Technical stuff

The IMAGO Technical Committee invites you to view Alfonso Parra ADFC’s tests of the Sony FX9 Camera. Alfonso is renowned for conducting an honest testing regimen that showcases a camera’s capabilities, demonstrates its strengths, and shows how far he can push the limits of a camera. The Sony FX9 camera tests presented by Alfonso and his colleagues demonstrate the balance of technical and creative artistic performance in the Sony FX9.

Learn about the Venice X-OCN-based workflow for this spectacular new show via interviews with Cinematographer James Friend, ASC, BSC, DIT Will Clements, Colorist Greg Fisher, and the post-production team.

With the advent of digital cinema cameras two decades ago, options for previewing creative looks on-set have steadily grown. Venice users now have arguably the best options through a new collaboration between Sony and Technicolor.

The mixing of 14.4V and 26V V-Lock batteries in rental companies is causing more and more problems. With a real risk of over-voltage on cameras, chargers and accessories! The simplest and most efficient solution is developed by Gen Energy.

Arri offers a whole line of accessories for Orbiter, and many updates.

The French series "Lupin" is a worldwide phenomenon. Ranked number one on Netflix in more than ten countries, the ten-episode series revisits Maurice Leblanc’s French literary character of Arsène Lupin - Gentleman Burglar, but is set in the Paris of today, rather than in1905 when the original stories were written.

Born in the mid-1960s in German-speaking Switzerland, Thomas Hardmeier spent his entire youth in a village named Küsnacht, which in German means “night kiss”. The name must have delighted Freud’s disciple Carl Gustav Jung. As almost everyone knows, Jung attached major importance to dreams and, as fewer people know, had lived in Küsnacht and died there a few years before.

"Devs" is one of 2020’s most critically acclaimed TV shows; a stunningly beautiful 4K HDR production for FX Networks. The eight-part miniseries is a philosophical and intelligent exploration of determinism and individuality or free will—what it is to be alive—and how technology is shaped by humanity’s emotional need and input.

Large-Capacity battery runs Arri SkyPanel S60 at maximum power for 2.5 hours.

The first fully accessorized, broad color spectrum LED fixture with award-winning MIX® Technology in a portable, versatile handheld form factor.

We congratulate the whole team of "Lupin" and the production company Gaumont on the well-deserved success of the series, released on January 8.

Shooting at more than 1,000 frames per second (shutter at 180 degres) is a headache for the light, especially when filming flying insects and other butterflies: it is impossible to use powerful HMI sources without burning the insects and no Led source is powerful enough. We have tested with Eli Lévé, at Next Shot rental company, Dedolight Lightstream projectors and this technique has solved the difficulties.

The Imago Technical Committee and Sony are pleased to announce that after several meetings at IBC exhibitions, one of the requests from the cinematographers, DITs and colorists community gathered by the Imago Technical Committee (ITC) in its latest survey has been fulfilled by Sony’s Japanese engineers.

Since Leitz, in 2011, released the complete range of Summilux-C lenses – which, four years later, was given the Scientific and Engineering Award® by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – cinematographer Michel Amathieu, AFC, has practically always used them whenever possible. Consequently, when he got involved with the Netflix series "Gone for Good", he immediately offered director Juan Carlos Medina to test the new Leitz Prime wide-format lenses which open at T: 1.8. Both men were so enthralled by those first tests that they did not even try other lenses.

Gen Energy is a South Korean manufacturer of high-end batteries. Based near Seoul, the company started its activity around CCTV camera optics, then developing its own cameras as an OEM.

SAS Damien-Vicart, pioneer in the use of drones for aerial photography in France since 2008, had the chance to be involved in this shooting. There were several shots, simple in appearance, but which required a great deal of precision.

Aering speaks about the Shotover K1 stabilized camera head, its accessories and flexibility.

Designed for professionals that push boundaries with the quality of their videos, this 7-inch screen elevates the image captured by any HDMI or SDI camera to new levels. With a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and a peak brightness of 3000nits, Shogun 7 is the ultimate all-in-one video production tool for creative storytelling.