_Veronica Mars_ cinematographer Victor Hammer uses a Nikon digital camera to communicate his intent to the color timer. Basically what’s going on here is that _VM_ is shot on super 16 (16mm widescreen) film with some very interesting lighting and color effects. It can be difficult to communicate to the person developing the film just how you want the colors to turn out. This guy’s brilliant idea was basically to put some filters in front of a digital still camera and crank up the saturation and such until he had the look he wanted. He then sends those stills to the developers so that they can know how a scene should come out. Oh, and also, for some of the weird distortion/lines for the flashback scenes? He uses Vaseline in front of the lens, and shapes it with a comb. You learn something new every day… At this rate by the time I’m a hundred and eighty I’ll know enough to do some neat camera work.