Comments on: Broken Night: Short Made Entirely on Nikon D800 Now Available

By: Dov Zmood

Dov Zmood — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:36:00 +0000

I believe the premise of the project was to demonstrate that the camera can make anything beautiful—even disturbing subject matter. Genres that lend themselves to beautiful aesthetics wouldn’t be as challenging. But low light and tight angles are significant obstacles for any filmmaker to overcome. If I’m reading the tea leaves correctly, the objective here is to suggest that if the camera can make a grim story like this beautiful, other genres will prove less challenging. While I agree with David Arthur regarding the image quality (featuring the girl in the car) during the opening scene, the fact that a film of this quality was produced with an HD SLR is nonetheless impressive.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:15:00 +0000

Awesome work. The website’s Bts videos are very insightful. I love the decision either on Kaminski or Arriaga (the director) or the editor, to let the blacks go completely black, as opposed to lighting everything to compensate for noise. It really helped with the mood. He shot it not like video trying to look “filmic”, but approached the photography as he would on any feature. Doing it that way made the film very cinematic.

By: Benjamin Sant

Benjamin Sant — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:19:00 +0000

The vibrations were distracting and an obvious flaw. I couldn’t focus on her dialog due to it. However the downsampling is on Vimeo’s compression versus the camera’s. Simply watching it full screen with Vimeo’s scaling option turned off made a huge difference. As an owner of a D800, 2K Intermediate files look great during grading and DCP delivery

Having shot a feature with the 5D MkIII, The compression codec is much better than Nikons 24mbps limit and having less moire is a big plus.

By: Derek Boston

Derek Boston — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:00 +0000

It appears the trojan message that I received last night is no longer appearing when accessing this page. I can now enjoy the content. :)

Sorry if anything like this occurs again I will send a bit more relavent info along with it.

By: Kyle Sanders

Kyle Sanders — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:50:00 +0000

For as much product splashing as they are trying to do, it seems like an odd [unfortunate] film to endorse. Canon / LaForet had a film with violence (Mobius) but it was adult male willingly making bad decisions that got him there. This video seems to show (and imply) the very worst in human nature against the helpless. A bit cliché with the white mom and girl (innocent/defenseless) vs creepy rednecks (savage/uncivilized).

On a technical note, the D800 seems to be a less than ideal platform for image downsampling (video) as it would seem to be a recipe for moire patterns.

By: David Arthur

David Arthur — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:24:00 +0000

What was Nikon thinking? This was just freaky! And I wasn’t extremely impressed with the video quality either. The dynamic range wasn’t bad, but the shots of the girl in the car just looked terrible. Vibrations and moire gone wild…

By: Merf Skyler Shaw

Merf Skyler Shaw — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:37:00 +0000

Soooo friggin scared right now!!

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:30:00 +0000

Also, is it just on this page, or the home page, or others as well? Thanks for any and all help!

By: Tam Nguyen Photography

Tam Nguyen Photography — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:29:00 +0000

Derek, will you please fill out this form and help us with the error? Thanks.

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By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:29:00 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. We’re constantly working to keep the site secure, but sometimes all that’s needed is to clear your browser’s cache, depending on what browser you’re on. Can you give us some more information? What browser are you on? When did this happen? OS platform and version? And is it still happening? Thanks.