Beyond the Boundaries: Camera Workshop 13th Oct 2015

13th  Oct Tuesday

With Dave Cooper, Anne Parisio and Noski Deville G28 Photography Studio.

We got our first camera workshop in which we were given brief introductions into four different cameras we had to decide from to use for our final year work weather individual or collaboration. The following cameras being: C300, BlackMagic URSA, GH4 and EX 3 and the 305.

As we tested out the cameras myself and Tom tested out both the C300 and the URSA to see which would be bettter to film D-eb31e on  and to see the look it would give.

 

Being the DOP on D-eb31e, comparing both URSA and C300, the C300 has more of an advantage and can be mounted various accessories such as the Glidecam or the Motion Control slider. It has a smiliar menu to the XF305 and can be connedted to the Samurai Blade.  And can do 10bit in Avid's DNxHD. The plus side to the C300 is that it gives a clean pleasurable image but gives an artificial sharpening which can be fixed through the cameras menu.

The Blackmagic URSA however is massive and bulky and would be impossible for heavy duty rig.
The image on the URSA is absolutely great and has a natural cinematic look to it. And would be great for colour grading. And would prefer to use the URSA as the main camera for film projects.