abreu-canedo
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This is a shoulder rig that I'm testing during pre-pro for a shoot late r this month.
SONY F65 HAND-HELD RIG (Playing with fire on the banister...haha) Doing some Pre-Production tests for a short film shooting late August. A lot of handheld in tight locations. Testing out a short zoom lens (17-50mm) and a matte-box for filters: 1/4 Digital Diffusion, Circular Polarizer and 1/8 Pro-Mist. The F65 shoots such a clean and high resolution image that I find filters very useful...in the same way that I try to choose vintage lenses with what would now be considered defects, to add character to the image. This is in contrast to the film days where the film itself was already organic, so it was more important to capture that organicness as cleanly as possible...with Master Primes, and such. But in digital, I rely more on the optics and filters for a certain "organic" quality. ---The French new wave are recognized for their contributions at the time cameras became light enough to put on your shoulder. They would say a comfortable camera that sits balanced on your shoulder was like "a cat on the shoulder". While the F65 is the second heaviest cinema camera (only 2lbs lighter than the comparable Arri Alexa), it does sit nicely balanced on your shoulder. Jean-Luc Goddard might say it is the Maine Coon of cameras.
SONY F65 HAND-HELD RIG (Playing with fire on the banister...haha) Doing some Pre-Production tests for a short film shooting late August. A lot of handheld in tight locations. Testing out a short zoom lens (17-50mm) and a matte-box for filters: 1/4 Digital Diffusion, Circular Polarizer and 1/8 Pro-Mist. The F65 shoots such a clean and high resolution image that I find filters very useful...in the same way that I try to choose vintage lenses with what would now be considered defects, to add character to the image. This is in contrast to the film days where the film itself was already organic, so it was more important to capture that organicness as cleanly as possible...with Master Primes, and such. But in digital, I rely more on the optics and filters for a certain "organic" quality. ---The French new wave are recognized for their contributions at the time cameras became light enough to put on your shoulder. They would say a comfortable camera that sits balanced on your shoulder was like "a cat on the shoulder". While the F65 is the second heaviest cinema camera (only 2lbs lighter than the comparable Arri Alexa), it does sit nicely balanced on your shoulder. Jean-Luc Goddard might say it is the Maine Coon of cameras.
