Crossing the Line Productions have announced that the ground-breaking Phantom Flex high speed camera is now available to hire through them in Ireland.
The Phantom Flex is capable of frame rates of up to 2570 frames per second at 1920 x 1080 HD resolution and was responsible for the impressive slow motion sequences in Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'.
Crossing the Line first began working with the Phantom technology on their award-winning RTÉ series ‘The Secret Life of the Shannon’ capturing slow motion footage of kingfishers, red squirrels and bats using the Phantom Gold.
The company has since gone on to work with some of the world's leading Natural History Units including the BBC, PBS & ORF as well as on numerous commercial, music video and feature film shoots with the Phantom Gold and are very excited about the addition of the Phantom Flex to their equipment for hire.
MD of Crossing the Line Productions, John Murray said:These cameras push the very limits of motion picture technology enabling us to capture spectacular images, that up until now were simply too fast for regular cameras to record. There are very few of these Phantom cameras available, even worldwide, and often at prohibitive rates so we're thrilled to be able to bring these amazing tools to Irish film-makers at competitive rates.
The company also have a number of trained Phantom operators and are now fully primed to cover all slow motion shoots at competitive rates
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A Crossing The Line Production ‘Here Was Cuba’ was nominated for a Grierson Award last month. Read the full IFTN report here.