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More on the technical aspects of cameras selected and used on Cloverfield. Don't forget to check out the video interview with Nick Theodorakis, the DIT on Cloverfield - link at the bottom of the article.

FreshDV has a nice round-up article as well.

To answer my earlier question about how they ran around, reader Chris sent in this snippet from Variety on Jan 4:

For the widescreen scenes with visual effects, which require higher resolution, a cameraman dressed like Hud sports the much-heavier hi-res Sony F23 or Thomson . The cameraman was creating the illusion that huge cameras are very light," says Reeves. "It was grueling. People fell."

-mike

Labels: cameras, F23, moviemaking