Reuel Gomez

I wonder if Daniel Mindel (J.J. Abrams' regular DP) will be able to work on this one. By the time filming starts, he'll probably be putting the finishing touches on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at ColorWorks. Maybe Abrams will go with Larry Fong (The DP on "Super 8", also directed by Abrams) instead.

Will it cover the height of most 2x anamorphic lenses?

Does it come with an anamorphic mode?

I'm confused as to wether the Red Epic has a Super 35/Full Apeture sized sensor or a Full Frame/VistaVision sized sensor.

In a hypothetical set of a 40mm, 50mm, 60mm, 75mm, and 100mm, what would be the difference in cost between the Panavision C- and G-Series anamorphic primes? I would assume the G-Series would be more expensive due to them being more recent, but then again, aren't the C-Series rented out more often?

Your welcome, and I agree. I just hope that, if and when the day comes that I can enter the film & TV industry as a director, the tools that my DP can use are expanded to the point where I feel that I can create a television series that doesn't feel cheap, something that feels like it has high production values that doesn't necessarily actually have high-production values you know? I think we've reached the point where "cheap" CGI looks like something that was considered "photorealistic" in 10 or 15 years ago. Now imagine how good "cheap" CGI will look in the next 10 or 15 years? Could we finally see motion-capture used on television shows? Who knows? I just like to think that things like these will progress over time.

Wow, thank god I was only 1 or 2 years old when this was going on, because if I had been old enough to use a computer and understand the vulgar language my mom uses when she gets frustrated, I would've cussed up a storm.

Err...crap. If you're talking about this one: http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=60227 which I had started a couple of weeks ago, I'm sorry. If an administrator wants to come in and move it over there, be my guest. I probably should have just posted this as a comment to that thread instead of starting a new one.

But almost everything is letterboxed on Blu-Ray/DVD unless the original aspect ratio is 16x9 or 1.85 (in which case, as far as I know, the frame is cropped to fit the screen) So I don't see what people would complain. Hell, even my mother, who up until recently (when I started reading about all this stuff and told her about it), didn't know anything about this kind of stuff, knew that the widescreen editionion of Spider-Man 2 (which had just come out at the time) had more image than the full screen edition when I kept whining about the fact that the top and bottom were cut off (I was 6 years old at the time, and technically, the top and bottom were cut off seeing as how it was shot in Super 35 and not w/anamorphic lenses...which I ended up explaining to her later on)

I couldn't really call myself a comic book fan, considering I'm only really a fan of superhero comic books. But recently (And by recently I mean I'm watching it as I write this) I caught an episode of the new "Avengers Assemble" animated series online (I don't have cable at my apartment) and I noticed that for certain scenes, the aspect ratio changed from 1.78/16x9 to something much wider, even wider than 2.35, and it made me wonder, could cable networks allow for shows, especially live-action scripted programming, to shoot or compose for wider aspect ratios like 2:35? Digital cameras are being used for most of the shows on TV right now, and those such as the Arri Alexa and Red Epic already have sensors that can accommodate anamorphic lenses, so why not? I don't see how hard it would be to do such a thing. Is there something I'm missing here? Because I don't really know much about broadcasting to have any sense of how hard it would be to change aspect ratio.

Hot Rod Cameras' website says that PL/PV mounts were commissioned for the film? Can anyone confirm this? And if so what cameras were converted?

Do they sell those mounts?

Man of Steel was great.

From my understanding, Jim Jannard is a total D-Bag.

-_- This guy said that Oblivion was shot mostly on these lenses EVEN THOUGH Claudio Miranda said that he used them only for exteriors and used the Zeiss MP's for interiors, of which there are many.

But not many people, as in the general audience, read reviews. Most of Michael Bays films are a great example. So if The Lone Ranger or R.I.P.D. were released, say October, they would've probably done better at the box office.

There have only been two websites I've gone to for movie reviews: Roger Ebert's website, and Spill.com. And On Spill.com's daily podcast, "The Daily Spill", the host and founder of the website, Korey Coleman, talked about how a lot of films at this time of year are "canabalizing" each other because a lot of them are being released on the same week or day and don't give each other enough room. And he suggested that more films like Pacific Rim that have niche audiences try to aim for releases somewhere else in the year like January.

And wow, talk about taking your work home.

But think about a lot of the films that were released this year. Sure more films were shot digitally, but most of the films that shot on film are the big budget blockbusters, and that shows that even the films that would normally have every reason to shoot digitally (easier conversion to 3-D, CGI) still care about their own artistic expression. That's not to say that digital cinematography isn't an art form, it's that sometimes DP's turn to digital for all the wrong reasons (in my opinion) and this is usually forced by the producer that doesn't wan't to spend that small fraction of the budget on stock & processing.

Would you pair them w/Fujinon Alura lightweight zooms or Angenieux Optimos'?

Is there any way to calculate film resolution?

Do you think there's anyway that portion of the film industry can last?

I've read some of your credits on iMDB.

Speaking of which, is it true Technicolor Hollywood (which handled processing and prints for The Dark Knight Rises along with their New York and London branches) shut down their film labs?

Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that. Was Batman a laborious task considering the amount of footage shot?