Reel Hawaii Update

Tim Ryan’s Reel Hawaii Update:  News on Clooney+Kauai, Berg plans to bring Battleship to the Pacific, and Clint Eastwood visits the islands in January.

Click Here to catch up the latest at Tim Ryan’s Reel Hawaii.

P+S Technik 16Digital SR Mag

What is old, is new again.

 

 

So you’ve got an Arri SR series 16mm camera, and all the gear to go with it.  The lenses, the rods and matteboxes, all those little gadgets that cost a ton of money.   You put all this time and money and effort into the package, and then one day digital comes along, and there goes film.  Kaput.  Might as well put that old Arri up on ebay, along with all the BL’s and SB’s.

But wait.  Hold on.  P+S Technik, the folks who brought you the first 2/3″ 35mm Lens adapter for broadcast cameras, has come up with an interesting new piece of kit called the 16Digital SR Mag.

Bring analog into the digital age.

 

 

It’s a digital imaging and capture device that you can use with existing Arriflex SR series cameras.  Yes, by simply docking the one-piece “magazine” to your old SR , you can now capture HD/2k images just like you used to capture images on Super 16.  Pretty incredible stuff.  Can 35mm versions be very far behind?

Click Here to go to P+S Technik for the details.

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Click Here to Download Film and Digital Times’ IBC 2009 Wrap Up — find the 16Digital Sr Mag on page 18

Film and Digital Times

There’s a report on IBC 2009 over at Film and Digital Times — lots of new product sneak peeks and reviews on camera, lenses, and everything in between.  It’s available in a “low-rez” PDF.  Looks better than it sounds.

Click Here to go to Film and Digital Times.

Hurlblog

I came across Hurlblog as I was researching the use of DSLR’s in video production.  The name of the author, Shane Hurlburt, rung a bell with me, and maybe it does with you.  Hurlburt was the DP on Terminator:Salvation — the movie where actor Christian Bale famously flipped out on a crew member, while filming.  That crew member was:  Shane Hurlburt.

Hurlburt has moved on to better things since then, it seems.  He’s really into pushing the limits of DSLR’s as filmmaking tools, and has decided to chronicle his adventures in Hurlblog.  From the jungles of South America to being embedded with Navy SEALS, Hurlburt has taken the Canon 5d Mark 2 into to some pretty amazing places, and put them in some very interesting situations — like mounting a Panvision Primo Zoom to the little DSLR.

My, what a big lens you have...

Click Here to go to Hurlblog.

 

Hearts and Minds

Pro Video Coalition has got an article on “Battle for Hearts and Minds”, a documentary shot by independent photojournalist Danfung Dennis.  He spent some time embedded with a company of Marines in Afghanistan, as they tried to take and hold the Helmund Provice, a place that has has been, as of late, a stronghold of the Taliban.

Dennis was able to follow the action — all with a custom rig built around the Canon 5d Mark 2.  Check the article out to see how it’s built.

The footage was also used in a recent episode of PBS’s excellent series, FRONTLINE.  The episode was entitled “Obama’s War.”  You can view the entire episode for free on the PBS.org website.

Click Here to go to PBS: FRONTLINE.

He was able to capture some pretty amazing stuff — the more I see projects like this, the more I’m leaning toward buying my own DSLR.

*Caution:  Language and Violence in the video!

Click Here to go to Pro Video Coalition.