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Director’s View: Another iPhone App from Chemical Wedding

If you liked Helios, the sun position calculator, you’ll like Artemis, a digital director’s viewfinder available as an iPhone app from the same folks at Chemical Wedding. “Artemis is designed with both cinematographers and directors in mind,” says Chemical Wedding’s Toby Evetts. “It works in much the same way as a traditional directors viewfinder, although it’s much more accurate and much more convenient.” How easy? The user selects a camera format, aspect ratio and lens type, and then Artemis uses the camera in the iPhone to simulate the lens view that you can expect with the configuration you’ve selected.

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Helios: iPhone App for Filmmakers

Helios, the first iPhone/iTouch app from the trio, who form Chemical Wedding, graphically predicts the path of the sun from dusk to dawn, on any given day, in any given place. That’s not only useful to cinematographers and still photographers but also to grips, gaffers, production designers, 1st assistant directors–as well as architects, artists, landscape designers, surveyors and anyone else who needs to know exactly where the sun will be at specific times.