OT: Shooting with mobile phones

farss wrote on 1/19/2005, 10:12 PM
Just finished reading a bit of the ASC mag about a spot shot for Motorola using 6 Motorola V170 phones mounted on a 'special' camera mount. The resulting six videos were composited together to give quite an interesting result.
The two minute films were shot by Ed Lachman ASC. He compared the technique to one used in 1870 by Muybridge who used arrays of still cameras to study animal and human movement.

Sorry, this has nothing to do with Vegas, they used a G5 for editing and it was color graded by a pro but it could easily have been done with Vegas. Interesting point though is that Lachman who'se used to shooting 35mm came up with the idea, how many of us would fall over laughing at the thought of using cameras that shoot 176x220?

Bob.

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apit34356 wrote on 1/19/2005, 10:22 PM
farss, not that long ago, a well known photographer stop using his slr and started using a cheap 35 mm camera, the fashion world in NY and Hollywood fell over themselves trying to be part of the "new" scene.... What's new is what was old yesterday.
farss wrote on 1/19/2005, 10:48 PM
I know there's a lot of hubris around this kind of thing but it's not all BS. I lived next to a pro stills guy, had all the latest gear that he used for his living yet his favourite cmaeras were old teak and brass monsters from a long bygone era. Nothing today takes images like thoss old things, I'm not saying their better, that'd be plain dumb, but there is something about what those old uncoated lenses do with light that I doubt any amount of digital trickery can emulate exactly.

At the same time in the same ASC mag there's a lot of info about Polar Express. They invested a lot of time to emulate the look of the original illustrations that were done with layered crayon. They got the exact look and it seems each frame looked just like a painting. Except when viewed as moving images it looked really bad so they abandoned the idea.
Bob.
Stonefield wrote on 1/19/2005, 10:55 PM
I thought that was so funny when I read the Subject line here cause not 2 minutes before, I just finished watching CELLULAR. Not a bad flick actually. It's a popcorn movie so don't look for anything too deep.

As far as pro's who work with all the "latest" gear over the purists who work with their older classic tools.....I'm of both schools, I still love my old Nikon cameras and lenses. They've seen a lot of pretty girls in their day.

But Never knock us guys that want to have the latest equipment though, cause....hey, we're GUYS, and we love our toys....heh.
BrianStanding wrote on 1/20/2005, 10:05 AM
I have one foot planted in each of both worlds: my PD-150 sits on top of a 1960-vintage wooden Miller tripod; I scan still 35mm photos taken with my old Pentax SLR into my Sony VAIO laptop; I use hoary old EV635 news mikes plugged into my Echo Audio card; I use both a copy stand AND Vegas 3D motion tools for animation sequences.

Whatever gets the job done.

patreb wrote on 1/20/2005, 12:57 PM
I'm shooting my next commercial with digital still camera in seqential shooting mode... Very short glimpses in someone's life. The tests looks spectacular and since the lowest res is 1280x960 then it's like shooting HD...