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ALIASING
←to glossary index SEE ALSO: ARTEFACTS, MOTION BLUR ALIASING is a phenomenon that can occur during any form of SAMPLING that in digital image processing can lead to picture ARTEFACTS. The diagram shows...
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YCbCr
←to glossary index SEE ALSO: CHROMA, LUMA, RGB, SUBSAMPLING Correctly written Y’CbCr or, in analogue video YPbPr. Y’CbCr is a component video system which represents RGB colour space in a...
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YUV
←to glossary index SEE ALSO: YCbCr, RGB, LUMA, CHROMA YUV refers to a colour transmission system where the LUMA is encoded separately from two colour components, U and V It is often used in computing...
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SUBSAMPLING
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: BIT or “Chroma Subsampling” A means of reducing the amount of data required to store or transmit a video picture by sampling CHROMA less frequently than LUMA....
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TIMECODE
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: GENLOCK; TIMEBASE; METADATA; DROP FRAME Information recorded alongside the picture detailing the time (either real time or an arbitrary reference time) each frame is...
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SPHERICAL LENS
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: ASPHERICAL LENS, ACHROMATIC A lens with a surface that has the form of part of a sphere, i.e a constant radius. While a spherical lens surface is much easier to grind and...
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Black Magic Camera vs 5D
The new Black Magic camera looks interesting. Price-wise it is cheaper than a Canon 5D but seems to blow it away for moving picture quality. I found this amazingly thorough side-by-side comparison on...
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COLOUR BIT DEPTH
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: BIT, SUBSAMPLING “x-BIT” when used to describe a camera system refers to the colour BIT-DEPTH of either the internal processing or the output video format – they are not...
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ACHROMATIC
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: LENS ABERRATIONS, LONGITUDINAL SECONDARY SPECTRUM, APOCHROMATIC Meaning “without colour” – a black and white image is an achromatic image. Usually used with regard to a...
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QUBIT
←to glossary index ALSO SEE: BIT, BOOLEAN LOGIC A QUBIT is a “Quantum BIT“ The QUBIT has the same two states as a classical BIT, 1 / 0, on / off, etc. However, it also has the ability to be a...
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GTC – Studio Camera Operating
Working mainly on location shooting factual and drama stuff I haven’t spent all that much time in TV studios so it was great to get this opportunity to get a grounding in studio camera and specifically...
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Focus Puller “Mission Statement”
Click for focus puller credits My first focus pulling job was in 1998 on a short film on an Arri 3 and I was terrified. No dailies and no experience to tell me whether we were getting we what thought...
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Band4Hope
These guys moved in next door to Productionshed for a month – they are two really cheerful people who have put this not-for-profit idea together. You buy a quite smart looking, ethically produced,...
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Films are just tooooo long!
I went with my girlfriend to see Skyfall at the weekend which, unusually for my experience of “blockbusters” these days, I enjoyed. We were helped along by a thermos full of ice cold Martini, very dry...
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Motion Picture Lens Database
My friend Richard Bradbury has put this together – a pretty exhaustive list of all the physical characteristics of the lenses out there. I’ve stuck it as a bookmark on my phone and use it to refresh my...
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Friend of the ACO
The Association of Camera Operators represents the great and the good of British operating cameramen. We have such a great history of brilliant operators and so many around now, and I think operating...
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Productionshed – Studio and Camera Packages
I am involved along with a couple of other cameraman types with this little studio in Hackney and can provide really good deals on studio space, camera and lighting packages. I’m particularly...
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Red II
I have been working recently on Red II the Bruce Willis / John Malkovitch / Anthony Hopkins / Helen Mirren “action vehicle” which has been great fun. Don’t want to breach the NDA so won’t say too much...
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The Ultimate DSLR Package
ULTIMATE DSLR SHOOTING KIT – £750 / day Canon 5D MKIII / 7D DSLR Film style bars / matte box / follow focus / batts TV Logic / Small HD monitor Cartoni / Satchler tripod; Monopod; Micro dolly Canon L...
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Spitfire vs Range Rover
Just seen this, I worked on it earlier in the year. Great fun. The car was all very well but the Spitfire really does spit fire as that 2000HP Merlin engine starts up. Awesome. Also, we had F65s out on...
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