Planet Earth Settings

This was PRIMARILY shot with 35mm film. SUPER 35mm in fact. Some 70mm, and another whole lot Super16mm. A majority of this series was shot on film. Then there was some HDCAM and a very small amount of Varicam. If it was the hyper slow motion, it was 35mm running at 200fps. And the rest was 24fps.

I met one of the cinematographers.
 
Shane;
With respect, I don't think this was the case at all.

AFAIK most of the series was shot on Varicam, at 25 FPS - This is logical, as Planet Earth was produced by the BBC.

The slow motion stuff was done digitally, using a high speed camera normally used for crash tests etc. There is footage in the diaries section of the cameraman shooting with this, and swapping over to a Varicam while the footage is copied onto a laptop.

Apparently a lot of the stuff shot in the arctic was done on film, although I'm not sure whether it was 16 or 35 - but I've seen footage where they were using Aaton cameras.

Most of the timelapse work was done on DSLRs - IIRC they used a Canon EOS 20D, although some was done on 16mm - Warwick Sloss had to have his Arri overhauled after timelapsing the approach of a sand storm.
 
Thanks, from all the books I have read about this production 90+% has been shot on a varicam... In the -30c temps in antartica they used film. Alsoa Sony 750 has a few prts in it,,, From what I'm being told 90+% was sot on sony f750 and panasonic varicam.... The older siries of Planet Earth "Blur Planet" was shot more on film. before the new one was shot in HD.
 
Ben...you are correct, and I was mistaken. I just corresponded with one of the camera guys and he mentioned a few things...

" there was a significant amount of super 16..." "The bulk was shot on Panasonic varicam. A large portion was shot on 3-perf 35mm. And some was also shot on HS video as well as digital slr's. Some 435s were used - top speed 150fps - like the 16mm HSR Arris. Some of the Varicam footage was slowed down as well in post. We tested the Sony cameras but they decided to go with Panasonic in the end."

So I was HUGELY mistaken...pardon me for passing along misinformation.
 
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