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All things under the giant 40k sun of Cinematography.

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This entry was based on a reduser.net thread about building DIT carts. The thread asked a lot of challenging questions about the process, the tools, the players, the evolution and the future. For reference, the original thread can be viewed here:

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Something all filmmakers should be aware of but especially cinematographers.

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Something worth posting finally besides articles talking about the death of film or another strange looking digital box that someone calls a camera. This is a digital camera that's meant to be used.

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Haskell Wexler documents this great meeting of the minds of the worlds cinematographers.

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I hope this is a start of a trend. Arri has an Alexa simulator and now Canon has their own. Since digital cameras are just a computer with a lens mount I can't see why every company doesn't have their major cameras online like this.

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Sorry for the radio silence but I just haven't found much worth sharing lately. But fear not, here's a in depth guide to shooting with heavy ND filters with a still photographer background but many of the skills can cross over to motion pictures.

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Great guides to all the gels and diffusion Lee Filters makes. Check it out if you have the time.

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Carl Zeiss scientist talks about how lenses for your cell phones can be just as sharp compared to lenses for DSLR.

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Great, simple explanation of how digital ISO and noise in cameras work\.

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Great article which brings up the issues with arching both film and digital files. 

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Interesting theory, I wonder how true it is in the field.

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There is a bit of noticeable difference in how the highlights roll off. Though will it be worth the cost of the S-Log perchase/rental plus a nice off board recorder for your production, that's a call no one but you can make.

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Instead of the traditional bayer pattern, they've built one that they say is more random and based around how the silver in film grain works. We'll see how this pans out. This might be the next trend in digital cameras, with the Sony F65 using a non-bayer pattern in it's sensors we might see people trying to get more out of the same sized sensors as the race to 4/8k slows down.

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Kodak 500T 5230 Stock introduction video.

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A great and simple breakdown of how a digital sensor sees light differently than film.

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How soon until all our lighting heads are LED?

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Liquid Lens?

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Simple article that breaks down why the green channel is so important in terms of visual information. If you like this article make sure you check out the one they link at the end of the page for more information.