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FDTimes will be back at Cine Gear Expo — Booth 85. The Cine Gear Expo exhibits will be open at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on June 1 and June 2, 2012…. continue reading
More than 500 guests and hosts traversed the red carpet to Leica Camera’s “Das Wesentliche” (The Essential) event this evening in Berlin’s historic C/O center, a former royal post office (hence c/o, and its additional curatorial/obligations). We were treated… continue reading
Something’s brewing in Berlin. And it’s not the beer. Your intrepid and sleepless FDTimes reporter is here to attend a major LEICA product announcement on Thursday, May 10. Tonight is the overture, the warm-up for things to be revealed. Andreas Kaufmann… continue reading
Suzanne Lezotte leaves Panavision after 9 years to become Director of Marketing at Bexel. We wish Suzanne all the best in her new position. Rob Baker, Randy Reck, and Haluki Sadahiro have joined Panavision. Dan Sasaki has been promoted. Presumably this… continue reading
The 2012 VIMEO Fetival and Awards Program will take place on June 7-9, 2012 in New York City…. continue reading
Here is a Flickr Photostream of NAB 2012 through the eyes and camera of Commercial Director Sid Maderazo. (Also see his Director’s Reel at 88 storey films)
James McGuire is a gaffer with prominent credits (Albert Nobbs, The Tempest, Harry Potter). How he found time to create this amazing App for iPhone is…amazing. Light Source Pro includes a complete library of almost every motion picture light on… continue reading
Free PDF 40-page reprints of Sony F65 and FS700 Report from NAB 2012 Issue of FDTimes — in English, French, and Spanish. About 9 MB each. … continue reading
The LEICA M9-P Edition Hermès was one of the new cameras presented at C/O Berlin Leica Event on May 10. This is the third limited-edition done in collaboration with the Hermès since 2003. While New York may have been ululating lately over… continue reading
Several features make Leica’s new X2 an ideal constant-companion camera. It is lightweight and pocketable. There’s an excellent auxiliary electronic viewfinder.
Analog, intuitive dials on top take you from full manual control to automatic functions. … continue reading
Today Leica Camera AG introduced the Leica M Monochrom for full-frame, 35 mm black-and-white still photography…. continue reading
Convergent Design’s Gemini 4:4:4 has received certification by ARRI for Alexa ARRIRAW Certification. An ARRIRAW Recording Certificate is issued when all of the following conditions are met: The product can reliably record the ARRIRAW T-linkstream (2880×1620, 16:9, at standard speeds of… continue reading
Here’s an update of our NAB Phantom Miro article, with stupendous slow motion footage and behind-the-scenes from filmmaker Jim Geduldick. … continue reading
From Codex: new compact Codex Onboard S Recorder, 4K RAW Recording for Canon C500 with Onboard M Recorder, “4K 4 Cities” Film, Codex Vault… continue reading
Andres Valles surprised me on NAB opening day with a preview of a set of 13 Scorpiolens anamorphic primes to be introduced at IBC in September. He also introduced me to the lens designer, physicist and optical engineer Cristina Alcaide…. continue reading
NAB2012 saw Joe and Lester Dunton at the AbelCine booth with an interchangeable set of lenses for GoPro…. continue reading
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