Things get busier and will keep getting busier. I meant to write about the Nikon D90 a few weeks ago, and how upset I am by its rolling shutter; the amazing new offerings from RED, and how masterfully they have abstracted the idea of a “camera;” and many other highlights from the cinema tech (cinematheque?) world. However, I saw a (not so recent) post on ProLost today that pulled me aside and gave me a stern, but loving, talking-to about going gaga over the ever-shrinking gap between prosumer video and professional celluloid.

Many videographers find their first experience with a 35mm lens adapter to be quite a cold splash of water. The images from these rigs can look amazing—but it just became a whole lot more work to make them even acceptable. Your system got a whole lot less agile, your solution more brittle. The ways to mess up a shot grew in proportion to the potential for greatness.

He goes on a for a good, long while about something I keep forgetting: the DOF, the resolution, the dynamic range are never as important as the overall quality of the experience. Read the whole thing. It’s all this good.

On a personal note, Mike and I are working on his NYU film and it’s coming along really nicely. I’ve noticed a very repeatable trend in our workflow: Mike comes up with a great idea; I write some things to make that idea unwieldy and almost always throw in some wordplay (I’m all about wordplay); Mike takes the stuff I've written and simplifies it, so that it will be watchable; Mike then composes shots that will make that simply powerful content look perfectly natural; I hold a microphone on a stick. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

More soon.