Next-Gen Indy By Michael Goldman
The long journey to bring a new chapter of the Indiana Jones saga to the big screen during the last 18 years has been well documented, but the end result...
Tapeless on Steroids By Cynthia Wisehart
Shortly after the film had been in competition at Sundance, Mark Cuban bought Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (opening in theaters as we go to press)...
Know Your Formats, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
Many digital shooters started with DV video, which hammered the nail in the analog-video coffin and democratized video production by dropping the price of capturing very good video from $25,000 (Betacam SP camera and deck)...
Shoot Expertise: Camera Mics By Barry Braverman
I admit I'm a shooter, born and raised. It's what I do like breathing. So after almost three decades of crashing a viewfinder to my face, I think I've...
Mark In
Adding new capabilities to camcorders via innovative software and leveraging the Internet looks to be a growing trend that will affect producers over...
Special OPS By Kristinha M. Anding
There's Something Very Mission: Impossible about the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), a Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit that creates films about the decline of the Earth's oceans — and stops at virtually nothing to get a good shot...
Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50 Reviewer: Gary Eskow
Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...
Dream Job: Exchange Program By Kristinha M. Anding
Jenny Richards found herself at a crossroads in the mid-1990s. The now-deputy director of the London-based Television Trust for the Environment (TVE)...
Story Supportive By Jon Silberg
The four cinematographers nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscars this year Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood; Seamus...
Beta Sight: Red Digital Cinema Red One By Steve Tammi, 4K Ninjas
I have been Shooting with the Red Digital Cinema Red One Camera for almost six months now. Although I have been asked to write about my first impression...