25

ISSUE

JANUARY 2008

THREE AGES OF
CINEMATOGRAPHER
#14: CAMERA CREATIVE
OLIVER STAPLETON BSC
TALKS ABOUT HIS
CAREER AND RECENT
WORK ON THE WATER
HORSE AND HOW TO
LOSE FRIENDS &
ALIENATE PEOPLE

ALSO INSIDE
#13: CLOSE-UPS SPECIAL
BEHIND THE SCENES ON HARRY POTTER WITH STEPHEN
WOOLFENDEN AND MIKE BREWSTER

#16: SHOOTING THE FUTURE

LEADING DPs BRIGHTEN UP THE NEW YEAR WITH A
LOOK AT THEIR FAVOURITE LIGHTING GEAR

#18: PLUS CAMERIMAGE DIARY

IN SEARCH OF SPROUTS AND OTHER GOINGS-ON AT
THE 15TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF
CINEMATOGRAPHY

#20: MUNICH SPECIAL

ARRI IS 90 YEARS YOUNG, PLUS A LOOK AT THE
FILMMAKING SCENE IN BAVARIA

#36: FAMILY MATTERS

MEET THE HUMES, A FILMIC FAMILY IF EVER THERE
WAS ONE
RRP: £3.50
 UK post and techno

Apical launches new picture

enhancer
Imaging technology company Apical, a developer of
products that enhance the performance of electronic
imaging devices, including the very latest digital SLRs,
will launch a new real-time picture enhancer at the
Broadcast Live show on January 30th.

The new D-Rex LCP-100 incorporates Apical's Iridix advanced

Retina-Morphic Processing, which enables electronic devices
to “see like the human eye”. Iridix mimics the way the human Contrast: before and after shots show what the new D-Rex from Apical can do on HD footage
eye and brain compress the massive dynamic range of real-
world scenes, balancing contrast to retain a natural “artefact-
free” appearance. Iridix provides automatic adaptive technicians, can apply real-time, dynamic-range correction, Rex controls enable the correction of the underexposed and
adjustment of the tonal range in an image, enhancing deep non-linear chroma correction and sophisticated noise oversaturated area automatically, without affecting the
shadows and oversaturated bright regions, without affecting reduction on a wide range of SDI input sources. highlights. D-Rex is effective for situations where it is either
mid-tones or colour. difficult or inconvenient to achieve complete control over
D-Rex is a co-development between Apical, Storenet Inc and In a scene where highlight detail is well-captured, but the scene illumination at source. D-Rex supports real-time
Fuji Television Network Inc. Users, such as a DP or camera subject is underexposed and chroma oversaturated, the D- processing of sources up to 1080p.

Park Road Boosts DI

Rogue Element
opens at Pinewood
Digital film service provider Rogue Rogue Element also offers a Digital
Element Films has opened a new Film Camera business, based around
suite and 4K digital data lab at Viper Filmstream cameras running
Pinewood Studios based around a alongside S-Two data recorders.
Quantel 4K GenePool and Pablo
grading suite. "We are very serious about servicing
our clients requests both during
Explaining the decision to open at production and then into post
Pinewood, Ralston Humble, the production here at Pinewood. With high
company's DI editor said, “We have end data capture you can't just deliver a
recently been providing productions at series of hard drives, you need to follow
Wellington: Park Road's head of DI, Adam Scott, using Pablo on NZ short Taua Pinewood with our Viper FilmStream through with the digital lab process,
cameras and during the production delivering the formats that the
phase, it became obvious that large production requires", said Dan Mulligan,
Wellington's Park Road Post Production will soon have the biggest Digital amounts of online data support was MD at Rogue Element Films.
Intermediate infrastructure in New Zealand. The facility has added a second Quantel required.
4K Pablo suite to its current DI offering of the Quantel 4K Pablo, iQ, Pandora and "Being located at Pinewood at the start
Spirit Telecine. The new setup will improve workflow and enable Park Road to work With our Quantel GenePool we are able of this data revolution means we can all
simultaneously on several projects, with reduced timescales. The suites will be to offer this service right up to 4K here embrace the new working techniques
connected to and share 32Tb of storage, and projects can be moved between suites on site.” and share working practices. We're at
without the need to export or import data. the heart of the film making community
"We are confident that line producers in the UK and are very accessible to
Head of DI Adam Scott said, “Essentially we will offer maximum operation with minimum will reap enormous benefits in having both UK and International clients."
interruptions. Clients are a lot more techno-savvy nowadays and demand a better, faster, their 2K or 4K data managed securely
cheaper result. Since Park Road installed its first Pablo 12 months ago the following feature using our central GenePool storage. 2K To date, Rogue Element Films has
films have gone through the suite: Bridge to Terabithia, Lucky Miles, The Ten Commandments, and 4K Digital Dailies can be down- completed principal photography on the
Gun of Mercy, The Water Horse, 30 Days of Night, as well as New Zealand feature films The converted and recorded directly to motion picture Skin in South Africa, and
Tattooist and Rain of the Children. HDCAM SR for fast ingesting into Avid the company is currently involved in
or Apple Final Cut Pro editorial", he shooting and post production work on
Quantel is running stereoscopic 3D shows, in conjunction with Axis Films, at Shepperton added. two more HD feature films.
Studios, Middlesex on 25th and 26th January, 2008.

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