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I don't see why this "Could change film forever". This is just an advert for a movie.

by axod 17y ago

sree_nair 17y ago
Have to say the first page of the article was quite inspirational.
josefresco 17y ago
While I generally agree, the dude (Cameron w/Sony) did 'invent' a new camera that has already changed film making. As far a Wired fluff pieces go, this one was bearable.
- anamax 17y ago
  > a new camera that has already changed film making http://www.red.com/ http://www.red.com/ will make more of a difference. You can buy one for what it costs to rent others for a week or so.
  - anigbrowl 17y ago
    No. I'm a big fan of RED, and commend them to the study of anyone interested in hardware hacking to commercial ends, but what they (and others) are doing is making high-quality digital image acquisition affordable. The actual photography part is fundamentally the same as with any film camera. Almost all 3d work made up to now has consisted of taking two good cameras and mounting them next to each other, then setting up the motors and lenses such that they operate perfectly in parallel. Cameron's key innovation is alter the viewing angle (interaxial distance) between the two lenses dynamically while preserving sufficiently good ergonomics to make it work on a set (rather than inside a lab). So this is a new approach to to the optical part of photography, rather than the recording substrate. Of course, this can and probably will be leveraged on behalf of Red camera users and others small enough to be mounted side-by-side on an adjustable platform. Here's a good article about it: http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4310810.html http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4...
    - anamax 17y ago
      You're assuming that 3D will be significant. I don't. We'll know soon enough.
      - henrikschroder 17y ago
        It's highly interesting for the entire movie industry, because it's an experience you currently have to go to the cinemas to get, you can't get it from buying some cheap consumer electronics and downloading something off the internet. If Cameron has made something that makes 3D integral to the cinema experience instead of just something that feels tacked-on and not necessary, that can definitely change cinema forever, whether we like it or not. :-)
        anamax 17y ago
        3D may revolutionize cinema, but if it does, I'll bet that it comes to the home as well. BluRay has been out for a while. It's time for another format....
mbrubeck 17y ago
This (long) New Yorker profile of Cameron might be more interesting to some Hacker News readers. It focuses less on the tech, and more on Cameron's personality and career: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_... It paints him as a sort of Steve Jobs figure, with a really incredible drive to create and succeed, often at the expense of all else. > She wanted to get married, but Cameron, she says, was not interested in a conventional domestic life: “He used to say to me, ‘Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.’ ” > [...] > Before beginning production on “The Abyss” (1989), the most ambitious underwater movie ever attempted, he went to see Leonard Goldberg, then the president of Fox, which was financing the film. “He said, ‘I want you to know one thing—once we embark on this adventure and I start to make this movie, the only way you’ll be able to stop me is to kill me,’ ” Goldberg told me. “You looked into those eyes and you knew he meant it.”
- quickpost 17y ago
  I second this article - it really made me like James Cameron... dude is hard core.
- redcap 17y ago
  good article, worth reading just for this quote by bill paxton: “The words ‘No’ and ‘That’s impossible’ and phrases like ‘That can’t be done’—that’s the stuff that gives him an erection"
- dmix 17y ago
  This article is much better than Wired's. It also has some inconsistencies, the New Yorker said is was Space 2001 not Star Wars that inspired him to create films.

I don't see why this "Could change film forever". This is just an advert for a movie.

by axod 17y ago

I don't see why this "Could change film forever". This is just an advert for a movie.

sree_nair 17y ago

Have to say the first page of the article was quite inspirational.

josefresco 17y ago

While I generally agree, the dude (Cameron w/Sony) did 'invent' a new camera that has already changed film making. As far a Wired fluff pieces go, this one was bearable.

anamax 17y ago
> a new camera that has already changed film making http://www.red.com/ http://www.red.com/ will make more of a difference. You can buy one for what it costs to rent others for a week or so.
- anigbrowl 17y ago
  No. I'm a big fan of RED, and commend them to the study of anyone interested in hardware hacking to commercial ends, but what they (and others) are doing is making high-quality digital image acquisition affordable. The actual photography part is fundamentally the same as with any film camera. Almost all 3d work made up to now has consisted of taking two good cameras and mounting them next to each other, then setting up the motors and lenses such that they operate perfectly in parallel. Cameron's key innovation is alter the viewing angle (interaxial distance) between the two lenses dynamically while preserving sufficiently good ergonomics to make it work on a set (rather than inside a lab). So this is a new approach to to the optical part of photography, rather than the recording substrate. Of course, this can and probably will be leveraged on behalf of Red camera users and others small enough to be mounted side-by-side on an adjustable platform. Here's a good article about it: http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4310810.html http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4...
  - anamax 17y ago
    You're assuming that 3D will be significant. I don't. We'll know soon enough.
    - henrikschroder 17y ago
      It's highly interesting for the entire movie industry, because it's an experience you currently have to go to the cinemas to get, you can't get it from buying some cheap consumer electronics and downloading something off the internet. If Cameron has made something that makes 3D integral to the cinema experience instead of just something that feels tacked-on and not necessary, that can definitely change cinema forever, whether we like it or not. :-)
      - anamax 17y ago
        3D may revolutionize cinema, but if it does, I'll bet that it comes to the home as well. BluRay has been out for a while. It's time for another format....

mbrubeck 17y ago

This (long) New Yorker profile of Cameron might be more interesting to some Hacker News readers. It focuses less on the tech, and more on Cameron's personality and career: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_... It paints him as a sort of Steve Jobs figure, with a really incredible drive to create and succeed, often at the expense of all else. > She wanted to get married, but Cameron, she says, was not interested in a conventional domestic life: “He used to say to me, ‘Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.’ ” > [...] > Before beginning production on “The Abyss” (1989), the most ambitious underwater movie ever attempted, he went to see Leonard Goldberg, then the president of Fox, which was financing the film. “He said, ‘I want you to know one thing—once we embark on this adventure and I start to make this movie, the only way you’ll be able to stop me is to kill me,’ ” Goldberg told me. “You looked into those eyes and you knew he meant it.”

quickpost 17y ago
I second this article - it really made me like James Cameron... dude is hard core.
redcap 17y ago
good article, worth reading just for this quote by bill paxton: “The words ‘No’ and ‘That’s impossible’ and phrases like ‘That can’t be done’—that’s the stuff that gives him an erection"
dmix 17y ago
This article is much better than Wired's. It also has some inconsistencies, the New Yorker said is was Space 2001 not Star Wars that inspired him to create films.