 After an internship with John Korty and Victor J. Kemper on the Michael Ritchie movie "The Candidate" in 1971, he photographed the television movie "Farewell to Manzanar" in 1975, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.In 1976, he was one of the camera operators on Martin Scorsese's documentary "The Last Waltz" about the last concert of The Band.Later, he worked on projects like "Apocalypse Now", "More American Graffiti", and the Neil Young documentary "Rust Never Sleeps".