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NZCS Chairperson Simon Riera has offered up this interesting link to a page in development offering a “Virtual Lighting Studio”. It is certainly worth a visit if even for discussion starter on how this technology can be applied to our own work in the future.
Continue Reading →NZCS Operator’s Evening held at the Dolly Shop – March 7th 2012 NZCS members and a wide cross section of other industry people gathered recently at The Dolly Shop grip facility to have an interactive session with as many camera movement devices as possible. While the primary focus was on camera operators, and the tools [...]
Continue Reading →NZCS Committee member Marc Swadel reports back from his latest shoot – “Don’t Think” a concert feature for The Chemical Brothers in Japan from UK production company RSA (Ridley Scott & Associates) Films/Black Dog.
Continue Reading →A brief walk around the new toys at the British Society of Cinematographer’s trade annual trade show at Elstree Studios north of London.
Continue Reading →For almost as long as Cinematography has existed, ARRI have been at the forefront of Camera manufacture. The name is well respected amongst many Cinematographers who have demanded reliable performance from their daily workhorse of a camera. So the Alexa caused more than a few ripples when it entered the HD foray with a camera [...]
Continue Reading →A bit of an update on this story below from NZCS Chairperson Simon Riera – you may want to download the .pdf file here that explains his findings on the S-Log. On the 19th of August NZCS members gathered at Images & Sound Post house to view footage shot on the Sony F3 by [...]
Continue Reading →Monday the 2nd of May saw members of NZCS gather at Filmlab for an evening hosted by Kodak. I had earlier got a call from Grant Campbell of Kodak who had informed me of a 65mm shoot being done in Auckland. He suggested it would be an interesting evening for members if we could arrange for Cinematographer Brad Ohlund and his sidekick Jack (“just Jack”) to give us a rundown of what it meant to be shooting on 65mm Film.
Continue Reading →NZCS member John Toon in Los Angeles shooting a TVC on Red Epic: “A tiny camera, but after the AC has hung junk all over it gets bigger. Pretty good results . jt”
Continue Reading →Pulling together all the technology and people to make a demonstration of 3D rigs and monitoring was never going to happen at the drop of a hat. On Wednesday the 23rd of March all the elements came together for the NZCS Event.
Continue Reading →I had the pleasure recently of checking out the Aaton Penelope 35mm/digital camera in London. The same week I got an invite to head out to the famous Pinewood Studios in North West London to talk to Alan Piper at Red Europe and get my eager mitts on the new Red Epic 5K camera.
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