[quote name='zewone']The alternate endings and deleted scenes were very meh.[/quote]
You would think one of them would have survived to tell the story about what happened.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']Just FYI, Cloverfield was shot primarily using a Sony F23, the top-of-the-line model in Sony's professional CineAlta series. The exact price for one is not known publicly, but the next model down goes for $115,000, so, it's a good bit more than that, for sure.[/quote]
from the imdb faq.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq#.2.1.61
What cameras were used to film this movie?
The camera the characters use is probably supposed to be a Panasonic HVX200.
The production team actually used a variety of different cameras, including the HVX, the Sony F23, and the Thomson Viper.
[Director of Photography Michael] Bonvillain used the Viper in FilmStream mode [4:4:4 RGB Data], since some of the trailer footage would be incorporated into the film, recording to tape, but also relied on a variety of other cameras throughout production. We shot with $400 cameras and $80,000 cameras. We used whatever worked for a given scene. Basically, if we could use the [Panasonic] HVX[200], and there were no visual FX, we did. It is really small and felt the most like a small consumer camera. After testing the Viper, the Panavised F900 and the then-brand-new Sony CineAlta F23 at night in downtown Los Angeles, Bonvillain decided to use the F23 for the New York phase of shooting. I found the F23 to be more sensitive in available light situations. Unlike the Viper, which comes back with a green bias that has to be dialed out, the F23 looked a lot more natural to my eye.
-- International Cinematographers Guild, "
A Monster on the Loose" (
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The actual Panasonic HVX-200 video camera supposedly used to film "Cloverfield" was sold on eBay on January 23, 2008, for $4,605.00. The starting bid was $2,500.00. The eBay item number was
130190870984, and the listing was entitled "PANASONIC HVX-200 CAMERA USED ON THE MOVIE CLOVERFIELD". An additional copy of the eBay listing and its photos of the camera can be found
here in case the eBay listing link expires. The listing contained the following description:THIS FANTASTIC CAMERA IS A TRUE 24P HD MOTION PICTURE CAMERA, AND IT WAS USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE MOVIE "CLOVERFIELD". I was the Digital Imaging Supervisor on the movie, and we used the HVX-200 extensively. "Cloverfield" is shot entirely from a video camera's point of view and THIS is that camera!! I bought this HVX as a backup camera to our main shooting cam. It was BARELY used throughout shooting, as shown by the picture below which lists the Operation and Recording Hours (6 Operation Hours and Not even ONE Recording Hour).
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