Saturday, 5 December 2009

Camera Running Speeds for Miniature Shooting

When shooting a miniature, you need to increase the running speed of the camera depending on the scale of the miniature used. This is to accurately show realism in the miniature. Below is a list of scale-to-camera speeds which must be followed in order to display realism.

Miniature Scale

Camera Speed Increase Factor

Adjusted Operating Speed

½

1.4

33x/Second

¼

2

48x/Second

1/8

2.8

67x/Second

1/10

3.2

77x/second

1/12

3.5

84x/Second

1/16

4

96x/Second

1/20

4.5

108x/Second

1/24

4.9

117x/Second

1/36

6

144x/Second

1/48

7

168x/Second

1/64

8

192x/Second

1/100

10

240x/Second

Filmmakers try to stay away from miniatures smaller than 1/64 scale because of the problems with running cameras at over 200fps as they require faster motors and also the miniatures themselves will take longer to construct as a miniature that small requires lots of time to retain realistic detail.

1 comment:

  1. I copied this from word so I have no idea why the text has a white box around it...

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