Using a pair of publicly-available enhancement tools, artist Denis Shiryaev was able to take one the Lumeire Brothers’ most famous early works and present a convincing UHD version. The original footage, captured on the Lumiere’s pioneering cinematograph, was shot near their photographic factory in Paris in 1896. It achieved fame after its early presentations, as…
Virtual set technology has been around for a decade or more. But the biggest limitation has always been the need to put the sets into the shot during post. Not only does this make post longer and more expensive, it also makes it harder for the actors and onset crew to deliver realistic outputs. Case…
Still photographers have been used to the benefits of shooting in RAW format for many years now. More recently there has been a move towards bringing RAW flexibility to the video camera world. Apple launched ProRes RAW in June 2018 and now Blackmagic has joined the party. Engadget has a good wrap up of the…
RED has had an 8K sensor available for sometime in the form of the RED Dragon VV, but the announcement of the Monstro represents a significant step forward in both quality and simplification of the workflow. Here’s the blurb: Today RED announced a new cinematic Full Frame sensor for WEAPON cameras, MONSTRO 8K VV. MONSTRO…
With iOS 11 hot of the production line, mixed reality agency AfterNow has wasted no time leveraging Apple’s ARKit to deliver a free augmented reality tool to help directors compose their scenes. Here’s the blurb… AfterNow is releasing, Blocker, an app for filmmakers leveraging augmented reality, ARKit on iPhone. Taking advantage of the new…
Go behind the scenes with Guardians’ Director James Gunn and Director of Photography Henry Braham, BSC as they discuss their vision for the movie and the experience they wanted to give viewers. Their desire to display a larger-than-life adventure that is punctuated with intimate human moments made the compact form factor and large sensor size…
Kodak is probably the largest victim of the digital media revolution, famously missing the boat as the world shifted from an analogue film world (which Kodak dominated) to one made of CCDs and pixels. However film, at least in the motion picture arena, never completely went away, thanks to feverish support from advocates such as Quentin Tarantino…
Motion-capture technologies (and techniques) have come forward in leaps and bounds over the past decade, however one of the main limitations in this very young sector has always been the power to preview the results of a shot in real-time and at a quality which reflects more what the final output will be. Director Kevin Margo has got his hands on some kit from ray-tracing…
Off the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Digital Bolex (a JV between the original Bolex company and start-up Cinemeridian) are set to launch their first product – the D16 Bolex, digital 16mm camera. According to the blub on the site, the D16 combines “legendary Bolex quality with the best in digital technology to bring…
Not deterred by receiving a ‘meh’ from the marketplace after a big advertising push for 3D televisions, the consumer electronics industry is busy trying to get everyone excited by the next big thing – 4K screens. Digital video expert, John Watkinson, debunks some of the current (and previous) received wisdom regarding resolutions and framerates in this fascinating…
