Cooke Lenses Create The Magic Kingdom Of Netflix’s Fate: The Winx Saga April 12^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

DP Frida Wendel FSF, used Cooke S7/i Full Frame Plus lenses to shoot Fate: The Winx Saga, the live-action TV adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animated series Winx Club. Following its Netflix launch in January, the show quickly shot to number one in the U.S. and number three in t

HDR: Part 22 - Creative Technology - Non Standard April 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a test sub

Creative Analysis: Part 20 - Cinematographer Pete Romano On Underwater Filming March 30^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

There aren’t many positions in the film industry which have the prerequisite of spending an hour sunken in the waters off San Diego in a classic diving suit with a blacked-out helmet. To be fair, it wasn’t so much the film industry that made Pete Romano do that; it

Creative Analysis: Part 19 - Cinematographer Angus Hudson BSC, On The Life Ahead March 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Spending a few weeks in southern Italy is a popular idea. For cinematographer Angus Hudson, BSC, an opportunity to soak up the Puglian sun would come in the form of The Life Ahead (in Italian, La vita davanti a sé), a film directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Sophia Loren

VA Digital Hire Purchases First FUJINON Premista 19-45mm Lens In Australia March 5^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

Leading Australian film and television rental house, VA Digital Hire, has purchased and taken into stock the first new FUJIFILM FUIJINON Premista 19-45mm wide-angle zoom lens in Australia.

Creative Analysis: Part 18 - Cinematographer Johnny Derango On Fatman March 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Possibly one of the last features to wrap before the global pandemic effectively shut down production was Fatman, a dark action comedy directed by Eshom and Ian Nelms and starring Mel Gibson as the kind of Santa Claus who would probably exist in 2020 if one existed at all.

DP Toby Oliver, ACS Uses Cooke Lenses To Help ‘Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar’ Shine February 23^rd 2021 - 11:00 AM

DP Toby Oliver, ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) and director Josh Greenbaum selected Cooke Optics Anamorphic/i Standard and Special Flair (SF) prime and zoom lenses to tell the story of best friends Barb and Star who leave their small Midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in

HDR: Part 21 - Creative Technology - The Size Of Light February 22^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

Most people are aware that the amount of detail in a photograph is dependent on a few things. Assuming focus is right, it’s easy to assume it’s a combination of how well the lens was made and the number of pixels on the sensor, give or take the

HSC.TV Shoots Kansas City Chiefs Promo “A New Era” For ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” February 17^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

hsc.tv, a New York City-based production company, has shot a promotional piece entitled “A New Era” about the Kansas City Chiefs’ legacy that aired on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” on Super Bowl Sunday.

Creative Analysis: Part 17 - DOP Simon Rowling On Legacy Of Lies February 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Some films languish in preproduction hell for years. For cinematographer Simon Rowling, though, only a matter of days elapsed between first discussing Legacy of Lies and flying out to begin location scouting. The production, which stars Scott Adkins as a CIA agent in pursuit of Russian kidnappers, was written and