Compare field of view between formats and lenses

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Mar 202011
 

Able Cine has built a great rep as a go to source for modern day videographers and cinematographers. They stock not only the cameras and major hardware that we all need, but many of essential bits and pieces to fill out a package. Sometimes even developing their own hardware to fill a void such as their lens collimator. My most favorite tool is their field of view calculator which allows you t o compare the field of view (FOV) of particular lens of one sensor to another. For instance, if you want to see how much a 50mm lens covers on a RED One Camera compared to a Arri Alexa this is the tool for you. It’s mobile friendly and works great on iPhones and iPads –iIt even warrants a weblink on my iphone home screen.It’s free, check it out here.

To read more about it, Abe Cine has this overview.

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Zeiss Compact Primes used on Zeiss Commercial

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Nov 022010
 

Last year we produced a national spot for Zeiss Vision using our Red One. Of course, it was a natural to use Zeiss optics and the spot turned out great. We partnered on the creative and shot the spot on green screen in our studio space. All the VFX was done in house and using the 4K real estate of the RED image we did all re-cropping and zooms in post. This was shot with the original Mysterium chip in our Red One.

I have included a behind the scenes little promo we did for their national meeting in this clip.

Hope you enjoy.

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True Nature trailer posted in HD – Shot with Red #15

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Jun 202010
 

We received our cameras in 2007 and one of the first projects our cameras worked on outside of internal projects was a film called True Nature. As with most indie films, it took some time for them to wrap up all the shooting and post, but the film is now complete and looking for distribution. Here is a link to the trailer

The DP was Marco Fargnoli and Jeff Killian was our DIT who got them going on location in Ohio. Marco has some TIFF’s pulled from the original R3D files that you may enjoy. The film was lit beautifully and they were able to shoot as if they were shooting on celluloid.

True Nature - Hospital Scene

True Nature - Bedroom Scene

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Breast Cancer Foundation video shot on RED

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Feb 262010
 

This is a clip from a video we produced in early 2009. The objective of the video was to demonstrate the value of early detection in the prevention of breast cancer. We shot all of the interviews at our Santa Ana studio and B-roll on location in Orange County – all with our RED cameras.

The “doctors office” in the above clip is actually just a empty file cabinet, a c-stand playing the part of a coat rack, a couple of plagues from around our office and a random collection of books. Control of depth of field, along with minimal art direction and appropriate wardrobe created affordable, and instant credibility.

We recommend that you watch this in HD and in full screen. To choose HD, hit play first, then use the toggle in the control bar and select 720P, then click the 4 arrows to expand to full screen. Click the My favorite parts are the interviews with Dr. John West and the motion graphics.

UPDATE: We are proud to announce that we won another national award for this video. This one a Silver Reel from the MCAI (Media Communicators Alliance International), formally known as the ITVA.

Tech notes: Shot on RED ONE, 4K, 24fps, RED 18-85, 18-50, 50-150.  Post was done in FCP with the proxies, then online via RED cine in FCP. Color timing was done with Colorista.

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Mysterium X v Mysterium shoot out

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Feb 202010
 

Well our RED #15 is back in house with the upgraded X sensor and we are scheduling our shoot out this Friday, Feb 26. A small group of DP’s are getting together with us to put the Mysterium X through it’s paces and comparing it to our good ol’ Mysterium. We have a nice shot list planned, but are happy to consider some additional requests to really challenge the X sensor.

My friend Micheal Cioni at Lightiron Digital shot some comparative tests that technically show the differences between the sensors in various light conditions. We hope our tests show the real world equivalent.

Note our tests are just to understand the differences between the sensors, as it is us obvious by now that the upgrade is a no brainer decision for most RED ONE owners.

Depending on our job schedule, immediately after the test we will be sending in our second camera, #16 for the upgrade and will be the only house in the area with two RED cameras upgraded to Mysterium X. Hoorah.

If you want to shoot any tests drop us a line.

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