Category Archives: Shooting

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A Really Big Event, A Really Big Lens

Director of photography Sean Fairburn (right) shot the launch of SpaceShipOne, the world's first commercial spacecraft, with a 101x zoom lens from Fujinon. The Fujinon XA101x8.9BESM was attached to a Sony more »

AccuScene VF1280S eyepiece

Scotland's AccuScene wants you to replace your full-screen color monitor and your waveform monitor with the AccuScene system, which offers precise adjustment of both camera focus and more »

Panasonic AJ-SDC905

Panasonic shipped the AJ-SDC905, a DVCPRO50/DVCPRO camcorder with IEEE-1394 for lossless data transfer in the field. The three-chip camera with 12-bit DSP records DVCPRO50 at 4:2:2 and DVCPRO at 4:1:1 in more »

When Art and Cell Phones Collide

How does an Oscar-nominated cinematographer get involved with Motorola? "The whole thing was kind of a lark," says Ed Lachman (Far From Heaven, Erin Brockovich). "I was shooting a commercial more »

Q&A: Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman on Born into Brothels

>> Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman Filmmakers On: Born into Brothels. Photographer Zana Briski began work on Born into Brothels when she gave cameras to several children of Calcutta prostitutes and tought more »

Glenn Gordon Caron Goes for an Unglamorous Look in Psychic Show Medium

Writer-director-producer Glenn Gordon Caron has always had the gift of being able to look into the minds of America's TV audience and know exactly what they're thinking and what they want. Now, the man more »

Something Old, Something New in Dizzee Rascal Video

Director Dougal Wilson of Colonel Blimp Productions, London, first got the idea of parodying the black-and-white '50s BBC show " Muffin the Mule " (in which a very simple mule puppet dances and does more »

Sweet Super 16

Big advances in emulsion, lens, camera and digital intermediate technology are making Super 16 a more tempting option for cinematographers shooting on tight budgets. It's the nuance that the DI process pulls more »

Fast & Furious

In 2003, documentary filmmaker Dana Brown (Step Into Liquid) and a crew of 70 headed south to cover the most dangerous road race in the world. Imagine an event that crosses more »

Eternal Sunshine Best Pic in Film & Video‘s Pre-Oscar Poll

If the results reveal anything about this year's Oscar race, it's that the field remains wide open. At this time last year, F&V's survey correctly showed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King more »