The time: the 1980s. The place: A commuter train between Paris and the suburb of Chaville. On one of the faux-leather seats, lies a Leica R6 camera its owner must have left behind. A photo-loving teenager stares at it as if it were the Holy Grail. Honesty, however, along with the secret hope of - perhaps - recovering it some day, compels Guillaume Deffontaines to bring it to the railway company’s Lost and Found Department. His exceptional memory also brings him back to the Department — just in case! — exactly a year and a day later.
First things first. When you are the eldest son of a merchant navy captain whose ancestors, fishermen and sons of fishermen, came all the way from Ukraine..., when you were born and grew up in Marseilles as a certified "Corniche Kid" (the local equivalent to a Bow-bell Cockney)..., when you’d always dash wherever the fancy takes you - preferably beyond the horizon..., somehow, "moving up" to Paris to make movies in the 1980’s is not exactly the "normal" thing to do.
Evoking one’s debut as a cinematographer and remembering it as a professional experience at once too beautiful, too unexpected and too...special, inevitably makes one nostalgic. Furthermore, as one celebrates its 20th anniversary, the phrase "track record" hits one in the face like a boomerang!
After twenty-six years of uninterrupted collaboration, Luc Besson’s cinematographer, Thierry Arbogast, was determined to surprise him. Again. Old couples must constantly reinvent themselves, mustn’t they? And so he did when they tested and tried whichever equipment they might eventually use for their next project, Valerian.
At the end of the last Claude Lelouch’s movie, Everyone’s Own Life and Intimate Conviction, Ariane Damain Vergallo met, on behalf of CW Sonderoptic-Leica, its director of photography, Robert Alazraki, AFC, and camera operator Berto, to talk about lenses, but not only...
A new team. A new formula. A new ambition: to become the privileged partner of DOPs and production companies for all their aerial footage needs. Bringing together several competences around aerial images, Papa Sierra is now a one-stop-shop.
Within the “investiture” of the new French President, the 14th of May 2017 and thanks to its network, Papa Sierra allowed information channels to show, live and from above, first steps of the new President.
During the recent Micro Salon 2017, right after the screening of the short film Escapade, shot in black & white using the Panasonic Varicam LT without any Infrared cut filter, many people asked me for a further and more specific explanation on the methodology employed. Here is my answer, a brand new presentation, which not only describes every single step followed in our process but also sums up my previous researches on this topic.
A HUGE thank for your visit to our “special 20th anniversary” open doors; in helicopter for a few lucky one! Always on the cutting edge of the technology, we did present you some of our news systems such as the Aercam, the Twizycam or our new electric RC quad.
In the latest news from Exalux this month, Dimlite, the DIY dimmer, the new Flexx LED ribbon collection, new add-ons for the Rock Wide, a new DMX wireless kit at Maluna Lighting and the next rendez-vous.
The latest news from Thales Angénieux at Golden Globes 2017, Cesar 2017, Oscar 2017 - a good vintage for Angénieux, and, in the beginning of the year, prestigious visitors at the Saint-Héand factory.
A huge thank you! The AFC Board decided in January to admit Exalux as an associate member. This decision is recognition of the work done by Exalux teams over the past three years. We are proud to integrate this great family, and wish to thank our sponsors, Michel Abramowicz and Laurent Chalet.