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            • Alistair Oldham
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            • Dr Gillian Swanson, Associate Professor
            • Estella Tincknell, Associate Professor
            • Dr Sherryl Wilson
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            • Bristol Vision Institute, University of Bristol
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            • Digital Cultures Research Centre
            • Film and Television Studies Research Group, UWE
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            • Afrika Eye/Zimmedia
            • Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival
            • IMAGO: European Federation of Cinematographers
            • Royal West of England Academy
            • Knowle West Media Centre
            • Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
          • Affiliate Independent Researchers & Artists >
            • Andrew Buchanan
            • Mark Cosgrove
            • Caroline Norbury, Visiting Professor, ACE, UWE
            • Peter Donebauer
            • Charlotte Humpston
            • Andrew Kelly, Visiting Professor, ACE, UWE
            • RIk Lander
            • Dr Ben Sherriff
            • Deborah Weinreb
            • Lucy Williams
        • Glow
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A VERBATIM HISTORY OF THE AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Online Video Resources

'Digital is CMOS, Analog is CCD. The elegant compressions of wavelets combined with more economic data and energy strategies of CMOS got us over the hump into this new area of production' - Scott Billups.

'The true test of the effectiveness of a codec to an artist was - how does it look?. I've never really liked anything that I've seen that was Discrete Cosine Transform compressed, whereas wavelet-based compressions give us beautiful effective result' - Dave Stump'

Below, you can access a series of video interviews around high resolution aesthetics and technologies. I am interviewing a wide variety of people in an attempt to construct a picture of what is forming the new aesthetic. Further below, related links and articles.
 
Stephen Lighthill ASC, President of the American Society of Cinematographers 2012
Roberto Schaefer, ASC, Los Angeles 2012
Yuri Neyman, ASC, Los Angeles 2012
Geoff Boyle, Founder of Cinematographers Mailing List, UK, 2008
Art Adams, San Francisco, 2008
Steven Gladstone, New York, 2008
Mitch Mitchell, Head of Digital Imaging, Cinesite, London, 2011
Mitch Gross, Applications Specialist, New York, Part 1, 2010
Mitch Gross, Applications Specialist, New York, Part 2, 2010
David Stump and Scott Billups 1, Los Angeles, 2008
David Stump and Scott Billups 2, Los Angeles, 2008

A visit to Chater Cameras, John Chater, Berkeley California, 2012

A visit to Redgate, Ben Graham and Noah Weinzweig, Beijing, China, 2010
John Clark, UK, 2007
James Shepard, UK, 2007
Peter Giles, UK, 2007
Tom Jones, UK, 2007
Professor Amanda Beech, CalArts, California 2012
Robert Cahen and Chris Meigh Andrews, 2011
Steina and Woody Vasulka, New Mexico, USA (shot in UK), 2010
Lee Wells, New York City 2010
Professor Sean Cubitt Part 1, Australia (shot in UK), 2009
Professor Sean Cubitt Part 2, Australia (shot in UK), 2009
Grahame Weinbren, New York City, (shot in UK), 2007
Chris Meigh Andrews - Is there a Digital Aesthetic? 2007
CameraImage interviews with Cinematographers
 
Also: Architects, Data Engineers, SFX Artists, Camera Designers, Colourists, Directors, Costume and Set Designers
Verbatim History of Analogue Video

A symposium that discusses the effect of digital technologies on cinema production and contrasts the language of academics and professionals:

The Look From Capture to Display: Digital Cinema Aesthetics and Workflows. 2011

ONLINE VIDEO RESOURCES ON THE AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF DIGITAL MOTION IMAGING