An amazing video posted by James Neihouse who is an IMAX cinematographer and was personally involved in this great project, A Beautiful Planet, shows lenses swapped in zero gravity during the ISS (International Space Station) mission. The camera is Canon Cinema EOS C500, and it’s marked with the IMAX logo. Is it the first IMAX-certified digital camera?
A Beautiful Planet is a 2016 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Toni Myers and narrated by Jennifer Lawrence. It was originally released exclusively for IMAX theatres. Created in cooperation with NASA, the documentary uses footage recorded by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over fifteen months. The documentary examines how astronauts live and work daily. The film was shot on the Canon Cinema EOS C500 which was defined back then as the ‘IMAX Canon C500’. The IMAX release of A Beautiful Planet will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience and An IMAX 3D Experience. The goal was to utilize large-scale cinema screens to display capital cities illuminated by skyglow, lightning storms seen above clouds, Super Typhoon Maysak as seen from its eye, polar auroras viewed from low Earth orbit, the Great Lakes of North America locked in ice and snow, and reefs below the surface of the Caribbean Sea.
