Cinematographer Notes

I’ve updated Wordpress to the newer version and so I started over.  I’ll keep this blog open as an archive but all future posts will be at the new one.  You can go to my website and click on the link on the homepage for the blog and that will be the new url.  Everything […]

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I was in film school between the years of 95 and 2000 and I had a few classmates who had been union grips and A.C.’s for years who decided to come back to school to learn how to direct.  They’d worked on major features and were bringing in a lot of money but they did […]

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I managed to align the camera to the mattebox baseplate.    When I was at B&H and no one could find anything that would help me center the camera without adding 3/4 of an inch of height,  I gave a call to Jan Crittenden over at Panasonic and asked if she had any ideas.  Panasonic […]

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I’ve built up the HPX170 with my Letus and checked it and the effective ASA seems to be around 320.  I’m going to rate it at 250 though and keep my usual workflow and just let everything be a bit healthier.  The focus bar is incredible.  Between that and the waveform monitor the camera is […]

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