Film Festival for early (i.e., pre-ARRI Alexa) digital cinema cameras

[drboffa]

28 days later was shot with PAL XL1 cameras in its frame movie mode using Canon HD-EC Prime B4 lenses and the optex XL to B4 adapter. Camera was also in 4:3 mode and they matted for widescreen, so, if you find a 4:3 version, maybe on a VHS you will be seeing the entire signal of the camera but not what the filmmakers intented the ratio to be of course. For "Slumdog Millionare" they used a mixture of 35mm and the SI-2K camera hooked to computers in backpacks for mobility.

I capture my old Mini DV tapes from the early/mid 2000s on a Panasonic AJ-HD1400 via HD SDI and it captures as 1080psf/23.98 and looks beautiful! Best the tapes have looked!

Heres an example. Footage was shot by me in 2007 on a Canon XL2 and custom Anamorphic Lens and I captured the tape raw and re cut the footage.

The footage looks great! What kind of grading are you doing, if any?

 

[Mike Krumlauf]

The footage looks great! What kind of grading are you doing, if any?

No grading, this was all in camera. The XL2 was one of the cameras were I tried getting the “look” baked in given DV is very unforgiving with grading due to how compressed it is.