One of First Movies Shot All on DSLR Launches Trailer & Heads to Sundance
A DSLR Canon 5d Mark II was used to shoot this 9-minute short film. Do you notice a difference in quality?
Here is an excerpt from the interview with director Joshua Grossberg on the livebooks blog.
MJ: Did shooting with a DSLR significantly change the way you thought about directing the film?
JG: Absolutely! Before the 5D, I took a rather dim view to digital filmmaking, mainly because I had yet to see a camera — the Red included — that I thought truly lived up to the persistence of vision that comes with celluloid and that didn’t make me aware of the fact that I was looking at pixels. While you’re still dealing with electronic image processors and mega-pixels with the 5D, the results blew me away, particularly in what the DSLR could achieve in low-light situations. The wide latitude it gives filmmakers allows us to do, for instance, magic-hour filming without having to rent expensive HMIs and other cumbersome equipment to get the exposure.
