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Braving the challenging weather and Kodiak brown bears of Alaska, Director of Photography Tom Trainor served as Director of Photography/Kodiak on the new Animal Planet documentary series, Into Alaska,shooting with his VariCam LT 4K cinema camera. Season one of the series, which showcases the wildlife inhabiting Alaskas national refuges and the men and women who protect them, is currently in rotation on the cable channel(https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/into-alaska/).
Trainor, a veteran of many documentary shoots in Alaska, had previously owned the AG-DVX100 and AG-HVX200 handhelds, and is a fan of Panasonic's colorimetry. Given how much work I do in limited daylight in Alaska, I was immediately sold on the VariCam LT's Dual Native 800/5000 ISOs, he said.
The DP described the location work on the series' premiere episode, Release the Eagle, which follows biologist Bill Leacock into the heart of bear country on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
We were working on the southern tip of Kodiak Island (the wildlife refuge takes up about 2/3 of the island) during the summer, Trainor recounted. There was no internet, plenty of pounding rain and long hikes over tundra. At one point, I fell down with the LT: no problems.
I love the ergonomics of the camera, he continued. I recently did a shoot in frigid, -7 F. weather. The LT's big menu buttons are great-I never had to take my gloves off.
Trainor shot Into Alaskain 4K AVC-Intra 4:2:2, using EF-mount Sigma 18-35mm and 70-200mm zoom lenses.
The camera's color science is spectacular-the V-Log feature gives us so much latitude to play with in post, Trainor said. The VariCam LT is definitely a lot a camera for its price point.
Trainor also recently used the VariCam LT to shoot US6: The Homecoming, a series profiling the Indian-American members of India's national cricket team. That series is airing on the Hotstar streaming platform.
View DP Trainor's VariCam LT projects at http://www.vimeo.com/ashlarmedia.
About the VariCam LT
The VariCam LT camcorder inherits the same super 35mm sensor and superb imaging capabilities that distinguish the award-winning VariCam 35, but with significant reductions in size, weight and price.Incorporating this identical imaging DNA in a more compact rendition, the VariCam LT delivers 14+ stops of dynamic range with V-Log, and the esteemed cinematic VariCam image quality and color science, as well as the VariCam 35s breakout innovation, dual
native ISOs of 800/5000.Weighing just under six pounds and having superior capability to similar sized cameras, the VariCam LT is the ideal camera for handheld, SteadiCam, jib, crane, drone, gimbal and overall cinema verit work. The VariCam LT offers a host of new features including an EF lens mount, hot swappable batteries, IR shooting capability, a 23.98 PsF output, cinema style file naming, and image presets such as scene files.
For more information about Panasonic VariCam cinema and high-speed cameras, visit us.panasonic.com/varicam, or contact Panasonic at 877-803-8492.
About Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America
Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America, a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, delivers game-changing technology solutions that deliver customized experiences to drive better outcomes-for our customers and our customers' customers. Panasonic designs and manufactures reliable, flexible and dependable products and solutions to help create, capture and deliver information of all types, especially where, when and how it is needed. The complete suite of Panasonic professional solutions for government and commercial enterprises of all sizes addresses unified business communications, mobile computing, security and surveillance, retail point-of-sale, office productivity, audio and visual systems (projectors, displays & digital signage) and professional video production. To learn more and Panasonic's business products and solutions visit:https://na.panasonic.com.
About Panasonic Corporation of North America
Newark, NJ-based Panasonic Corporation of North America is a leading technology partner to businesses, government agencies and consumers across the region. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation and leverages its strengths in Immersive Entertainment, Sustainable Energy, Automated Supply Chains and Connected Solutions to provide secure and resilient integrated solutions for B2B customers. Panasonic was highlighted in Forbes Magazine's Global 2000 ranking as one of the Top Ten Best Regarded Companies for 2017. The ranking is based on outstanding scores for trustworthiness, honesty with the public and superior performance of products and solutions. Learn more about Panasonic's ideas and innovations at Panasonic.com.
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