Facebook Mobile spot, Shot on RED

“Hey Art,” said director Ian McCamey, “I want to shoot a Facebook spec spot. I’ve got no money. Are you in?” “Of course I am,” said I. “Let’s do it.” And we did.

Black Glimmerglass and Hollywood Black Magic Filter Tests

World-class camera assistant Mako Koiwai recently shot a camera test with two new sets of diffusion filters: Black Glimmerglass from Tiffen and Hollywood Black Magic from Schneider Optics. He compared them to diffusion filter sets that he has in his own collection, which includes Tiffen Soft Effects and Schneider Classic Soft filters.

RED announces REDCINE-X™

RED Leader Jim Jannard today announced a new version of RedCine that they hope to be shipping sometime in August called REDCINE-X. For those of you who have used, or attempted to use, RedCine then you might have watched the video (see the embeded clip after the jump {sorry about the autoplay} or watch the full-rez version here) with quite a bit of shock and awe as it really looks and feels nothing like RedCine. And this is a good thing.

It’s the End of the World as We Know It…

I posted a fun little video about creating a shoulder mount rig for the iPhone 3G S on Friday. You can see it here.

While done in a tongue and cheek way, the most important thing for Pros watching the video is actually the first minute. I was dead serious there. The new iPhone is a game changer… make no mistake about it.

The iPhone 3G S can’t really EDIT video!

Okay, let’s get one thing straight about the new Apple iPhone 3G S ... it can’t edit the video it shoots. What it can do is trim the beginning and end of each and every clip. That may just be semantics talking but I’ve seen lots of stuff on the Interweb saying that you can edit the video that you shoot on the iPhone ... to me editing means that you can actually join two separate clips into one. You can’t do this on the iPhone 3G S. But you indeed can trim your clips to shave off unwanted frames at the head and the tail. It’s a really cool thing to be able to do, especially if you are running low on storage space on the phone. And considering you have to tap the start/stop button on the touch screen (as opposed to say a hard button on the side) you are likely to have some slop at the head and tail as you begin a shot.

JJ Abrams is a fan of the 5D MKII

On the tail end of this interview with filmmaker JJ Abrams is an awesome little outtake where he discusses the camera they are shooting the interview with, the Canon 5D MKII. Turns out Abrams owns one and likes it. He seems very gear savvy and intrigued by the rig the crew is using, asking questions about the mattebox and Redrock Micro follow focus. Very cool! Check it out. There is also some discussion with the filmmaker who shot the interview over at Cinema5D forums.

(Via Jordan Oplinger)

Diffusion Confusion

Digital filters are awesome for post image manipulation if you have enough bits to throw away. Glass filters, though, work at the highest resolution possible, in the camera head itself, and you’ll never have a better image to tweak than that.

Using the ND .90 Filter as a Preproduction Tool

During my last round of far red filter testing with the Sony F35/EX1/EX3, director of photography and testing cohort Lenny Levy discovered that far red contamination could be seen by eye under tungsten light simply by viewing fabrics through an ND .90 filter. 

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