American Cinematographer - February 2013 - 86

Clubhouse News

From top: Christopher Chomyn, ASC;
associate member David Reisner;
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC.
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February 2013

Reisner Becomes
Associate Member
New associate member David Reisner, the owner of D-Cinema Consulting, has
served as secretary of the ASC Technology
Committee since its founding, and he
performs the same function for three of its
subcommittees: DI, Workflow and Advanced
Imaging. He helped to design and create the
ASC CDL, the ASC-PGA Camera Assessment
Series and Image Control Assessment Series,
the ASC-DCI Stem test, the InterSociety DigiAmerican Cinematographer

tal Cinema Forum 3-D projection-luminance
demonstration, the ACES Look Management
Transform, and the log ACES definition. For
the forthcoming 10th edition of the American Cinematographer Manual, he coauthored the chapter about the ASC CDL
and contributed to the chapter about ACES.
Reisner was the vice chairman of the
SMPTE groups that drafted the standards for
digital-cinema imaging. His work in other
industries has included still photography for
magazines and book jackets, early technical
and business plans for Web-based music and
movie distribution, and computer hardware
and software architecture.
Band Pro Honors Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC was the
guest of honor during the recent Band Pro
One World Open House, which was held in
the company’s Burbank facility. For the event,
Band Pro created an interactive workflow
environment to showcase the latest technology from 16x9, 1Beyond, 3ality Technica,
AJA, Angenieux, Atomos, Bertone Visuals,
Canare, Canon, Cinoflex, Codex, Colorfront,
Convergent Design, DeepX, Focus Optics,
For-A, Fujinon, IDX, K5600, Leader, Leica,
Manios Digital, Marshall, NextoDI, Nila,
Oppenheimer, Red, Sony, Tiffen, TruColorPRG, TrueND, Vitec and Zeiss.
Nicholson, Okada Share
Sony Footage
Sony recently hosted “The Future:
Ahead of Schedule,” a screening of footage
captured with the company’s F5, F55 and F65
CineAlta 4K digital cameras. ASC associate
members Peter Crithary and Alec Shapiro
joined Phil Molyneux, president and COO of
Sony Electronics, in representing Sony, and
Jon Fauer, ASC moderated the discussions
with the filmmakers. Sam Nicholson, ASC
screened the short Mahout, which he
directed and co-shot with Dana Christiaansen
using the F55; and Daryn Okada, ASC
shared scenes from the series Made in Jersey,
which he shot with the F65.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
Zsigmond photo courtesy of Frederic Goodich, ASC and Band Pro.

Society Welcomes Chomyn
New active member Christopher
Chomyn, ASC was first entranced by the
filmmaking process when he visited the
Edison Museum in East Orange, N.J., on his
7th birthday. He later joined a photography
club at school. After graduating from Fairfield
University with a degree in history, Chomyn
took a trip to California. While visiting Carmel
Valley, he landed a job as a production assistant on the series Doris Day’s Best Friends, and
when the series wrapped, he stayed in
Carmel and worked as an electrician and grip.
Two years later, he moved to Los Angeles and
earned an MFA with honors from UCLA’s
School of Theater, Film and Television.
Chomyn is currently an associate
professor of practice on the cinematography
faculty at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he has
taught for 15 years. While teaching, he has
continued to shoot features, documentaries
and commercials. At the 2010 Cine Gear
Expo, he was awarded the Best Cinematography prize for his work on Wild About Harry.
Chomyn has also led cinematography workshops and seminars for Walt Disney Feature
Animation, Eastman Kodak and the International Film and Video Workshops, among
others, and in 2010, he redesigned the cinematography curriculum for the Vancouver
Film School. He is a Film Independent Project
Involve mentor and an alternate on the
national executive board of the International
Cinematographers Guild.

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