Once again, Indiewire.com has put together a list of the gear used by documentary filmmakers whose movies are premiering at Sundance 2023. This list gives an interesting insight into the choices and the reasoning behind them. Let’s take a look! Often documentary filmmakers find themselves in a bit of a quandary – they want to achieve a good look for their images while also keeping their setup small, mobile and unintrusive. This narrows their choices down a bit, but as the list of gear used by them proves, there are still many combinations available. Most mentions: the Canon EOS C300 series With 8 mentions within the list of 22 titles the Canon EOS C300 series (including the Mark II and III models) is still the most popular (in 2019, all documentaries nominated for an Oscar were shot mainly on Canon cameras). Filmmakers and DOPs are highlighting the image quality of the sensor as well as the size of the body which is small enough to be used handheld for longer periods of time. Canon EOS C500s are also popular. Behind the scenes of “Piano Forte” with a Canon EOS C300 II. Image credit: Filip Drozdz The Canon C300 Mark II was the sweet spot of a high-quality cinema camera that could handle the wide dynamic range we needed in a small enough body that I could handhold all day without a rig. Greg Harriott – DoP of “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” Runners up: ARRI and Sony ARRI...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 3 February, 2023