On of our clients, Melbourne Water, are always on the look out for images that they may not have the opportunity to commission, an example being floods or water over the road. Last nights down power in Melbourne gave us the opportunity to head out and grab a couple of shot for them. Nothing special, but images that will be called upon to illustrate flooding.
Also in the process of prep'ing the video gear for a shoot tomorrow, heading back out to the Melbourne Main Sewer Replacement, MMSR. I will be shooting pipes being lowered into the Yarra river crossing, the overview we have been given makes it sound like an interesting process. Shooting on the Sony EX3 as the prime camera and our little baby Sony MC50 as a second camera for those tight and uncomfortable places where you do not want to take an expensive camera.
We purchased the Sony MC50 specifically for the filming of this project, MMSR and the Northern Main Sewer Project. Both require vision to be shot down in the tunnels in hot, wet, dark and dusty conditions, my feeling was I would rather trash this little camera than the big one. Having shot for a day in one of the tunnels I was blown away by the quality of vision from the MC50. It is pin sharp, the image stabiliser works beautifully and the audio which I was dismissing due to the noise levels is actually quite usable.
These pics are from the MC50, the vision has been transcoded to ProRes 422 and exported from FCP as a png. They are all available light, handheld.
The first is shot from a moving train in the tunnel, very little light, lots of movement, the stabiliser shone here.
This second image is in the front of the Tunnel Boring Machine, it is about 45 degrees Celsius, 113F, it is humid as they have been spraying everything with water to try and cool it down enough to touch.
Again available light, notice the intensity of his head torch and handheld.
This last image was shot on the EX3 and a tripod.
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