CML - Cinematography Information and Discussion

           

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Professional Cinematographers talk and exchange ideas & information about Cinematography.

The Cinematography Mailing List, was started by Geoff Boyle in 1996 so that 60 Cinematographers could talk about work. We now have 15 lists, 4 with over 3,500 members and 11 with over 2,500 members worldwide.

We added this website of edited pages in 1997, we now have over 3,000 pages of edited disciussions between cinematographers, their crews and equipment and facility suppliers.

CML has won awards from SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) BKSTS (British Kinematography, Sound & Television Society) BSC (British Society of Cinematographers) for outstanding contribution to education in Cinematography.

This site and the associated cinematography discussion lists are run and maintained by professional Cinematographers in their spare time. We have people helping with this in the UK, Canada, US, Australia and Germany, in order of time zones from server.

The aim of CML is to promote the free exchange of ideas among fellow professionals. Participants in these discussion are Cinematographers and their crew as well as representatives of all the main manufacturing and rental film & video/digital companies

CML has just published the "Little RED Book"

This book is an edited collection of conversation's during 2009 about ways to use the RED one and how to get around any problems you may encounter.

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Available as an A5 book or a PDF if you just can't wait!

 

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"There's something about Cinematographers, and the passion we bring to our work, that gives us a sense of being blood brothers. We have a love and admiration for each other, and a desire to help each other out"

Conrad Hall ASC

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Beginners and non-cinematographers are welcome to read any list but we'd be grateful if they kept their questions to the students cinematography discussion list.

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Sponsorship of CML

CML is maintained mainly by sponsorship, this sponsorship enables us to continue to grow and provide a continually expanding information service to all those involved in cinematography.

JPB of Aaton came up with the original suggestion of basing sponsorship on $1 per member per year. We have now outgrown this as we are too big now to justify this level of support and it's been fixed at $2,400 per year for the last 6 years.

For this a sponsor gets a logo on the web-site header which appears on all 3,000+ pages and a tag on every message posted via CML.

We sent out 33.4 million email messages in the last 12 months.

Because we have had a lot of people asking, we now have 2 levels of sponsorship, the original and a new reduced rate. The differences are clear on the tag-lines and the reduced rate appears less often on the web headings.

Our current sponsors are listed below please mail me if you want more info.

Panavision
Aaton
Cooke Optics
Fuji Film
Thomson GrassValley
Tiffen
Panansonic
BandPro
Arri
California-Sunbounce
Filmtools
Kodak
AbelCineTech
Element Technica

RED
StarkRaving
Lemac
     
Showreelfinder
SchneiderOptics
Lighttools
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