Gabriel McArtney

With user box you can set the horizontal and vertical frame borders in your electronic view finder at any height or width you want. also don't forget to shoot a frame leader so you can crop in editing. chur gabriel mcartney

Hi I'd like to somehow get in touch with Dick Pope to ask some basic questions about what it's like to work with Mike Leigh. The reason being, that the Director on an upcoming project that I will be DPing, has said that he likes to work or approach a story similar to Mike Leigh (he even looks a lot like Mike). Now, I'm only a cinematography major at film school in my third year, and this is a great opportunity for me to work with this guy. I really want to put a big effort into this project, and I thought that if I could exchange an email or two with Dick Pope for advice, that might help. I don't even know if that's appropriate or not but I guess it's worth a try. So my question is: does anyone know how I might go about contacting such a man as Dick? Or any advice from older DPs about how to approach this project might also be useful to me. Kind regards Gabriel

Thanks everyone for such fast replies. I will check out the cinefex article. Actually, I tried shooting this with the camera's as close together as possible today, and you can definitely tell the angles are different. Also: why go to the trouble when you could just use a zoom lens to punch in at set moments. And: how did they maintain resolution when they digitally zoomed? Thanks for all the info guys, Gabriel

There is a shot in 300 that I would like to try and replicate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmW-Tnl6nbk A short explanation of how they achieved this shot can be found in the April issue of American Cinematographer. Basically they mounted 3 high speed Arri film cameras onto one head, each camera with a different lens (wide, medium, and close). One camera was mounted normally, i.e. horizontally, and the other two were mounted vertically and pointed directly down into a prism or beam splitter, so all the cameras appeared to have the exact same camera angle. In post, they switched between the cameras at certain points using a synthetic morph/zoom. My question is: how did they use the prism to align the cameras, and where can I learn more about this technology? And what morph effect/plug-in was used in post to switch between the shots? Thanks in advance Gabriel

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Hello to all you happy DOPs out there :-) I am a camera student in my third year of study. I would love to get my hands on a copy of Goodman's Guide to the SDX-900. The problem is, no-one sells it in my country (New Zealand) and the only internet shop that has it in stock (from my limited research) only ships to US addresses. Does anyone know where I can purchase this wonderful book from (second hand or new) that will ship internationally? Or does anyone have a copy they would like to sell on to a budding DOP? Thanks in advance Gabriel :)

Hi I'm currently camera assisting on a VariCam feature and I have had the same problem. Could you please explain how you did it? I too have tried all the TC settings in the menu and both HD SDI Outs but nothing seems to work. Thanks in advance Gabriel