Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" uses Z1s and HVXs

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Barry_Green

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Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" used Sony Z1s in CineFrame 25 mode and Panasonic HVX200s, according to Liz Radley, one of the camera operators on the film. Sounds like they wanted to use the HVX even more but the limited recording time available to them back when the film was shooting made the Z1 the more practical choice for the specific purpose they put them to (which was rather unique; they put the cameras in ammunition crates and started them recording, and then handed them to extras and told 'em to carry the boxes with them as the soldiers stormed the beach.) Ms. Radley says that she used the HVX for "the extensive behind-the-scenes shooting, and occasionally used it for image capture intended for the movie, and some of those shots are in the final cut of Letters From Iwo Jima. "


http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,159108,159108#msg-159108
 
I received my Millimeter Mag and there is a real good article in there and some good photos. also a podcast of interview with Clint
digitalcontentproducer.com/podcast

I gonna check it out tonight
Mule
 
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Pretty cool. I'll have to check it out. I'm working with one of the editors on that film, so I'll have to ask him about that. I'm wondering if they used the Z1U in PAL for 25fps, as opposed to Cineframe. Where is Cineframe mode mentioned?
 
25fps = cineframe 25. interlaced high-def = 50i. I don't know that they specifically said "cineframe" anywhere, but I'd bet a hundred bucks that they were running CF25.
 
Really? I thought there was a resolution loss in Cineframe which, if going out to film, would want to be avoided. Adam Wilt: "If I were going out to film, I'd stay with 60i or 50i in the camera, preserving as much resolution as possible and capturing the most temporal information I can. I'd leave it up to the film-out process to intelligently resample field or frame data as it saw fit to get the best possible image with the fewest possible motion artifacts." I guess it's possible the used 25 Cineframe, but I wonder why? Isn't that just for a simulated film look? Since they are actually going to film, I figured they'd choose resolution=PAL 50i (25 frames/50 fields). It's so common to go from PAL to film. I mean ideally, they'd choose 24p, but apparently there wasn't a good option at the time for their requirements. Personally, I don;t know what everyone has against Cineframe. I don't think it looks that bad as everyone says - jsut different.
 
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