158 Lenses?!

We usually use one lens to shoot something. We've explored the idea of shooting 3D with two lenses. But here's a story about a camera that uses 158 lenses. Check out the article via CrunchGear and think about what kind of cool image that would create!

A camera developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology has been certified by Guinness World Records to sport the most lenses in the world. The device has no less than 158 lenses. Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students built it to capture images of a swaying flame from as many angles as possible.

It took the team a total of six months to finish this monster. The lenses are attached in four rows on the body of the device, which is 7.2cm high and 47cm in diameter. Each lens costs $2.10.

The camera can also shoot 3D pictures of a flame by using CT technology. It received the Guinness certificate on November 24 already (but was on the news in Japan only today).

Always the Best

At Waymack and Crew, we're always trying to push the absolute best quality for everything we do, so if we don't "specialize" in something here, we find someone who does. Well, recently we shot a spot in Lubbock, TX for Deltapine, and we wanted to color the 4K footage for this client like no one else around can do. So, we brought in our good buddy Omar Godinez, of Filmworkers Club fame, to color the spot. He's now doing his thing on his own and brought his skill set to Little Rock for the day to help out. Here's some screen grabs from the spot. It was shot on the RED One and colored in Apple Color.

Production Pic of the Week

Agency: Stone Ward

Client: Baptist Health

YouTube Comes Through

I might be the only person in the world to say this....but I don't like YouTube. Let me rephrase...I don't enjoy YouTube like millions of people do. However, once in a while something shows up on YouTube that blows me away. Here is one of those "somethings".

We're Seeing Red

Dan Waymack's first shoot with the RED One camera system was with Michael Jordan. Since then, we've had countless clients request the RED as the camera used on set, so after too many RED rentals to count, we got our own. Everything just came in and we've got our first shoot with it scheduled for a week from today in Lubbock, TX. Here's a few shots showing the exciting unboxing.

(Pictured is Grip Extraordinaire, Seth Shelby)

Production Pic of the Week....late

Agency: Thoma Thoma

Client: Capital Hotel

No More DVDs?

Here's an interesting article on the possible future of your movie collection. Unfortunately I don't buy DVDs any more. I rent Blu-Ray discs through Netflix. So I'd definitely do this if a subscription fee was offered.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/disney-wants-yo.php