Canon (Companies)

In the broadcast industry, Canon HDTV camera lenses are among the most widely used in HD sports and entertainment productions today. They are also quite prevalent in ENG News cameras. In addition to its well-earned reputation for quality optics, Canon

Read more…

Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund September 9th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund

Director of photography John Christian Rosenlund has at least a three-decade history with director Bent Hamer. Their most recent collaboration, The Middle Man, depicts a town in the northern United States during a post-industrial depression. It’s perhaps not a subject instinctively associated with Rosenlund and Hamer’s Norwegian roots, tho

Read more…

HDR: Part 10 - Large Format Cinematography And Lenses June 3rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

HDR: Part 10 - Large Format Cinematography And Lenses

Most film and TV jobs start with some simple questions, as Gregory Irwin puts it. “What is it, where is it, when is it.” In April 2018 Irwin found himself asking those questions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher, with whom he’d collaborated on five previous films beginning with John Hamburg’s I Love

Read more…

Creative Analysis: Part 1 - The Nest From The DOP May 20th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Creative Analysis: Part 1 - The Nest From The DOP

Glasgow in December is a place and a time with a particular look, and The Nest is a production which enthusiastically embraces that aesthetic. Broadcast in the UK beginning in March 2020, it was produced for the BBC by Studio Lambert as five one-hour episodes featuring a couple, played by Martin

Read more…

Operating An IP Broadcast Facility:  Part 3 - At CBC’s New IP Broadcast Center, Communication Is Key April 29th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Operating An IP Broadcast Facility: Part 3 - At CBC’s New IP Broadcast Center, Communication Is Key

CBC/Radio-Canada (CBC) is putting the finishing touches to a brand new all-IP broadcast facility that will provide virtually unlimited flexibility across multiple platforms to support highly efficient production and distribution workflows for its radio, TV and online programming. …

Read more…

We Need Perfect Lenses After All April 2nd 2020 - 01:00 PM

We Need Perfect Lenses After All

Veteran cinematographers and DOPs have long understood that lenses have a personality with a specific look and feel. In the same way that an actor imparts his or her interpretation on a film’s story, the DOP selects a lens that best supports the program’s emotional stakes. The ideal cam

Read more…

Shooting HDR: A More Efficient Way September 24th 2019 - 09:00 AM

Shooting HDR: A More Efficient Way

As High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (i.e.BT.2020) are increasingly mandated by major industry players like Netflix and Amazon, DOPs in the broadcast realm are under intense pressure to get it right during original image capture. We all know (or learned the hard way) that the

Read more…

Is There an Optimum Shape for a Camera? (Featured / Editorial)
May 25th 2019 - 08:00 AM

Recently I was pondering on why cameras come in so many shapes, and what lies behind design decisions. Camera fall into two classes, live, and camera/recorders (camcorders). There was a time when the shape of a camcorder was defined by the recording medium. Cine cameras had two reels on top or to the rear, and video cameras were long to accommodate the tape transport. Now the only constraint is the component holding the sensor or prism block and the lens mount together in a fixed alignment.