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At the Final Cut Pro User Group Meeting of Hong Kong ,  I introduced the Red One camera to the members. It was welcomed by the big number of members and many questions were asked on the operations of the camera, I just shared what I had experience during the two films I shot with Ringo's camera. We used a broadcast HD monitor and I started by showing off the Red camera test patterns and then the different ways of metering available, they were all interested in this new way of capturing moving image.

I used the Red one camera for a commercial, the whole commercial was shot at high speed  2K.
My focus puller used the laser rangefinder to check focus before taking a shot here. Instant playback created numerous laughter in the studio. The camera performed very well with no problems at all.

The short film that I had shot with Red was finished in editing and so I went on to try to correct the color using the famous software Color from Final Cut Studio 2, I found that was a very good experience and I was amazed at the quality that can be achieved with this software, I was using the 32 bit floating point in the color correction and enhancement.

The set up was a Mac Pro 8-core   2.8Ghz
with a Decklink HD extreme card and a Panasonic 17-in LCD monitor running with Final Cut Studio 2's Color.

I have been invited to take part as a speaker in an event called : DELF 2008 at the Cyberport.

There are workshops and 3-D movie content projected by the Dolby 3D system there. It turns out to be a very good learning experience for me.

http://www.ogcio.gov.hk/eng/pubpress/epr080408.htm

During the few days I have met Eric Brevik, director of the 3-D live action digital movie Jouney to the centre of the World 3D  and Steve Schklair CEO of 3eality who produced U2-3D and we discussed about the technical aspect and creative side of 3D movie production.

I began shooting 3d movie for a theme park in Thailand. I used the new Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 with the Digi primes, it is an excellent set up. It gave me very rich tones with excellent resolution and minimum distortion.

Before the shooting , every lens were checked for back focus differences with Sharpmax for each camera.

The tri-level sync worked out  on the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 perfectly.

 

I am very happy when I was told by my Singapore friends, My cinematography was mentioned in the review.
http://www.sinema.sg/2008/02/28/review-the-leap-years/
http://www.mediacorpraintree.com/TLY/

The trailer could be found in Youtube.

I was flown to Singapore for the Premiere and it is good to see some friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guPXicaw3po&feature=related

I had built  a new single lens reflex 3-d rig out of parts from the Sinar camera and syncing Canon cameras on it. it works okay.

I do need to have a bigger and better beam splitter mirror.

I did a day of shooting with sound walk.com  , they ask Shu Kei to be their host for this section of their progamme.

Just finished a shooting with the Red One camera. This is a short film by a Beijing Student. The owner of the camera wanted to thoroughly test the capabilities of this camera with this short short film.

Beijing was cold at -9 degrees in the evening and we are doing outside shots for a few MTVs.
I put down a cup of hot coffee on the dolly , turn around to do a shot, picking it up again to find it frozen, that is how cold it was. We used Sony F900 with Pro35 adaptor and Zeiss prime lenses on this one. My assistant was Lulu, a very keen learning one.

During Canon Expo, I presented my few months of work with Canon. A 3-D cinema was set up and showing a 3-d film Swan Lake on Ice in 3-D, with a making of video,  a 3-D photo exhibition, shot by Canon EOS5D cameras and printed onto A3 size of my 3-D A3 presenting frames, a 3-D workshop and a 3-D gift item photo booth.

Patty Keung Won The MTV competition with her MTV, Proud to be Chinese. We tested the new body mount with it too and Farini Cheung was also acting in it.

Joe Lau produced a MTV with Joey Yung and we shot in according to Joey, the most locations for a day with lighting set ups.

Recently I found a web site showing photos I took for Annie in Taiwan in 1993.
They were shot during a cold 14 days in March 1993 at Greece. The book was published with a pair of 3-d glasses too and the 3-D stills were shot by a pair of Canon cameras also.

Canon Expo is coming soon 23rd to 25th November , a lot of work, sleeping most of the week in the office , numerous still and video work.

Advertised in Ezone. Many friends called and said they saw me in Ezone. I was just helping a friend to promote his hard disk storage, he was one of the first man who worked with me using Premiere to edit.

Just shot a funny short film called Pirates of the Casbaa, using P2, captured afterwards in a Junk. Technology had advanced so much that we do edits and cuts and backups of HD on location easily.

My new rig being used on Swan Lake on Ice, the reason to design this is allow movement more easily for light weight cameras. It goes really well and the Sachtler 9+9 head is enought to handle this rig which weighed 45 kg with two Canon XL H1 cameras and accessories.

I also brought two of my simple 3-d monitors to Singapore to monitor the 3-d effects during the shoot.

Totally three days of shooting in Singapore. I brought three rigs and used all of them on different set ups. The performance of the Swan Lake was excellent and I am sure this is going to open a lot of eyes for 3-d lovers.

My new rig is done and cameras will be rolling soon, anyway , the basic stuff are all good.
One more rig , simple one will go too, and two 3-d monitors will be made today.