Tom Fletcher of digital and film camera & accessories rental house Cineverse has compiled his 2014 Camera Comparison Chart. The annual Chart provides an overview of assorted cameras, comparing frame rates, recorded bit depth format & time, varied other details, highlighted positives, notable credits, and average national daily rental costs.
Among the cameras compared are several ARRI Alexa models, various Sony cameras, Phantom models, Canons, the ARRI Amira, ARRICAM ST, Phantoms, the Red Epic Dragon and Red Epic Mysterium-X.
For the Chart, Fletcher with gathered info from numerous conversations with various cinematographers, colorists, colleagues and manufacturers.
Fletcher adds the caveat that much of what he’s put together is subjective. This is not scientific collected data. Fletcher relates that they have sincerely tried to collect accurate information to share with the industry and to help producers make educated decisions on cameras and format–that said, numbers do not tell the whole story. His advice is to look at the images and consult your cinematographer.
To view the chart, click here.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either โ more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More