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PL to Canon EF Mount Adapter

Matthias Uhlig and MBF Filmtechnik of Hamburg win the Ron Dexter Award for first to market with a PL Mount to Canon EF adapter. We just received one and are testing it in LA this week. Beautifully machined and very well made.

The long awaited PL-Adaptor for the Canon 7 D is now available  online:  http://www.filmlicht.de/de/Video/DSLR-Zubehoer/PL-Mount-Adapter-fuer-Canon-EOS-7-D.html

It works with the following lenses:
Angenieux Optimo 24-290
Arri Shift & Tilt Set
Canon Century 200/300 mm

No camera modification necessary

Price: 399,- € + tax and shipping.

Design your own Kata Bag

Can’t find that perfect camera bag or backpack to hold your new HDSLR, lenses, tripod, laptop and lunch? KATA’s Dream Bag Challenge invites you to design and submit it online. The winner will receive the bag of their dreams, hand made by Kata, along with a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR body, 2 Canon lenses, Gitzo tripod kit and a Litepanels Camera Light.

102,400 ISO and Canon White Papers

Although the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV isn’t available until later in December, you can start reading its Instruction Manual by downloading the PDF. ISO 102,400 (H3) sensitivity is on page 64. White Papers on CMOS Sensors and the major features of 13 Canon EOS cameras are also online.

Dedo Weigert Lighting Seminar at Abel

Dedo Weigert captivated a standing-room only crowd of filmmakers at Abel Cine Tech with an illuminating lecture and demo of his vast line of dedolight lighting equipment. The two-day seminar (Thursday and Friday, Nov 5 and 6) confirmed a long-standing mantra, and Dedo said it himself: “no matter how long you’ve been lighting, you can always learn more.”

I think Dedo was smiling at me when he talked about “New York and Hollywood filmmakers with their 40 foot trucks of available light — every available light, that is.” I’ve been a fan of his lights since he introduced them in 1984 (same year as the first Mac), but mostly had used them for product shots and effects. Learning from the inventor himself was another dimension. In a series of “here’s the scenario, here’s how dedolights can help” explanations, he demonstrated many setups: how to light a painting evenly with a light hung at a 45 degree angle from the ceiling (graduated ND filter/optical scrim for the light or assymetrical aspherical lens for a DLAD light), how to cut it precisely (his articulating barndoors), how to soften the edge of an eyelight, or how to evenly light a very wide wall in a very narrow room (use one of his wide-angle lens attachments). Dedo began building lights to address situations in his own day-to-day work as a cameraman, and like Ross Lowel, developed a large global company with incredibly innovative tools.

Laszlo and Vilmos Nov 17 on PBS

My lightmeter is bigger than your lightmeter

Cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs, ASC and Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC star in “No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,” a fabulous buddy movie, airing on PBS Independent Lens, Thursday, November 17 at 10pm EST and PST. (check your local listings). The documentary is a seat-of-pants great escape movie, as film students Kovacs and Zsigmond film the Russian invasion of Hungary, and get to the West with the smuggled footage. It’s also a road movie: the two friends make their way to Hollywood, where they help define the American New Wave. Directed by fellow cinematographer James Chressanthis, ASC, with commentary and appearances by a who’s who of colleagues, directors and actors with whom they’ve worked. Required viewing for anyone interested in film.