Why Hollywood Uses This Camera System!!

The Sony VENICE 2 & RIALTO Extension System is awesome but let us know what you think of it down below!

Amazing camera

HOLLYWOOD SUCKS...

Alot filmmaker's use this camera

You just melted my brain. Thank you.

This not camera, this is SONY...

Japanese technology
Made in nippon

I work at Keslow Camera and helped the camera team on Top Gun: Maverick for an entire year and a half with getting this thing setup. Saying it was insane is an understatement. Claudio Miranda had countless lens tests and Dan Ming, Bob Smathers, and Max DeLeo prepped camera for an entire 3 months prior to shooting. a normal feature film preps for maybe 4-5 days. They had the exact dimensions of the cockpit mapped out on the floor in tape so he can figure out exactly how to run all the cabling for the Rialto blocks. The crew worked directly with our R&D team to design and manufacture all the brackets needed to pull it off. Custom camera trigger boxes were needed to start recording on all the cameras at the same time and had to be done by the cast. The Voigtlander lenses were modified to remove the hoods that come stock on them because they would get in each others shots. Not necessarily for weight but more so for space. IIRC at it's peak, Top Gun had 32 cameras out at the same time across multiple units.

None of the custom gear can be used again because it's all certified by the US Department of Defense. Sadly it may never see the light of day again.

Keslow is the owner of Venice & Rialto serial #1. If you rent from them you may get lucky and get it!

Almost as if Sony wants a pocket size cinema camera...

It has that "Sony look". Grey-green and kinda milky/hazy is their style. Japan winter misty daylight colour spectrum.

Great cameras ...

Why am i watching this? I need to sleep.

Is this the camera made for James Cameron?

I will have two please.

I think avatar 2 also used it

Worked as an AC for gig with this camera. Honestly Did not like it. Shoots well but it's kinda hard to be quick with between setups

.... And before the SI2K mini;

We only had the BVW-35 BetaCam SP

NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT UMATIC.

Your glasses are crooked.

sony did this back in the 90s with an ENG camera BVP-T70

DJI be like ✍✍✍

I feel like they used it mostly because the Alexa mini didn’t shoot 4k.

DJI copied it

Let’s be honest… The Sony Venice as far as I’m concerned does not look very good. The number one camera used by Hollywood is the Alexa. And more people use Red then the Venice.

so crazy that Sony makes some of the best digital cameras now (a company that never made cameras.. and when they did, it was those consumer digital pocket cameras. They've always been a solid company... but just weird to me, a kid growing up in the 80's and 90's that Sony... fricking SONY, is now responsible for movies that cost 100 million dollars to make and have a cast and crew of hundreds of people. Sony... the people that gave us the consumer tape player.

I swear I saw a Pentax Takumar on one of those Top Gun cameras!

DJI ronin can do it also for a quarter of the price

kinda ghostbusters

Sony owns most of hollyweed. That's why.

О, прикольно, вчера видел как на Арбате на такую снимали какой-то сериал)

The name makes sense, the Rialto being this famous bridge in Venice (Italy, not California 😂).

nice vid. I gotta rig this tomorrow and now I know most of what I need to know :) that emount tucked away brings an option if the cine glasss is too heavy

But where is the link to the short film you shot?

Not a new concept. In 2009, Silicon Imaging introduced the SI-2K. A digital cinema camera with a detachable sensor block. Slumdog Millionaire was partially filmed on it.

I was wondering how they got that corridor shot in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ with such little room for a cinema rig. Nice

Imagine, if more manufuctureser could so this and have common cable systems that allowed third parties to develop their own sensors (or bodies) a red Red sendor with a sony body or vice versa

nice, thank you

It's also nice in a 3d rig using two cameras.

📷🎞

Great video.

Dhanush greay man

It's so clever and so useful that it's weird that it wasn't widely adopted many years ago.
I wish you mentioned how they connected two of them to record Avatar: The Way of Water in IMAX 3D.

Love this - back to the 90s/00s with small high quality agile cam systems - thanks CVP for super informative and thorough (as always) deep dive. Will share with colleagues and students- cheers + love the 80s/90s video game arcade!!

I always wished I could get a top end Sony camera since the F65.

Not gonna lie, it was a little difficult to get excited about this system. I'd have to know more about how robust that cable system is.

Sent here by frame Voyager 😆

I could have sworn I JUST WATCHED a video just like this 🤔🤔🤔

No they don't, almost every major movies at Oscars are shot on arri

i covered the rialto in my top gun video. it's awesome.

Great video! In andor they used the arri lf as main cam and the venice as bcam