I began my television career in the late 1970s and at the time, working for WGBH-TV in Boston, we were using Marconi turret cameras that didn’t zoom. These giant contraptions had revolving turrets with 3 lenses on them and that was how the shot was changed from wide to close-up, rotating the turret…

Jump ahead to 2006/7 and producer/directors James Cameron and Howard and Michelle Hall re-introduced the 3D image to the wide screen with “Deep Sea 3D” and “Avatar”; video would never be the same. Now, in many different configurations from camcorders to extremely sophisticated multi camera rigs with beam splitters, 3D has, again, reared it’s head and production may never be the same for anyone, consumer and pro alike…

In a recent interview, conducted at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) Advanced Imaging and Visualization lab, I had a chance to speak with Evan Kovacs, DP for many of the lab’s documentary and science projects. Evan, who recently returned from a lengthy shoot on the Titanic, talked about his dream job at WHOI and gave us his impressions on 3D and it’s place in the TV/Film worlds. We know it’s entertaining but what does 3D mean to science? This short film poses that question and Kovacs begins to provide the answers…

Rick Morris is a pro-environment documentary producer, cameraman and editor who focuses on science and research. Rick has been working in television for more than 30 years and is currently working on a pair of grants to document, in HD, the first World Census of Marine Life and the Encyclopedia of Life projects. An avid scuba diver and underwater cameraman add to Rick’s concentration on marine science and underwater films as specialties. Rick’s films can be seen on the census web site, Dive Film, and wetpixel.