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  • July 6, 2026
  • 1 Min Read

RGB LEDs Are All the Rage

There have always been fads, in cinema like in everything else. Among the more irritating fads from a decade ago

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  • July 16, 2025
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Virtual Production: Is It Time to Ditch Green Screen?

To be sure, it’s a tantalizing idea. Directors don’t like it. Talent doesn’t like it. And most DOPs like me

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  • October 1, 2023
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AI and the Creative Process

Bad sound happens. New AI-enabled tools can help salvage it by Barry Braverman For cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and others involved

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  • March 28, 2023
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Is On-Board Camera Recording Dying?

With the advent of camera-to-Cloud recording, will in-camera recording media be relegated to the dust bin of history alongside the

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  • February 5, 2023
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Do We Still Need Green Screen?

With the advances in artificial intelligence, post-production rotoscope tools are now so good that some DPs are asking if we

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  • November 25, 2020
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Is Post-Production Our New Livelihood?

For the last decade, in the halcyon years before COVID, documentary, corporate, and other non-fiction DPs, were already assuming a

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  • July 3, 2020
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Mirrorless Cameras Come of Age

The elimination of the mirror box from DSLRs brings significant benefits to shooters, as evidenced by the raft of new

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  • December 20, 2019
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There’s an easier, better way to shoot HDR.

Increasingly, major players like Netflix and Amazon are demanding high-quality HDR masters, and DPs must respond accordingly. High Dynamic Range (HDR)

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  • May 25, 2019
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Can the iPhone Replace a $20,000 Camcorder?

With the introduction of Apple’s iPhone XR and XS models, the mobile do-everything wünderdeviceis are again drawing attention as a viable

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  • January 12, 2018
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Does the Continuously Variable ND Filter Spell the End of the Lens Iris?

The advent of the continuously variable neutral density filter (VND) raises an interesting issue: Do we still need a lens

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