Alexander Joyce

Pictures from Ingmar Bergman's life

Ingmar Bergman passed away today in his home in Fårö, Sweden where he lived out his years. According to his daughter Eva he died peacfully from natural causes. Many Cinematographers will surely remember his long, close working relationship with Cinematographer Sven Nykvist who passed away last year. The world has truly lost a great filmmaker.

Yes, and for the look they were going for it would have been pointless anyways. Green Day have always had great videos. Basket Case I just couldn't help myself. It's so great. I think this is where they got the inspiration for the London 2012 logo.

Agreed, they must have had masking tape, but I suspect the the same applies to that though. It all looks very random. The logo does resemble someone pushing something over. It could be a reference to cow tipping. An excercise often undertaken by people doped and/or boozed up on something. Or perhaps a new olympic sport? It would only make it the 150th or so addition since they decided to bring the olympics back.

I'm trying to get this picture out of my head! I'm sure the graphic designers bought £400,000 worth of crack, smoked it all and then threw buckets of paint at a white wall. At least that's what it looks like.

I don't know about the others but the Arri does cost a fair bit. I ordered a remote system from them last week and it came to about ?27 000. That was with 3 motors for remote focus, iris and zoom. The motors alone were ?2641 each. It's a good system, but I've never seem or tried any of the others, so I can't really offer a comparison. I'm not sure if you've used one, but it's also modular in the sense that each separate controller just clips on to the other depending on what you need. The new version also supports video cameras and it's possible to get lens data on a video camera with pro35 and master primes if you have the right parts for the system. You can also start/stop the cam.

Alot of them seem to these days :rolleyes: Apple : Red I think it's nice how the guy places the lens on the table with the Cooke logo conveniently facing towards the camera. Product placement! We're being brainwashed I tell you. But in all seriousness. Sure they couldn't just have contracted say Nikon, Fuji(Hasselblad H-series lenses), Leica or Canon(less likely) to produce the lenses? Even someone like Cooke might be willing to do it. I mean these lenses would hardly steal business from someone looking at buying Angenieux, Cooke or Zeiss lenses. Zeiss seem to be doing pretty well producing el'cheapo for Sony handycams and Nokia mobile phones :P I guess we'll know more when they are out. They'll have to mark them with "Made in Somewhere" I guess.

Remember this ran on MTV when American Idiot was released. You can see the 435 there. What I found the most interesting though was the old projector they used for the screening in the hangar. Still hanging in there :rolleyes: You might wanna skip some of the stuff at the start.

AJA seem to have a direct to disk solution for the Mac. 2K Workflow The KONA 3 2K path offers significant cost and labor savings over a tape-based approach to 2K. In a unique development for customers on the Macintosh platform, you can go straight from telecine to disk with 2K media and eliminate the steps of using tape stock and then digitizing those tapes for the nonlinear editor. The added 2K support in KONA 3 v2 will benefit large, full-service facilities as well as boutique facilities entering the 2K ?film as digital? landscape. 2K telecine to KONA 3 saves time and steps in the process by directly and simultaneously creating 2K DPX files and 2K QuickTime? reference movies. It's was in the old Symphony Meridien, but not in the present Symphony Nitris.

The 16GB cards came today. Ofcourse the camera didn't support them, so I'm going to run that update now. There is no update out yet for the P2 store however and as far as I can see it won't be out until August!!! God knows what Panasonic are up to here. I ordered another HVX200 today and 2 firestore disks, so I'm going to try out that workflow and see how it works. Yeah I read about the cineporter on some forums, but from what I gathered they kept revising it cause it wasn't good enough. Guess it's not possible to just rip out the 100GB disk in the FS100 and put in a 250GB or something :D

In the ASC manual it says that for shots that transition from above water to below or vice versa one should use a flat port on the underwater housing. Now according to the manual that causes a few problems. Refraction being the biggest of them. Refraction: The focal length of your lens increases by approx 25%. The 25% magnification produces an apparent shift of the subject towards the camera, to 3/4 it's true distance. Radial Distortion: Progressive blur increases with large apertures on wide lenses. Chromatic aberration: different colours slightly overlap, causing a loss of sharpness and colour saturation that is more noticable on wider lenses. This is written by Pete Romano and is in the underwater cinematography chapter of the ASC manual.

Apparently you can set the TC on one camera and then connect it into the other and copy the TC over to the next one. Then you just do that to the next and so on. However I think they would have to remain in free run. I have the 60GB P2 store here, but I'm still waiting for the 16GB cards I ordered. The shoot isn't until August, so there should be enough time to settle on a workflow and order 2 more cameras + what ever storage we decide on. Do you know if there is any system with a larger capacity than the 100GB firestore? I mean 100GB is'nt very impressive in 2007. For location work I wouldn't want to have too much footage on each disk, but this is all studio stuff that will be offloaded onto a server right away.

The difference is actually that 768 x 576 is in square pixels and 720 x 576 has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.066:1. 720 x 576 (625/50i) is the resolution of CCIR 601 PAL. Oliver. If you are going to NTSC the resolution is 720 x 480. If you're actually going for PAL you need to get it converted to 50i at a post house.

You could use a whip like this one. Hydroflex You could also perhaps use a wireless remote system. That could ofcourse make things unnecessary complicated, but it could work. Here's a discussion on CML on shooting under water. CML - Underwater Filming

The AJA and Decklink cards are PCI cards for capture and processing of video only, so you would still have to have a graphics card. I'd get a PCI express motherboard also before investing in an AJA or Decklink card.