CSI Cameras

[Adel]

Been watching the newest CSI episodes (the first three CSI:LV 5th season shows and the first three CSI:NY shows) and looking at the cameras they use. It's a touchy issue because I understand real CSIs don't all do digital - something to do with inadequate detail and resolution, and the fact that digital can be tampered with and has less credibility - so they use film mostly.

Each show seems to have its own favored brand of digital camera.

CSI: Las Vegas uses Nikons, and the new CSI:NY uses Olympus cameras. I think CSI: Miami uses Canons, but I haven't seen enough to confirm this; still keeping an eagle eye out.

In real life (at least in the West Coast), CSIs used Fuji Finepix S1 Pros, but have recently upgraded to Nikon D70s.

Some companies have made software to certify and watermark shots so they can be authenticated and be admissible as evidence, and I understand Canon has developed a digital marking system that tells you if the picture has been altered or not (first surfacing on the 20D).

[poink]

wow!!! thanks for the info, hehe. my sis has been on a CSI-dvd-marathon this whole week, and i was JUST wondering about the cameras :lol: ...both on the show and in real life.

now i can relay this bit of trivia to my cousins and titos on our next family sunday lunch. wehehehe.

[Edited on 10-17-2004 by poink]

[directX]

Saw an episode where they used the Kodak DSLRs.

[Adel]

Originally posted by directX
Saw an episode where they used the Kodak DSLRs.

In which show? Miami?

[Eric]

CSI NY, parang Olympus E1's.

[directX]

Originally posted by Adel

Originally posted by directX
Saw an episode where they used the Kodak DSLRs.

In which show? Miami?

Las Vegas

[dude_funk]

Where/when/how do you watch CSI NY?

[phoenix16]

Is CSI NY as good as CSI Las Vegas?

[Adel]

Originally posted by dude_funk
Where/when/how do you watch CSI NY?

I've gotten a torrent of questions regarding this bit of information, dude_funk. Play CSI and try to figure out the answer yourself.

Originally posted by phoenix16
Is CSI NY as good as CSI Las Vegas?

More graphic, for sure, Fiona. Then again the new season of CSI:LV is exceptionally graphic. I think overall LV has the edge because we know and care for the characters already, but NY is hot on its heels. Plus, iNY's got the added advantage of have a bigger, richer sandbox to play in - New York City.

The characters are the key. In the new season of LV, Greg is starting to go out into the field and is taking exams and all, but first he's got to find someone to replace him as DNA Dude. So far he's tried out Reiko Aylesworth (Michelle of 24's 2nd season), and sassy Aisha Tyler (who seems to have a thing for Warrick); also a hint of some budding relationship between Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown (!), and the old subtle thrust-and-parry with Gil and Sarah. This is the thing LV's got over NY.

In NY, Gary Sinise's character is a widower who lost his wife in 9/11, and he's become a driven, haunted workaholic who doesn't sleep. Melina Kanakaredes is also motivated by things yet to be revealed. The others in the cast are relatively unknown, but are all interesting.

Miami is an odd duck. The different milieu allows for radically different crimes and situations, and the locale presents CSIs with more glamorous crimes involving drug smugglers and society people, as opposed to the seedy, ugly, desperate crimes in Las Vegas, or the bottom-feeding depravity that goes on in New York. The characters seem to be more hip and glamorous in Miami too: Horatio Caine is forever cool in his snappy suits and sunglasses, as opposed to Gil Grissom's frumpiness; Calleigh Duquesne can give Catherine Willows a run for her money any day of the week. (I have a thing for Emily Procter). The New Yorkers are more serious and business-like. The eye-candy for the guys there is the hispanic babe Vanessa Ferlito (who she?), and for the girls it's Eddie Cahill.

Whatever the case, it's all good.

(Jeez, this has turned into a seriously OT review; sorry. Further discussion will be moved to the proper forum, pwamise.)

More on CSI:NY here. A little more, anyway.

[Edited on 10-18-2004 by Adel]