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What sort of person, especially one as busy as Philip (according to him working 90% of the year abroad) decides to contact a multi-million dollar company to ask them if he can help promote their product for free??   >Dear Adabe,   UR CS6 is bretty gud, I Philip Bloom would like to film a video review and do an interview FREE OF CHARGE to halp your trillian $$$ company promote ur softwear. Thanks P.Bloomy.   Not only that, if it were Adobe that contacted him who in their right mind would tell such a big company that you'd do it free of charge? Philip is a business man and a busy one at that, he's not going to do something for free for his time and effort.   Sure his reviews gets people to visit his website, but his other reviews don't end in logos or interviews from the company of the product he's reviewing.

regarding long life RED SSD look at this picture below. RED uses usual SSD drives in their proprietary overpriced mags  :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/91573748@N08/8309061458/in/photostream/  

I'd rather talk about cameras.

I remember walking round some of the set for the Fifth Element at Pinewood when I was there working on a shoot for a commercial. Quite a while ago now. Personally I like the work of both Andrew and Philip. Spend more time here than at Bloom's site. It's amazing how his whole celebrity status blew up. They say there is no such thing as bad publicity. Hopefully this little spat will drive more people to this site and people will discover the quality articles. And the warm friendly group of contributors here!

@BurnetRhoades   Loved The Fifth Element... especially the art direction... it's like they lifted the look & story right out of the magazine Heavy Metal.  (I've been a subscriber for over 24 years).   Congratulations on a job well done, and thanks for sharing your insights!

Can't we calm things down here? Who cares who knows what it's what we can do as a forum that counts and all you guys bring stuff to the table. Lets stop bitching and work together.

  Yeah, I met him at the Floston Paradise party at Cannes the year The Fifth Element opened the festival.  One of the many great experiences associated with that film.  Luc and Gaumont got us all invites, those of us interested in attending Cannes.  Like when he booked the Cinerama-Dome to give us an exclusive screening of the film when Columbia either failed to have a crew screening or didn't invite the FX team.  He's cool like that.         Who are you talking to?  Yeah, I know...     ...my FB album with stills from the actual film...         ....oh, or did you mean to pose that as a question?  Yes.  Yes I do like working with actors.  They seem to like working with me too.       edit: here's the PV topic where I outline more about the latest film, including a bunch of behind-the-scenes videos shot by one of my PAs...I posted it there rather than here, I dunno, at the time I wasn't feeling like most of the prevailing voices on the forum here would be interested...

    A VFX lurker that has two fully independent narrative feature films under his belt in worldwide commercial distribution.  How many have you done?  How many has PB done?  On top of more than a decade's experience creating work that's been nominated or won multiple BAFTA and Oscars in his field, among others.   I don't like whipping it out, but I'll whip it out to bitch slap a douche bag.

Darn. I've always hoped to be the first person to really "go at it" with an anamorphic/TS combo. You beat me to it. Good luck!

http://www.arri.com/camera/digital_cameras/technology/arri_imaging_technology/alexas_sensor.html   That explains a lot- very cool.

Did you find a way to turn peaking on and off with a button, while keeping it in manual focus mode? That would be handy!

  I'd say Standard Digital video in the era of the VX1000 preceded the practical use of DSLRS for video...the quality of the preamps just declined and high level production required double system.   DSLR brought with it even more limitations like with audio metering, so it forces people to look outside the camera for solutions.  Meanwhile, if you're weren't a one man army, there were better tools on the market, but it becomes a matter of budget. A working cinematographer/filmmaker needs the most versatile tools possible.

ikonoskop is example that camera is more than just tech numbers ...