Tyler Bourns posted that first creative shortfilm shot entirely at High ISO (12,000 and 40,000 ISO) with the Sony A7s. He writes:
A short film shot as a test for the new Sony A7S camera. Everything was shot using the metabones ef adapter and rokinon/canon lenses. We made it a point to go with as minimal light as possible and really push the low light capabilities of the camera. Most shots averaged between 12,000 and 40,000 ISO. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
And SAR reader Joel sent me this: “Not a rumour, but you might find this A7s video worth linking…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNFRA1hTic. It’s interesting because it does something most other cameras couldn’t do. Also, it’s good hip hop dance. The understated filming is better than most professionally made dance video — TV-level pros don’t understand dance, and they insist on cuts and close-ups which break the flow of something that is all about the flow. Cameras like the A7s, and youtube, are starting to let us see and appreciate art that would be dumbed down for mass consumption by TV if they ever showed it.”
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The video linked by Joel is nice and they dance well, but come on… most cameras could do that. They literally pressed record and then adjusted the ISO up, then down. wow. Yes a lot of music videos are awful with their constant cuts, but the video linked doesn’t really show the a7s off as anything special. There are much better videos for that. It basically shows that it can be used to record video, but this we already knew.
I thought it looked better than I expected. I’ve been looking at so many A7s videos lately trying to fall in love with the look but mostly I see people just championing high iso but not doing anything photographically attractive with it. I thought this little film looked pretty good for what it is.
My contention is that the A7s is great for more f-stop but you should still light for drama, beauty, effect. A lot of lighting in the world looks pretty bad when photographed as is. So if you’re making a little nighttime horror flick I guess less lighting and high iso is works pretty well.
High ISO will give the cinematographer more choices, but he or she still has to make good ones.
Yeah, cinematographers all over the world have been waiting for the A7s. FInally they can start working on their big budget blockbusters and Oscar winning masterpieces and Arthouse festival highlights!
Seriously, the A7s is aimed 100% at amateurs. It will shoot dogs chasing balls, cats yawning, kids with birthday cakes, grandpas latest gardening escapades and Billy Boy’s big tricycle adventure. Handheld of course.
I wouldn’t toss it aside like that, it’s an ingenious innovation and a valuable a new tool. There are plenty of event video-photo people and documentarians that can really use it. I have just yet to see any examples of something beautiful and not just examples of how little noise there is at high ISO’s. Nice to know that if I used the A7s that I would not need ‘as much lighting” and perhaps smaller more portable lighting units. But you “paint with light” by lighting not by simply boosting Iso so you can see more. A good lesson for the kids. 🙂
Speaking of the A7s…what’s the latest on RX20 rumors?
there’s too much light of what looks to be a bluish wavelength in that girls room. If she want’s to maximize melatonin production (and she should if she cares about her health) she should sleep in complete darkness or wear a sleep mask.
Heh… In Joel’s vid, I’m more interested in what camera they used to photograph that gigantic background mural.
The last video…TheCameraStoreTV….doing a review of the RX100III was a better example of what the A7S could record.
Why do you say this is “first” short film on A7s? Be careful before making up claims that can’t be proven.
Sonyalpharumors has always posted over the top dramatic claims that aren’t true.
Somewhat ironic that you are calling for claims that can be proven when you’ve omitted the major qualifier. This is the actual claim. Not to say that an entirely high ISO creative short film (rather than demonstrator) hasn’t been shot before on the A7S, but I’ve no seen another.
“first creative shortfilm shot entirely at High ISO (12,000 and 40,000 ISO) with the Sony A7s”
Post proof this is “first creative shortfilm shot entirely at High ISO”
Don’t have proof? Then shut up
What I have proof of is that you miss-stated their claim.
Of course, if you new anything about logic, rather than playground bullying, you’d know that it’s not possible to prove a negative. As it is, their claim stands as reasonable until a counter-example is produced.
The Tyler Bourns shortfilm was better than I expected… quality and story wise.
The thing that really tickles me about the hip hop film is that it’s showing off the camera as a cool thing, a thing to brag about. Usually it’s limousines, clothes, watches, and what have you but now a camera is what you put front and center.
When were cameras last *cool* like this? Counter-culture reporters in the Vietnam era, maybe?
If Sony users want to be taken seriously, they need to stop acting out teenage boy fantasies. How lame. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, real directors are shooting real movies written by real writers with original ideas using real cameras. I stopped making home-made reshoots of real movies with my toy camera and my sister and my granny as lead actors when I was 12! Sony stuff is great, but you really need black tape if you bring it to professional assignments.
According to your childish comment you can’t be older than 14. I’m not sure what’s the point of taking a “sony shooter” serious, but I’m absolutely positively clear that you can’t be taken seriously.
Yeah, like this non serious guy and his toy camera: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/canon-mega-teaser-was-a-double-flop-no-new-camera-and-wrong-advertising-based-on-a-movie-shot-on-a-sony/
You may have stopped making films with toys, but you are surely still throwing them out of your pram.
It’s not going to end happily is it?
Course it is. He’s going to realize that he’s fallen into
something far bigger than himself, and he will look after the Alien girl like
he should have looked after his own daughter all along. But its going to be
bittersweet at the end: winning means the alien has to go home, so he loses
someone again.
But the experience changes him, making him bigger than he
was before, and strong enough to start doing things properly. The
last scene is him at his ex-wife’s door, pausing for a moment of indecision, then knocking with a smile on his face 🙂
You are clearly one of life’s natural romantics. His importance is just protein. That he’d been marinated in ethyl alcohol is just a bonus.
I am curious what digital camera could not shoot a static framed shot of dancers on a reasonably well lit stage ? The video looks like the typically parent shooing their child’s schools dance performance.Mobile phones can do this never mind serious cameras. Video is a lot less demanding on high ISO than stills
Reasonably lit? You obviously did not look at the whole clip…