On this shoot the entire day was dedicated to the polecam so we were able to really push the polecam to its limits to see what worked best in 3D.
Polecam has huge benefits in the field of 3D filming due to its lightweight pan and tilt head and minicam cameras making set-up and relocation of the polecam rig a very painless process and much quicker than a more cumbersome mirror rig.
Alignment is essential when shooting 3D to ensure you get the desired result and with a more traditional mirror rig the cameras would have to be realigned every time you moved the rig. We kept the same discipline with the polecam rig but due to the solid and stable set up of the pan and tilt head and the smaller cameras on most occasions no realignment was necessary – this was a huge benefit to the shooting schedule.
We were shooting with 2 Toshiba IK-HD1 minicams and recording back to two Flash XDRs onto compact flash cards. A stereo brain was used to give us an anaglyph output and/or side by side image.
