UPDATE: 5D Mark II in Major TV Production
A quick but substantial update to the earlier post about the 5-camera Canon 5D Mark II rig used for the TV show “24″. Here, DP Rodney Charters and Sam Nicholson (from Stargate) go into much greater detail and show the rig in action.
They see these cameras playing increasingly significant roles on high-end productions. They have been using the 5D and 1D for B-roll and for all plates shot for “24″, and are now moving it into principal photography as “2nd unit and very soon to be 1st unit”.
They’re also in discussions with Canon about making full cinema lenses for these new cameras with functional auto-focus while shooting, potentially with facial recognition software determining the auto-focus point. “They’ve got the technology, they’re right on the edge of it. But the image quality is already there 1,000%.”
See for yourself…
…from Stargate Studios
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