The NAB is the broadcast association trade show. It takes place in Las Vegas for three days and covers shooting, post-producing and diffusion equipments. The show is more dedicated to sales. The companies present their new equipments. Compared to Cine Gear or our Micro Salon, its more dedicated to broadcast. All the major brands are attending.
On Saturday 2, July, the Imago TC (ITC) gave a seminar at the Euro Cine Expo in Munich. Before giving a short summary of this seminar, I would like to provide an update on this international exhibition of cine equipment & technologies. The ITC was invited by Cinematography World magazine (curators of the Euro Cine Expo Programme).
January 31 was the fateful date of Brexit and it fell smack in the middle of the BSC Expo 2020. Thankfully, our British friends had gratified us with a “preview” opening on Thursday the 30th from 16:00 to 19:00. Three “fluid” hours reserved for BSC members and VIPs to be able to walk around the expo, discuss with the exhibitors, and meet a few colleagues.
At IBC this year, Angenieux had shown the New Optimo Ultra 12x Multi Format lens and the already popular Type EZ series, both for S35 & Full Frame cameras. After the success of the Optimo 44-440 A2S lens, Angénieux had also presented, for the first time in Europe, the Optimo 42-420 A2S Long Range Anamorphic lens for the High End Production market.
If Britain chose the Brexit direction, Hollywood preferred to choose the one that leads to studios facilities in the London area. Those of Pinewood, Longcross, Leavesden, Shepperton and Ealing, are permanently full and even saturated, with huge investments committed in terms of expansion and accessibility, and booked for a very long time.
On the 5th and 6th of May, Matthieu Poirot-Delpeche and I have attended this conference cycle organised by Imago and the Norwegian Film Institute. Being quite busy last month, I couldn’t find the time to write down a summary. Here it is at last. We have to start by complementing the extreme quality of the cycle, which brought together over 200 European Directors of Photography. Each intervention led to questions and answers, allowing both the audience and the lecturers to specify number of points.
No need, for once, to rush up the steps of the Cannes Festival Palais, dressed like a penguin and adjusting one’s bow tie, in order to attend the 3rd edition of the IDIFF (International Digital Film Forum) which took place from the 2nd to the 4th of February, 2005. All that was needed was an interest, however small, in anything that borders on what has come to be known as « digital cinema ». For this is what IDIFF is about.
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