Bit of a Milestone …
Posted in Latest, News - April 10, 2010 - tim
For those of you out there that are camera gearheads, you may or may not be aware of what many would consider to be a quiet milestone in the film production story.
On May 17 evidently the season finale of House will air on television. Not big news except for this: while House has – like many major television productions – been shot on 35 mm film, this season finale was shot in HD digital. But that’s still not the most interesting part: the episode was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II – a DSLR.
A camera that to most lay-people looks just like any other pro-sumer Canon or Nikon digital single lens reflex camera. And, well, is.
A brief exchange with the director of the show can be read here (on Phillip Bloom’s site – an HD DSLR pro who recently visited a neighbor of mine George Lucas at Skywalker ranch – that link is here).
To reprise: a major television show shot with a handheld DSLR, using mostly Canon lenses, by hand or with tripods, for broadcast.
I’ll let that just sit with you a little bit …
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