Shot on the Sony F65 with Cinealta 4k lenses, with Tiffen Digital Diffusion 1/4 filter. The camera is heavy so we used an easy-rig for everything but the subway stuff. In terms of content, this is an idea that was in my head a lot. It's based on walking home from a job one night, thinking a lot about these things. Especially after a post I did and the feedback on it, about Bernie. Calling him a populist and all that. It was interesting, because I chose Bernie but didn't research him when I chose him months ago, even though this is the guy who may be president. And my anger towards Hillary was after reading just one article in Harpers. Interesting how much power we the uniformed are given. Better than some dictatorship, we must not take the ability to vote for granted. Just wish the media educated us better on their past, their records. There I go again! We shot Sony SR Raw -compressed mode which is like shooting red at 5:1 compression. Very simple to load the clips in with the new sony reader. Goes right into resolve, then mostly played with the Sony raw tab, and used a color chart to naturalize the skin tones and went from there. Very easy workflow. Before this card reader, it was really annonying as hell. You had to go through ethernet and load clips from a web browser. Probably is what sunk this camera. But the flip side is that it's what allowed me to afford one :) Incredible low-light camera. Pushed it a lot one stop to 1000 ASA and it looks completely clean. The digital gain looks like film noise. Amazing skin tones. The camera has a lot of meat in the image, a lot of resolution which is nice - gets it a very smooth, natural look. I was I very impressed with the quality of skintones at 3200k. Can't wait to use this guy on many more projects. Just have to figure out how to get it on a movi :)

These cameras all have (or are slated to have soon) RAW recording capability in some form.

Max Horizontal Resolution

• BMCC: 2.4K
• Arri Alexa: 2.88K max horizontal resolution.
• Sony FS-700: 4K expandable with 1.92K at release.
• Sony F55: 4K max horizontal resolution (4096x2160).
• Canon C500: 4K max horizontal resolution (4096x2960 RAW max).
• Sony F65: Greater than 4K.*
• Red One/Red One MX: 4.5K max horizontal resolution.
• Red Scarlet: 5K max horizontal resolution (but 4K max horizontal resolution at 24/25/30P).
• Red Epic: 5K max horizontal resolution.
• Red Dragon: 6K max horizontal resolution. Unreleased.

*As for the Sony F65, I don't want to get into that can of worms. With it's 20MP sensor, let's just say "easily 4K, probably more in the future" but not get too far into it other than to say that the current recording format is 4K.

Cameras with Global Shutter

• Sony F55

Max Framerates at 4K and Highest Resolution (with the color depth recorded)

• BMCC: Cannot do 4K. Max 30P 12-bit log at 2.5K.
• Arri Alexa: Cannot do 4K. Max 60P 12-bit log at 2.88K in 16x9 mode.
• Red One MX: 30P 12-bit at both 4.5K and 4K.
• Canon C500: 60P 10-bit at 4K.
• Sony FS-700: Upcoming 60P at unspecified RAW bit-depth in 4K.
• Sony F55: 60P 16-bit linear 4K.
• Sony F65: 120P 16-bit linear 4K.
• CMV12000: 90P 12-bit or 150P 10-bit at 4K.
• Red Scarlet: 30P 16-bit at 4K. 12P at 5K.
• Red Epic: 150P 16-bit at 4K. 120P 16-bit at 5K.
• Red Dragon: Unknown 4K (expected to meet or exceed Red Epic at all framerates but guaranteed 120P at 5K). At least 85P 16-bit at 6K. Unreleased.

Native DR

• Sony FS-700: Untested in RAW.
• Red One (not MX): 11.3 stops official.
• Canon C500: 12 stops official. (Though the highlight roll-off has been garnering praise)
• BMCC: 13 stops official.
• Red MX (as used in MX/Scarlet/Epic): 13.5 official. (Some sources measured at under 12 but I'm not invested in one measurement over the other).
• Arri Alexa: 14 stops official.
• Sony F55: 14 stops official.
• Sony F65: 14 stops official.
• Red Dragon: Over 15 stops official. Unreleased.

And of course, the Red Scarlet, Epic (and upcoming Dragon) support the HDRx mode that some people like and others do not, which is officially specified as increasing dynamic range to 18 stops (with a lot of caveats to go along with it).

ARRI offer simulators for the ALEXA and ALEXA plus. http://www.arri.de/camera/digital_cameras/tools/alexa_camera_simulator.html

Sony's simulator is available as a Remote iPad application that allows operators to control the f65 over a Wi-Fi network. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/f65remote/id497318839?mt=8

Canon also has C300 simulator for those interested.... http://learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/Simulators/c300.shtml?categoryId=229