Interview: Cinematographer Timur Civan on Technical Standards
ARC recently caught up with New York-based cinematographer Timur Civan for a chat about technical standardization in the digital age.
Zach Arias’s Review of the Fuji x100s is the Best Camera Review Ever
Arias posits the digital camera industry--from Phase One to Polaroid--as characters in a bar. Guess who walks in?
Pentax’s Handheld 60mm Cinema Camera
Strangely absent from this year's tech shows, Pentax's latest large-format cinema camera, the 6x7, is a preemptive challenger to the yet-to-be-released Dragon Sensor from Red.
DoP Jendra Jarnagin Tests the Sony PMW-F55
New York-based director of photography Jendra Jarnagin recently completed a series of tests with Sony's 4K PMW-F55 CineAlta camera in preparation her next feature film project.
Essential App: Artemis Director’s Viewfinder
The Artemis Director's Viewfinder earns its $30 price tag the first time you open the app and put it to use.
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC: Avid Instagram User
Instagram is great for duckface selfies, poorly-lit closeups of food, and obnoxious rich kids, but it's also the playground for some of the most talented filmmakers on the planet.
Science! New Sensor Sees in the Dark
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a graphene photodetector that is almost "10 times more sensitive than the CMOS-based sensors in today’s digital cameras."
Insane Nikon D3s Crash Test
Timeline of Historical Film Colors
Charting the history of film imaging by connecting "historical and bibliographical information with primary resources from several hundred original papers and more than 400 scanned frames provided by archives and scholars from all over the world."
Amazing Photographs of NYC’s Boardwalk Culture
In 2012, photographer Elizabeth Weinberg received a commission from enRoute magazine to document NYC boardwalk culture, including the communities of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Rockaway.