The prestigious director of underwater photograph Pete Romano, president of HydroFlex, Inc., developed the new HD Remote AquaCam to facilitate underwater recording in high definition. The AquaCam HD has one zoom, wide-angle HD Fujinon HA13x4.5 lens cinema-like, with Preston iris, focus and zoom controls on a Sony HDW-F950 camera.
Romano is a experienced underwater cinematographer, director of photography of underwater scenes from important films, including The Italian Job, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, Waterworld, Armageddon, the James Bond film The tomorrow never dies, and The Abyss. Although it has filmed with cinematographic film during its 30 years of professional life, considers that underwater cinematography is it adapts well to the production of high definition video.
The HA13x4.5 wide-angle lens Fujinon, along with camera and lens remotes inside an underwater protective capsule, it offers a novel tool for video producers. This lens allows the cameramen closer to the target, and a lower amount of water between the lens and the lens means one shot sharper and more colorful. All functions of the iris, focus and the zoom are controlled with a handheld device that is handles from the surface.
The Remote AquaCam HD was designed to be mounted on the remote panning and tilting head of HydroFlex, although thanks to its elliptical design, the AquaCam it can also be held in the hand and easily moved in the water.
Romano considers that the operation Continuous underwater camera is an important advantage that will boost the increase in high-altitude underwater production Definition: Once in the water, the camera only returns to exit when the shots are over. All iris controls, focus and zoom are managed by remote control from the surface. With a filming camera rolling at 24 fps, a Film load reaches four minutes of shooting. You have to think about film consumption. You have to come to the surface, dry the camera that can weigh up to 85 pounds, recharge it and lower it again. Meanwhile, the actors are there, waiting. The AquaCam operates without interruption, with full lens functionality and control.
The development of the Remote AquaCam was the result of the efforts of Marker Karahadian, president of Plus 8 Digital at Burbank. Karahadian recommended Romano to add a capsule to fujinon wide-angle lens and sony camera to its team list, to achieve so that the followers of their films will become familiar with the advantages of production high definition.
The design of the AquaCam includes a witness camera that sends images to a monitor of 2.5 mounted on the Preston manual unit. Thus, the wizard Camera features lens data to ensure critical approach. The Remote AquaCam is the most important system simple commercially available for underwater photography high-definition, Romano adds.
Romano recently used the Remote AquaCam for a Vitalis commercial run by the famous fashion photographer Howard Schatz for the agency Cason Nightingale Creative Communications in New York, a short film with the name The Revenge of Cornell, for the company's main offices producer Los Angeles, and a promotional video for the designer Luis Vitton.
