Panasonic varicam rec709 lut9/13/2023 The Panasonic reps said, “There is very little noise using this 5000ASA setting and is not comparable at all with the noise that you see when you beef up the gain of other cameras to 5000 ASA.” I tried out their new “native” low light setting of 5000 ISO, and said, “Wow–somehow this 5000 ISO rating has just given us something very special, with great quality, to use in extremely low light situations”. I played with the camera a little bit, looked at the images on a high quality monitor that was available. Panasonic showed us the completely new VariCam 4K and discussed how post-production on the set could mostly be dealt with from inside the camera. That same day I happened to attend the Panasonic 4K demo at the ASC clubhouse. So, I thought I needed to shoot with the Canon C500 or the Sony F55, Sony F65, or RED Epic Dragon, all systems I had used before. Soon the cost of a 4K TV will be almost the same as an HD TV.īest Buy already sells 4K TVs for under $2000. So after some thought, I was happy with it.īecause the future of Digital Cinema and TV is all going to be 4K and UHD. Of course, I know that resolution is not the only important factor in good quality image, but it is a start. And we were planning not to stop fighting until we would have a digital format that had at least as much resolution as 35mm negative, meaning 4K resolution.Īnd now I found myself almost complaining about this “4K or higher resolution” request. ![]() We found that 35mm negative was at least comparable with 4K digital. But then I remembered how much the ASC Technology Committee, in the beginning of the digital revolution, had fought against remarks like “HD is good enough!” At first I thought that was a little weird. So I cannot use the ARRI Alexa which I used lately a lot for my features and TV pilots.” When I got an offer to do an Amazon pilot with the request–not the request, but the condition–that I only could shoot with a camera 4K or higher–I thought, “Well, that’s ridiculous. The later Panasonic cameras had also a Dynamic Range Stretcher (DRS) function and a very clean AVC-Intra100 compression codec. That’s why a lot of independent filmmakers started to use the Panasonic camera. I found that, although Panasonic was typically a TV company, with a TV-based camera, their cameras at that time could produce pretty good film-like images. The Sony 900 was the first HD camera we used, but I hated tape and switched immediately to one of the first Panasonic P2 cameras when they became available. So, for our documentaries, we then switched to a digital HD format while I kept shooting my Features on film. ![]() During a documentary about autistic children we realized that 10 minutes maximum (one 400 ft roll of film loaded in the camera mag) was not good enough to capture the things we were after. THEO VAN DE SANDE, ASC: Between features I have done many documentaries with my wife Michele Ohayon and continue to do them. JON FAUER: You just finished a TV pilot with one of the first Panasonic Vari C am 35 cameras. A full report on the design and manufacturing of VariCam 35 will appear in FDTimes soon. While I was visiting Panasonic and the VariCam 35 factory a couple of weeks ago, Theo van de Sande, ASC was shooting a TV Pilot with one of the first cameras.
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