George Lucas and his first digital camera for Star WarsIn late 1995 Rick McCallum (producer for George Lucas) purchased a widescreen Digital Betacam from us (Sony) - to support the shooting of “behind the scenes” material during their movie and television productions. George himself was highly impressed at how far digital imaging had come and he conducted some tests with the DB - taking this out to 35mm film. We screened this at his special screening room at Skywalker ranch. George said it had everything in terms of image quality for credible moviemaking - except resolution.
How Star Wars Originally Went Digital (Archives)
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