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Gizmodo – A Rare Tour of IMAX Cameras – IMAX cameras – Wow, this is absolutely fantastic – a rare look inside the IMAX camera department.
"There are 26 IMAX film cameras in the world today. At IMAX HQ, I got to play with 4 of them (and take plenty of photographs for you)."
Why the second coming of 3D is overrated – "The majority of films conceived in original three-tone Technicolor would be seriously diminished in monochrome, and vice versa. Films by those masters who used CinemaScope creatively are drained of their aesthetic essence when shown on the small screen. [But], no film made in 3D, even those that rely wholly on objects sticking out of the screen into one's face, has lost anything by being shown "flat"."
Interesting piece by Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. He makes a point of saying it's things that make production cheaper, like digital cameras, that make a genuine difference, rather than more expensive, like 3D. I guess the obvious question is what happens when pretty much every little digital camera for indie filmmaking can be cheaply adapted to 3D (RED are in the process of doing this) – if cinema goers start to expect that blockbusters and horror films, both genres I think where the 3D effect does make a substantive difference to the experience, will be in 3d then who knows?
By Ken Levine: If Aaron Sorkin wrote a show about baseball – More fantastic Ken Levine. I liked Studio 60 but there's no mistaking the Sorkin patter.