In advance of this year’s Sundance Film Festival , we sent out questionnaires to directors and cinematographers with films in competition at Sundance 2014 asking them a variety of questions, including which cameras they used to shoot their respective films (in some cases, they used several). You’ll find their responses below, along with information about lenses used whenever specified.

As you can see, the vast majority of filmmakers shot digitally, but a few used film cameras and at least one DP even used both. Find out what some of the 2014 Sundance cinematographers had to say about the shift from film to digital here.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory Panasonic

HVX200, with Letus 35mm adaptor, and then the Panasonic AF100. Canon 7D, Canon T2I, Canon C300. EF Canon lenses,

ranging from the 16-35mm f/2.8, to the 24-70mm f/2.8, and the 75-300mm

f/4-5.6, and a few old Nikon prime lenses.

All the Beautiful Things Penelope 35mm

Appropriate Behavior Red Scarlett, u2028



Camp X-Ray ARRI Alexa, with Ziess Ultra Primes and Alura Zooms

CAPTIVATED The Trials of Pamela Smart 16mm, Super 8, Red, 5D, 7D



Cesar’s Last Fast Betacam, Panavision

Genesis, Canon C300 & 5D; ARRI Alexa & Canon C300 & Super

8mm; Arri 416 & Panavision Genesis; ARRI Alexa; Arri Super16 SR3;

35mm Panavision

Cold in July Two Epics, one set of Cooke s4s and an Angenieux 24-290

Cooties ARRI Alexa with Master Primes

Dead Snow: Red vs Dead Red Epic

Dear White People Epic X Cooke 18 – 100 Cooke S4 set



Dig ARRI Alexa and old Cooke Speed Pancros.

Dinosaur 13 5D, 7D