Production
Fantastic fairy dust
Fire up the particle generators, folks: it’s the time of year when every third commercial features snow and a...
Production
Exploring the extremes of dynamic range
When camera manufacturers start talking (or at least creatively leaking) about twenty-plus-stop cameras, it might not be too much...
Production
A cheat’s manifesto part 5: Disco inferno
In that heady moment before the slate closes, some people have felt sometimes an undeniable sense of spiritual responsibility...
Production
Space to grow
There’s a reason low-rent independent short films often lack dynamic staging, feeling static and limited in their use of...
Production
Lens good, crop factor bad
Let’s imagine what would happen if you walked into this coffee shop* and asked for a latte that was...
Production
Bayer best?
Building colour images from red, green and blue is probably one of the most fundamental concepts of film and...
Production
Your Newbie And You
A long time ago, when camera assistants frolicked carefree in a world mercifully bereft of large-format cameras, your narrator...
Production
Bayer chip best
One of the cutest things about subpixels on camera sensors is the way manufacturers hire teams of magical elves...
Production
How things could work better
This topic was suggested by a conversation with a prominent member of a national cinematography society whose rushes workflow...
Production
Filters that don’t exist
Given the sheer enthusiasm for real-world optical effects in 2024, there’s a conspicuous absence of an entire class of...
