Panaflex User's Manual
- 3rd Edition - December 12, 2012
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Author: David Samuelson
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 7 1 9 - 0
The Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition, provides detailed instructions and illustrations on how to use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment. Developed in conjunction with… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition, provides detailed instructions and illustrations on how to use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment. Developed in conjunction with Panavision, this easy-to follow manual provides current, up-to-date information on all aspects of the most widely used camera system on major motion pictures in Hollywood.
Panaflex cameras and equipment have grown and developed with the film industry. Heavily illustrated, this book is the definitive guide for all users of Panaflex motion picture equipment.
Panaflex cameras and equipment have grown and developed with the film industry. Heavily illustrated, this book is the definitive guide for all users of Panaflex motion picture equipment.
Definitive guide for all who use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment.
Updated to include recent changes in equipment.
Detailed instructions and illustrations.
Updated to include recent changes in equipment.
Detailed instructions and illustrations.
All user of the Panaflex Camera System-directors, producers, directors of photography, and camera assistants.
Foreward* Introduction* Acknowledgments* The Film Producer's Panaflex* The Film Director's Panaflex* The Director of Photography's Panaflex* The Camera Operator's Panaflex* The Camera Assistant's Panaflex* Using Panaflex and Panastar Camera Accessories* The Sound Recordist's Panaflex* The Production Manager's Panaflex* Panavision Credits
- Edition: 3
- Published: December 12, 2012
- Imprint: Focal Press
- No. of pages: 318
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080927190
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David Samuelson
David Samuelson entered the British film industry in 1941 and has been a projectionist, a cutting room assistant, a film cameraman, a facilities company executive, a consultant on the technology of filmmaking, a computer program writer, and an author and lecturer.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a Fellow of the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society, a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a Member of the British Society of Cinematographers, and an Associate Member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
In 2005, he was awarded an Oscar statuette for engineering and co-developing the Louma Camera Crane and remote system for motion picture production, which has served as the inspiration for many subsequent remote camera systems. He was awarded the Special Commendation Award of the SMPTE for 'Outstanding Contributions to Motion Picture Technology' in 1978, the Presidential Proclamation Award of the SMPTE for "Continued support of the Industry on an International level and for his longstanding contributions as a writer and lecturer' in 1984, an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award of the AMPAS for the development of the Louma Camera Crane and remote control system for motion picture production in 1980, an Academy Technical Achievement Award for the 'Development of the Cinematographers' Computer Programs' in 1987, the Journal Award of the BKsTS in 1984 and the UNIATEC 'Prix de Literature Technique' in 1975.
Original inventions and developments include the video viewfinder for film cameras, the electronic remote control pan and tilt head, the Samcine Depth of Field calculator, the Samcine Inclining Prism, the Mitchell BNC/Front Projection conversion, the dSam Cinematographers' Computer Calculator, and the dSam Depth of Field Test Chart.
As a film cameraman he has filmed in more than 40 countries, shot four Olympic Games, and has lectured on various aspects of motion picture technology in more
Affiliations and expertise
Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society