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Hang on; isn't this where we came in (just over 20 years ago) 10 March 2018.
Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. Enters into a Merger Agreement with Panavision and Sim Video
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The Final Countdown 10 March 2018.
Interesting that in June 2016 Panavision announced:
"Panavision Millennium DXL. Powered by RED. Color by Light Iron"
Interesting to us, because, throughout its past 4 decades of money hemorrhaging, every time PV announced some new "revolutionary" development in Electronic Image capture technology (always based on some other company's hardware), a sale of the company was always on the horizon.
In case you aren't aware, Panavison was seized by the banks back in 2010, after (we estimate) somewhere a billion sollars was sunk into the company by Ron Perelman, using his own, or other investors' money.
The announcement above does tend to suggest that either a sale or sharemarket offering in on the horizon, but unfortunately the project doesn't seem to have exactly set the film world on fire! Given that PV's last two abortive attempts were based on Sony Cameras, did they really think something from a fanboy-based penny-ante outfit like Red Digital Cinema was suddenly going to make it happen?!
ALIVE!
It's been a VERY long time between drinks!
Back in 2006 some low-lifes (we know EXACTLY who you are!) hacked into the original Geocities Email account and changed the password. What we didn't realize was that the password recovery email account was an old AltaVista account which had been discontinued, so we couldn't get into the Espanavision website either. That's why news updates stopped abruptly around December 2006.
In 2009 Yahoo discontinued Geocities and we thought that was the end of it, but a few years ago it was resurrected by Gridhoster, along with a lot of other interesting Geocities sites. Unfortunately to get control of the site we had to respond to an email sent to the [email protected] email address, but of course we couldn't get into it. Only just recently, the espanavision Yahoo mail adress was finally "recycled" (due to lack of activity) and we were able to set up a new [email protected] account. So we finally were able to access a confirmation email and access the account.
Is it worth it? Well, needless to say a lot of water has flowed under the bridge in 9 years. It's unbelievable that Panavision are still operating, but they are still syphoning up suckers' money.
For all their bullshit "revolutionary" Digital Cinematography cameras over the years, just about everything shot with "Panavision Digital" uses Arri Alexas and their variants.
The much-vaunted Red cameras never really went anywhere except for a relative handfull of tentpole features, with very ordinary imaging.
Meanwhile run-of-the-mill cellphone now shoot pretty convincing "4K" video...
What's it all about then? Well, if you haven't been here before, you'll find links on the left that'll explain everything.
NOTE: If you came here via either the Wikipedia "Digital Cinematography" or "Panavision" pages, you'll notice that those pages have recently undergone some severe editing. It's painfully obvious to us that the people involved have nothing whatever to do with the film industry, and are just more of the numerous wannabe "pundits" whose entire "expertise" consists of reading what similar wannabe's have written on other web sites!
We're not going to get involved in another "revision war", but since we still have copies of the original pages, we're going to to reproduce them here where ignorant wankers like them can't "correct" them!
We're still working on the Digital Cinematography page but in the meantime you can check out the pre-revision Panavision Page!
This new site does pretty much everything the old one did, except that we've deleted some of the links that nobody ever visited anyway. We may put them back on one day, but as it is, we've got enough to do just getting this lot fired up and tested!
We've put all the technical articles in one "Tech Talk" section, and there's a new 3-part series on what Depth of Field actually means, why it's a problem with 16mm and video cameras, and why there's no realistic alternative to 35mm film for quality movie production.
WHY DID WE DO THIS? Well, it continues to surprise us that after three years and well over 25,000 hits on our website, we still don't register on the major search engines like Google and Yahoo. We've been told that this is because our old site used "Frames", that handy facility where the screen is divided up into two separately scrollable windows. So we've finally bitten the bullet and redesigned the site to work without frames, a task which meant re-writing about 35 HTML files! (The old versions are still here by the way, if you know where to look!)
We also changed the screen layout to a fixed-width window. This will work better with older 800 x 600 pixel displays and also ensures printouts will fit standard printer pages without re-sizing.
If you've bookmarked the old "Latest News" page and are used to jumping straight to there, that old page "news.html" is no longer functional. The "latest news" page is now called "menu_bar_web.html" . (Why is it called that? Because the hit counter is attached to that filename and if we put it on any other page it will reset to zero!)
Once you've gotten onto that page, you can just make a new bookmark and cary on as before. Note that the new "Latest News" page now only carries the few most recent items; when a new item comes in, one old one is then added to an "Archive" page. That way you don't have to download months of stories just to read the latest one!
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