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Not yet, just getting used to it in its stills role first, but next job in a few weeks, going to shoot some 7.2k with it. Not the full job, but at least some, for this specific task. For now but as above. General walkabout, venue pics etc but nah, it’s not for me. It is at least with the 28-70.

Try this instagram page. I hope the makers and their tools make a full movie in this style. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMNxgCdIWxR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Hey Everyone, This week's new free Mp3 music tracks are on my Fantasy 12 page: "GRUMPY MONSTER’S NAP-TIME" (LoFi) "THE BOG OF ETERNAL STINK" (LoFi) "CONTEMPLATION IN THE CASTLE" (LoFi) https://soundimage.org/fantasy-12/ I must say, "The Bog of Eternal Stink" really works well as a LoFi track...it sounds truly stinky...blech! CUSTOM MUSIC for "Warbound" I'm in the middle of creating an entire score (around 30 tracks) for "Warbound," a strategy-based RPG. If you're interested, I've provided a link to the game on my custom music page: https://soundimage.org/custom-work/ I believe the music in it right now is temp-music (not mine) but the game looks really good. I can hardly wait to hear my tracks in it! If anyone needs help with custom music, feel free to contact me! OGG GAME MUSIC MEGA PACK - OVER 1400 TRACKS (AND GROWING) https://soundimage.gumroad.com/l/ylyre My Mega Pack contains over 1400 music tracks (and growing!) in higher-quality Ogg format. Great for video games, films, podcasts and more. This is a bundle of my genre music packs: Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Funny/Quirky/Weird | Puzzle | Chiptunes | Action | Dark / Ominous | Horror / Surreal | Misc These tracks sound almost as good as my original WAV recordings, but are much smaller in file size. Perfect for video games. Ogg tracks also loop better in game engines than Mp3 format. The Pack that Grows with You I add new music all the time, plus Gumroad allows me to send users updates so you can download my newest tracks as I release them. As always, enjoy, stay safe and keep being creative!

Yep, still useless. AI has no feelings. No promp-master can make AI distinctly his own. The output will always be an interpretation of something synthetic devised by the AI being used. I'm not talking about shooting your own material and enhancing it with AI. That's a different thing altogether. No. I'm talking about movies made 100% prompt after prompt. No wonder the current examples of these prompt-driven "films" always put the AI tool used before the author. It's what ppl want to know. "What tool did you use?". "What prompts did you input?". It's never the author. Always the tool.

For me, Stalker is one of the most gorgeous films ever made. I feel inspired every time I watch it!

I just found out that Stalker is free on YouTube.... I saw the movie when I was young but not since, so I'm waiting for a good time where I can sit and watch uninterrupted.

here is a still from an AI film the -young lady has made a strange modification to the door of her camper van !

Nice to hear it’s working for you. Have you pulled any 8k stills? How do they hold up? Are you mainly using it for photos? What use were you going to give the 28-200? I've been thinking that it might work as a compact long zoom for filming ceremonies. Having it locked off on a tripod. Does hybrid zoom work with sigma lenses?

