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YES... You can shoot the RED in -40 C!
(This is the first time a digital motion camera has successfully captured the Northern Lights!)
On March 1, 2009, Steve Kocsis and his team were sent by CTV and the Canadian Tourism Commission to the Northwest Territories to capture the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). The Auroras have been captured on 16mm & 35mm film or DSLR in Time-lapse, but according to an Aurora Expert, this is the first time that the Northern Lights have been successfully captured on a Digital Motion Camera.
At the suggestion of Roger Williams and Jim van Dijk, Steve took one of Inspired Cinema’s Red One cameras and set off to capture the lights. To this point the Red One Camera had been operating well within a temperature range of 0C to + 40C but had not been tested in climates where the temperatures can drop below - 40C ! The Red One Camera successfully captured the Aurora Borealis in Time-lapse mode with the slowest shutter Steve could dial in.
“The Aurora Borealis were not at their peak in intensity at the time we were filming, yet the Red was able to capture them extremely well. I can only imagine how amazing they would look when fully active and illuminated.”
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Sanctuary
(Television Series; David Geddes - DOP; Sanctuary 1 Productions - Production Company)
Sanctuary is the first television series in North America to use the RED camera exclusively. The RED camera system does away with tape and film and records straight to a hard drive allowing the series’ visual effects and post production teams immediate access to the day’s footage with absolutely no loss in quality. The RED captures images at more than double the resolution of a high definition camera giving viewers an extraordinary visual experience.
The 'information rich' format expands what the visual effects artists at Anthem Visual Effects and series DOP David Geddes can share with the television audience. Fans of the RED camera include feature film directors Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh putting Sanctuary in impressive company. Using a completely digital medium and the latest in camera technology is just part of what makes Sanctuary an innovator in television production… giving viewers much to look forward to this fall on The Movie Network and Movie Central.
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Anthem's work on Sanctuary was so visual effects intensive, that we needed the best possible images to start with. The RED cameras from Inspired Cinema gave us those. The hard part will be to shoot with anything else after this.
We finished shooting our last episode a week ago and now I've had the opportunity to colour correct the first four episodes. The quality of the image of your Reds combined with your Cookes is un(expletive)believable. In one episode we intercut HD footage shot on (place huge brand name here) and it was problematic. We had problems with sharpness, contrast, artifacts, colour keying.......Thanks again for your Reds! And thanks again for the endless technical support and product development we received from the team at Inspired Cinema. Truly a new era has been ushered in.
- David Geddes, DOP
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Facing Ali
(Feature Release Documentary; Ian Kerr - DOP; Insight Studios - Production Company; Network Entertainment)
FACING ALI, will travel the world to interview the men who stepped into the ring with Ali, opening a new perspective on the most famous man on the planet. Based on Stephen Brunt's best selling Random House book, the documentary will feature rare archival film footage and classic photos, combined with original intimate interviews with Ali’s colorful combatants sharing their own personal experiences FACING ALI.
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