Today a little departure from the usual look at film productions and practitioners and a look at technology that is being used to create the moving image. I recieved a release about a Melbourne-based film technology company Blackmagic Design who announced that the award winning documentary Playing With Sharks, which looks at the life of Valerie Taylor, used it’s Cintel Scanner C-Drive HDR to digitise hundreds of hours of underwater archival footage, much of it shot by the Aussie shark researcher and photographer decades ago. This set a train of thought about all the different types of formats that the material must have been shot on and the hours of material to be processed and the technology behind making such a project manageable physically and financially seemed just short of miraclous. At least worth finding out about.