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Strobeck mentions that Wolfe was one of the first guys to get the MK1 going on the VX, that was east coast though. seems like there had to be California filmers who picked it up first.
I might be mistaken but I am almost positive Wolfe didn’t film VX. He used a different camera that he heard was the more professional of the two and snagged that one. I think it was a Panasonic. Someone on here will know better than I.
Great question though.
Ty used one as early as 1996 for Rhythm - Genesis and I believe the VX came out in ‘95.
Edit: revisiting Genesis real quick and that’s def not VX/MK-1.
Also what year did the MK-1 even come out? Probably a bit of a gap between the release of the camera and the lens, no?
Wolfe just used the PD versions of the cameras, same body they just have XLR inputs and shoot a better codec (dvcam). The first Death lens I remember seeing was Jamie Thomas but he used it on a TRV 900, which was basically a smaller VX 1000 with some more modern features
Though both 3CCD, weren’t the sensors on the TRV smaller? Besides that, the colors it captured seemed closer to VX2(.1)k than VX1k. TRV900 w/baby death was okay, but never seemed great. Srry Beagle.
Years ago I was such a camera nerd. Long alive OG SP, I miss that shit. Had the TRV900, GL2, VX1k, Japanese VX1k, VX2.1k, and the big daddy 24P DVX100, most w/Century MKi/MKii glass.
I feel like I read it somewhere at some point, but anybody know who coined the term ‘death lens’? I think it was because of how close you had to be with the likelihood of getting nailed by the board/skater or something like that. Who gets the credit for that one?
Fun thread / history lesson, y’all.