Technical stuff

Remember 50 years ago… A famous lens made by Angénieux...

Lenses

Remember 50 years ago... On July 31, 1964 Ranger 7 took the first pictures at close range of the Moon. These pictures were made by Angenieux 25mm f: 0.95 M1 lenses.
The Ranger program was a series of nine unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s, between 1961 and 1965, whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon: large-scale topographic information needed for the Surveyor and Apollo projects.

The F65 – a visually superior camera!

Digital Cameras

Lucy, the latest film by Luc Besson, featuring Scarlett Johansson and Norman Freeman, will be released in France on 6 August and was filmed with the Sony F65. Thierry Arbogast, AFC, and director of photography on this film and on many of Besson’s other films, shares his experience of shooting with the F65.

ACS France on the shooting of "Jupiter Ascending"

Grip and Cranes

Having shot with John Toll, ASC, and the Wachowskis on Cloud Atlas, it was a pleasure to be asked to shoot on Jupiter Ascending. ACS France provided the complete aerial shooting solution in Iceland and recently in Bilbao including helicopter, Aerial DOP, Film Pilot, crew and low level flying permissions. All the logistics involved in getting that perfect shot.

ACS France on the shooting of "Supercondriaque"

Grip and Cranes

A great team for Supercondriaque, Dany Boon’s latest movie, photographed by Romain Winding, AFC. Our team worked at night in Paris streets during Christmas time, and in Budapest also at night time in order to follow car pursuits with the Ultimate Arm and with Jean Baptiste Jay as a camera operator.

ACS France on Ironman France Nice

Grip and Cranes

A beautiful project with Nils Tavernier photographed by Laurent Machuel, AFC. We worked within the Nord Ouest camera team (7 cameras to cover the event) for the Ironman competition in Nice.

ACS - and the art of cloud-flirting...

Grip and Cranes

ACS France has just moved into new premises a few hundred metres from the old address – we’re still in Buc, a town that was once a hotbed of aviation and aerobatics – and now Louis Blériot has his own Airpark.

4K Live record of Paris-Bercy Tennis Tournament (Oct 26 /Nov 3. 2013)

Lenses

After Coldplay and Andrea Boticelli’s concerts in 2012, Muse’s concert in July 2013 4K Live records by United, a dutch subsidiary of Euro Media Group, Euro Media Group was on BNP Paribas Tennis Masters in Bercy (Paris). On the 4 Sony F55 cameras were used 2 PL mount Angénieux zoom lenses : the Optimo 28-340 and the Optimo 15-40. Ronald Meyvisch, New Technology Officer by Euro Media Group gave Angénieux his feedback.

Mountain shots for ACS France

Grip and Cranes

Some specials memories of the filming... Touching and exciting! With the mountain theme as the color changes of November were beginning. It was a wonderful opportunity to work on two great projects where the action took place in the mountains. ACS France conducted its aerial shots in the Maurienne Valley and Mont-Blanc for two feature films which are currently showing at this time.

"Debayering" special report
By Madelyn G. Most

Digital Workflow

Since their last meeting at Camerimage 2012, Philippe Ros, AFC, and Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC, have an ongoing conversation about what really makes up the look of the captured image from various digital cameras, and how people in all disciplines of the industry are overlooking other important elements to be concerned with, other than 4K, or2K, or 8K capture or which camera to use, such as:
- How and when the debayering is implemented after the recording of the files
- The curves implemented in the camera (i.e. Arri Alexa or Sony F35), or those implemented in post (i.e. Lin to Log with the Sony F65)
- Which system to use to transcode and intake those image files.

Lumex announces the "Energy Center"

Lighting and Power Equipment

Lumex launches the "Energy Center", a new generation of secure power source. Already at the forefront of new technologies such as the “Agilight” lighting crane and the “Twin Pack” mobile secure power sources, Lumex adds the “Energy Center” to its range of innovative products now available for rent.

Too Many Labs Out of Control
By DoP Philippe Ros, AFC, Imago Technical Committee Member

Digital Workflow

For several months we’ve been talking with Irena Gruca from FilmPRO Magazine about the qualities of Digital Intermediate and connected issues. In this article I have the opportunity to recap the discussion.
Special thanks to Irena Gruca who gave authorization to AFC to publish this article released in “Intermediate” european magazine launched by CineArte (Germany) & FilmPro (Poland).
This article has received some more inputs after the last Camerimage and the Micro Salon 2012.

Did you say organic?
By Caroline Champetier, AFC

Digital Cameras

The first publicly available images filmed with the new Delta-Penelope camera were shown by Eclair on November 17, 2011 with Catherine Athon, Aude Humblet, Thierry Beaumel, Caroline Champetier AFC, and Jean-Pierre Beauviala in attendance.
This camera is the first “4K” with an optical viewfinder and an internal SSD recorder for full resolution uncompressed images that are totally open to whomever wants to debayerize them in their own way.

"Do we need shooting “RAW” to achieve the best quality?"

Digital Workflow

Yves Cape, AFC, SBC, signal us an interesting aricle wrote by our Belgian colleague Louis-Philippe Capelle, SBC, about RAW Mode published on Belgian Society of Cinematographers web site.
In the article, he gives details on this uncompressed pictures recording format and ask questions about the advantages, consequences and drawbacks.