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		<title>25: Requiems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE All photos by D.W. Leitner I write this as Halloween looms once again, lining neighborhood stoops with scary pumpkins and pint-sized goblins targeting a sugar rush. Halloween is our Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, which Mexicans celebrate as an embrace of the role death plays in life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot Review: Sony PMW-500</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Operator side of new PMW-500. CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE A couple weeks ago at the first Vimeo Festival&#8212;a showcase of digital shorts based in the curvy, white-glass Frank Gehry headquarters of Vimeo&#8217;s parent company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, run by Barry Diller and trendily located near Manhattan&#8217;s Chelsea art galleries&#8212;I moderated a keynote discussion between two of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/10/21/shoot-review-sony-pmw-500/</link>
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		<title>24: To 3D or not to 3D, no longer the question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Large outdoor 3D display at Sony&#8217;s NAB booth in April. CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE All photos by D.W. Leitner Last November I wrote a column, EX3 x 2 = DIY 3D, about two talented and resourceful New Jersey filmmakers who fashioned a homebrew 3D rig from two Sony PMW-EX3s in order to film a striking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/09/09/24-to-3d-or-not-to-3d-no-longer-the-question/</link>
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		<title>23: LEDs and the Lit Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shadowstone&#8217;s Paul Distefano demonstrates ARRI&#8217;s compact LoCaster, with onboard selection of six color temperatures from 2800K to 6500K and continuous dimming. CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE All photos by D. W. Leitner NABâ€™s show floor last April signaled new directions in LED lighting. Iâ€™ll get to them below, but first a few thoughts on the evolution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/08/07/23-leds-and-the-lit-environment/</link>
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		<title>22: Mondo NAB â€™10, Large Sensors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upcoming Sony consumer camcorder with interchangeable E-mount lenses and 14.2 megapixel CMOS sensor. CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE NAB photos by D. W. Leitner unless otherwise indicated Announced just yesterday, May 11, half the world already knows about the NEX-5, Sony&#8217;s impossibly slim new HDSLR (in-depth review here) and upcoming AVCHD consumer camcorder based on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/05/14/22-mondo-nab-10-large-sensors/</link>
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		<title>21: Mondo NAB â€™10, PL-mount Primes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fast T1.4 Leica Summilux-C 21mm prime lens on a Canon EOS 7D modified for PL mount by BandPro Film &#038; Digital. CLICK PHOTOS TO ENLARGE All photos by D.W. Leitner Shrinking in the rearview mirror like a signpost whizzing past at 80 mph, April&#8217;s NAB pointed to no less than four approaching upheavals in production [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/04/30/21-mondo-nab-10-pl-mount-primes/</link>
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		<title>20: Sundancing Part 4, HDSLR Rebellion in Park City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Illya Friedman of Hot Rod Cameras at Sundance, previewing his prototype PL-mount adapter for Canon EOS 7D. Dual Grip Hand Held kit is in foreground. Photo D.W. Leitner Before the lights dimmed at each Sundance premiere this year, a ribbon of text resembling a CNN news ticker marched across the lower third of the empty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/03/30/20-sundancing-part-4-hdslr-rebellion-in-park-city/</link>
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		<title>19: Sundancing Part 3, In the Kingdom of Shadows with the Redoubtable Mr. Murch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[â€œWhat if Cinema had been invented 100 years earlier?â€? asks editor extraordinaire Walter Murch. Photo D.W. Leitner What if Cinema had been invented 100 years earlier, in 1789 not 1889? Who would ask such a question? If youâ€™ve read his ontological discourse on editing, In the Blink of an Eye, or novelist Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/03/12/19-sundancing-part-3-in-the-kingdom-of-shadows-with-the-redoubtable-mr-murch/</link>
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		<title>18: Sundancing Part 2, A Squeaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indie feature filmmakers set their calendars by Sundance. Most of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, at least since the sixteen century, with the notable exception of indie filmmakers, who follow the Sundance calendar. Sundance is so consequential to the career prospects of aspiring filmmakers that entire production schedules are calibrated to match the Sundance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/02/15/18-sundancing-part-2-a-squeaker/</link>
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		<title>17: Sundancing Part 1, Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wait-list line in front of the Eccles Theatre. Photo D.W. Leitner Sundance remains the preeminent festival for independent filmmaking anywhere. I ought to know. Iâ€™ve attended virtually every one since 1987. In past years Iâ€™ve written daily blogs from Sundance for Millimeter, but this year, with a dramatic feature in the New Frontier section (my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/leitner/2010/02/13/17-sundancing-part-1-reflections/</link>
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