorless EF-M mount… read more…
Massis, Mont Blanc, Monstro, Sigma
“Samuel Renollet (RVZ) contacted me in mid-November 2017 for an adventure I couldn’t refuse: head to high altitudes and test the new RED MONSTRO 8K VV camera with SIGMA Cine Lenses. Samuel’s idea was a test shoot with this large sensor camera in difficult conditions, in the high mountains, with a small crew.” read more…
Grand Format Lenses at Micro Salon
At the AFC Micro Salon in Paris, it was called “le Grand Format”– Full Frame, Large Format. And Grand Format was partout. Here is a parade of Large Format images. Photographed using a Sony a9 still camera with PL-to-E-mount adapter and LPL-to-E-mount adapter. All lenses wide open–maximum aperture. Credits and more details will follow as I edit this post. The filename… read more…
ARRI Signature Primes: Faces and Food
What better way to test the new ARRI Large Format Signature Primes than some food photography in the company of fellow Film and Delicious Times foodies Thorsten Meywald and Howard Preston. Thorsten is ARRI Product Manager for Optical Systems and Howard is head of Preston Cinema Systems. Thorsten discreetly smuggled into the restaurant a rapid prototyped LPL to E-mount adapter and a Signature Prime. read more…
AFC Micro Salon Paris 2018
2/9/18 – 2/10/18
AFC Micro Salon Paris 2018: Fri, Feb 9 10a-8p & Sat Feb 10 10a-6p
La 18e édition du Micro Salon de l’AFC aura lieu vendredi 9 février 2018, de 10h à 20h samedi 10 février 2018, de 10h à 18h dans les locaux de La Fémis (6, rue Francœur à Paris 18e). The 18th annual Micro Salon of the AFC will take place Friday, Feb 9 from 10a – 8p and Saturday Feb… read more…
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Panavision DXL2
On Friday, Feb 1 at BSC Expo in London, Panavision launched their new Millennium DXL2 8K Large Format camera. Sensor size: 40.96 x 21.60 mm (46.31 mm diagonal). No one at BSC Expo could have missed the significance of having most of the major cine manufacturers embracing the new, larger format, variously called Full Frame – Full Format – Large Format… read more…
AbelCine’s Brooklyn Open House
2/10/18
AbelCine Brooklyn Open House: Saturday 10am - 5pm
AbelCine celebrates the relocation and expansion of their NY flagship facility to Industry City in Brooklyn. They will have an Open House on Saturday, February 10, from 10am – 6pm. There will be panel discussions, manufacturer displays, a silent auction, raffle prizes, community partnerships, food and drink – and a chance to tour their vast, brand-new facility. Highlights of our… read more…
ARRI Large Format Camera System (PDF)
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…
