American Cinematographer’s Noah Kadner looks at some of image capture highlights from this year’s big game CBS deployed 165 Sony broadcast cameras in total, including many capable of 4K zoom and 48 featuring 4K super slo-mo. Smaller FX-series models, like the FX6 and FX9 were used for “more intimate, cinematic shots at field level”. There […]
If you have a favourite analogue SLR camera that you’d like to start using again but you don’t want to get into the rigmarole of processing film, you might be interested in I’m Back Film. It’s a drop-in digital film cartridge containing, to keep costs down, a 20-megapixel Micro Four Thirds image sensor (2x crop […]
Following on from its 700 square metre virtual production space in St. Denis in Paris, which features an 18 metre x 5 metre screen, Sony has opened a new one in its Digital Media Production Centre at Pinewood Studios. Its main purpose is to allow broadcasters, productions, and technicians to spend time with Sony’s cinematography […]
Following a chance encounter at an automotive trade show SISU Cinema Robotics created a range of ‘cinebots’; programmable motion control robotic arms that can hold cinema cameras and achieve repeatable moves and often impossible shots. There are three models – C14, C20 and C31 – the smallest of which which can handle cameras or other […]
Below are the results of research carried out by Lisa McNamara of frame.io into the budgets, crew size and duration of both principal photography and post-production for each of the Best Picture nominees at the 2023 Academy Awards. Below that, we show the cameras and lenses used on the films nominated for Beat Picture and Best […]
In the not-too-distant future, the vehicles we use will be essentially sensor-laden computers on wheels designed primarily for insurance-friendly autonomous driving. Depending on the brand, RADAR, LIDAR and Ultrasound will be supported by cameras to gain the understanding of the vehicle’s surroundings that is at the core of its safety systems. The data gathered will […]