Our stateside columnist Mark London Williams speaks to Oren Soffer, one of the dynamic DP duo behind AI epic The Creator, and makes for the Emerging Cinematographers Awards, where industry greats rub shoulders with up-and-coming stars. “Our lighting approach was in tune with our desire to create a free, open-to-spontaneity guerrilla film.” In our very … Read more
Fujifilm has developed a new portable broadcast zoom lens, the Fujinon Duvo24-300mm. The second lens model in the Duvo series, it produces a “highly desirable cinematic look with beautiful bokeh and broadcast lens operation”. Delivering12.5x zoom covering 24-300mm, a focal range that is frequently used on set, the lens is also compact and lightweight at … Read more
Meet the gear brands setting up shop at the Festival Centre. At Anton/Bauer, this year’s Camerimage highlights include the new VCLX NM2, an all-in-one battery solution designed to drive high-power draw equipment at peak performance on cinematic productions. Visitors can also see the DIONIC native 26V battery series, crafted for high-power cinematic cameras such as … Read more
FUJIFILM North America Corporation announced the development of its new FUJINON HZK25-1,000mm F2.8-F5.0 PL Mount Box Lens (“HZK25-1000”). This box lens features a native PL mount and achieves a zoom ratio of 40x with a telephoto focal length of 1,000mm, the highest combination of magnification and telephoto reach1 available to date for large cinema sensors2. … Read more
Fujifilm North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division, will return to the 2022 NAB Show live in Las Vegas. Fujifilm will showcase the latest lens technology facilitating virtual production and augmented reality technologies and capabilities in partnership with Mo-Sys and APG Media, as well as introduce attendees to several FUJINON cinema and broadcast lens products and … Read more
Cine Gear Expo LA will open at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, September 23-25, 2021. This lively event offers the film community an opportunity to meet, learn and experience the newest art, techniques and technology – live – for the first time in over two years. The downtown LA location is the area’s most technologically … Read more
DYNAMIC has announced the launch of a new European location. “After months of planning we are pleased to say our new office in Leipzig, Germany will be operational from July 2021,” said CEO Austin Rios. “What started as a search for a ‘Brexit Solution’ blossomed into a fully-fledged DYNAMIC staffed office.” With this new office … Read more
Fujifilm has announced the Premista 19-45mm T2.9, a wide-angle zoom covering focal lengths from 19mm to 45mm, will be released on 28 January 2021. It is the third model to join the Premista Series of cinema zoom lenses along with the Premista 28-100mm T2.9 and the Premista 80-250mm T2.9-3.5. The Premista 19-45mm covers Large-Format sensors*1 … Read more
Fujifilm UK has announced the free ZEISS eXtended Data firmware update for the Fujinon Premista Series lenses. The 28-100mm T2.9 and the 80-250mm T2.9-3.5 can be updated at the Fujinon Service Centre in London. The early 2021 delivery of the Premista 19-45mm T2.9 will ship with full eXtended Data functionality. This firmware release coincides with … Read more
Fujifilm has partnered with MTF Service in London and Duclos Lenses in Los Angeles to introduce new RF Mount versions of the Fujinon MK 18-55mm T2.9 and Fujinon MK 50-135mm T2.9 Cine Zoom lenses to users of the newly released RED Komodo camera. Having already proven to be essential partners for E-Mount cameras such as the Sony FS7 and … Read more
Thanks to our friends over at Cinec TV, you can get the news and fantastic interviews from some of the key figures at the 2018 Cinec expo, taking in the likes of Cooke Optics, ARRI, IMAGO and Sony. Watch them below, right here at bcredux.wpcreative.io Les Zellan, Cooke Optics Les Zellan talks to Iain … Read more
If you haven’t yet registered for this week’s Media Technology Day presented by the Procam Group – the event for the UK’s film and TV production community – it only takes a minute, and it’s free! Register here now! Taking place on Thursday, 1st November 2018, from 9.15am – 7.00pm, at the Ham Yard Hotel … Read more
Never Surrender Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC / Darkest Hour Never Surrender Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC / Darkest Hour BY: Ron Prince French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC says he was encouraged by the creative vision of innovative director Joe Wright to shoot what initially seemed an unlikely choice of project: the story of the newly-appointed … Read more
The Right Amount Of Grain Across the Pond / Mark London Williams The Right Amount Of Grain Across the Pond / Mark London Williams In a lively period where the very deadlines for this column were strained nearly to capacity, we bracketed our month with visits to the former Eastman Kodak Building, now occupied by … Read more
The Awards Celebration concludes the Festival & Summit, which draws leading filmmakers, conservationists, scientists, journalists and visionaries engaged in conservation and wildlife media to Jackson Hole. Submissions in the prestigious competition included a record-breaking 900 film entries, making this year’s festival the biggest yet. The nominated films are dazzling, inspiring, innovative and urgent. The winners … Read more
Never surrender David Higgs BSC / Churchill Never surrender David Higgs BSC / Churchill The historical thriller Churchill, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and shot by cinematographer David Higgs BSC, is an intimate portrait of Winston Churchill in the 96 hours before D-Day, which took place on Tuesday, 6th June 1944. The $10m production opens with … Read more
Fujifilm Corporation has announced the Fujinon XK6x20 as the latest addition to its line-up of 4K-compatible digital cinema camera zoom lenses. Equipped with a PL mount, the most common format for cinema cameras, the XK6x20 is a standard zoom lens that delivers T3.5 brightness for the entire zoom range from 20mm to 120mm. Fujifilm initially … Read more