July 14th, 2010
The south of France gets the Y5 treatment by brothers Eugenio and Jacopi Manghi who explore in super slow motion the traditions of La Course Camarguaise which calls young raseteurs to enter an arena and remove rosettes from a bulls head. This cultural celebration dates back to the 1890s from even earlier traditions, and it combines the region’s interest in bullfighting with a nonviolent competition.
May 20th, 2010
“I never wanted to be a news cameraman, I honestly, I never wanted to be in this business, I, actually I am an architect.”
Everyone has a different story detailing their entrance into the art and business of cinema. For some it started as an unscratchable itch in childhood, becoming a lifelong ambition–yet for many of these, the itch is never eased and they never make the final cut–for others it was only after following a labyrinthine path of chance and coincidental necessities, stringing them along until planting them in the foothills of Hollywood. For Checco Varese, Director of Photography on the upcoming film Georgia, the path was more the latter, but like all whose lives place them far from their once-imagined futures, it is often the ostensibly unrelated knowledge comprising their own childhood itch which forms the unique lens through which their work is illuminated. Read the rest of this entry »
April 23rd, 2010
After successfully entering the world of film with our general high speed cameras, IDT has moved to develop tools specially designed for the medium. Recognizing the 2010 NAB Show as the ideal venue for announcing it’s line of cinema grade cameras, of which the HDiablo is currently paramount, the company traveled to Las Vegas for three days of business at the expo.
April 10th, 2010
After years away, IDT returns to Las Vegas as a participant in the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show. Following a successful integration of our cameras into the advertising, cinematic and sports media, IDT has used the feedback to design cameras specially suited for the changing needs of the entertainment and broadcast industries.
Included on display will be the legacy camera used to film the high speed scenes in the Academy Award winning film The Hurt Locker, as well as cameras part of IDT’s continuing effort to offer creative professionals the perfect high speed cameras for their slow motion needs.
Any attendees interested in learning about the exciting directions IDT is taking high speed should be sure to visit booth C8449 to ask about how IDT continues to affect the future of digital cinema and see it themselves.
