shooting abroad with the f3 and our modified shuttlepod

Here is a project we have been working on in Milano, Italy for a friend of mine. He founded a shoe company and they’re selling quite decent shoes over the internet. Check them out: Scarosso.

We wanted to shoot a high quality campaign-shoot for Fall/Winter 2011 and I just got my Sony F3 with the S-Log option so I gave it a spin. We took our whole setup including a modified Kessler Shuttlepod (one length cut into half to make it flight-ready), and traveled to Milan. My friend managed to get some professional models for the shoot, which raised the quality significantly I would say.

Shooting with the F3 handheld and on the Shuttlepod was great fun! Grading the S-Log footage is so nice. I’ve been used to DSLR footage in color grading for about two years now and having all these opportunities with log-Footage and 4:2:2 10-bit is simply amazing.

My only concerns were the lack of the S-Log option when shooting in 720p50 (the shot with the slomo doves), and the lack of a viewing LUT when recording onto the KiPro Mini. Everything is so dull and grey until you move the footage into color correction. I hope that my Gemini 444 will arrive soon as this recorder is going to have a monitoring LUT option. In addition to uncompressed 444 recording

Here are some pictures of our shoot in Milan.

Me with the F3 and our Shuttlepod.

The Zacuto EVF makes pulling focus a lot easier.