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Rob Haggart at APE has posted a big interview he did with Vincent that touches on how the Pulitzer Prize–winning shooter reinvented himself, his decision to relocate from New York to L.A., the difference between cinema lighting and photography lighting, shooting DSLR video, and lots more.
“It’s been a very interesting few years,” Vincent tells Rob at one point. “Shane Hurlbut (DP for Terminator Salvation), Rodney Charters (DP for 24), Phillip Bloom (director/DP in the UK), and I have fallen to the forefront of being the pioneers for the new technology. I think we were simply the early adopters who really put a lot of time and energy into making HDDSLR filmmaking work—we’ve all put a lot of time into making this new breed of cameras come close to performing the same things that one would expect from a motion picture camera.”
Read the whole post here. And to read more of Vincent’s thoughts on HDDSLR filmmaking, take a look at his blog post from this past weekend on the Zeiss Compact Prime 2 Cine Lenses, which mount onto HDDSLRs. “…This is the first lens that I’ve received – that I CANNOT WAIT TO USE!” writes Vincent.
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Let’s not forget who shot the world’s first feature on a Canon DSLR. Dan Kanes. In January of 2009, Dan Kanes embarked on an epic odyssey of attempting to use the then-crippled Canon 5D Mark II to shoot a feature length film. With No support from Canon or any corporate entity, Dan Kanes fought against the camera’s inability to set direct manual control by using Zeiss lenses with proper manual aperture control, and carefully lighting a grey card and locking exposure for EACH SHOT. It’s all good and easy to claim you’re a pioneer and early adopter when you are receiving paychecks and preproduction camera samples from the massive corporate entity that is Canon. I feel sorry for anyone still using a 5D Mark II when it took them almost a year to release that manual firmware, and 18 months into the camera’s life cycle still haven’t released a 24 fps firmware that they announced months ago as damage control to avoid a hailstorm of criticism and customer rejection. They don’t have anything to worry about though because people are still wetting themselves for these HDSLR’s. Rant Off for today.