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I agree with the article in general -- there's nothing wrong with variety, including in resolution. The difference is that in the distant past, resolution was more closely tied to money... an indie...

I disagree -- I'd only use a lens like that for a visual effect, like a dream sequence, flashback, etc., in which case I'd want to get that much of an effect, otherwise why use the lens? If I wanted...

I prefer to look of Epic footage at 800 ISO; it gets too clean and snappy at low ISO's and looks more digital to me. It only makes sense if you need a really clean signal for chromakey work or...

Sometimes a split-diopter is better when the composition is more about two points of focus for the viewer rather than a continuous diagonal plane of focus. If you tilt a lens too much, the focus...

I was confused by the ancient Kryptonian scout ship found buried in the ice. OK, assuming that with a ship being thousands of years old, Jor-El could still somehow be downloaded into its computer,...

Most jobs are filled by people who meet some sort of minimum ability to do the job, or else they wouldn't get hired, paid or not paid -- it has nothing to do with the rate. No one willingly hires...

By that logic, minimum wage jobs are only filled by highly-skilled workers.

I'm as guilty as the next guy here, but let's steer this back to the internship question and away from political parties and avoid hyperbole like comparing internship to slavery, or else the thread...

It's one thing to not whine or complain because life has stuck you suddenly in a wheelchair, for example... but that doesn't mean that buildings having wheelchair ramps isn't a good thing in terms of...

I don't think it's always a matter of people being penny-wise, pound-foolish, in terms of spending the money on a high-resolution camera and then going cheap on the optics -- of course, that happens...

I think a lot of this intern abuse happens more in the production office and when working for producers -- on the movie set, the craft unions are pretty strict about not letting craft interns do any...

Even most 40mm anamorphics have barrel distortion, let alone a 35mm.

3 wick candles have three times the light output but 1600 ISO is only twice as fast as 800 ISO so in theory you won't get exactly the same exposure as "Barry Lyndon" did at f/0.7 at 200 ISO (i.e....

If the light is too small and hard, like an undiffused Dedolight, the reflection in the eye is quite small... That can be useful if the person is wearing eyeglasses because the white dot reflection...

I only shot 24P once on one of the first 24P movies made in 2000, "Jackpot", and we had a number of sync issues with sound in the mix, so I've avoided true 24P ever since. So I'm not going to advise...

You should shoot at 23.976 as most people do, and yes, start out at 1/48th.

The color is close to the way it looked on the day -- we were in White Sands, NM and the white sands reflect the color of the sky quite a bit so can look blue-ish in twilight.

A lot of classrooms may be using older ballasts in their overhead fixtures so it's best to stick to 60 Hz AC "safe speeds" (assuming you are in a 60 Hz country), though 23.976 fps at 180 degrees...

I don't know about that -- I mean, what about "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" or many other b&w silent era German Expressionism movies? Even if you meant color movie, a stylized look goes further back...

I often softened the light over the actors with Half Soft Frost on a large frame. It's similar to Opal diffusion gel but is a soft pliable material like a shower curtain uses (Opal gets very noisy...

Speaking of minimizing crosstalk by using "narrow cut" filters to separate R, G, and B... the 1950's version of "Moby Dick" did an interesting trick to get a desaturated print. The movie was shot in...

Well, in 3-strip Technicolor, red was the fuzziest record, and even in color negative, the red layer image is not as sharp as the other layers... so the fact that you only have 25% of the photosites...

That's what I did for the opening "sunrise" sequence in "Astronaut Farmer", we shot backwards, the last set-up at dusk was the first one in the sequence:
http://www.davidmullenasc.com/af33.jpg

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Funny thing was that the concept of the shot was simple but the billboard was so high in the air that to get the composition, I had to have the front of the car lifted about three feet in the air,...

Well, the grain in dupe and print stocks is pretty fine, mostly you'd be seeing the camera original negative grain... but even so, grain can look differently if the dupe and release prints were all...