BBC presents "Planet Earth"

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Fucky McFuckerson

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I am almost done watching this 11 part series about all aspect of the planet earth, from oceans to deserts and everything in between. It sheds light on how much of certain land masses or envirments take up what percentage of the world and the animals that survive them and even thrive in. The "Americanized" one has Sigorney Weaver narrating it, but the original has David Attenborough doing the voicing.

Some of the things that they did editing wise and some things they caught on video are extraordinary to say the least, including the rarest big cat in the world (Amur leopard) at a mere 40 left in the wild.

THe shots they show from space down to earth are simply amazing.

To top it all off, it was shot almost entirely in HD....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)
 
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It's mixed as far as capture media. Many parts were shot on 35mm film, especially when they were in humid climates, which HD video does not handle well. Some, notably the penguins in the antarctic were on super 16mm film (the camera was an Aaton).

The breaching shark was shot with a custom modified 1000 (not 60) FPS video camera normally used for crash-testing vehicles. They hard wired it to a laptop with a 3 second buffer so that the record button could be pressed after a promising moment and it would capture what just happened. It saved them hard disc space.

Most of the series was shot with a panasonic varicam, one of a couple leading HD video cameras. Much of the night footage that wasn't lit was shot with infrared lights and with the infrared filter in the camera removed. Video (as well as digital still camera) sensors are very IR sensitive but it is usually filtered down to the visible spectrum.

The aerial footage was done from fairly high up with a nose-mounted remote head camera used on feature films. They are gyro stabilized and can be used with lenses up to a etty long telephoto without showing shake from the helicopter. They can use lenses longer than that threshold and stabilise the footage in post, too.

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=25378&page=2

so basically there was digital, 35mm and 16mm
 
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