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Art Adams

Art Adams is a cinema lens specialist at ARRI, Inc. Before that, he was a freelance cinematographer for 26 years. You can see his work at http://www.artadamsdp.com.

Art has been published in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Australian Cinematographer and Camera Operator magazines, and has written for ProVideo Coalition since its inception. He is an active member of the International Cinematographers Guild and a former member of the Society of Camera Operators (SOC).

Anatomy of a Spot: Commonwealth Club 1

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Anatomy of a Spot: Commonwealth Club

Posted on November 17, 2009

In this economy one has to stretch every production dollar as far as it can go. This doesn’t mean...

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World’s Only “Death Oompah” Band Gets Virtual Reality Music Video

Posted on November 11, 2009

An accordion-playing lead singer; a drummer who occasionally uses a doll instead of drumsticks; and a song based...

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So You Want to Work with Cameras

Posted on October 31, 2009

I get a lot of e-mail from film and video students asking how they can break into the film...

ADHD Guide to Flash Video for the Web 37

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ADHD Guide to Flash Video for the Web

Posted on October 30, 2009

I hate reading manuals. They don’t tell me what I want to know in the order I want to...

Production

Rough Guide to Flicker-Free HD Shooting

Posted on October 27, 2009

The most common HD frame rate is a 50-year-old byproduct of the invention of color TV. And it’s not...

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What You Need to Know about Green, Blue and RED

Posted on September 24, 2009

In a recent article I surmised that RED was mixing green into the blue channel to eliminate blue noise...

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RED Color Comparison

Posted on September 22, 2009

Any camera looks good in a vacuum. Come see how the RED looks against itself and in comparison to...

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Tiffen Goes Into Production on T1 Far Red Filter

Posted on September 19, 2009

As you may have noticed from previous articles, I’ve done a lot of research on which cameras allow infrared...

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The Vertical Bar Graph Raw Exposure Meter

Posted on September 16, 2009

The vertical bar graph raw exposure meter is the least explained meter in the latest RED manual. It’s also...

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RED’s Blue Noise: Where It Went, and Other Color Anomalies You Should Know About

Posted on September 11, 2009

RED software build 20 boasts new colorimetry that eliminates blue shadow noise under tungsten light. When asked how they...