Technical skills come before creativity: award-winning cinematographer Rob Draper, A.C.S. spends his days between filming projects giving film and HD workshops around the world. Danny Chan talks to the image maestro about the oft-misunderstood digital format.(profile)

Asia Image, March, 2007 by Chan, Danny

A cinematographer since 1974, Rob Draper, A.C.S. is one of a handful of DOPs in the world who straddles both the film and digital formats comfortably; and with the technical chops to show for. In the technological realm of movie cameras and photography, this guy has literally done and seen it all.

He took part in development work for Fuji on their F series motion picture films and tested SONY's early Betacams and Digi Beta Systems. A long supporter of Arriflex cameras, Draper has been instrumental in both the advancement and development of several Arriflex products. On the HD front, he has consulted on the development of the Fujinon and Zeiss electronic cinematography lenses; worked with SONY on testing and evaluation of the 700 and 900 HD camera series; gave...

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