The current issue of High Definition Magazine has an article about the feature film Fly Boys shot on Panavision Genesis cameras. Flyboys DOP Henry Braham is interviewed regarding the shoot.

Henry says about the Genesis:

I fell in love with the visual quality of the thing because it’s incredibly subtle. My analogy is that if you think of film being like an electric typewriter, the Genesis is like going on to a wonderful word processor. Its so malleable and that’s something I looked at in the Baselight, because you can really pull material apart and see where the breaking point is. In practical terms that means that if you want detail in the sky and you’re in a complex moving shot you can’t use filtration so you’re relying on the detail being on the medium that you’re shooting on. On film there comes a point very quickly where you can pull that details back in the sky but the grain really starts to boil so in fact its not nearly as malleable as one thinks. What we found with Genesis you can pull detail back in to the sky and it looks fantastic because there’s no grain there. Also having a film speed of around 600 640 ASA presented huge opportunities with using more natural light.

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