New Heights: Sony's PMW-F3 Shoots New Berghaus TVC

Director Alastair Lee checks the shot with his F3 rigged above himAlastair Lee is an award winning adventurer film maker, known for climbing movies especially and also known for making them interesting to non climbers. This can be at times quite a challenge as ascents can sometimes take hours and the dramas are usually fingertip minuscule with a large vista backdrop (Alastair gets close to capture the drama, usually putting himself in danger to get close to the climbers on the cliff face). But Alastair is good at it and regularly wins awards for his art. These achievements were recently rewarded in a different way with a commission by outdoor clothes manufacturer Berghaus to make their new TV commercial initially for the UK market.

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Sony's F3 Shoots David Bailey Drama For BBC

Tim Palmer with Sony F3The last time HD Magazine spoke to DoP Tim Palmer was last year about his part in the production of The Road To Coronation Street single drama for the BBC. The unusual thing about the shoot was that, due to circumstances and a certain amount of curiosity on his and the BBC’s part, the main camera was the Canon 5D MkII DSLR, it ended up shooting about 85% of the show. If the drama hadn’t been and hadn’t looked so good there probably wouldn’t have been much of a story, but it looked spectacular and has gone on to win a television BAFTA for Best Single Drama, hence much gnashing of teeth about further use of the camera for broadcast.

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