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A smartphone displaying an application interface for a digital assistant named "TOLAND" from HHH Interviews, set against a dark green background with a logo on the left.

HHH Interviews the makers of TOLAND

Calling all DP’s! Chemical Wedding has just released Toland ASC Digital Assistant ($39.00), a new iPhone film calculator unlike any calculator you’ve seen before.  It’s totally sick.  If the Cray XT5 Supercomputer, and an Arri Elexa had a love child, my guess it would grow up to be Toland.

Unlike many other film calculators, Toland takes your entire shooting system (camera, format, lens, film stock, filters, etc.) into account when crunching your numbers.  It’s not just a “how much is in focus” gizmo. No way. This thing goes WAY deeper.  If you’re a DP, you need to check out our interview with the makers of Toland. They give a little background, and a very deep tour of the app.

Please excuse the assy video quality.  I had a host of unexpected technical problems. Hooray!

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Heading Into the Sunse— Hang on. I have a call.

Taz Goldstein September 17, 2024

Dear iPhone fanatics and filmmaking friends, This will be the final post for Hand Held Hollywood. To loyal HHH readers, I’m sure this feels somewhat overdue. Probably because it is.

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Shang-Chi Director Directed From His iPhone

Taz Goldstein September 9, 2021

I enjoyed reading this brief ScreenRant story, so I thought I’d share it here. It describes how Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, was forced to direct an important scene via his iPhone while in the hospital for the birth of his child! Sadly, it doesn’t divulge the details of that unusual workflow, but it’s an excellent reminder that we’re all toting the world’s most versatile piece of filmmaking gear in our pockets and purses!

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