Camera inside pinball machine - what small camera best cuts with Helium?

[Donald MJ Anderson]

As per title - got to get a camera into a pinball machine for some close to balls eye view. Rest of the show is shot with Helium sensor. Would anyone have advice on the best small form camera to cut with the Weapon?

Thanks

Donnie

 

[R. Gonzales]

As per title - got to get a camera into a pinball machine for some close to balls eye view. Rest of the show is shot with Helium sensor. Would anyone have advice on the best small form camera to cut with the Weapon?

Thanks

Donnie

Try using a mirror or a snorkel lens system. For example:

https://www.arrirental.de/camera/lenses/specialized-lenses/periscope-snorkel-lenses/

 

[Simon_G]

Try using a mirror or a snorkel lens system. For example:

https://www.arrirental.de/camera/lenses/specialized-lenses/periscope-snorkel-lenses/

That's neat!

 

[Clint Lealos]

Snorkel lenses are the way to go for sure. If it has to be a small camera, I'd say the Black Magic Micro Cinema camera is a good, fast, and easy choice. It can record RAW or ProRes HQ. The Rokinon 7.5 M4/3 lens is cool on that S16 size sensor, and the whole unit is tiny. Definitely has plenty of distortion though. The 12mm has much less distortion and is almost 2 stops faster, but might not be wide enough for your needs. The Rokinon 10mm is huge and won't work for your needs. Obviously, there are tons of good M4/3 lenses out there to choose from. Good luck!

 

[Tommaso Alvisi]

the pana 7-14 is very good for the BMMCC or even the older oly 9-18, and both (especially the latter) quite compact!

BMMCC rules for these sort of things btw...

 

[Björn Benckert]

Best snorkel for this I would say would be the revolution lens system, or the arri periscope mentioned above. But I shot something similar with just taking everything of camera and flipping it upside down with macro lens. Then you reach pretty down low if you push camera onto the floor / surface.

One thing though... You want massive amount of light, no matter what lens as you want to stay on as high stop as possible. Since that will compensate the macro shot dof. So F32 or such is where you want to be.