Technical stuff

Land, sea, air - Italy, France, Belgium etc.; ACS France crew has been very busy shooting in different configurations! One movie released this month and the participation to a trade fair.

For over 60 years the Leica M full frame lenses have inspired photographers and cinematographers alike with their unique interpretation of light, skin tones and color. The Leica M 0.8 lenses bring the iconic look and character of Leica’s legendary M glass directly to the world of moving pictures by making it easier than ever to work with these lenses in true cinema applications.

IBC 2016 – Amsterdam Sept 9 /13 - Angénieux new Type EZ Series!
Angenieux, in collaboration with BandPro and Jebsen, will unveil at IBC 2016 a new lens range: two fast and light weight zoom lenses covering S35mm and larger image formats for cine and broadcast productions. Join us at IBC booth 12.E33.

ACS France team wishes you a very nice return! We had a very busy summertime, full a great projects, glimpse back to some of them.

This year, Sierra Papa was still in charge of major sporting events. The Tour de France and the Tour of Poland are parts of these major events.

Testing the Shotover G1 in different configurations, last projects and release, here is our latest news.

We have been involved in many projects along with Roland Garros, in particular in Spain for commercials and a UK TV Series. The Shotover U1g showed again great performance for the final of the French Football Cup in the Stade de France.

This year again, Charlet Recors has worked with Papa Sierra in due to film “Les Témoins”, saison 2, produced by Cineteve and broadcast on France 2 soon.

We are pleased to introduce you our recently designed, Diffusion Comparator App which is free to download and enables the user to directly compare different diffusion filters lighting a model.

For this month news, we would like to highlight the Shotover U1G 3 axis gyro head,
the drone Shotover U1, other jobs and feature films released.

Our 2016 Open House, our recent shoots and latest film released, our March activity summarised in a few words!

After a three-year wait, in San Francisco on 3 February 2016, Panasonic announced the upcoming release of image sensors with complete separation of the function of photon-to-electron conversion performed by an organic OPF* layer, and the function of accumulation and drawing-away of the electrons performed by the silicon substrate.

At the extremely well visited CW Sonderoptic booth at the AFC Micro Salon we started a discussion with cinematographer Yves Cape about a shared passion for pictures. A few days later we continued the feverish conversation for over two hours.

For these first 2016 news we would like to highlight our work for the documentary Seasons and to come back on two French feature films soon released.

ACS France shot for the feature film Réparer les vivants (Katell Quillévéré) and Bourne 5 (Paul Greengrass); Belle and Sébastien to be released the 9^th of December.

LCA Lights Camera Action, new members of the AFC, recently exhibited at Satis with a selection of some of the latest in LED Lighting for Film, TV and Broadcast. Nick Shapley and Spencer Newbury attended the show where they met a number of AFC members including Co-President, Nathalie Durand.

Following this summer’s corporate restructuring, Eclair continues to provide audio-visual post production services to professionals of the film and television industries. All post production activities are now centralized at our Vanves location.

ACS France have lately been involved in the shooting of three French feature films. We present you our Shotover F1 and our last feature films released.