Cinematographer puts Panasonic’s 4K Varicam to the test

The Varicam line of cameras has been used on a wide variety of movies, commercials, and TV programs, and is renowned for its color reproduction, look, and for bringing progressive workflows to the production industry.

Drawing on the traditions of the original Varicam line, feature-rich Panasonic 4K Varicam S35 helps its users create emotion with its amazing latitude, wide color gamut, and 4K resolution. It also revolutionizes workflow with the addition of dual-codec recording, in-camera color grading, and a modular design.

What does this amount to on the job?

We gave respected director and cinematographer, Noel Evans a Varicam S35 to put through its paces and he treated his followers to a review and a short concept piece called Colours of Melbourne.

Evans was particularly impressed with the camera’s dual record function, the high-quality OLED EVF with built-in optical zoom and dual ISO recording.

The lighting in this was augmented however most was shot utilising available street light, which gave Evans a chance to see how the Varicam handled the different light sources cinematographers would find most in major cities across the world.

The first three shots are ISO800 the rest @5000. Evans shot this to the highest available codec on the firmware available being 4k AVCUltra 4:2:2 (this had since been updated to 4:4:4).

Colours of Melbourne

Noel Evans: concept, direction, cinematography (check out his Facebook page)
Con Fillippides: camera operator
Camera: Panasonic 4K Variacam S35

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