The stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere.
Our networked world is strange. When you lose a good friend half a world away, you don’t always get to know about it… Thinking about Mat Thompson. For three years, he and Kevin Railsback and I built and ran the…
ESPN had hired Graphika to sift through more than five million tweets during an internal investigation of some suspected fraudulent activity during its online All-Star voting process. During the process, numerous fake accounts were found that directly influenced the voting results.
At a four-day endurance match with the pedestrian brutality that constitutes NAB, the key word is comfort.
The late documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s feature length bio-pic of Leon Russell, A Poem is a Naked Person, premiered Monday night at the South By SouthWest 2015 film festival in Austin, Texas… only forty-two years after it was completed! https://youtu.be/n6KpbMxxV64…
Since the beginning of film, cinematographers have sought to assign their own speed ratings to film. The same is now true of video cameras. I don’t know how manufacturers do it, but here’s how I do it… Mostly I employ…
Does a camera’s ISO setting actually represent reality? Maybe. Here’s a way to test it using a gray card and a calibrated light meter… It’s important to see if a camera’s ISO is actually what the manufacturer says it is.…
Ever wonder why cameras with the same ISO can look so different? Yeah, me too. There’s no easy answer as to why. When I started out as a young camera assistant I remember working on a low budget feature film…
A famous DP once told me, “Never say no.” I suspect this is the best possible way to have a glorious career, but I don’t think it’s always appropriate. Here’s what I do… Directors are applied psychologists. They have to…
authored by Mitch Gross, Director of Communications at Convergent Design December 19, 2014 From: Convergent Design To: All Owners of the Odyssey7Q Dear Friends, For more than a decade, Convergent Design has sought to make an impact on the motion…
authored by Mitch Gross, Director of Communications at Convergent Design With the introduction of the new Odyssey7Q+, Convergent Design is rewarding our Odyssey7Q clients who wish to purchase the new monitor/recorder. Under the program, current Odyssey7Q owners will receive values…