It just occurred to me that no one has ever mentioned the doc. on here (which hasn't found US distb. yet) that won the doc. cinematography award at the 2014 Sundance fest. "Happiness" http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13928/happiness
Thomas Balmès, the director, said he used an F3 because the Red was too risky in such a remote place and filmmakers he knew had too many problems with them, as well as too many pieces to bother with to make it work, and the Arri was too heavy/expensive. He said that he loved how the F3 performed and it fitted a remote doc shoot perfectly. He also wanted it due to facing lots of low light and high contrast situations. (I agree after doing two feature docs with one)
It was shot S-log to a KiPro mini and later traded it out to a Ninja I believe.
Thomas Balmès, the director, said he used an F3 because the Red was too risky in such a remote place and filmmakers he knew had too many problems with them, as well as too many pieces to bother with to make it work, and the Arri was too heavy/expensive. He said that he loved how the F3 performed and it fitted a remote doc shoot perfectly. He also wanted it due to facing lots of low light and high contrast situations. (I agree after doing two feature docs with one)
It was shot S-log to a KiPro mini and later traded it out to a Ninja I believe.
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