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I’d assume they went this route for weight saving. Quite possibe that the end effect doesn’t need cinema quality cameras either. I think he even mentioned this as like a mobile poor man’s bullet time rig.
The original was shot on handycam video cameras to give it a raw feeling. Danny Boyle says he was shooting it all on iPhone to get a modern version of that.