The first production to use ARRI Rental's ALEXA 65 large format digital camera system has hit theaters: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. Primarily shot with 35 mm film cameras by Academy Award winner Robert Elswit, ASC, the fifth installment of the successful blockbuster spy series features a major underwater sequence, which was captured with prototype ALEXA 65 cameras in special HydroFlex housings by Pete Romano, ASC.
Elswit, Romano and their crew spent a month shooting the scenes in the underwater tank at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK earlier this year. The sequence was done almost entirely with a virtual background, so it was important to get the best resolution for the best look, explains Romano, who advocated for the ALEXA 65 to maximize image quality for the heavy visual effects.
Rogue Nation's visual effects supervisor David Vickery notes, We felt very privileged and excited to use the ALEXA 65 on Rogue Nation. Its a real testament to ARRIs confidence in their product that the 65s first job was a very intensive and complex underwater sequence, which really put the cameras through their paces, yet we never had a single problem with either camera throughout the entire shoot. In postproduction the large format images we captured on the 28 mm and 35 mm.
Prime 65 wide angle lenses gave Double Negative [visual effects facility] the flexibility to push in up to 280% on the frame and still extract a sharp 2K plate, which we then treated to look like the anamorphic film stock that the rest of Rogue Nation had been shot on.
The ALEXA 65 workflow, developed with key technology partner Codex and based on the Vault platform, consisted of ARRI Rental's purpose-configured Vault S utilized for on-set QC and local backup to eight TB transfer drives. The transfer drives were then shuttled to Company 3 in Soho, London for processing out to full resolution, uncompressed ARRIRAW 65 mm format images by ARRI Rental's high performance version of the Vault XL, the Lab 65, which was linked into Company 3's dailies and archival infrastructure.
ARRI has hit it out of the park, says Romano, and what I've really appreciated from working with the first two cameras is how dedicated ARRI and its technicians have been to making sure that the transition from R&D lab to the craziness of a real movie set was as seamless as possible. The attention to detail was amazing; we had ARRI Rental representatives with us almost every day.
Whether for an entire movie or selected sequences, the ALEXA 65 is being used on a number of high-profile productions that are due for release in theaters over the coming months.
ALEXA 65 is available exclusively through ARRI Rental, a global network of ARRI equipment rental facilities.
Read our interview Mission Accomplished with Pete Romano, ASC, here: http://www.arrirentalgroup.com/news/news_07_2015_01.html
About ARRI Rental:
ARRI Rental is a leading provider of camera, lighting and grip equipment to the feature film, television, advertising, broadcast and events markets. Operating through a network of rental facilities in the US and across Europe, the group's combined resources and expertise allow ARRI Rental to develop and roll out exclusive, proprietary technologies. These include the ALEXA XT B+W and now the ALEXA 65, a large-format solution for high-end theatrical motion pictures, comprising a 65 mm digital cinema camera, custom-designed prime and zoom lenses, and fast, efficient workflow tools.
Recent productions serviced by the group include: Everest', Southpaw', Insurgent', Unbroken', A Most Violent Year', Selma', Birdman', Kingsman: The Secret Service', The Theory of Everything', John Wick', A Most Wanted Man', Expendables 3', Noah', The Grand Budapest Hotel', Gravity', 12 Years a Slave', The Monuments Men', The Wolf of Wall Street', The Book Thief', 300: Rise of an Empire', Captain Phillips', Blue Jasmine' and Rush' amongst others.
For locations and more information please visit: www.arrirentalgroup.com
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The first production to use ARRI Rental's ALEXA 65 large format digital camera system has hit theaters: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. Primarily shot with 35 mm film cameras by Academy Award winner Robert Elswit, ASC, the fifth installment of the successful blockbuster spy series features a major underwater sequence, which was captured with prototype ALEXA 65 cameras in special HydroFlex housings by Pete Romano, ASC.
