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Zero Dark Thirty

Arriraw Workflow

Hungarian Rhapsody

Coloured with Mistika

English Edition on sale

Kiko de la Rica interview

Best cinematography Goya for Snow White

Technology

Sławomir Idziak with Plus Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award

At the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage

Sławomir Idziak will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage. Sławomir Idziak is a Polish cinematographer of truly worldwide reputation, though he is also an acknowledged director, screenwriter, educator and a professional filmmaker who is constantly taking a keen interest in all the changes occurring in the realm of cinema. Sławomir Idziak will be a special guest of the 21st Plus Camerimage and he will talk with the audiences during Q&A's after selected screenings from a retrospective of his films organized for this occasion by Plus Camerimage. The Festival will also publish an album dedicated to Sławomir Idziak's life and work, another unique publication in tribute to the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient's breath-taking career.

Technology

Cinerama Restoration

With Boris Continuum Complete Flicker Fixer In After Effects

David Strohmaier, Restoration Producer for Cinerama, Inc., is using Boris Continuum Complete's Flicker Fixer in Adobe After Effects to remove flicker, emulsion blotching, and artifacting during the film restoration process.

Technology

THELIGHT shows its 2013 high-power LED panels

From 12th to 14th March at CABSAT Dubai show

The Spanish manufacturer shows at CABSAT through its reseller Amaranthine Trading LLC

Technology

Codex Adds The Studio-B&H to Reseller Network

Codex announces that it has added New York City-based The Studio-B&H to its worldwide reseller network. The professional solutions division of electronics retailer B&H, The Studio-B&H will represent the full line of Codex products including its Onboard Recorders and Vault, its on-set media management system.

Technology

Clairmont In-Camera Filter System for Alexa

By Schneider Optics

Schneider Optics announces that it is manufacturing and distributing an innovative In-Camera Filter System developed by Clairmont Camera for the ARRI Alexa camera. Working closely with Schneider, Clairmont Camera’s Andree Martin and Alan Albert designed custom assemblies that hold interchangeable Schneider filters in front of the Alexa’s CMOS sensor assembly.

Technology

ACS France launches Shotover K1

The latest addition to its aerial filming equipment range.

The passion-driven approach has created a community in which the most respected and experienced high tech engineers, pilots, directors and camera operators came together and pushed the boundaries of aerial filming. Shotover is the next generation gyro-stabilized camera system.

Technology

Litepanels Sola 12 LED Fresnel on the Red Carpet

In one of the first high-profile uses of the new 12” Fresnel LED fixture from Litepanels, a pair of daylight balanced Sola 12 fixtures filled a critical need for red carpet interviews by a major German television station.

Films

“Cinematography is not making postcards”

Goya award winner Kiko de la Rica Interview

Pablo Berger's Snow White won last night ten Goya awards. In celebration, we upload to our website the English version of the interview that we made to Kiko de la Rica, winner of the best cinematography, when the Snow White premiere. By the way, you can find this and another excinting articles about Snow White and Bayona's The Impossible, that won five Goya, in the new English online store of Cameraman.

Technology

Top VES Winners captured with Codex Technology

“Life of Pi,” “Game of Thrones” and “The Avengers” employed Codex recorders and workflow systems.

The top prize-winning film and television productions at this year’s Visual Effects Society Awards each relied on Codex technology for camera data recording and workflow management.

Technology

Sony Pictures Colorworks Launches 4K Television Post-Production Facility

New facility focused on 4k television post-production

Sony Pictures Entertainment's digital intermediate facility has opened a new facility focused on 4K television post-production. Located in the Capra Building on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, Colorworks 4K Television will provide post-production services for original programming shot in 4K and re-mastering services for film-originated media. It will deliver both HD masters for current distribution and 4K masters for future use.

Technology

New Earth Films with Litepanels 1x1 Fixtures

Kevin Augello experience

Shooting Producer and founder of New Earth Films, Kevin Augello, has dedicated his career to filming in the most challenging and hostile environments. Whether it’s a wildlife film about the Emperor Penguin, or a documentary on visually impaired climber attempting to scale Mount Everest, Kevin has spent his life on the road travelling extensively through some of the toughest landscapes across the globe.

Technology

JVC’s New GY-HM600 Series ProHD Mobile Cameras Approved by the European Broadcasting Union

The latest cameras from JVC Professional meet EBU broadcast standards.

