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Ask David Mullen ANYTHING

Good morning David,
I risk top ask you a question which I don’t even know if it makes sense, as far as it is based on an information I got from a friend who is not in this business.

About 8-10 years ago my friend visited the DP Alex Phillips Jr in Mexico City. During this visit Alex showed my friend a box and offered him to observe the environment looking thru an opening in the box. My friend was totally excited on the way he saw the lights of the environment. My friend told me that Alex said something like the following: “As experienced DP I always thought to know everything about lights. This was true till I got this box, because only now I know what light and lightening is about...”

Apparently there where strange collocations of internal mirrors, maybe some lenses also which collected and bundled the light-rays and gave an additional help for the DP to decide the where to put the lights.

Well, since years I try to find somebody who has an idea what this box could have been. My friend insists that he was not drunk that day :), actually he is a scientist in children medicine and works now for the WHO in Myanmar (Burma). So I kind of trust him.

Any idea what this box could have been?
Thanks
Istvan
 
istvanttt said:
About 8-10 years ago my friend visited the DP Alex Phillips Jr in Mexico City. During this visit Alex showed my friend a box and offered him to observe the environment looking thru an opening in the box. My friend was totally excited on the way he saw the lights of the environment. My friend told me that Alex said something like the following: “As experienced DP I always thought to know everything about lights. This was true till I got this box, because only now I know what light and lightening is about...”
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Sadly, Alex Phillips Jr. died earlier this year, so he might have taken the secret of the mystical magic lighting box to his grave...

Edit: On a somewhat lighter note, this sounds like a Borges story waiting to happen...
 
JasonMurphy said:
Sadly, Alex Phillips Jr. died earlier this year, so he might have taken the secret of the mystical magic lighting box to his grave...

Edit: On a somewhat lighter note, this sounds like a Borges story waiting to happen...
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Haha, I like the idea of a Borges story:)
 
what's your fav color pants?..
 
eheheh.. you've got me..
 
I don't want to get too non-digital cinema oriented in my posts here; since I'm shooting film on this one (3-perf Super-35 / Fuji) I might post about the shooting over at Cinematography.Com. Maybe when this forum is redesigned someday for a broader range of topics not specific to RED, I will consider posting some blogs about my film shoots.
 
David, what do you feel about the use of large cranes? (over 20 ft) Ones like the Jimmy Jib and so forth. Are they good high-impact shots or overused gimics?
 
David Mullen ASC said:
I don't want to get too non-digital cinema oriented in my posts here; since I'm shooting film on this one (3-perf Super-35 / Fuji) I might post about the shooting over at Cinematography.Com. Maybe when this forum is redesigned someday for a broader range of topics not specific to RED, I will consider posting some blogs about my film shoots.
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David, your participation here is one of the draws for many of us to this forum. I hope you will help us expand the number of topics and industry-related folks who post here.
 
The RED folks said they'd re-design the forums once the camera was released, so hopefully there will be a forum for "in production" or something.

Cranes are fine when you need a crane shot. There are limits to using jibs as cranes unless they have remote heads on them (like a Jimmy Jib) -- it's awkward to use a fluid or geared head on a jib when it rises high enough that the operator has to climb a ladder at the same time.

My favorite is a telescoping remote head crane like a Technocrane.
 
david, have you ever used a libra head?
 
No, I don't think I've used these lenses. I seem to recall some old Schneider C-Mount lenses for 16mm that I used in film school...

In 35mm, I've mainly used Zeiss and Primo (Leitz) primes, Cooke & Angenieux zooms. In HD, Fujinon and Canon zooms, Zeiss DigiPrimes, and Panavision Digital Primo zooms and primes. In Super-16, some older Zeiss primes, Canon and Zeiss zooms. A few oddball lenses.
 
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