SONY OPENS UK VIRTUAL PRODUCTION SPACE Sony has marked ten years of its Digital Media Production Centre (DMPC) in Europe at Pinewood Studios with a first UK virtual production unit using Sony Crystal-LED technology. The state-of-the-art space has become part…
THINKING GREEN Sustainability is no compromise, it is the doorway to creative possibility, says Gildas Pelliet, Head of Pan European Imaging Products & Solutions for Sony Europe. Cinema and TV screens show us a beautiful spectrum of colours, however the…
IN THE DRIVING SEAT Rialto brings many degrees of freedom to Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo director of photography Jacques Jouffret ASC is no stranger to action. With a DP credit list that includes Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Purge series,…
CRYSTAL CLEAR Sony adds the VERONA to its Crystal LED range of displays, offering deep blacks, low reflectance, and modular flexibility for volume shooting. First announced in January 2021, Sony’s Crystal range of LED displays has been aimed at various…
SINGLE OPERATORS SOAR WITH SONY BURANO Sony has announced a new digital cinema camera, the BURANO. With an 8.6K full-frame sensor, internal 16-bit X-OCN LT recording and both PL and E-mount support, the BURANO is aimed at small crews and…
The question of whether a virtual production stage’s videowall counts as a lighting device is still vexed, even as the technique in general becomes a comfortable part of the mainstream. One of the people who is perhaps best placed to…
VELVET introduces two new fixtures this September to join it KOSMOS series of unique LED Fresnels. VELVET has been a reference for LED lighting in cinema since two Spanish DPs (Javier Valderrama and Toni Hernandez) founded the company in 2008…
Find out how Godox’s innovative lighting solutions aim to simplify the filmmaking workflow. The corporate mantra of Godox is to embrace creative possibilities, empowering creators to shape their artistic signatures effortlessly. “Our holistic system ranges from compact tools for handy…
Being able to obtain shading and distortion metadata is vital to fast, accurate and complex shot creation for VFX and virtual production. Tracking metadata efficiently from capture downstream through post-production has long been a vexing issue and one the rapid…
Discover how Leitz’s ZOOM lenses can help cinematographers elevate the images they craft to the next level. Have you tried the Leitz ZOOM lenses yet? For years we’ve been asked for recommendations on which existing zoom lenses pair best with…
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