A year or two ago I got hold of the Red EPIC, a professional camera that is able to shoot in 4K resolution. It was part of the project related to my bachelor thesis. The EPIC is rather affordable, starting at $29,000.00 and going beyond $50,000.00, at least compared with other cameras used in the film industry. Since then I had the dream to make a short film, something with little speech and plot but with stunning pictures. But an EPIC or any camera in the film industry is everything but mobile. The battery literally lasts just 30 minutes and with well beyond 2 kg (if fully equipped) it is a quite heavy device. The price tag for the camera alone settled the matter for me anyway.
Today I saw footage shot by National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez with a Lumia 930 in 4K and I got awed again. To think I could just pull out my lightweight phone and make such great footage excited me. The footage looks so great, it made me want to have a phone like that. Though I can wait a little. Anyhow for that to happen the phone would need a SD-card with at least 64GB better yet 128GB and a high writing speed else the internal storage would be full in no time. Currently, the Lumia 930 doesn’t support an external SD-Card but I trust that microsoft will think of that in the future.
With this dream I think once more that a dream doesn’t die just because you haven’t dreamed it a long time. It can be anytime that it awakes. I really like my dreams. I like how they can carry me. I hope one day on this blog I’ll be writing about the short film project when it is in the making.
And here is the aforementioned footage
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