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Slideshow: Auteurs Glimpse Digital Future

Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury speaks at the Directors Guild of America's annual Digital Day event, which gives filmmakers a look at revolutionary new movie-making gear. Xeni Jardin reports from Los Angeles.
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Ray Bradbury's appears on screen in an image from childhood.Courtesy of Joe Coomber

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The great Ray Bradbury comments on his love for the medium of film.

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This robotic dolly was recently introduced by Panavision.

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Michael Mehrle, president of Neovision labs, shows a DIY "homebrew" 3-D adaptor he invented for low-budget stereoscopic moviemaking. The mirrored device shown here, for which he designed the prototype, attaches to the lens of a standard HD camera. Most pro solutions involve two separate cameras, but his only uses one, which makes 3-D feasible economically for microbudget indie filmmaking.

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