In case you've been living under a rock, Zacuto sponsored another camera shootout but this time allowed the individual DP's to change the lighting to make their camera look as good as possible. Francis Ford Coppola and a majority of others picked the lowly Panasonic GH-2's image as the best over the Alexa, F-65 and RED.
Because it wasn't an Apples to Apples test some DP's are upset because now producers think you should be able to make the same images as an $80,000 Alexa (with 13 stops of latitude) with an $800 DSLR. What those producers don't realize is the extra lighting and the extra grading in post it took to make the images similar (we learned about that in yesterday's blog). And in the real world, that work would be tremendous.
Steve Weiss' reply to the criticisms are in this blog but two of his comments stand out:
1. The test proves that DP's make great images not cameras.
2. The conclusion was the FS-100 gave the biggest bang for the buck according to Gizmodo (who originally pushed the GH-2 angle of the story).
So, why all the pictures of the FS700, when it wasn't even in the test? And if they liked the FS100 the best (even over the F3) they'd have loved the FS700!
Read all about it. Here's an original BLOG with Weiss' response and more Fallout.
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/story/cameras_why_zacutos_latest_camera_test_may_have_screwed_us_all/
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/story/cameras_the_zacuto_fallout_continues/
Because it wasn't an Apples to Apples test some DP's are upset because now producers think you should be able to make the same images as an $80,000 Alexa (with 13 stops of latitude) with an $800 DSLR. What those producers don't realize is the extra lighting and the extra grading in post it took to make the images similar (we learned about that in yesterday's blog). And in the real world, that work would be tremendous.
1. The test proves that DP's make great images not cameras.
2. The conclusion was the FS-100 gave the biggest bang for the buck according to Gizmodo (who originally pushed the GH-2 angle of the story).
So, why all the pictures of the FS700, when it wasn't even in the test? And if they liked the FS100 the best (even over the F3) they'd have loved the FS700!
Read all about it. Here's an original BLOG with Weiss' response and more Fallout.
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/story/cameras_why_zacutos_latest_camera_test_may_have_screwed_us_all/
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/story/cameras_the_zacuto_fallout_continues/
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