New Post: For the 12th year in a row, Angénieux honored a prominent cinematographer at the Cannes Film Festival. Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS received the Pierre Angénieux Tribute on Friday, May 23, 2025 in the Buñuel Theat fdtimes.com/?p=53121

New Post: BF is the new camera from Sigma. The name BF, from Beautiful Foolishness, was inspired by The Book of Tea, A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life, written by Okakura Kakuzō in 1906. This i fdtimes.com/?p=53184

New Issue: June 2025 – Cine Gear Edition, fdtimes.com/issues/june-20… 80 pages of news and new products in time for Cine Gear LA. Visit FDTimes in Stage 30, booth S3039-3 for free print copies. Print editions for subscribers and partners are in the mail. Subscr

New Post: The very first edition of Film and Digital Times appeared at Cine Gear Expo 2005. It was a 16-page newsletter at the beginning of the digital age of film with a 235 camera on the cover. Visit FDTimes fo fdtimes.com/?p=53261

New Post: The new DJI RS 4 Mini Gimbal Stabilizer almost seems color-coordinated with the new Sigma BF. It is an excellent choice for almost any camera system up to 4.4 lb. Here’s looking at you Sony a7 series, FX3, fdtimes.com/?p=53275

New Post: Preston Cinema Systems and RED Digital Cinema cameras now talk to each other. RED has added a new communication protocol in Firmware 2.0 that allows for even more devices to communicate with the camera fdtimes.com/?p=53473

New Post: This is a discussion about the making of F1 with the following cast of characters: - Claudio Miranda, ASC, Cinematographer on F1 - Dan Ming, First Camera Assistant / Systems Engineer on F1 - Nobu T fdtimes.com/?p=53565

New Post: The ARRI ALEXA 265 launched in December 2024. Here are some camera views from our  FDTimes February 2025 article. fdtimes.com/?p=53493

New Post: OCELLUS is the new camera tracking system from Sony. It consists of 3 parts: a sensor unit that sits on top of the camera, a processing box to calculate data, and lens encoders. OCELLUS is marker-free. fdtimes.com/?p=53464

New Post: NANLUX introduced the Evoke 5000B on February 12, 2025 in London. Powerful, IP66 weatherproof, this 5000 Watt LED fixture approaches the brightness of a 9kW HMI or 24kW tungsten light. “B” is for bi-col fdtimes.com/?p=53482

New Post: While waiting for GFX ETERNA, get ready for "More than Full Frame" imaging with the new 102 megapixel FUJIFLM GFX100RF camera. While FDT was calling it "Larger Format," and others referred to it as "Medium fdtimes.com/?p=53732

New Post: ARRI's new ALEXA 35 Xtreme will replace the regular ALEXA 35. It will cost the same. But it goes extremely fast, with slow motion speeds up to 660 fps. On the outside, the 35 Xtreme looks the same as ALEXA fdtimes.com/?p=53842

New Post: Elias Maria, BVK filmed NATURE OF SPEED with ARRI's new ALEXA 35 Xtreme slow-motion cameras, that "crank" up to 660 fps, on 69F foiling carbon fiber monohulls that sail up to 65 km/h.  That caught the atte fdtimes.com/?p=53854

New Post: Cinematographer Charles Bergquist has worked as a Phantom high-speed technician. "Without high-speed cinematography, we wouldn’t be able to glimpse these events, artistically or technically. Here, Charles fdtimes.com/?p=53895

New Post: Stijn Van der Veken, ASC, SBC was one of the first people to try ARRI’s new ALEXA 35 Xtreme with the new ARRICORE codec and higher slow motion speeds. "We all know what chopped vegetables look like when th fdtimes.com/?p=53980

New Post: Abraham Martinez was Cinematographer on Season 2 and Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer. fdtimes.us/IOP Here is an interview about his use of Angénieux Optimo Prime lenses. There are 12 lenses in the A fdtimes.com/?p=54036

New Post: And now there are 14 Leitz HUGO lenses. A beloved 40mm focal length joins the HUGO Series from Leitz Cine. In the beginning there were nine siblings in the HUGO family. They were descendents of beloved Lei fdtimes.com/?p=54054

New Post: Band Pro invites you to an evening with cinematographer Andy Rydzewski for a presentation on the art of the zoom. Andy's credits include Friendship, Pen15, and I Love LA.  There will be a recreation of one fdtimes.com/?p=54097

New Post: The 112-page Film and Digital Times PDF goes online here on September 12 at 10:00 am Amsterdam time. Go to fdtimes.com for in-depth articles about all the latest new cameras, lenses, lights and products. D fdtimes.com/?p=54121

New Issue: September 2025 – 112 Page Online Edition, fdtimes.com/issues/septemb… 80 pages of news and new products. Subscribers: Download and Print-Ready 37 MB PDF via login. Free Access: click below for 14 MB PDF Complimentary Edition. Set Adobe Acrobat Reader to 2-page view