I wonder what Jack Cardiff would think of the Scarlet/Epic....

[Trevor Meeks]

I'll just leave this here...

 

[Roy Rossovich]

Haha Jesus... That's a massive camera. I want to order one!

 

[Sergio Perez]

It needs a 3D Rig!

 

[Andy White]

Jack Cardiff was an artist with light.

I shudder to think what amazing results he'd achieve... Black Narcissus is one of my favourite movies in terms of colour pallette/lighting and the use of stage/studio shooting rather than locations. It's got that 'magical' Cardiff feel.

I'm sure he'd produce something stunning, if he was still with us.

 

[Adam Levins]

We used to dress so nice! what ever happened to style in the camera dept?

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

We used to dress so nice! what ever happened to style in the camera dept?

lol i thought the same
cameraman the life and work of Jack Cardiff is amazing documentary

 

[Arnold F.]

I'm betting he knew better than to try to shoot and do his own sound. What changed?

 

[Jim McKinney]

We used to dress so nice! what ever happened to style in the camera dept?

I remember a still from the 30's or 40's where the entire crew is waist deep in a water tank - and everyone is in a white collared shirt and necktie.

Things went downhill in the 70's and early 80's, but have much improved since then.

 

[Jack Shanahan]

There was a great doc about him on TV the other day:

Camera Man | The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

 

[Justin R Goff]

Awesome picture, wish we could get a side by side next to the EPIC or Scarlet

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

We used to dress so nice! what ever happened to style in the camera dept?

They left the soundstage?

 

[Trevor Meeks]

There was a great doc about him on TV the other day:

Camera Man | The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

cameraman the life and work of Jack Cardiff is amazing documentary

That's exactly what I was watching lastnight when I posted this. Saw the photo, and they were talking about the first time he ramped frame rates and how they were having to move these huge cameras through that set for a single shot sequence... such great stuff man!

 

[Peter Staubs]

There was a great doc about him on TV the other day:

Camera Man | The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

I enjoyed that, very cool!

 

[Mitch Gross]

And that's just the handheld rig!

 

[James Bridges]

Just saw it last night, incredible doc.

 

[Chris Henze]

I'm always blown away when I see the scale of the cameras and am further blown away when I realize that cameras of this scale were used to make movies like "Rope" and "Citizen Kane". It's not just the size film wasn't that sensitive to light, sound recording, editing by holding strips of film up to a light or a moviola. Who here has actually cut film? Negative? I was lucky enough to. We truly have it easy today.

Which leads me to a rant; sorry. I went to see a live performance of the New York City ballet and reminded that even with all the technical sophistication of today's equipment to record and project. And with over 100 years of collective film telling experience it's is still rare to see a film that captures and posses the excitement, color and energy, of a live performance. I was once again humbled at how difficult it is to "create" reality, a humility which I'd say because of the "easy" access to equipment is in short supply.

Let's use all this good stuff make better movies. END of RANT.

 

[Trevor Meeks]

Chris, that's what the [RANT] and [/RANT] tags are for

 

[stu aull]

Great image. thanks for posting. Will have to look up the Doc. And me bitching about towing my BVW betacam around. Paa! kids....

Stu Aull
Alaska

 

[Lorenzo Straight]

That's a truck, with a lens and a spot light attached

 

[Marc Wielage]

That's a Red, Green, and Blue camera!