Lowry Digital Polishes Benjamin Button

by David Heuring
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/lowry_digital_the_curious_case_of_benjamin_button_brad_pitt_20090203/
The technology behind the striking imagery in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button goes beyond the Thomson Grass Valley Viper FilmStream and Sony F23 HD cameras used by cinematographer Claudio Miranda. Miranda, who has earned an Academy Award nomination for his work, also used 35mm film for certain scenes. So, to fine tune the movie’s images, Lowry Digital, based in Burbank, applied their proprietary image processing techniques. The main goals were to balance the look of visual effects scenes, film-captured scenes and digitally originated material; to reduce noise; and to bring out subtle details.