 The film was the first Hollywood production to be filmed with the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company 's RED Epic camera and was shot in 3 @-@ D at 5K resolution . Cinematographer John Schwartzman had this to say about the camera : " Today was Epic , Monday December 6 marks the first day the Red Epic camera was used to shoot a major studio motion picture . I can say for certainty the camera does exist and boy is it ready for primetime , as a matter of fact it 's a true game changer . " Schwartzman felt that the 3D would have been impossible without it . He said , " I can tell you without these cameras it would be impossible to move a 3D rig in the ways that THIS story demands , if Jim and the crew hadn 't made these cameras available to us I don 't think we could have shot this movie the way our director envisioned it in 3D . " Webb wanted cameras small enough to fit on the rigs and swing around very fast , saying that the " RED Epic cameras were the right cameras to do that . " Webb continued that " you need to shoot it with a level of velocity and 3D cameras can be very large ... and so we need those cameras to mount on rigs that could fly to the air and run to the streets in a certain pace . That allowed us to do it . " The Amazing Spider @-@ Man 's climax was filmed in a 1 : 78 : 1 aspect ratio for its IMAX DMR release . 
