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Leko standing in for follow spot, lashed to tripod head...! Always meant to have a yoke machined that had a flat bottom to mount a touch-and-go plate onto, never got around to it.

Get yourself a Leko. They are plentiful and cheap. A narrow lens will give you something close to a spotlight. Outside of that, the shutters make it an incredibly useful instrument as you can "box in" the beam without needing flags. Great for bounces, putting slashes on a wall. If you gotta go...

I have a lot of them! hard to know where to start... I bumped into Ron Livingston earlier this year for the first time since the movie wrapped in '98. He was at my local hangout with his family, his daughters and her friends had just had a school event (a game or a recital etc). We started...

Fantastic. I've done the same a few times, especially in the past 20 years as I largely stopped paying attention to new music and thus didn't recognize musicians when they were right in my face. I had a chat with a nice woman at a friend's bday a few years ago, she told me she was a musician and...

to add some of my favorites: Hells bells! The deuce you say! Well, wrinkle me right and call me a raisin!

I'd be flabbergasted if Hallmark was to ever spend the money again on shooting on film, so now the question is how did that not get noticed on the monitor--knowing their budgets, probably made the DP operate a camera and maybe no DIT, so then it's down to post to fix, and probably someone said...

gawwwwwd, that sucks. These kind of things are one of the many reasons I don't miss shooting film, honestly.

It took a bit to get through, yep! Car mounts (hood and hostess trays) were something I looked forward to as an operator, because you'd get everything dialed in, take one last check through the eyepiece then close it up and send them on their way while you took a well-deserved break!

He says, while including an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun that does not require one. [winking emoji]

Paul, your story above reminds me of an unwritten rule in LA--when you go see a movie, you aren't supposed to criticize it until you are two blocks away from the theatre, just in case someone who was involved with it hears you. I have pretty much reached "no f***s left to give" time of life so...

I forgot to include the dang picture to button the joke! Added above.

When I went to work on "Office Space", my first time talking to Mike Judge I instantly recognized his voice as a softer version of Hank Hill, with a little Beavis and Butthead around the edges. He would sometimes stand around set commenting on what was going on in those voices--if you happened...

I've had an inside perspective on Jar Jar almost since the beginning. I met Ahmed Best, the voice and mo-cap body inside Jar Jar, around 2001 through the theatre company I was peripherally involved with. We collaborated many times over the years--I directed him as an actor, I shot for him when...

Will definitely watch. I generally have a good time with shows that take place on set, although I have to say I wasn't too impressed with first episode of The Franchise.

Coffee is for closers!

Ha, I love that the first takeaway is that he makes a lot of toilet jokes! Well, they were actual stories from things that happened so, guess there was a lot of focus on poop in the 70's.

If you ever get a chance to try one at a trade show, let me know what you think. The issue I had with standard zoom Fuji and Canon controllers (and this is several decades ago now, so they may have improved) was that they tended not to activate from the very first nudge of the rocker, you had to...

That's amazing that the rocker on camera is virtually as good as a standard 2/3" lens. We've come a long way! Doug, have you ever had the opportunity to use a Preston Microforce as a rear zoom control vs the manufacturer's versions? It's been a very long time since I have but I did find the...

I would imagine you saw a modern restoration of the film,so many of the other artifacts typical of films of that era would have been minimized or eradicated--gate weave, dirt, scratches, density jumps in the image during opticals, plus pop and crackle from the optical soundtrack. They could...

I'll double down on this: this science is maths and thus incontestable on paper, sure, but the ultimate result of this is human perception and thus not solely scientific. What counts is what the image looks like to our eyes. HMI's are imperfect spectrum, as are fluorescents. Yet we shot with...