Lens dynamic range: coatings, contrast and color

Lens dynamic range: coatings, contrast and color 1

There was a time in the distant past when I thought of lenses as transparent glass. Film and digital sensors have dynamic range, but lenses are merely optics. Right? Wrong. After 31 years of freelancing—five years as a camera assistant and 26 years as a director of photography—I am now an ARRI employee specializing in […]

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Classic Course: Box Blur

Adobe After Effects Box Blur effect

Want to decide how smooth or coarse your blur is? This is the effect to use. The next few movies we’re going to share from our retired Insight Into Effects  course for Adobe Affects will focus on some less-used blurs. Box Blur is one of the most versatile in that you can decide how many […]

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Cooke Anamorphic/i SF 65mm MACRO: a star in A Star is Born

Cooke Anamorphic/i SF 65mm MACRO: a star in A Star is Born

Matthew Libatique, ASC used a series of Cooke lenses to capture A Star is Born, but the 65 Macro, which he says is “a game changer” was used to create some of the film’s most dramatic shots. Matthew Libatique, ASC, who has already won the 2018 Hollywood Film Award for Cinematographer of the Year for […]

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Quick Look: Tokina Cinema Vista 50mm T1.5

Tokina Vista 50mm T1.5 prime lens

Cinema Vistas are Tokina’s line of no-compromise, full-frame cine lenses. Five T1.5 primes from 18mm to 85mm are currently available with a 105mm on the way; there’s also a 16-23mm T3 zoom. When I reviewed the Canon C700 FF, Canon supplied a Vista 50mm, so I had a chance to do some quick tests with […]

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Navatics MITO: 4K UHD drone for aquatic videography arrives in March

Navatics MITO: 4K drone for aquatic videography arrives in March

The Navatics MITO underwater drone will start shipping in March 2019, and is now available at an early price of $1,499. It promises aquatic videography for all, in a project funded on Kickstarter in five hours. On show at CES 2019, the Navatics MITO, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) equipped with advanced active stabilization […]

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Michael Semanick – Storytelling with Sound

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Michael Semanick is an award-winning rerecording mixer of some of the most creative and celebrated films to come out of Hollywood in recent decades. He’s collaborated with the finest film storytellers working today like Tim Burton, David Fincher,  Peter Jackson, and Brad Bird to name just a few. His diverse film work has garnered 11 […]

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