Ian Bloom

I ended up going with PL mount Panavision lenses which I believe to be the rehoused Joe Dunton glass. Unfortunately ended up needing to get the lenses shipped and when they arrived I noticed some alarming chromatic aberration on two of them. I had a hard time finding an HD monitor that could de-squeeze the image and ended up using a transvideo composite video onboard (thanks Steve Gal) to operate while we checked focus on the squeezed image on the Red LCD. This isn't ideal, and I'm hoping for a better solution in the future... apparently our client really loved the result and they are likely to ask for this crazy aspect ratio again. Here are crop tests I made for the director in case you're curious. (I can't show any actual footage.)

Hi, I'm shooting a brand film that will be incorporated as horizontal element in a website and a projection using Anamorphic lenses on a Red Epic camera. My hope is to shoot the full sensor size and have the resulting image cropped to just around 3.5x1. Does anyone have any experience doing this on Epic? Are there issues with coverage etc with particular lense series. What are your personal lense preferences for sharpness and other characteristic. I don't believe the camera will desqueeze the image without cropping it to 2.35. Hence can anyone recommend an onboard monitor and a set monitor that will do the desqueeze well. Many thanks, I Bloom

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I've seen Red footage transferred to 35mm and projected in a large movie theatre. Upshot: It looked great, and had an incredible lack of grain. I saw some video looking highlights. But otherwise I was extremely impressed by the sharpness and color rendition of what I saw. I saw images that appear to me to have a similar "emotional quality" to 35mm. Ian Bloom

It would be a priviledge to learn from somebody that went from being a great gaffer to a great dp. I've recently been impressed by Claudio Miranda's work. I believe he is to be known as a great master of lighting. Ian

Does the operator stand on the "cowpie" or just the tripod? Do you think a similar rig would work for a hostess tray or hood mount?

I've set up a rear projection test with a Dell MP5100 DLP projector and a Red, and I'm experiencing a lot of flicker at 1/48th shutter. It looks tolerable at 355 degree shutter, but I don't want to make that choice creatively. I'd rather shoot 180 degree. Any ideas? Is this a projector issue or a electronic shutter issue. Also we noticed alot of RGB strobing on forground objects moving through the frame as you can see in this image: Ian Bloom

Hey David, Tom, everybody, I caught this Chris Doyle + Wong Kar-wai music video on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZKeSNZhm18...feature=related If anyone knows where to buy a high quality copy, please let me know. I think it was Werner Herzog who has a quote saying that a filmmaker can't help but reveal their soul through their work even if they try to disguise it. I really appreciate Chris's work, I find it mind opening and grounding. Ian Bloom