Shot With The Dvx? Who Can Tell?

joe 1008

joe 1008

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Tonight I've seen THE TRUTH (GB 2005) on HBO, a movie from the british director George Milton. The DP was Nick Tebbet. A really good low budged movie. I tried to find information on the web about the camera they used, the only information I could find claimed it was shot on 35mm. But that's definitively not so. They transferred it to 35mm I suppose but the look of the movie is very DVX-like. Just like many good stuff I've seen here on the forum.
Now, the good news, at least for me: Great colors, good composition and an intelligent use of the deep DOF of a 2/3" camera made that movie look really good, at least on my small TV screen.
One trick you can observe on the trailer:

http://www.nicktebbet.tv/htm/thetruth.htm

Nick Tebbet, the DP very often composes foreground AND background and achieves a lot of depth this way.
But before I start to be too euphoric: Am I right that this feature was shot with a small 2/3 DV? Was it even shot with the DVX? Please, give your opinions!
 
I am reluctant to "guess" based upon viewing a clip off the Internet, but from what I saw, this isn't DVX footage.
 
Do you have any guess what formate or camera they used? On my TV almost all the scenes seemed to have very deep DOF but the colours were very good, much better than those of the trailer.
 
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I doubt it was done on the DVX...looks like a good movie though but yuo should probably have cautioned for the nudity inside. Almost got killed by my dad when i watched it while he was looking over my shoulder. grrr.:angry:
 
i doubt it's DVX, but i bet its digital. In fact I strongly believe its either HVX or Sony's Z1. It looks a lot like footage I've seen from those.

and yes, with a 35mm adapter
 
I love digibeta cams. Thats what they shoot the new Doctor Who on. I think it would be awesome if those cams prices plummeted after HD takes over a bit more. Doubtful though.
 
Thank you cheesesailor77! You found it!! That helped a lot. So it was Digibeta and therefore 2/3". The latitude quite impressed me. Is the latitude of Digibeta much higher than the one of the DVX? Is it comparable to the AJ-SDX900 or to the HVX?
 
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I dont think the digibeta is in the same league as the DVX - unless you're talking about an andromeda equipped one
 
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