Monthly Archives: May 2019
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…
New Preston Hand Unit 4 HU4
New Preston Hand Unit HU4 to be introduced at Cine Gear. Features
35% lighter weight than HU3 with Micro Force zoom.
Adjustable focus knob drag.
LED triplet provides uniform focus scale illumination.
Super-rugged tactile switches rated for 10 million cycles.
Menu items can be accessed either by tactile keys or touch screen entry.
Large sunlight-visible 4.63″ diagonal display.
Large display fonts make lens data easy to read.
Reversible black/white background for interior/exterior use.
Focus, Iris, and Zoom scales are precisely represented.
Non-linear iris scales are mapped to a linear scale. read more…
First Angénieux 35mm Prime in 1951
Here’s an update from Cannes about the newly announced Angénieux Optimo Prime lenses. (18mm, 21mm, 24mm, 28mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 60mm, 75mm, 100mm, 135mm, 200mm.) Specifications and prices will be announced at Cine Gear.
Willy Kurant, ASC, AFC talked about working with Orson Welles and the first Angénieux wide angle 18.5 mm prime lens (FDTimes September 2013). “In the 1950s, I bought the 18.5 mm Angenieux Retrofocus wide angle prime. read more…
Angenieux Optimo Prime Lenses
Cannes, France. Thursday May 23. Angenieux announces Optimo Prime Lenses. Full Frame 46.5mm image circle coverage Maximum aperture 1.8 T-stop. 21mm, 28mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm and 135mm for the initial 6-lens production run scheduled for delivery Fall 2020. The complete 12-lens set will include the above focal lengths and 18mm, 32mm, and 100mm lenses delivering Winter 2020; and 24mm, 60mm and 200mm… read more…
Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC and the Angénieux Excellens Award at Cannes
Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC was born in Nancy, France and graduated in 1978 from ESEC film school in Paris. A distinguished cinematographer, he has worked with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton, the Coen brothers, Joe Wright and many others. Bruno Delbonnel has been nominated five times for Best Cinematography Oscar: Amélie (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Darkest Hour (2017). On May 24, 2019, Bruno receives the Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens Award in cinematography at the Cannes Film Festival. read more…
Teradek RT CTRL.3
The Teradek RT CTRL.3 is a new, 3-axis wireless Focus, Iris and Zoom lens control. With built-in lens mapping, you can set up and calibrate the scales of your lenses and store the data inside the control unit— to be summoned up in an instant when you change lenses, thus avoiding time-consuming end-stop and focus mark setup. read more…
Tags: SmallHD, Teradek, Teradek RT CTRL.3
C’est Cannes 2019
The 72nd Festival de Cannes is now open. Follow the 12 days of Cannes on the official Festival website. The Cannes 2019 poster celebrates filmmaker Agnès Varda. If anyone knows the name of the camera assistant or grip whose back she’s standing on, please contact FDTimes. It was August 1954 and, as the official Cannes press release describes, she was filming… read more…
Tokina Vista Primes
Planning for the Tokina Vista Primes began in 2013. During the early stages, Ryan Avery, VP of Formatt KT America and Tokina Cinema products, met with cinematographers to get feedback. He also came up with the name: Vista Primes. From the beginning the lenses have been designed to cover beyond Full Frame and cover the RED 8K VV sensor (46.7mm image diagonal) that was introduced in June 2015. The image illumination of the longer focal lengths covers the 5K image area of the Alexa 65 camera that was introduced a year earlier, in September 2014. The lenses came to market a year later, in 2016. read more…
SIGMA Burbank Studio
Sigma recently opened a new 10,000 sq. ft. studio, showroom, screening room, lens repair shop and office facility. And, at NAB 2019, Sigma showed three new high-speed Full Frame cine prime lenses: 28mm T1.5 FF, 40mm T1.5 FF and 105mm T1.5 FF. This brings the total count of Sigma cine lenses to 13: FF Zoom, High-Speed Zoom and FF High-Speed Primes. They have PL, E and EF mounts. LF to come. read more…
CVP Large Format Test with ARRI
CVP recently hosted a Large Format event in collaboration with ARRI at the CVP & ARRI Creative Space. The CVP team set up a test with the ALEXA LF, ALEXA Mini (fitted with LPL mount) and ARRI Signature primes. The lenses were 18, 25, 35, 47, 75 and 125 mm. The event was overseen by CVP Account Manager Aaron George, who prior to joining CVP in 2017, spent almost 12 years at ARRI as UK Head of Camera Service. read more…
Tags: ARRI, CVP, Large Format, Signature Prime
Sony VENICE Firmware Update 4.0 — 120 fps
VENICE at 120 fps in 4K 2.39:1, 60 fps in 6K 3:2 Full Frame and lots more…Sony VENICE continues to catch the attention and imagination of filmmakers worldwide. It is working on many features, commercials and television productions. Full Frame is gaining traction as almost every lens manufacturer rolls out an increasing number of Full Frame lenses. With Version 4.0, you can purchase an optional HFR license (High Frame Rate) that takes VENICE up to 120 fps in 4K Super35 2.39:1 (4096 x 1713) and 60 fps in 6K Full Frame 3:2 (6048 x 4032). read more…
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K & RAW
Blackmagic Camera 6.2 update eanbles Blackmagic RAW in the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K.
The Pocket Cinema Camera 4K has a Micro Four Thirds (MFT) size 18.96 x 10 mm sensor. The lens mount has a Flange Focal Depth of 19.25mm and its inside diameter is nominally 40.2 mm Ø.
Blackmagic RAW is a new codec that combines the quality and benefits of RAW with the ease of use, speed and file sizes of traditional video formats. File sizes are smaller, which means recording time is longer. You’ll be able to record 2 hours of Blackmagic RAW in 4K on a single 256GB SD UHS-II card. read more…
