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Koji Samalde

Lead Cinematographer at Optimal Cinema and fly fishing filmmaker; cinematography and creative direction on fly fishing films including "Two Roads on the River"

Jul 17, 2026

13:44
[laughs]
13:44
So I, I got behind the camera my, like, freshman year of high school.
13:51
This was...
13:52
I graduated 2013, so I'm a little younger.
13:54
I'm only 31.
13:56
Um, but when I was in TV production, we were still shooting, like, on MiniDV tapes and transferring everything to FireWire to make it digital and edit digital copies.
14:09
And that year that I started was the year that we, like, completely stopped doing DV tapes and moved to SD cards.

11 MINS LATER

25:24
Yeah, yeah

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