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Soderbergh is a wild man...

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I love Steven Soderbergh's style. He shoots "Guerrilla" with two RED beta prototypes, "Mars" and "Bombay", in the steaming hot jungles of Spain. He wraps and tells film "he has met someone". Then... he decides to be brave (once again) and shoot "The Argentine" in SoderScope. He is now using "Paris" and "Beijing", two of our 25 pre-production cameras, and shooting anamorphic. Who would have thunk it?

It turns out that Steven has so much confidence in RED resolution that he is using only about 2.4K's worth of RED... with a completely different look for each movie.

There aren't many Academy Award winning Directors with as big o' balls as Steven. Gotta love it. You heard it 1st on reduser.net.

Jim
 
2.4Ks

2.4Ks

2.4K? Jim, does that mean he's shooting that amount of the sensor? Or am I missing something?
 
I think it means he's masking and only planning to use the center of the sensor.

Does this mean he'll be able to use the 72fps option? Is it possible, since the 2.4K is a bit more than 2K, to expand the resolution and lower the fps so you could set it to "Soderscope" and get, say, 65fps?

Exciting news! I can't wait to see the first trailers, clips and through-the-camera stills.
 
Soderscope? huh? confusion!
 
He is just using the center of the frame with an amamorphic squeeze. It is pretty awesome how many creative things can be done with plenty of pixels...

Jim
 
ah... he's taking advantage of the different looks you can achieve to tailor his artistic taste. I like that. Sorta like how the end of "28 days later" was shot in film.
 
If he's shooting masked for Sorderscope that means he has to project in 2K then right. No upressing or future proofed 4K? That's interesting and interesting. I'm sure he knows what he's doing. I'm very interested in the "LOOK" afterwards.
 
the point is... he has choices. and he's using it.
 
2.4k's worth of Red, hmm. So it is being cropped at each side from 4096 pixels wide down to about 2458 pixels, which gets us from the current default 2:1 aspect ratio down to a 1.67:1 ratio, which could also be written as a 5:3 aspect ratio- is that Soderscope (?)
 
jbeale said:
2.4k's worth of Red, hmm. So it is being cropped at each side from 4096 pixels wide down to about 2458 pixels, which gets us from the current default 2:1 aspect ratio down to a 1.67:1 ratio, which could also be written as a 5:3 aspect ratio- is that Soderscope (?)
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I think that is pretty close... maybe not quite that many pixels wide.

Jim
 
A reduser forum member summed it up best regarding cropped vs scaled...

"Crop is Crap"

lmao
 
Tom said:
A reduser forum member summed it up best regarding cropped vs scaled...

"Crop is Crap"

lmao
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That doesn't appear to be the case here... SoderScope.

Jim
 
Is it an anamorphic squeeze or is it a crop?

Is it an anamorphic squeeze or is it a crop?

Jannard said:
He is just using the center of the frame with an amamorphic squeeze.

Jim
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Is it an anamorphic squeeze or is it a crop? If you are squeezing you need an anamorphic lens. If that is possible, to mount an anamorphic lens, shoot squeezed 4:3 at 4K and then project it anamorphic? That will be crazy it will give the options to shoot at any aspect ratio that was available in the history of film making and there more than hundred
 
Soderbergh is shooting Panavision C-Series anamorphic lenses...

Jim
 
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