What Red camera is best for filming movies?

[FREUDENBERG_FILMS]

freudenberg_films - you might want to take a closer look at star wars attack of the clones that you where refering to. the amount of cg in that pic is missleading - i always thought. observing the bit of actors and props that where actually shot - not computer generated - where interestingly unsofisticated looking.

in fact, lucas stated (can't recall the source anymore though) after shooting the new star wars movies, that he wouldn't necesarily shoot everything on digital cameras anymore but choose the right format for each occasion.

tanner

Very true. His future movie based on the first African American fighter pilots will be shot on 35mm I believe Mr Lucas stated. But a lot of his elements and models where not all computer generated either. ILM have a saying when it comes to effects and that is if it can be done in camera then we will do it in camera. Why build a city in 3D when it can be done practically in half the time and still have the same effect.

Don't get me wrong I love my HVX202en camera. The reason I bough it was for it's image quality and its 4.2.2 pull down. The 4.2.2 allows me to pull a far better key out of my footage then say a DVX100a. In fact I'm shooting a shot film on the HVX but I want to make a 90 min TV movie once I finished. The HVX could pull it off but I want a camera that I can make a real nice DOF. Sure you can stick an adapter on the front to do this on the HVX but you lose image quality. I only want to lose image quality if I want to add filters and add noise in post. A kind of byproduct of the new HD technology I thinks.

 

[FREUDENBERG_FILMS]

Something to keep in mind:

Most of what is seen in Star Wars Episode II is actually CG backgrounds and special effects. I wouldn't use that particular movie as a good example of how a 2/3" camera will look on the big screen, because it's mostly computer animation.

A better reference would be a movie like Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Robert Rodriguez used the F900 (or was it the 950?), and it looked pretty darn good. Other good reference movies are Zodiac, and the Planet Earth documentary.

I would expect the 2/3" Scarlet to deliver better results, provided that the footage is well lit, composed, etc...

Point taken and very true, I was more looking at the foreground elements in the footage itself then the CGI matte paintings and 3D elements. I likes the clean matte lines around the foreground inages and it held up well on the silver screen, didn't look like a cheap camera shot it. I hope the 2/3 RED pulls off a better image also because the price is a hell of a lot cheaper.