Tiffen’s Blender XL LED Shipping September 9^th 2021 - 11:00 AM

The bi-colour Blender XL puts out a tunable narrow flood beam—up to four times the brightness of a traditional 1x1 panel light.

HDR: Part 32 - Creative Technology - Film Scanning September 6^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

The film and TV business is a prominent producer of things that were once very expensive, but which have become much more affordable as developments overtook them. That’s never clearer than when browsing everyone’s favorite auction website, which has recently seen Spirit telecines, once seven figures, selling for les

HDR : Part 31 - Creative Technology - Stills Lens August 23^rd 2021 - 09:00 AM

Still photo lenses find their way into film and TV work via many different routes and for many different reasons. It’s happened so much that the prices on some popular options have risen precipitously in recent years. Are there still good deals to be had?

Creative Analysis: Part 23 - Christian Rousseau On No Loss, No Gain August 13^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Filmmaking is not usually a weekend pursuit, but a sufficiently clever script can make a wide-ranging story happen in a very contained space.

HDR: Part 30 - Creative Technology - A Thousand Ways To Shoot August 9^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

For most of its history, film and TV work has, by any sane measure, been incredibly complicated. Photochemical film was a nightmare of precision engineering and process control. Digital alternatives, intended to make things cheaper and simpler, involve some of our highest-performance electronics.

Improvements In Efficiencies And Performance Help Lights Shine For Better Video Production July 30^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

This has been a year in which we all—reporters, producers and station engineers—had to learn the basics of good lighting, particularly the three-point setup pioneered by famed lighting inventor Ross Lowell for in-home studios. However, lighting fixtures and kits in general got lighter and easier to use, even for

HDR: Part 29 - Promoting The Three-Dimensional Illusion July 26^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

When composing and lighting scenes, DOP’s usually seek to maximize texture and perspective. The rationale is simple: We live in a world that is unmistakably three-dimensional, so DOPs seeking to faithfully represent the natural world exploit a range of ways to promote the three-dimensional illusion.

HDR: Part 28 - Creative Technology - Guide To Anamorphic Lenses July 12^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

So you’re a producer, and your cinematographer is campaigning for the use of anamorphic lenses. Problem is, they’re expensive, and for people who aren’t cinematographic propeller heads, it can seem hard to justify. Let’s look at what’s going on and how we got here, without assuming