American Cinematographer’s Noah Kadner looks at some of image capture highlights from this year’s big game CBS deployed 165 Sony broadcast cameras in total, including many capable of 4K zoom and 48 featuring 4K super slo-mo. Smaller FX-series models, like the FX6 and FX9 were used for “more intimate, cinematic shots at field level”. There […]
The two minute experimental short you see below was created as a Proof of Concept exercise by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ghost Corps, Pixomondo, Playstation Studios and Epic Games and shown at the Sony Creators Conference. It was shot entirely using real-time game engine technology, specifically Unreal Engine, and a performance capture stage and filmed in […]
Following on from its 700 square metre virtual production space in St. Denis in Paris, which features an 18 metre x 5 metre screen, Sony has opened a new one in its Digital Media Production Centre at Pinewood Studios. Its main purpose is to allow broadcasters, productions, and technicians to spend time with Sony’s cinematography […]
Sony’s fifth generation Alpha camera, the a7R V, contains a big technological advance – a dedicated deep learning chip that recognises humans and animals in real-time. It achieves pin-sharp autofocus on a subject’s eye by tracking its entire body even when it is in motion. This works when a subject’s eye is only partly visible. […]