“Outlander Season 5” – Cinematographers Stijn Van der Veken and Alisdair Walker
“Outlander” is a vastly popular TV series based upon author Diana Gabaldon’s historical time travel books. The plot has former World War II nurse Claire Randall traveling back in time from 1946 to Scotland, 1743, where she encounters the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite risings. Shooting on locations all over Scotland, co-cinematographers Stijn van der Veken ASC, SBC and Alisdair Walker employ ALEXA LF cameras, an ALEXA Mini LF, and ARRI Signature Prime lenses. Stijn van der Veken comments: “The wedding between LF sensor and Signatures Primes is such a winner for me – velvet skin tones and still great crispy eyes. The LF sensor and the Signature Primes got me through a couple of difficult night shoots on ‘Outlander 5.’ I had to push the camera to 3200 ISO with almost no noise while the Signatures kept a brilliant contrast all the way to a wide-open stop. I have never seen this before!” On the ALEXA Mini LF he adds: “The rental swapped one of our ALEXA LF bodies for a Mini LF just in time for a big battle sequence that we absolutely wanted to shoot handheld and the result is stunning! And in no time the Mini LF became the A camera.”