ABSTRACT
The Genesis reminds me of the old joke that goes “If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck – then it’s a duck!” I am fairly confident that if you walked onto a set without knowing it was a High Definition (HD) shoot and glanced at the camera you would assume it was a Panavision Millennium. Just take a quick look at Figure 35.1. If you gave it a second cursory glance you might think it had an unusual viewfinder and the futuristic 65 mm 400-foot magazine was new to you. Further enhancing the feeling that this was just a slightly unusual film camera would be the intelligence that the camera crew were behaving exactly as you would expect from a normal film crew. Personally I have never worked with a completely normal film crew, but that’s entirely another matter. Believe me, it looks like a Panavision Millennium, is as quiet as a Millennium and the crew runs it like a Millennium – therefore, it’s a Millennium; well, more or less. Except, in some ways, it’s better, it is a Genesis and if you like film and you also like HD then this camera could be for you. If you look at Figure 35.2 you will see the camera with the alternative Sony viewfinder, fitted with a Primo prime lens and a focus puller’s HD liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor. The Panavision Genesis https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780080952123/1a9d39ef-4800-4269-af46-c4a8dae40cb3/content/fig35_1_OB.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Panavision Genesis with a prime lens, the Sony viewfinder and an eyepiece leveler https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780080952123/1a9d39ef-4800-4269-af46-c4a8dae40cb3/content/fig35_2_OB.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
