Creating cinema the DSLR way – with a digital SLR camera
Some movies do have a nice back story. “Dimensions” was created by the director Sloane U’Ren and composer Ant Neely, who are a married couple. In order to pursue their dream, they needed a budget and so they sold their home. Talk about going all the way. The movie is called “Dimensions“, plays in England in the 1920s and plays with some sci-fi concepts (non-linear time).
The movie was shot on Canon 5D and 7D, edited on Final Cut Pro, and looks absolutely stunning.
Byron Shah has made a test movie with 3 digital cinema cameras together: the HDSLRs Canon 5D ($2500) and Panasonic Lumix ($1500), and the RED 3K Scarlet camera ($3000). Every shot has been watermarked with the material it was shot with: e.g. “RED3K/300mmNikkor2.8/60fps” or “Canon 5D2/ISO50/50mm ZE/T2/Ultracon3“.
The RED camera can shoot at 60fps which can then be slowed down to esthetic slo-mo. The 5D performs really well in low light conditions (using up to ISO 2500). In some indoor (or should I say, in-car) situations, I can imagine that the Lumix GH1′s swiveling viewfinder came in really handy.
Continue reading ‘Compare RED, Canon 5D and Lumix GH1 in 1 spot’
Wedding photographers are plenty, and so some people take it one step further. Kevin Shahinian of Pacific Pictures is “leading the wedding videography industry in creating hollywood/bollywood concept videos that add a story element to the clients wedding video“.
In the fall of 2009, Melissa & Samir embarked on an incredible journey to Udaipur, India, to fulfill a lifelong dream of having their wedding in the country of their ancestry. This transcendent place, affectionately called the “CITY OF LAKES,” located in the breathtaking region of Rajasthan, would be the setting for their extravagant, three-day marriage celebration, and the backdrop of our unprecedented film production – shot entirely on-location. We believe this to be the first ever live event/scripted concept production ‘hybrid’ film ever produced on this scale. It was shot entirely on DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark2 and 7D.
Oct 2008: Vincent Laforet shows with the first Canon 5D MkII HD video “Reverie” that the world of cinema is about to undergo a revolution: it is now possible to shoot cinema-quality footage with a digital SLR camera. Not with a $25.000 camera, but a $2.500 camera.
The $2500 camera of-course has to be used with lenses, and those who have bought them know: the good ones are not cheap. In the case of a professional like Laforet, he has lenses, really expensive ones (look for the Canon “L” series), and he used pretty much all of them:
EF Lenses used in the making of REVERIE:
FD 7.5mm f/5.6 (converted to EF mount)
EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
EF 135mm f/2L USM
EF 200mm f/1.8L USM
EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM
EF 500mm f/4L IS USM
TS-E 24mm f/3.5L
TS-E 45mm f/2.8
