Every cinematographer I know dreams of shooting a movie in black and white! As requested by David Fincher, this Epic-M is a modified version of the Epic for black and white shooting. The camera is sans Bayer, and therefore sharper, since every pixel is used for luminance. It’s time to bring out the old filters [...]
DP Steven Sebring used the black and white Epic for this fashion short. I like the way he explores low-contrast monochrome images. The monochrome Epic was reportedly developed by Red at the suggestion of director David Fincher. I saw the Epic monochrome at Gokinema in January 2013. Since all the pixels contribute to the same [...]
David Fincher directed this commercial starring Rooney Mara, using the Red Epic Monochrome camera, with cinematography by David Devlin. watch on YouTube +++
Director David Fincher visits Red in 2010 to see their upcoming Epic camera, originally posted by Mark Romanek. +++ Fincher was a digital camera pioneer, starting with the Viper on Zodiac with cinematographer Harris Savides, and moving on to the Red with cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth on The Social Network and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [...]
The Arri Alexa XT is an Alexa camera with an internal XR Module which can receive a removable Codex drive. For those wanting to record ArriRaw, this is a smaller, lighter and simpler configuration than shooting with an external Codex drive. The XR Module allows recording of ArriRaw up to 120 fps. +++ The Alexa [...]
In this pithy interview with Cal Fussman, the director also shared his long-held admiration for fellow director Ingmar Bergman: Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. Read the interview on Esquire site +++
A trailer for Alfonso Cuaron‘s upcoming TV series, Believe, was shown at the Comic Con show. The series follows a young girl with magical skills, included telekinesis, who is protected by a group that includes an escaped convict. Cuaron produced, wrote and directed the pilot. The cinematography for the pilot is by our friend Eric [...]
This photo gives a feeling of the ambition & scale of this huge 1927 production directed by Fritz Lang, who is holding the megaphone on the left. Note the 4 small cameras at work. Metropolis was shot in what is now Babelsburg Studios near Berlin. +++ In this interview, Lang states that he didn’t use [...]
After Silver Linings Playbook, David O Russell brings us a saga of con artists with a wonderful ensemble cast, and cinematography by Linus Sandgren. The trailer is beautifully, and playfully, cut to Led Zeppelin’s Good Times, Bad Times. Bravo to the editors, presumably Jay Cassidy & Kevin Tent. Watch on YouTube I want to see [...]
link Cool simple invention for watching 3D in 2D. Sam Rudge’s wife found 3D viewing painful, so he modified a pair of glasses to have each eye get the same polarized image. Et voila! A great solution for watching those movies with bad 3D or badly-done 2D to 3D conversions +++