Diet and filmmaking legend Peter Jackson’s given us another insight into the making of the Hobbit movies, and this time he’s talking about his envious choice of tech. Filming and not using a lower than 48 Red Epic cameras at 48fps in full 5k resolution may appear fantastic, but it surely hasn’t all been a bed of cotton candy. Two 3D cameras have to be mounted on the same “interocular” (the inch-or-so distance between your eyes) that is impossible given the scale of the Epic and its lenses. The team needed to hire specialist firm 3ality to construct a rig where one camera shoots the action and the opposite is pointed vertically at a mirror. Those that would really like to shoot with an Epic must also beware that the cameras naturally desaturate the action to such an extent that the makeup, costume and set design teams ought to over-color everything to peer natural in post production. For more interesting facts, head down past the break to catch the video in full, and check out to not imagine what percentage years bad luck you’d get in case you broke a type of mirrors during a key scene.
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