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Lenses and Lights: February 2009
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Feb 16, 2009. A capsule history of video cameras, that focuses on their operation, I also posted to wikipedia. http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional video camera#History. Early studio television camera - Gray box on right is the lens, gray box on top is the Viewfinder, sides are lowered to show internal electronics. Connections, a slender video cable that carried multiple video signals, intercom audio, and control circuits, and could be run for a mile o...
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Lenses and Lights: Ten Tips for Better Web Videos
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Sep 12, 2008. Ten Tips for Better Web Videos. The great thing about all the new camcorders out there is you don't have to be expert in the underlying tech to get a great result. Here are some simple tips to maximize the performance out of these small wonders. Television isn't quite the close-up medium it used to be, what with the popularity of big screens everywhere. But web video sure is. Get Close! Second — Avoid Backlighting. Third — Minimize Noise.
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Lenses and Lights: March 2008
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Mar 15, 2008. How many lights can I plug into this circuit? You're on location, in a house built in the 1940s. But you're worried about blowing fuses or popping a circuit breaker with the bright and hot lights from the nice Arrilite kit. You need a way to tell in advance, how to know when the next light you plug in will blow the circuit. You're not an electrician, you heard there was a formula, by some Ohm guy, but you have no idea what it is. It might be i...
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Lenses and Lights: September 2008
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Sep 12, 2008. Ten Tips for Better Web Videos. The great thing about all the new camcorders out there is you don't have to be expert in the underlying tech to get a great result. Here are some simple tips to maximize the performance out of these small wonders. Television isn't quite the close-up medium it used to be, what with the popularity of big screens everywhere. But web video sure is. Get Close! Second — Avoid Backlighting. Third — Minimize Noise.
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Lenses and Lights: Review of Instructional books and DVDs for 3D film productions
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Oct 25, 2010. Review of Instructional books and DVDs for 3D film productions. The classic book is Lenny Lipton's Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema. (out of print, but available for free download here. It's very heavy on theory, but you won't find much on the current state of equipment, as it was published in 1982. Last year saw the publication of 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen. It includes links to websites and a DVD...
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Lenses and Lights: October 2010
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Oct 25, 2010. Review of Instructional books and DVDs for 3D film productions. The classic book is Lenny Lipton's Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema. (out of print, but available for free download here. It's very heavy on theory, but you won't find much on the current state of equipment, as it was published in 1982. Last year saw the publication of 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen. It includes links to websites and a DVD...
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Lenses and Lights: ENG Video Camera Definition
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Tips, techniques, tutorials for cinematography. Feb 16, 2009. ENG Video Camera Definition. What's the difference between the big shoulder cameras pros use, and small handheld camcorders? Here's a piece I edited on Wikipedia that I liked so much, I thought I'd reprint it here. 3 CCDs are used instead of one, one for each primary color. They have interchangeable lenses. All settings, white balance, focus, and iris can be manually adjusted, and automatics can be completely disabled. A complete timecode sect...
