Some random guys were shooting a music video with a Varicam today...coupled with a bunch of lenses and a massive glidecam it was apparently a $160,000 set up. Anyhow, it's a sweet looking (and MASSIVE) camera....
The guy said that even with the varicam, the skies are always blown out on overcast days (like today). He used a 1/4 double fog filter combined with a 1 promist and it gave the skies a really soft, non-chromatic-abberationy look that resembled film remarkably closeley. It was too fuzzy and blown to to really look like film, but that was the effect they were looking for. The promist/fog combo allegedly allows you to blow out highlights and have them look fine, though, and it appeared to do that very well.
The guy said that even with the varicam, the skies are always blown out on overcast days (like today). He used a 1/4 double fog filter combined with a 1 promist and it gave the skies a really soft, non-chromatic-abberationy look that resembled film remarkably closeley. It was too fuzzy and blown to to really look like film, but that was the effect they were looking for. The promist/fog combo allegedly allows you to blow out highlights and have them look fine, though, and it appeared to do that very well.
