DP Erik Messerschmidt on Shooting Netflix's Mindhunter with a Custom Red Xenomorph

When mere mortals gear up for a job, they are restricted to selecting cameras currently in existence. Not David Fincher. Fincher has long hated all the gak required to make a digital cinema camera functional: a wireless transmitter to get signal to video village, the add-ons to provide wireless iris and focus control, the assistant camera's onboard monitor hanging off the side -- all the things that turn a small, lightweight camera body into a labyrinth of cables and breakout boxes. Red Digital ...