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Band Pro Open House
12/7/23
Band Pro One World Open House: Thursday December 7th, 2023 - 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Band Pro’s annual toast to the industry returns on Thursday 12/7/2023.
Band Pro One World Open House
Thursday December 7th, 2023
1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
3403 W Pacific Ave, Burbank, CA 91505
RSVP: www.bandpro.com
Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion Beebe, ASC ACS will be this year’s Guest of Honor. Dion’s work includes: Edge of Tomorrow, Collateral, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Little Mermaid and many more. read more…
New Angénieux EZ-3 Zoom Lens
Angénieux announced their new EZ-3 Zoom Lens. Covering 68-250 mm in Full Frame, and 45-165 mm in Super35, this is the third in the EZ Zoom series. These are not ordinary Full Frame lenses that happen to over-cover Super35. The IRO (Interchangeable Rear Optics) module lets you use the same lens to swap between Full Frame format (up to 46.3mm image diagonal) and Super 35 (up to 30.4mm image diagonal). By swapping the rear IRO (Interchangeable Rear Optics) module, the lens becomes a wider and faster Super35 zoom. You can configure the lenses easily for S35 and FF formats by swapping the rear group yourself.
The new EZ-3 is even easier and faster to change from FF to S35 and back again thanks to a new, quick IRO technology mechanism. In fact, it takes less than 5 minutes and can be done on location. read more…
Tiffen Rear Filters for ARRI Signature Primes
Tiffen Magnetic Rear Filters for ARRI Signature Prime Lenses are now approved, tested and authorized by ARRI. They come in many of the popular Tiffen looks and grades: Glimmerglass, Promist, Fog, Black Satin, etc. read more…
Suggested SIGMA fp L Settings
SIGMA fp L and fp are amazing DP/Director’s Finders.
Paired with the HENRI finder system from Leitz, you get a beautiful birchbark handle, L to LPL mount (optional LPL to PL adapter), carbon fiber rods, a lens support, Arca Swiss baseplate, and start/stop switch.
Here are some suggested SIGMA fp L Settings: read more…
SIGMA fp & fp L Camera Updates include EL Zone
EL Zone. SIGMA fp L and fp are the first mirrorless cameras to incorporate EL Zone. With new firmware updates, your SIGMA fp L (61 MP) or SIGMA fp (24.6 MP) camera is now a spotmeter and exposure tool, in addition to being a versatile DP/Director’s Finder, smallest Full Frame cine camera and mirrorless still camera. read more…
CVP at BSC Expo 2023
2/24/23 – 2/25/23
CVP at BSC Expo 2023: CVP will be back on the mezzanine area of BSC Expo 2023 on February 24-25.
CVP will be back on the mezzanine area of BSC Expo 2023 on February 24-25. The latest cameras, lenses, accessories and production equipment will be on display, curated by CVP’s technical consultants, product specialists and engineers.
A Virtual Production stage will demonstrate a range of applications, budgets and specifications.
The ever-popular, non-alcoholic Lens Bar is back with a more extensive collection of new and vintage glass for evaluation and comparison for combinations of lenses and filters on a variety of cameras.
I assume there will be a real, high-octane Bar opposite the Lens Bar. read more…
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Angenieux Special Report 2022
This 24-page Special Edition is a retrospective of FDTimes articles from previous editions about Angénieux Full Frame lenses: Type EZ zooms, Optimo Ultra 12x, Optimo Primes and Optimo Ultra Compact Zooms. read more…
AbelCine Sony x Vogue World
12/6/22
AbelCine Sony x Vogue World: Event about the fashion show and street fair that premiered during NY Fashion Week.
Tuesday, December 6 AbelCine is presenting a free evening event in partnership with Sony highlighting innovative use of Sony cameras on Vogue World, the fashion show and street fair that premiered during NY Fashion Week. This event will have two main components: A creative panel with some of the key members of the Vogue World production team in the theater… read more…
SLATE from Tribe7
Clapperboards haven’t changed much since Psycho.
Leave it to the team at Tribe7, innovators of Blackwing7 lenses, to come up with a new, exciting and innovative SLATE. It has familiar sticks that clap (heads or tails) and a board to mark with Dry Erase pens. But this is no ordinary writing surface.
SLATE has an e-paper display similar to a Kindle. Instead of a board with pre-engraved lettering or custom graphics that have to be ordered in advance, graphics and template text on SLATE can be changed immediately. read more…
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Cooke Varotal/i FF 19-40, 30-95, 80-215 Details
Cooke is back with more zoom lenses.
