Lenses

Michos Takes On Music and Dance for Langston Hughes’ Memoire Black Nativity

Mon, 09/30/2013 - 16:08 -- Nick Dager

Music and dance are a big part of the contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ holiday musical drama, Black Nativity. It follows Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen from Baltimore as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged grandparents.

DP Jon Nelson Pairs Sony 4K CineAlta Digital Cinema Camera with Fujinon Cabrio Lens

Wed, 09/25/2013 - 12:28 -- Nick Dager

Director of photography Jon Nelson, owner of Production Hero in Orange County, California, recently acquired a new Fujinon PL 19-90 Cabrio (Model ZK4.7x19) Premier PL Mount cinema-style zoom lens

Working Lean and Mean with the Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera

Wed, 09/18/2013 - 12:34 -- Nick Dager

It was a challenging assignment even for a veteran shooter of car commercials. A major ad agency for a leading automaker asked cinematographer Dana Christiaansen if he could shoot three full commercials in 48 hours on the streets of Atlanta. The spots would include nighttime car-to-car photography of a moving vehicle, close-ups of a celebrity spokesman at the wheel and scripted vignettes. Christiaansen’s solution was to rely on the Canon EOS C300 digital cinema camera.

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