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Tom.W
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| ecrabb wrote: | This post goes in the "way more than you wanted to know" folder... What can I say? I'm a photo/video/film dork and I'm into this stuff.
Anyway, I couldn't find any articles or videos with the director or TD that gave any hard data on the cameras used on HOME, but the Cineflex is the "system" - A gyroscopically-stabilized helicopter gimbal mount and HD camera... From what I can find, it seems like most of the cameras integrated in the mount are Sony HD cameras. For the camera geeks, it's about a $100,000 portable camera with a 2/3" sensor, 4:4:4, 1080p, and can run 50i, 60i, and 24p. This is a camera head only... You have to add a lens and VTR to that $100k price tag. So, the camera operator sits in the back seat of the helicopter with a control panel, joystick, and display (along with the VTR) and runs the Cineflex camera from there.
Given the camera, I'm not sure if Home was shot in 24p or 60i (or 50i for that matter), but considering its intended international and web distribution, I'd bet on 24p.
The killer thing is the Cineflex gimbal mount, though. From what I read, it was originally developed by the Army for assisted firing (it does look like the doodad on the belly of an Apache), but then the manufacturer put HD cameras in it... The footage I saw was amazingly stable.
AxSys page on the Cineflex:
http://www.axsys.com/index.cfm?acronym=multi-axis-stabilized-camera-systems
Here's a quick making-of vignette on YouTube HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5a78lAezMM
Oh, and anybody who wants to check the film out before you buy can watch the whole film for free on YouTube HD... looks pretty awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
According to the wiki, it's apparently available copyright-free as an HD mp4 file from Bit-torrent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(2009_film)
Oh, and I'm a Nick Cage fan, too. He's done a few hackers, but I really like him as an actor. Lord of War and Matchstick Men are a couple of my favorite Nick Cage movies.
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Thanks for the great link !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
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Mr. Green
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Posts: 1394
Location: Calgary
TV/Projector: Marquee 9501LC / NEC 9PG+
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| Kiev Savoie wrote: | | MikeEby wrote: | I've see a few of the newer LCD panels running movies with 120Hz FI, man does that look weird...I could never get used to it...Everything looks like a soap opera.
Mike |
I just recently started installing for a local AV shop and the only flat panels in the place that get my attention are those new high end LED 120hz units by Samsung and Sony. I've been staring at them for two days now. I think you summed it up with that soap opera comment. The motion of figures in the frame is so smooth and edge lines are razor sharp. It does take some getting used to though. My only complaint is that backgrounds with little or no movement look "dead" or "fake" in comparison to the figures in the foreground, It's kinda weird. |
I prefer plasma. It's a 42" 5 year old cheap a$$ "Insignia" (best buy brand) 480 HZ (600 hz on the new ones), never had any issue like you explain above. I have a 32" 60hz TV in the den and I HATE it for everything you mentioned and one more... Fast moving objects get that ghosting that makes everything look like it's in a heat wave. I'll hold judgement until I see the new 240 hz LCD TV's that came out this year. I'm also curious about the LED TV's.
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HaydnG90
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 1356
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| MikeEby wrote: | 
I just finished watching Knowing Bluray. According to this link it was shot on a 4K RED Camera. The transfer has no trace of film grain yet still had a film like quality that was hard to explain. I like the movie a lot, it had a decent plot, that was not predictable. I watch it right before bed and gave me a nightmare.
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I actually liked the movie, well everything except the last 15 mins. I think this is a source of most of the bad reviews. The SFX and image quality are phenomenal. The plane crash scene in particular was so amazing I had to check myself as I almost fled the room because it felt so realistic.
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winduptoy
Joined: 25 Nov 2006
Posts: 187
Location: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Not a Cage fan, but he has done some memorable films. Along with the previously mentioned Leaving Las Vegas and Lord of War please add Raising Arizona
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Kiev Savoie
Joined: 25 Oct 2007
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| Mr. Green wrote: | | I'll hold judgement until I see the new 240 hz LCD TV's that came out this year. I'm also curious about the LED TV's. |
All I have noticed that stands out about the LED tv's is that they are brighter, In all other aspects I can't tell much of a difference from the the rest of the stuff in the showroom.
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