Teddy_Dem
Well-known member
I started watching this show, and really liked how the night scenes looked. Thought to myself that it must be shot on the Varicam, looked it up and I was right. The DP is Vanja Cernjul ASC (Orange Is the New Black, Nurse Jackie).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3oFBrpQ0fU
https://www.sportsvideo.org/2017/09...-the-deuce-with-panasonic-varicam-35-cameras/
http://www.postmagazine.com/Publica...ptember-1-2017/Color-HBOs-I-The-Deuce-I-.aspx
Some excerpts:
"Cernjul used VariCam 35s for the series. Since HBO does not require 4K acquisition, he shot Full HD (1920×1080) ProRes files at 23.98 fps. The lenses he used were Panavision PVintage primes, which were also used on the pilot. “I knew beforehand how unpredictable the lenses could be,” he says. “Sometimes, when you open them up, some of the lenses start to fall apart, which is why I knew I needed a fast camera. It was one of the reasons I gave the VariCam a try.
“I tested the VariCam against the Alexa with a lot of different lenses,” he continues. “The results just blew me away. I tested all the different ISO ratings and found the sweet spot for what we wanted to do with the LUTs, which Senior Colorist Sam Daley at Technicolor PostWorks NY helped create for the show, was 3,200, dropped down from 5,000. I got a very clean and beautiful image that worked really well with the LUT we were using. The clean image was important for me because we made a choice to treat the whole series with a texturizer called Live Grain, which made it feel like a real film grain. I didn’t want this grain to interact with the noise of the camera so it was important to have a clean image to begin with and texturize it to have more control.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3oFBrpQ0fU
https://www.sportsvideo.org/2017/09...-the-deuce-with-panasonic-varicam-35-cameras/
http://www.postmagazine.com/Publica...ptember-1-2017/Color-HBOs-I-The-Deuce-I-.aspx
Some excerpts:
"Cernjul used VariCam 35s for the series. Since HBO does not require 4K acquisition, he shot Full HD (1920×1080) ProRes files at 23.98 fps. The lenses he used were Panavision PVintage primes, which were also used on the pilot. “I knew beforehand how unpredictable the lenses could be,” he says. “Sometimes, when you open them up, some of the lenses start to fall apart, which is why I knew I needed a fast camera. It was one of the reasons I gave the VariCam a try.
“I tested the VariCam against the Alexa with a lot of different lenses,” he continues. “The results just blew me away. I tested all the different ISO ratings and found the sweet spot for what we wanted to do with the LUTs, which Senior Colorist Sam Daley at Technicolor PostWorks NY helped create for the show, was 3,200, dropped down from 5,000. I got a very clean and beautiful image that worked really well with the LUT we were using. The clean image was important for me because we made a choice to treat the whole series with a texturizer called Live Grain, which made it feel like a real film grain. I didn’t want this grain to interact with the noise of the camera so it was important to have a clean image to begin with and texturize it to have more control.”