F3 and Solid State for Broadcast

[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

That’s excellent! Our deck can take TC through SDI so it sounds like we’re all set. Thank you so much for all of your help!

[David Speace]

Nobody has really mentioned whether shooting with the F3 is really a suitable camera for shooting run and gun “reality” style television considering the camera comes with 3 prime lenses and a zoom lens is not available yet, (or you could use any prime photography/film lenses you may already have). If you are going to put a zoom lens on this camera like a Zeiss or Schneider zoom… this will be very expensive not to mention the zoom motor you will have to add. Although, I guess you could zoom manually. My experience with shooting reality tv is that you will not have time to change lenses or pull focus. I can see it now the camera operator has the 35mm lens on the camera and the chef pours the final ingredient into the pot… and the director says get a tight shot of that…and the camop says wait a minute I gotta change the lens… and after he gets the tight shot the director says…. okay lets do the wide shot again! Of course, Sony will probably have a zoom lens for this camera…soon(?), considering there are zoom controls already built into the camera!

Dave Speace
Producer/Director/DP
DZP Video

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