Click Click Cameras

When it comes to moving pictures, I REALLY am partial to the HD Digital video phenomenon. It makes it possible to shoot beautiful projects like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and no one can tell they're not actually watching FILM (as in the real film that you put in a film camera as opposed to tape or digital media). The costs can be kept to a minimum and the workflow is sped up considerably. I don't even want to know how much CCBB would've cost if shot on film especially considering David Fincher's preference for multiple takes (read 20-30 takes) of a shot. Not a crack, he's on my short list of genius directors.

However, when it comes to still image I'm still partial to the old click click film image. I even refer to it like that ("I need a click click camera not a digi-cam"). There have been some great advances in digital imagery and like anything, you have to pay a lot for the best digital cameras to even come close to the grainy image you get with a regular click-click.

So now I see there's a new rehash of the old Russian Lubitel. Which I'm sure produces some beautifully grainy, Life magazine-esque shots.



If that's too intimidating, there's still the first "click clicks" that caught my eye recently, the Diana F clones that are available in all sorts of stylish colors and with special 35MM adapters and accessories.



They're all available over at Lomography and I'm going to be sure to put a healthy dosage of these on my birthday wish list. Perhaps one day I'll take my Bell & Howell Reflex (still looking for film for this thing), the Lubitel and the Diana out on the street. I'll capture some stuff with some cool people, mash it together and see what we get.

Back online...umm...I think so...!!??

Wow, we think we finally got all of the stars to align to begin "blogging" again. Of course, when we first started doing this, we had to explain it to people.

"It's like our journal, but it's online and other people can read it."

"Huh? You're letting people read your journal? You put it ONLINE??" They said.

"Well, yeah but it's not as invasive as it sounds."

"You're so crazy." They said

Flash forward 7+ years and everyone and their mama (literally) has a blog. LOL Thanks to the Blogger folks for making this a lot easier than it used to be. We spent a good three weeks on our old blogging software trying to get it right and still couldn't get the little details correct. (R.I.P. Noah Grey of Greymatter). One solid week crushing the code on Blogger and things are rolling, sorta kinda how I want them. Like we told our friend Free, we had to stop trying to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together and reach for a lighter.

We're so committed to this new blog, we deleted all of the old posts from the old blog...OK it was mostly out of frustration, but who's fact checking anyway:-)

Tonight is the SAG Awards, but we'll be spending many hours watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (finally) in a theater with an audience instead of the screening room thing I've come to be spoiled by:-(

Congrats to Fox Searchlight and The Slumdog Millionaire folks on their Producer's Guild Award.

Congrats to Nelson George, Chris Rock, Nia Long, et al for their special jury award at Sundance for "Good Hair" and Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique and all of the "Push" folks for their whopping three awards at The 'Dance. Two years in a row we miss the cold of Park City (even thought it was freezing in NYC) and two years in a row we miss out on big tings uh gwan. Arghhh! Next year! Next year! Next year!