The first series of Sony OLED pro monitors looked green to me, and until recently I didn’t know why. It turned out I wasn’t hallucinating, and I now know a little more about what I didn’t know I didn’t know.…
This is the final article in my “Best of” Reddit AMA series. Lots more goodness follows… On being asked how to communicate your desire for a particular look with a DP: Traditionally you share films and images that you like…
Even more notes from the AMA that I recently conducted on Reddit: On being asked my advice for breaking into the industry: Everyone told me it would really hard to break in. It’s not. You need to be three things:…
Welcome back. Here’s part 2 in my continuing series of articles that archive my responses to a recent Reddit AMA–with a few tweaks and additions here and there. Enjoy! One reader asked: (1) What makes a good director? (2) How…
I was recently invited to conduct an “AMA” (ask me anything) on Reddit, in /r/filmmakers. Some of my answers were pretty good, so I’m reposting them here with updates and tweaks. I’m not including all my answers here so if…
There are times when you’ll want to use a small camera like the Sony F55 without a viewfinder–say, if you’re mounting it on a crane, in a car or on a Steadicam. Apparently it’s possible to accidentally disable the data…
NEW YORK, November 01, 2011 — The new KataData storage and runtime calculator is an indispensable iPhone app for on-set, post production, and even non-technical positions. Emery Wells, founder of Katabatic Digital (NYC) – a grading, finishing, and VFX studio…
I had reported previously that Canon Inc. has shown a non-working mock-up of their next generation file-based (flash memory) professional video camcorder at the InterBEE 2009 trade show in Japan last November. This past week, on Friday 5 Feb. 2010,…
After the San Francisco SuperMeet concluded, I stuck around for awhile, lurking about like The Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave (one of my finely crafted roles, in which I’ve built up a lot of experience). When the time came to pack…
The new camera compared to an XH A1S… The glass case in which the new camera mock-up was contained made it difficult to get some decent side-by-side shots with the XH, but this will give you some idea of how…