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Here's my open letter to Nikon pleading with them to develop a product to fill one of the gaps left by Thursday's RED announcements. Many people were expecting RED to announce a camera to compete directly with the Nikon D90 and Canon 5DmkII movie modes but that didn't happen (all the RED cameras with Nikon/Canon lens mounts are priced WAY WAY above a Nikon D90 or 5DmkII). I'm under no illusion - I expect this letter will be thrown in the bin but it's worth a shot; eh?!?

• To: Nikon-Europe
• Subject: Proposals for Movie Mode in dSLRs

Dear Nikon,

In March, I spent a month travelling around the middle east and the USA for a documentary commissioned by Channel 4. I did the sound recording and some additional camera work for the film.

The film is being broadcast on Sunday 27th at 7pm and on Sunday 3rd August at 7pm.

More info about the film can be found on the Car Bomb page on Many Rivers Film's website.

Ben Blaine (from Shooting People) has seen MIRRORS and given it what can only be called a glowing review. Here's a snippet (he talks about MIRRORS and another short called HOME):

Both films are about ten minutes long, both are without dialogue, both are beautiful to look at it and both deal with loss and grief in gorgeous tones of blues and greens. Both also have a compelling sense of both mystery and symmetry, though they express this in different ways.

I knew it would be best to wait until NAB before upgrading my editing system! Cineform have already announced new products and new prices - very exciting.

We spent the weekend filming Shiver which was written and directed by Jonathan Stewart. I produced the project and I'll be editing and grading it.

The production stills are online.

I've put up an early version of the website for the last film I worked on, Mirrors. The website will be much improved soon!

I've started working on a DVD for cellist, June Grandwells.

Lucas has published his first article over on UKFilm.org:

First Response

On Sunday I wrote an article on Shooting Super-16mm On A Low Budget over on UKFilm.org.

We launched UKfilm.org late on Saturday night! Come and have a look. News, forum, artilces and events for the UK film and TV industries.