𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆. And another one in the can and out the door. Up early for last QC and verify with some warm bean fluid. HDR and SDR looking spicey. Next one is an experiential film wrapping late August for selected theaters, but slowly been working on that since earlier in the year, R&D phase was interesting, more on that later. After that, I'll have availability come September. #cinematography #filmmaker

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆. Congrats to the @nyknicks all the way from Laker land! Tough and surprising series, well earned.

𝗧𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. Experimental rigging. I need all the power.

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁. Cine Gear was a tornado, not just the show, but the couple weeks leading up to it. Lost my voice on Sunday after the show. I am no longer deep frog man glitch voice, just raspy air expulsions now. Had a busy meeting week, which made each call a bit wild with a voice that 50/50 wouldn't work. Anywho. While on the Universal Studios Backlot I stepped away from the crowd a few times to enjoy stomping foot in quieter corners in between booths, alleys, and stages. Last major feature I worked on there was a couple years back, but this lot was also apart of the earliest days of my career, so a lot of love and nostalgic feels when I'm back there. I lways enjoy the hidden fresnels inside the building facades and secret outlets everywhere. This peculiar powered plumbing decision is one such sighting. Now the mogul stands use LED bulbs, but I do miss the big 1000 watt incandescent bulbs that lurked randomly about on these rolling stands, threatening to blow up with even a single drop of rain, which I've witnessed. But alas, safer days and lower power draw prevailed. #cinematography

𝗣𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲. Mastering and delivering, then onto the next. #cinematography

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝟯𝟲𝟬 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮. Announced officially today. I've seen it a few times well earlier in the year, but now I get to tinker and go deeper. For me, this is an interesting vision of a compact gimbal travel or action camera. Two 8K sensors, main camera (18mm full frame equiv.) being a 1" and the zoom being a 1/1.13". And the zoom is the story with up to 6X "lossless" zoom for around a 60-120mm equiv. field of view. Both lenses are a collaboration with Leica, and they are impressive for small glass and a small pixel pitch. Another fascinating feature is the detachable remote/monitor/microphone. Neato mic implementation on the post and controller, buy many will attach the Mic Pro or similar for better quality sound. Image quality is decent, but doing those tests now. I come from a world with larger and very advanced sensor technology as well as better codecs. For me, this is much more about being a BTS in a pinch camera with some features that will sneak into some of my professional work perhaps. Lots more going on here, but I'll share an interesting thought. There is likely a desire and demand for a larger sensor, certainly larger display/touch screen, and a slightly larger single post gimbal. I've been shocked that we haven't seen this yet for many years, but this is such a complete package from image to sound connectivity, that it inspires that want. Some quirks, but overall impressed with all it can do. #cinematography #insta360

𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝟯. A young boy in Southern California who grew up on the spoonfulls of nector from the filmmakers in the 70s, 80s and 90s stepped into a theater the summer after making his first short film, saw dinosaurs come to life in a theater at the Fallbrook Mall, full of adreline, curious, inspired, then embarked on a journey to learn how to conceptualize, draw, write, design, sculpt, 3D model, animate, light, composite, make sound, photograph, and direct with a growing magnetic attraction towards a profession in motion pictures and entertainment. I got my first professional crack at it about 4 years later at the age of 17 stepping onto my first feature film set and it only made me want to do it more. So I did, and so it continues. Jurassic Park was the shove I needed to commit and fortunately the industry provided tremendous opportunities to learn from the best, grow, progress, and continue to create. And yes, I still have that ticket.

