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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).

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Focus ramping: when T-stops go bad

Posted on August 12, 2019
Years ago, while assisting on a sitcom, I helped the director of photography shoot exposure tests on all of...
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The secret life of behind-the-lens nets

Posted on August 5, 2019
“What’s with the pattern in the headlights?” I asked the first camera assistant, as I looked through “B” camera...
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Quantifying the Large Format Look

Posted on March 29, 2019
Large format is no longer out of reach of the average filmmaker, but the look is difficult to quantify....