Cameras & Accessories

In the news from Panasonic in October, EVA1 IR Footage Palette, Panasonic’s Cinema Camera Line Up Joins Netflix Programme and control the EVA1 with a wired connection.

The first units of Venice have been shipped to Europe! Version 2 will be available in August, including new features.

After a three-year wait, in San Francisco on 3 February 2016, Panasonic announced the upcoming release of image sensors with complete separation of the function of photon-to-electron conversion performed by an organic OPF* layer, and the function of accumulation and drawing-away of the electrons performed by the silicon substrate.

Lucy, the latest film by Luc Besson, featuring Scarlett Johansson and Norman Freeman, will be released in France on 6 August and was filmed with the Sony F65. Thierry Arbogast, AFC, and director of photography on this film and on many of Besson’s other films, shares his experience of shooting with the F65.

The first publicly available images filmed with the new Delta-Penelope camera were shown by Eclair on November 17, 2011 with Catherine Athon, Aude Humblet, Thierry Beaumel, Caroline Champetier AFC, and Jean-Pierre Beauviala in attendance.
This camera is the first “4K” with an optical viewfinder and an internal SSD recorder for full resolution uncompressed images that are totally open to whomever wants to debayerize them in their own way.

After seeing Slumdog Millionaire this winter, knowing that some shots had been filmed with the Canon D5 Mark II, I asked Olivier Garcia, (a vision engineer, with whom I work when I shoot digital), to test this device.
We filmed a few shots in Paris, which we watched in the big DI room at Digimage with Laurent and Guillaume. Despite many flaws, the Canon, thanks to its large sensor, proved very interesting, and greatly impressed us.

I shot Renaud Bertrand’s film, Just the Three of Us (produced by Fabio Conversi at Babe Films). When I arrived on the project, the decision had already been made to shoot in HD, but we still needed to determine which camera use!

Following the tests that I had the opportunity to make for the film by Patrice Chereau, we were leaning towards the D21. We then discovered the Mscope process, which allows you to shoot anamorphic in a 4:2:2 configuration recording on to HDCAM SR.

Two years after the launch of the Weisscam HS-1, P+S Technik and Stefan Weiss present the follow-up model: the Weisscam HS-2.

Here is a photo of the Aaton Penelope prototype. This is the only auto-silenced 35 mm camera with instantaneous magazines that was ever built and it is also the first 35 mm camera that definitively abandons Dickson/Edison’s 4-perf film.
The film-pulling mechanism only works with 3-perf for lovers of 1.66:1, 1.78:1, 1.85:1 formats or with 2-perf for Scope addicts.