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Camera Log
by Adam Wilt | Founder
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Sticky: Traveling with batteries, Pro Apps Updaters, etc.
Stuff to watch out for; tips ‘n’ tricks
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Cine Gear Expo 2008 - Day 2
The second day of the hottest equipment show in LA
Cine Gear Expo on the blazing-hot Universal backlot
Day 2 of Cine Gear Expo dawned sunny and hot—our in-car temperature display registered 102 degrees Fahrenheit by 1:30pm. Despite the heat, there were plenty of things worth seeing.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Cine Gear Expo 2008 - Day 1
The hottest equipment show in LA… literally…
Cine Gear Expo on the Universal back lot.
We came down to LA for Cine Gear Expo, a two-day showcase of all manner of production things: grip gear, lighting, camera accessories, and so on.
It is quite literally the hottest equipment show around…
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Maelstrom - Production (part 2)
Shooting “jazz style” on a Rob Nilsson feature
Sunflowers: two VistaBeam 600s fill the shadows.
[See also: Preproduction; Production (part 1)]
Day 4 - We have a 3pm call for a 4pm start (we’re skewing later in the day as we need to shoot nighttime footage) and plan to shoot to midnight, covering the climactic dinner and post-dinner scenes.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Maelstrom - Production (part 1)
Shooting “jazz style” on a Rob Nilsson feature
Still life with water bottle: An EX1 sports a DvRig Junior; Alan Hereford’s homebrew DvRig is at the bottom of the picture.
Day 0 - Finishing up our preproduction for Rob Nilsson’s film, “Maelstrom”, Tim and I head up to San Francisco and Emeryville to pick up gear. Videofax has an EX1 with wide-angle adaptor to back up ours and serve as a B camera, and Chater Camera has two Lectrosonics wireless systems with Sonotrim mikes to supplement my two existing Sony WRR/WRT-28 wirelesses with ECM-77s.
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Random RED Revelations
Stuff we learned during testing and Art’s spec spot shoot
Tim Blackmore helps John Chater tweak back-focus on a RED ONE
The more we work with RED ONEs, the more we learn about what they do and how to work with them, thus the following grab-bag of observations and experiences.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Schneider IR Filter Tests
Using the 486 UV-IR Cut filter to improve imaging.
Art Adams with the 486 filter on a RED ONE
Last week, Art Adams, Tim Blackmore, Ted Allen, and I tested the Schneider 486 UV/IR cut filter on a RED ONE and on a Sony PMW-EX1. Tim wore his famous “doesn’t look anything like that in real life” “black” shirt, and we lit him with IR-rich incandescent sources.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
RED on location: Art Adams shoots a spec spot
Art’s first chance to use a RED ONE on a location shoot.
Saturday, 3:33pm: crew assembles at Chater Camera to pick up the bulk of the gear and load it into Simon Sommerfeld‘s truck.
We arrive on location at 4:00pm. The shoot occurs at the elegant Craftsman-style house of Craig and Diana, an unsuspecting Oakland couple.
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Adam Wilt has been working off and on in film and video for the past thirty years, while paying the bills writing software for animation, automation, broadcast graphics, and real-time control for companies including Abekas, Pinnacle, Omneon, CBS, and ABC.