The Wilderness Downtown

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The Wilderness Downtown

If anyone hasn't seen this, check it out. It's a pretty mind blowing blend of video and artistic programming. 

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http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Apparently this has been floating around Facebook for awhile now but as I'm one of the few Facebook holdouts remaining, I'm the last to know. If this little bit of web goodness is old news to you, kindly disregard. I think it's pretty cool though. 

Foundations of Stereoscopic Cinema

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Foundations of Stereoscopic Cinema

As the title suggests, Lenny Lipton's book pretty much forms the foundation of what's become the modern science of stereoscopic motion pictures. It's a heavy read and I'm getting through it slowly but it's fascinating. This text has long been out of print but fortunately for anyone interested, it's available for free download:

http://3d.curtin.edu.au/library/foundation.cfm

The Stereoscopic Displays and Applications organization has some additional texts on stereoscopy here:

http://www.stereoscopic.org/library/index.html

Great Overview of Phantom HD Gold Operation

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The Phantom HD GOLD High Speed Digital Cinema Camera from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

Tom Guilmette has created this nice video walkthrough of Phantom HD Gold operation with the on-camera controls. Usually when I use the camera, I'm at my cart tethered to it with the laptop because it's less intrusive on the camera department for me to interface remotely. Sometimes though this is impractical and you've got to get your hands on it. I've found usually if I'm having problems with the black reference when interfacing remotely, doing it from the side of the camera instead will fix the issue. That's the thing about the Phantom, it's a little buggy no matter how you work with it and at some point, I'd like to create a list of consistent problems I've identified and their work throughs. Save that for another day.

He also has this useful blog post accompanying the video available here:

http://www.tomguilmette.com/wp/my-blog/archives/3403

It's content like this that's most valuable to video users of all skill levels the world over. Once you've landed your first Phantom gig, it's nice that now there's a great resource available to walk you through its basic operation. I wish something like this had been available when I did my first shoot.