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employed on that film were no longer available. Seeking to explore the possibility of a digital approach to image capture, they brought on ASC associate Chris Reyna to help locate a suitable camera system. “We started looking at film and digital cameras, but in 2006 we had only one 4K option: the Dalsa Origin,” says Reyna. “Based on our testing, the Dalsa offered good image quality, but Ron didn’t like it because it was too big, and I didn’t like it because it was still too prototypical. I knew we could do better.” Magidson adds, “When you go to 25 countries, you want to bring back the material in a format that’s going to stand the test of time. Digital was just not there when we started. But shooting film and moving it in and out of so many locations has its own set of problems.” The filmmakers turned their attention to finding a suitable 65mm film camera. They still had Fricke’s custom-built 65mm motion-control system to shoot time-lapse sequences, and soon learned of the five 65mm cameras housed at Panavision’s Woodland Hills, Calif. complex: two Panaflex System 65 studio cameras, and three high-speed 65mm HR Spinning Mirror Reflex
Photos by J.C. Earle and Mark Magidson. Frame grabs courtesy of Oscilloscope.
Opposite: Chinese dancer Tai Lihua performs the “1,000 Hands Goddess Dance” in Samsara. This page, top: The film opens with three Balinese girls made up like traditional Tari Legong dancers. Bottom: Director/cinematographer Ron Fricke filmed views of the Temples of Bagan in Myanmar from the basket of a hot-air balloon.
cameras, commonly known as HSSMs. It was the smaller, lighter high-speed cameras, with their 500' magazines and wide range of frame rates (2-72 fps), that Fricke sought. Panavision service technician Ken Barrows recalls, “The cameras hadn’t been rented in a long time, so they were basically in pieces, and I had to put them back together. It was a matter of fitting parts together until I had one complete camera, and then
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I started working on the second and third cameras with the remaining parts.” The three HSSM cameras were hand-built in 1959 using highspeed Mitchell movements from the 1930s. Since then they had been extensively modified, particularly the viewfinding system; the cameras’ original parallax finders were swapped out for a spinning-mirror reflex system, newer electronics and a
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: 8
Production Slate: Side by Side • World Without End
Natural Bourne Killer
Around the World in 65mm
Hair-Raising Heroics
Optimizing Digital-Camera Workflows
Post Focus: Eldorado
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: John Newby
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American Cinematographer - September 2012 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - September 2012 - Short Takes: 8
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American Cinematographer - September 2012 - ASC Membership Roster
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