Category Archives: Shooting

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Shoot Like Kubrick with These Rare Zeiss f/0.7 Lenses

If you know much about Stanley Kubrick's methodology, you've probably heard about the special, super-fast lenses that he used to shoot candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon (1975) — they were Zeiss f/0.7 lenses originally developed for a NASA project to take … more »

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Ansel Adams in the Mind’s Eye

Ansel Adams would have turned 111 today. In 1983, a year before the legendary photographer died, he caught a glimmer of the coming digital revolution. "I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I … more »

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What Cameras Did Sundance Filmmakers Use?

Indiewire posted an article this morning listing a bunch of films from Sundance 2013 sorted by the cameras they employed. It's definitely not a comprehensive list (it seems to be limited to the filmmakers that Indiewire got face time with … more »

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Shooting Zero Dark Thirty: 10 Tidbits from the Trenches

With awards season running at full throttle, much ink has been spilled about the political implications of Zero Dark Thirty. The controversy has nearly overshadowed director Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-quickening achievement in translating the boots-on-the-ground details of the CIA's long-running manhunt … more »

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Ikonoskop Discounts A-Cam dII Raw HD Camera Through December

With all the attention paid to raw recording formats in cameras from the industry's big guns — Red, Sony, and Canon — it's worth noting that Stockholm's Ikonoskop has its own version of the raw-format HD camera, the A-Cam dII. … more »

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Is the Blackmagic Cinema Camera Finally Ready for the Spotlight?

If you haven't actually ordered a Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC), you might be unaware of the drama that took place behind the scenes as the camera missed its targeted July shipping date and customers holding pre-orders started to worry about … more »

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Stormstock Catpures Hurricane Sandy’s Fury as It Crashes into U.S. Coast

News camera crew and talent stuck on storm duty today may have no other choice than to be chasing this category 1 hurricane heading up the East Coast. Here's hoping all the rest of you, your cameras and your glass … more »

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20 Cameras Used on Barry Levinson’s Horror Movie The Bay

Fact and fiction blur in The Bay, a new horror movie that uses the real-world presence of flesh-eating bacteria in the Chesapeake Bay as a jumping-off point for an apocalyptic tale of biological catastrophe. There's been a bit of a … more »

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Nine Things I Learned from Reading The Dark Knight Rises Production Notes

The film is two weeks away from release, but yesterday the producers of The Dark Knight Rises, the last installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman/Dark Knight trilogy, dropped a nearly 50-page PDF of detailed production notes on the film's official web … more »

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Need an Out of This World Location? Shoot in Iceland (and Get 20% Back)

Director Ridley Scott and actress Noomi Rapace on location in Iceland during the filming of Prometheus [photo credit: Kerry Brown/20th Century Fox] Prometheus was shot there, as was the current season of Game of Thrones. And word came recently that … more »

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