DEFINITION’S 4K CAMERA LIST
SONY VENICE BASED ON:
Smithard’s camera choice had to be something cinematic, and it needed to have a different look to the TV series, which had been shot on Arri’s Alexa since Season 2. He explains: “I wanted to broaden the horizon of the image and make it bigger. I needed a camera that had a wider range of colour, contrast and luminance. In an ideal world, I would have shot Downton Abbey on 35mm or 65mm film, but that wasn’t really an option. So, I shot it on the best camera and best lenses that I could get hold of, and when you see it on the big screen, you’ll hopefully see what I was trying to achieve.” Sony’s Venice was paired with Zeiss Supreme Prime glass, a companion lens for LF cameras. Smithard used the 25mm, 29mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 100mm, and explains, “We got one of the first few sets, and I thought they were going to be a little bit too sharp or a little bit too crisp, but they’re actually really good.” To create a different look to the TV series, DOP Ben Smithard shot the Downton Abbey film on the Sony Venice DRAMA
SPECIFICATION
SENSOR – FORMAT AND SIZE
Full-frame 6K 6048x4032, 36x24mm CMOS
24fps 6K, 60fps 4K
FRAME RATES
PL, E
LENS MOUNT
4096x2160 XAVC, ProRes 422, 59.94p, MPEG-4 H.264/AVC
RECORDING OPTIONS
15+ stops
EXPOSURE LATITUDE
66 DEF I N I T ION | OCTOBER 20 1 9
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