Varicam 5 4K camera used to shoot Amazon and CBS pilots

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Varicam 35 4K camera used to shoot Amazon and CBS pilots --

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:58

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Award-winning cinematographer Theo Van de Sande recently shot two pilots; CBS s Evil Men and Amazon Studios Salem Rogers, with Panasonic s VariCam 35 4K camera/recorder.

Van de Sande calls the VariCam 35 the first 4K offering I feel comfortable with, an absolutely modern camera with tremendous scope, an embracing image, and whose dual native ISOs of 800/5000 will completely change the business.

Van de Sande, a graduate of the Dutch Film Academy, received the Golden Calf (the Dutch Oscar) for Best Cinematography both in 1982 and 1987. He shot numerous feature films in Europe that attracted international attention. His critically acclaimed and iconic work includes: Blade, Cruel Intentions, Crossing Delancey, Once Around, Volcano, Out of Time and Homefront.

With the VariCam 35, its 4K sensor and native 5000 ISO setting, Panasonic has taken a front position in the line of professional digital cinema cameras, he said. And the company s timing in bringing the Varicam 35 into the digital cinema and episodic television markets is the absolute right moment within the big picture of 4K and UHD standardisation.

From the first day on the Salem Rogers set I began to use the native 5000 ISO on some unexpected occasions (a day interior in a bookstore, e.g.) and was blown away by it, Van de Sande said. The last scene was shot at night time at Venice Beach with very little light. Shops were closed, but the arches of the buildings were still overexposed, lit by some small fixtures. The palm trees were silhouetted against the night sky, and I lit a huge area with just one unit from 100 yards away.

The bottoms of the palm trees were lit with the headlights of our camera truck.

Later in the CBS pilot I used 5000 ISO setting by night in cold, humid, wet Vancouver winter weather on overpasses, freeways, intersections and bridges with even more amazing results. And here again there were no issues: all went well on a gruelling, impossible schedule of 12 days.

Van de Sande also highlighted the VariCam 35 s ability to record three simultaneous video formats (4K 2K Proxy, or UHD HD Proxy). You treat the 4K slot as if it were the digital negative - you don t touch that data. You have the SUB recorder slots where you can do all your work: 2K/HD is plenty of resolution for editors who normally work on highly compressed DNxHD36 images. So, you re recording to a high-res master and you are essentially cloning copies in different resolutions in camera, in real time.

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