EOS 5D Archives — NYCPPNEWS

So You Want to Shoot Airplanes! (With a Camera)

I’ve done photography for Warbirds, the magazine of a group dedicated to the preservation and safe operation of ex-military aircraft. I was asked what went into taking photographs and shooting video around an ever busy flightline, so here are a few thoughts. As a photographer and DP, I know I need to look at the […]

Prime Time Proliferation

This week we share the good news about local production, learn about a filter that can save you from DSLR headaches, and find out that an older, established filmmaker is more experimental than ever…

Loving Leica

Now, cinematographers are chasing down lenses out of the mainstream, choosing them for the specific looks that they can deliver to a production…

HDSLR Info Dump from House DP Gale Tattersal

Lots of useful insight here about why the look of the Canon 5D worked so well for this particular show…

DSLRs For Filmmakers

Mathers points out that although the Canon 5D Mark II has a larger sensor when compared to even Sony’s top F35 camera system, all of that sensor’s resolution doesn’t end up in the image…

Shooting with a Canon HDSLR on the Latest Lucas Project

UK-based photographer Philip Bloom made himself into one of the go-to guys for shooting video with an HDSLR.

HDSLRs for Video: Beyond the Hype

Marco does get a little over heated at times (he’s taking us “inside the real world of production with paying clients” by jiminy!), but there is still a good amount of useful info here…

Canon HD DSLRs For Cinematography

For anyone new or interested in Canon HDSLRs, here’s a useful video just posted by the Digital Cinema Society from a March event at Hollywood’s Birns & Sawyer.

Shooting ENG-style with a DSLR?

I was pleasantly surprised at how well the 5D MkII worked as a run’n’gun / docco / ENG camera.–Adam Wilt

Free HDSLR How-to Webcast with Vincent Laforet

The website creativeLIVE kicks off its first Weekend Master’s Workshop with a free online three day class to be led by Vincent Laforet.

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.