Two new Cooke Varotal/i FF Full Frame zoom lenses were introduced in November 2021 and released earlier this year: 30-95 mm T2.9 and 85-215 mm T2.9. And now, the duo becomes a trio. Please welcome the Cooke Varotal/i FF 19-40 mm T2.9. read more…
Cooke Varotal/i FF in Industry City Video
Took a Look at Cooke Varotal/i FF Zooms
FDTimes looked at Cooke Varotal/i FF Zooms on VENICE 2 at Industry City, in Brooklyn, NY. You can see the 4K video on YouTube at: youtu.be/zF-5mThr0j0
and on Vimeo: vimeo.com/766754992 read more…
NAB Show New York 2022
10/19/22 – 10/20/22
NAB Show New York 2022: NAB Show New York 2022
Education: October 17-20, 2022
Exhibits: October 19-20, 2022
Javits Center in New York City
200+ Exhibitors
Show Floor Hours:
- Wednesday, October 19 | 10 m. – 6 p.m.
- Thursday, October 20 | 10 m. – 5 p.m.
DJI FPV @ MIT
Jonathon Brearley, MIT Master of Architecture and colleagues fly the DJI FPV. ” The FPV system’s precise navigation makes it feel extremely easy to position the drone in the sky. With this drone, the intention is to use the superb first-person-view (FPV) goggles that provide the pilot with a high definition stream of the 150˚ FOV drone camera. The goggles are so immersive, if you’ve had dreams of being a bird, free to roam the skies, this might be the closest you’ll get with your feet planted safely on the ground. It’s slightly uncanny how natural the flight felt, especially the ability to assess depth and proximity of obstacles through the goggles, something I do not find easy to do while flying other phone-screen operated drones. read more…
On-Set Social Distancing Using AJA Products
Sushi is not socially distant. Here is a photo of this article’s author, Andy Bellamy, in pre-pandemic days, providing bounce fill with his napkin at Yamazato in Amsterdam. We managed to avoid eviction from this and other fine sushi establishments whose chefs suffered our antics in tabletop lighting and camera tests between uni and ebi. But, this is not an article about sushi. It’s Andy’s article about AJA products that can help crews keep safely apart, watching the action on monitors far away from the cameras and connected by fiber optic cables and AJA devices. read more…
Gods of Focus: Olga Abramson
The lack of marks or rehearsals on Uncut Gems was a given from the start; it’s a part of the Safdie brothers’ directing style. Whether lining up a frenetic running shot or an over-the-shoulder close up, Cinematographer Darius Khondji ASC, AFC would suggest a 150mm lens and the brothers would revel in raising the stakes. Why not a 250mm? Or better yet, a 360mm? 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…
Micro Salon Italia 2019
Federico Fellini used various visual effects in his film Casanova, one of which was a gigantic overly graphic head of Medusa rising from the dark waters of Venice’s Canal Grande during the Carnival sequence. Now, this gigantic Medusa head rests in the Cinecittà Studios of Rome, not far from Stage 10 – right across Federico Fellini’s famed Stage 5. This is where the 2019 Micro Salon Italia took place on March 22nd & 23rd. read more…
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Koerner Camera Lens Summit
by Adam Wilt Koerner Camera Systems in Portland, Oregon hosted the 2nd annual Pacific Northwest Lens Summit on the first Saturday in May. About 250 people came to see lenses, filters, FIZ controllers and focusing aids, anamorphics and adapters, gimbals, cameras, and camera robots presented by thirty different exhibitors. Attendance might have been even higher had Portland not suffered from… read more…
Micro Salon Italia 2018
A.I.C. (Associazione Italiana Autori della Cinematografia — the Italian Society of Cinematographers) brought Micro Salon Italia back to Cinecittà Studios after a 3-year absence, to where it first started in 2013. The first edition had only twelve booths, but this year, thanks to the larger space of Stage 10 – right across Federico Fellini’s famed Stage 5 – it hosted 56 booths in 2,000 sq mt (1,300 in 2017), 17 more than last year, with 83 major brand names and an extraordinary attendance of over 4,500 visitors. read more…
Filming the Solar Eclipse Aug 21
This is the story of Stephen Pizzo’s enthralling preparations to shoot the Solar Eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017. This is the first total solar eclipse across the continental United States since 1918. The Moon will pass between the Sun and Earth, blocking the face of the Sun and leaving only its outer atmosphere, or corona, visible in the sky. The epicenter of the total eclipse will be in Carbondale, IL. The project includes a number of firsts that rely on state-of-the-art digital cinema cameras as part of an advanced astro-imaging system built specifically to capture the first US-wide eclipse in a hundred years. read more…