JVC has announced that both the recently released GY-HM600 ProHD and network enabled GY-HM650 camcorders are now fully EBU approved for broadcast use.

Technology

Cameraman Mag launches the Online Store

English Edition for sale

Cameraman Mag, the Spanish leading technical cinematography magazine, has its English version since September, 2012, with a promotional distribution. Now you can join our new online store and enjoy the introductory offer.

Technology

Europa Sound & Vision embraces SGO Mistika

To add high-end colour grading, on-line finishing and DCP creation facilities in Sweden

The Swedish post production house Europa Sound & Vision has significantly boosted its facilities and workflow with the purchase of three Mistika systems providing deliverables up to 4K. The investment consists of a Mistika for high-end colour grading, another for real-time compositing, online finishing and DCP creation, combined with a Mistika Assist workstation, all sharing a 96TB SGO SAN in a collaborative workflow environment. The primary focus is on 2D projects but the systems can easily be upgraded to Stereo 3D and High Frame Rate (HFR) when required.

Technology

‘Hungarian Rhapsody’ with Mistika

The Look rocks with Mistika with Colour Grade of epic Queen Concert film

High-end post production facility, The Look along with its Mistika, was responsible for the stunning colour grading and finishing, of the epic Queen Concert film titled Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live In Budapest ‘86 for Eagle Rock Entertainment and Queen Productions. As part of the successful 1986 Magic Tour, which was Freddie Mercury's last, Hungary was included on the tour schedule. With three years to go before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the landmark event marked the very first rock concert from the West to take place behind the Iron Curtain.

Technology

Arriraw Workflow in “Zero Dark Thirty”

Alexa cameras, Codex recorders and digital labs support Codex/ARRIRAW workflow.

Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping telling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden was shot with two units of Alexa cameras. Codex recorders and digital labs were employed to capture, manage and process camera data for a production that traveled to remote locations, accumulated huge amounts of original camera media, and shot some scenes in near-total darkness.

Technology

Assimilate Ships Support For a Wave of New Cameras and Formats in Scratch and Scratch Lab

Sony F5/F55, Canon C500, CinemaDNG and Faster Arriraw Debayering Highlight New Release

Assimilate, the provider of DI and dailies tools for digital cinema, episodic television, commercials and spot workflows announced a significant upgrade to its Scratch and Scratch Lab software.

Technology

Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9.1 with Support for Retina Displays

And support in XML for FCP X Audition and CinemaDNG IDT

Blackmagic Design announced a major release of DaVinci Resolve 9.1, the latest update to the color correction tool. DaVinci Resolve 9.1 enables customers to use Resolve with Apple’s Macbook Retina technology, the highest resolution notebook display. Retina based notebooks have quickly become one of the most popular tools in the post production world, and with 9.1, DaVinci Resolve will be able to run on the 15” Retina MacBook Pro at the best image quality setting.

Technology

Litepanels MicroPro

illuminates historic first expedition

Photographer Natalie Hill used a Litepanels MicroPro on-camera light in a world-first expedition by explorer Louis-Philippe Loncke. She chose the MicroPro from Litepanels because she needed to capture video and stills requiring portable equipment. The MicroPro is a dimmable on-camera LED light that can be powered by AA batteries, compact and lightweight.

Technology

Blackmagic Design adds ProRes 422 (HQ) to HyperDeck Shuttle 2

And new closed caption support for all HyperDeck models

Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of HyperDeck software update 3.6, a new update to its solid state disk (SSD) recorder which adds support for Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) into HyperDeck Shuttle 2, plus new closed caption support for all HyperDeck models. The HyperDeck Shuttle 2 with the new ProRes compression feature significantly reduces the size of uncompressed HD video files while preserving full frame 10-bit 4:2:2 quality, allowing customers to record up to six times longer.

Cameraman English Edition #6

April 2013

Available the Cameraman Mag English edition new issue. Highlighted contents: Camerimage award winner Kim Nguyen's War Witch, with the cinematography of Nicolas Bolduc; the production of two Crowdfunding films, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's Stockholm, with the cinematography of Alejandro de Pablo AEC and Nicolás Alcalá's The Cosmonaut, with the conematography of Luis Enrique Carrión. Also outstanding the article of director of photography Jesús Haro: "On set grading: yes or not?"