I just got a preview DVD of the short from my friend who directed and edited it.
It was shot on a HPX500 with a P+S Pro35 adapter and three Zeiss HS lenses 25mm, 50mm and 85mm all T1.3 (that is F1.2)
It was my first time shooting with a 35mm adapter of any kind, but I have to say the Pro35 on the HPX500 is almost like using a normal lens, pretty straightforward.
I shot everything with the lenses wide open, the look is just amazing, especially with the 50 and 85mm. The lenses have a kind of dreamy look to the bokeh, almost like when in old films they used to span dior stockings on the back of the lens for a softening effect.
Unfortunately the lenses and the follow focus were really old, and focussing them needed a lot of physical force. They were exact and smooth, no doubt about that, but they were really hard steering.
So I pulled the focus myself while shooting (we tried someone else pulling focus and it always ended up with shaky footage) using the 2" 16:9 viewfinder as reference. It went really well although it is an SD viewfinder. Only once would my assistant yell "out of focus!" from behind the 24" HD monitor.
I also had a Marshall 7" HD monitor on the camera at first, but that proved to be really useless for focussing.
The whole film takes place in a supermarket - let me tell you, supermarkets are super bright! I wasn't aware of that before. We were shooting at the cash register where it was a little darker, so I thought we brighten it up with two or three 1kWs or 800W open face fixtures.
We ended up using seven 800W and three 1kW open face tungsten lamps bounced from the white ceiling to match the overall brightness of the location...
All the lamps were hidden behind shelves so we were able to "re-light" scenes by just switching one or two lights off and on again. I used one additional 800W with a foamcore reflector for a quick fill light here and there, but that was it - time was critical, we had to do about 70 shots with 10 people in 10 hours. We really had to - we were glad to get the supermarket to ourselves for a whole day (it was a Sunday, but nonetheless...)
Here are some screenshots - they are only taken from the DVD, so they are nowhere near the original Full HD quality, but you can still see the amazing look these lenses were giving us with their F1.2
btw. the grading is a little too desaturated for my taste, but this is just a preview...
It was shot on a HPX500 with a P+S Pro35 adapter and three Zeiss HS lenses 25mm, 50mm and 85mm all T1.3 (that is F1.2)
It was my first time shooting with a 35mm adapter of any kind, but I have to say the Pro35 on the HPX500 is almost like using a normal lens, pretty straightforward.
I shot everything with the lenses wide open, the look is just amazing, especially with the 50 and 85mm. The lenses have a kind of dreamy look to the bokeh, almost like when in old films they used to span dior stockings on the back of the lens for a softening effect.
Unfortunately the lenses and the follow focus were really old, and focussing them needed a lot of physical force. They were exact and smooth, no doubt about that, but they were really hard steering.
So I pulled the focus myself while shooting (we tried someone else pulling focus and it always ended up with shaky footage) using the 2" 16:9 viewfinder as reference. It went really well although it is an SD viewfinder. Only once would my assistant yell "out of focus!" from behind the 24" HD monitor.
I also had a Marshall 7" HD monitor on the camera at first, but that proved to be really useless for focussing.
The whole film takes place in a supermarket - let me tell you, supermarkets are super bright! I wasn't aware of that before. We were shooting at the cash register where it was a little darker, so I thought we brighten it up with two or three 1kWs or 800W open face fixtures.
We ended up using seven 800W and three 1kW open face tungsten lamps bounced from the white ceiling to match the overall brightness of the location...
All the lamps were hidden behind shelves so we were able to "re-light" scenes by just switching one or two lights off and on again. I used one additional 800W with a foamcore reflector for a quick fill light here and there, but that was it - time was critical, we had to do about 70 shots with 10 people in 10 hours. We really had to - we were glad to get the supermarket to ourselves for a whole day (it was a Sunday, but nonetheless...)
Here are some screenshots - they are only taken from the DVD, so they are nowhere near the original Full HD quality, but you can still see the amazing look these lenses were giving us with their F1.2
btw. the grading is a little too desaturated for my taste, but this is just a preview...
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