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EMINEM MUSIC VIDEO SHOOT STORY
I'M ACTUALLY USING LENSES THAT ARE 40 YEARS OLD ON THE EMINEM VIDEO
they made the Monstro sensor the pixel pitch of Dragon, which was five microns. What happens when you have a larger photosite is you have a bigger bucket that light can fall into. That increases sensitivity and dynamic range. For instance, the ARRI Alexa’s main sensor has a pixel pitch of eight microns which is two-and-a- half times larger than the Helium. “The Monstro sensor has done something really remarkable. By keeping it at five microns and then offering 8K we get into this area that is beyond full-frame in the horizontal. Monstro is 40.96mm by 21.60mm so a little shorter than full-frame but a little wider, so they’re calling this a kind of VistaVision spec. That gives you some options though, as what happens is you start to
but Chris’s opinion is that RED are just keeping parity with what the technology is doing. “Dragon was a really great sensor being used in RED and Panavision’s DXL cameras; this was initially 6K but then up to 8K with a different cut. A lot of people are still shooting on Dragons. However, for Helium they were able to make manufacturing improvements for the photosite design. They were able to shrink the size of the photosites from 5 microns down to 3.6 microns and the result was less noisy, with more sensitivity and better dynamic range. That’s a improvement in performance. “For Monstro they went the other way; they took the improvements that they learned and instead of shrinking the sites as they did with Helium,
ABOVE Camera settings from the Eminem shoot with the Monstro 8K.
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