𝗠𝗔𝗫 𝗕-𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹. Busy meeting day here at rancho-de Phil. A snippet of a long river run from the helicopter when I was filming for IMAX's Asteroid Hunters. An absolute joy to experience these shots on the giant screen. Nearly everything I shoot for IMAX has been on prime lenses. Something I set out to do a long, long time ago. Also, stray preproduction thought from today. Pack extra shoes. #cinematography #aerial

𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝗪𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱! A shout out to the Cine Gear and Universal Studios crews for putting together one of the smoothest Cine Gears in recent years. Great show, great people, great gear. The evening appropriately wrapped up at @the__asc with conversations and laughs. I'll be going through this camera roll from the last few days for a bit to gather some thoughts, but to all who said hi, good to see and/or meet ya. Lots of crew and friends roaming around the backlot warmed my sun bathed noggin. Glad to have made time in the evenings for hang out happenings with peeps. Met a good chunk of new-to-me filmmakers and enjoyed learning of the journey and passions. I'll be hitting a few of the post show events today, Sunday. Good times for sure.

𝗡𝗶𝗦𝗶 𝟱𝟬𝗺𝗺 𝗧𝟭 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝟭. In the tornado before Cine Gear 2026, I was fortunate to have the single prototype of their upcoming ultra high speed prime. These are wide open at T1 on RED V-Raptor [X] 8K VV. Center frame is a crop in. Impressive performance and low chromatic aberrations wide open. Digging T2 and T2.8 too. Did some more stress tests on this and a few other upcoming lens releases. Will be sharing more of that shortly. Cheerios. #cinematography #lens #glass

𝗦𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗥𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗼 𝟲𝟱. Announced and under development is Sony's first foray into Medium Format Digital Cinema Cameras offered as a new camera head for use on Venice II camera bodies. A big sensor with a maximum format size of 53.75x35.83mm and an image circle of 64.60mm. I have added some relevant frame extractions/formats/crops for common aspect ratios to phfxtools. 36x24mm comes out to 6.4K and common wide screen aspect ratios come in around the 60mm-ish image circle. Lots of new emerging medium format/65mm glass sprouting up now. Somewhat timely. #cinematography

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱. Fundamental forces operating at different scales bind you.

𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

Fairly excited to see this new breed of @nvidia N1X chips inside @Windows Laptops and compact Desktops. But already curious how it can play a roll in motion picture & gaming industry workflows and potentially what a 2-4X larger chipset could do considering the power efficiency.

𝗪𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀. Their transmissions and emissions are poweful.

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁. Been a minute since I did some industry rambling, so here are my Sunday absolutely nerdy tech filmmaker musings while I test dual 5 and 10 gig in practical use. I tested 50 and 100Gbps here late last year, but next realistic bump will be 10Gbps, perhaps two lines in tandem. I work in MB/s mentally. I've been on 5 gig for a while, which tops around 625MB/s. 10 gig = 1150MB/s, 20 gig mo fasta, but likely unneeded. For filmmakers and studio friends, the big transition has been moving from sending drives everywhere when we hit 1 gig long ago last decade, and now the majority of dailies, RAW footage, and finals are shipped via the web. Even uncompressed 16-bit high resolution material, full feature length projects. Drives delivery still happens however, but extraordinarily rare these days for my clients. Mostly reflecting on times working with earlier days of digital, web, and even film. Hand delivery via courier, sometimes hopping on international flights with highly sensitive material for unreleased projects or even technology. If you have transported O-Neg on a plane to a lab, you know the importance of that 1 of 1 baby to deliver. Though encrypted drives help solve some concerns, it doesnt solve all. But, it is nice having a secure transfer between two parties and being relatively worry free as long as you both are doing things right. Smooth as glass and fast, which is notable in a world of tight delivery windows and highly demanding deadlines. I'm documenting my workflow on my current project, fairly in depth, will likely make a concise writeup. Not too new, but as always, evolving.

𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸. Don't fret, there is another one soon, but until then enjoy the full moon. *howls towards sky (full moon is Sunday, wicked early in the AM) #aerial #cinematography

𝗧𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Occasionally my stray thoughts drift into decking out my body in aircraft signs with key and comical placement. It could be a vibe.

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗮𝗻. Hump, Pump, Whump, and Wacky Wednesday synergies were already taken, so going with wetter and more watery. But in all honesty, this waterfall provides the exact level of release and relaxation needed midday today while chewing on a few decisions and considerations.