Production
The OLED that would be king
For a technology that seems to have hovered perpetually on the edge of universal acceptance for last decade or...
NAB Show
The new 3D
It’s been a few years, now, since the film and television industry collectively came to the quiet realisation that...
Post Production
Big crowds at BSC Expo 2022
Given recent history, probably one of the most remarkable things about the 2022 BSC Expo is that there was...
Production
Filmmakers don’t want film, they want what people think film is
If you put the film the other way around, there’s even less grain!So we’re twenty years in to the...
Production
Never twice the same colour. Still.
Choice is a wonderful thing, and as such we should all take great pleasure in the fact that modern...
Uncategorised
Shallow is good
Quite a lot of the world’s most interesting lens options, including low-cost, high-range, fast zooms, specialities like anamorphics and...
Production
Old lens bad
Being an optical designer has been a thankless task for the last few years. You get to spend half...
Production
A cheat’s manifesto part 3: Mist
Something we sometimes have to accept in modern television is characters who have agreed to ignore the fact that...
Production
Low-resolution sensors are best!
Let’s talk about some fundamentals, because, well, sometimes people don’t so much grab the wrong end of the stick...
Post Production
Warm bodies
It’s traditional, at the end of the year, to discuss wider issues affecting all the people in the industry,...