Cloverfield (2008)

[Bobby Henderson]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

It's not shot on video cam

It's a special Panavision 1080p Camera that is Hand Held (but bigger than you think). It was filmed in 1080p and they added more crap over it to give the 'cine camera look' but it looked 100x better than 28 days later looked at cinema..

Sorry, but simply put if the camera doesn't record on film stock it is not a film camera. It's a video camera. The Panavision Genesis camera, though fancy it may be, it still just a glorified HDTV camera modified to be able to use Panavision film camera lenses. The Genesis is also prone to recording the same video-ish kinds of flaws as any other video camera. Fast movement across the frame, especially in low light levels, give that camera fits.