DEFINITION September 2019

DEFINITION’S 4K CAMERA LIST

RED HELIUM 8K BASED ON:

Serengeti was principally shot on 8K Red Helium cameras. With all the cameras capable of at least 4K, the crew shot at the highest resolution they could to better facilitate reframing and stabilisation in post. “If we could shoot at 8K, we’d shoot at 8K. That’s just a natural part of the whole process now. We can creep into the heads of the animals when they’re reacting to something. That’s where the extra headroom you get if you shoot 8K was really useful,” explains John Downer. Perhaps predictably, wildlife can be hard on equipment. “We had quite a few cameras trashed,” Downer admits. “We operated with a lot of remote cameras that could be left all day – they were being triggered by the animals themselves, and that was a quite important part of the look. When you’re dealing with hyenas, they love them and they’d carry them off!” Wildlife expert John Downer used his box of remote tricks to capture amazing shots, which helped build the narrative of the Serengeti DOCUMENTARY

SPECIFICATION

SENSOR – FORMAT AND SIZE

Helium 8K 8192×4320, 35.4 megapixels, 29.90x15.77mm CMOS

60fps at 8K full format (8192×4320), 75fps at 8K 2.4:1 (8192×3456). 120fps at 4K full format (4096×2160), 150fps at 4K 2.4:1 (4096×1728), 240fps at 2K

FRAME RATES

EF, F, PL, Leica M

LENS MOUNT

Redcode Raw, ProRes 4444 XQ, 422 HQ, DNxHR HQX

RECORDING OPTIONS

16.5+ stops

EXPOSURE LATITUDE

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