NEWS

Lifetime Achievement Award for Cooke’s chief optics advisor  Cooke Optics has announced that Iain Neil, Cooke chief optics advisor, has received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (Oscar Statuette) for his "substantial, extensive and innovative lens designs which have had...

The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, held at the stylish Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, Los Angeles, brought together a diverse array of celebrated talent Sunday night, offering performers in attendance and fans around the world a show that was both...

The recipient of Camera Operator of the Year in Film is Daniel Bishop SOC | ASSOC BSC | ACO (All Quiet On The Western Front); and the recipients of Camera Operator of the Year in Television are Dave Chameides SOC and “B” Camera Operator Cristian Trova, (Ozark, S 4 Ep...

Rental house Pixipixel introduces a new Optix lens which has been designed and engineered in-house by its camera technical director – Renos Louka. The Optix Extreme lens covers full frame and features modified and enhanced optics producing a unique wide-angle view...

Impression V Filters are first in a new line of ARRI Impression Filters Exciting creative option to selectively detune Signature Prime and Signature Zoom lenses Easy to exchange using the rear magnetic filter holder, with lens scales maintaining accuracy...

With the release of a free-of-charge firmware update, Atomos is bringing Camera to Cloud (C2C) functionality to Zato Connect. Costing just $/€ 399 excluding sales taxes, Zato Connect is by far the most affordable way of making virtually any HDMI camera, or webcam,...

Peter Martin and Wolfgang Baumler, “The Hawk Guys,” have announced their collaboration with Peter Joarder and Charles Heales to create a new state of the art operation in London. Hawk London will be established as a full rental service company including cameras,...

Global piracy for film increased by nearly 37% and for TV by nearly 9% in 2022. MUSO has released its Film and TV Piracy Report 2022. In the free report, find out how piracy trends changed over the last year, the key drivers of demand and how unlicensed audience data...

Join the Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards, Saturday February 25, 2023, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. Five hundred production professionals will gather to celebrate the best of the best operators in motion picture, television and the industry at...

Come and join LCA next week to see some of the latest innovations in film and TV lighting in London at the BSC Expo. As always, LCA has a range of solutions to get hands on with: LiteGear - Auroris V and the Auroris X - flexible, large format lighting Creamsource -...

From a Virtual Production Zone, to its iconic Lens Bar and a first-ever demo of the MYT Works Opti-Glide Compact, CVP will showcase the very latest technology in film and TV production at Battersea Evolution, London from 24–25 February CVP, one of the leading...

The RED V-Raptor RF to PL Adapter Pack provides a robust PL mount solution for the RED V-Raptor. Supporting Cooke /i lens communication and record triggering, the RF to PL Adapter expands the functionality of the camera's native RF lens mount for professional...

Leader Electronics' LV5350 waveform monitor will form the test and measurement core of a digital film production system on the Mission stand, 206, at the upcoming BSC Expo 2023. The show will be held from Friday February 24th through Saturday February 25th in its...

In the latest instalment of RED's Behind the Look: That Shot series, cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, ASC and Steven Meizler, two cinematography legends, sit down with RED's Jarred Land and Naida Albright. They discuss the challenges and triumphs of shooting projects...

British veteran cinematographer Oliver Wood has sadly died at the age of 80. Wood, who moved to New York when he was just 19, was best known for his work on Die Hard 2 (1990), Face/Off (1997), Freaky Friday (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)...