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Laurent:
I’m attaching a link that might interest some of your video centric crowd. It’s a trailer, it’s in 4K, French spoken but with English and Spanish subs.
I directed and shot this web-series, that will be presented at the MIPCOM film market next week, using a Sony a6500 and an a6300 as B-camera. Lenses were a mix of Zeiss glass Touit, Batis as well as some Sony-Zeiss. I chose those cameras for the autofocus speed/size ratio, and they did not disappoint. Setting was SLOG2 as I felt that with the 8-bit and 4-2-0 (about time to step things up on that regard Sony!!) it was more satisfying in tests compared to SLOG3.
The video files were post-produced in UHD by adding a layer of very slight 4K Film Grain, a layer of diffusion to selectively blow the highlights and a final letterboxing layer as we were delivering in the 2.0 aspect ratio. Edit was done in FCPX. The episodes were then graded on DaVinci Resolve.
We produced a DCP and did a premiere on one of the biggest screens in Paris (the Max Linder Cinema), which it turns out had a 2.0 ratio. So the image was projected on a roughly 110 square meter screen. At first I was afraid the grain structure would be as thick as basketballs, turns out the quality was impeccable.
I was happily surprised how well a little 900€ camera you can buy on Amazon held up to the rigours of a film set and produced a quality image. The a6500 is already a bit old by now, I certainly hope the A7S3, although there is no perfect camera, does stand tall in front of the competition, at least codec wise.
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