Official review, mentioned in another thread, it’s fucking awesome. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I do, but actually… So the OG S5 I really liked and I switched from Fuji for video and stills because I wanted a full frame system over a cropped one. For a while, I actually carried on shooting a ‘cropped system’ for video because the 4k 50p in the S5/S1H/S5ii is of course cropped, so it was more for the stills I wanted full frame. My overall feeling at the time was it was a marginal step up, but nothing anyone else would really notice. Bought a pair of S1R’s and whilst the image quality could not be questioned, did not care for the body too much and it was just a bit old school DSLR and too different from the S5 and S1H. Bought an S1H for video. Stellar camera. Would still be using it today if it just had a couple of features the S5ii has. But it doesn’t so had to eventually go. S5ii’s became my video workhorses and can’t really fault them but hated them for stills, especially coming from S1R and S1H which were MUCH better IMO as photo cameras. S9. Bought it. Sold it. Bought it back again. Love it, - my favourite run & gun video camera ever. Yes I have a few niggles with it such as it’s too easy to knock the dials etc and when I thought I was shooting 1/100th notice I am shooting 1/80th or 1/160th from time to time and aaaargh. I need to look at maybe even just a small bit of tape or something to prevent that. S1Rii vs Sony A7RV and Nikon Zf, because it has replaced both of those cameras. Vs the A7RV I’d say it’s about equal. Near identical sized and handling bodies, build, rear LCD’s etc with zero real world image quality difference. The Sony is a touch better in the AF department but not by much. Vs the Zf, the Zf is more ‘fun’ and my favourites point & shoot camera ever and again, very little real world image quality or AF difference, but the Lumix is a better lens platform and as a single body over a pair, it’s very very good. Pros: Size, weight, handling, build, image quality, hybrid crop zoom. Cons: I honestly haven’t really got any. I was hoping originally for the sensor from the Leica SL3 and a mini S1H body and whilst we did not get the former, I’m over that and re. the latter, it actually has that vibe. I had a few minor niggles first job I shot it, but then realised I had missed a few things on the set up so tweaked those areas for the job I am currently working on. What’s missing and any other comments? Well as above, hated the 28-200 zoom and it’s going back. I prefer primes but recognise they are not always practical for what I do or shorter zooms, preferably with internal zooming (or at least very short extension) are my preference. And do not care for slow, variable aperture lenses. So it’s going back and getting the lens that I know will work for me and that is the Sigma 28-45mm f1.8. What is missing for me now is just one more lens, a same size but longer focal length to the above lens, ie, something like a 45-90 f1.8 internal zoom. Please Sigma, make this lens 🙏 But for now, I will have to make do with hybrid zoom which is a bit of a revelation to me. It’s a massive thumbs up from me and now having 1 less camera, 3 less lenses and everything in one system, just a much better way of working.

Except he hasn’t. As above, in 25 years, I’ve only been in 3 systems, albeit a few side dalliances from time to time trying out a few things, but have never flip flopped between systems. I have had many many cameras over that time, but 90% of them have been upgrades to new models within a system as most full-time pros tend to do. The only exception to that has been the last 1.5 years when I bought a Sony and a Nikon because L Mount was frustrating me in that regard, both in the body and in the lens department, but more in the lens. There are still 2 holes within L Mount regarding lens IMO, but within the last 1.5 years, they have also popped out a couple that addressed some of my needs. I was also a little guilty of buying into the ‘L Mount is dead, Lumix won’t be making any more cameras’ line that many were spinning a year or two back and so 🤷‍♂️ But switched back and forth between camera systems… Mentally, many times and talked about hypothetical options, yep, guilty as charged, but flip-flopped like a YouTube shillster, nope. And no offense taken. I’m just having a moment on my soap box in denial of the accusation 😘

It was just a joke because @MrSMW has switched back and forth between systems (cameras) a few times in the past couple years. No offense intended.

Thank you, and yes we'll see what @mercer has in mind. I think I mentioned in a previous post that in use the S1Rii has been great, maybe not as well built as the original, but will do just fine day in day out! I agree I think Canon and Sony still have the best AF (for People), however this is not far behind and (for what I shoot) perfectly fine!

I’m not @mercer (obviously) and not answering that beyond what I said above, but after 3 days shooting with the S1Rii my official review is now available for public consumption below. It’s fucking superb. That’s my review. Indistinguishable image Q to the A7RV and almost indentical handling, ie, excellent, but the Sony does have marginally better AF. Not quite as ‘fun’ to use as the Zf which for me was the ultimate point & shoot, but as a ‘one stop solution combining the talents of both and within the L Mount family’, fucking superb. I would be interested in a ‘rangefinderesque’ body a la RX1 line, but no idea if Lumix ever plan on making one 🤷‍♂️ But don’t need one.

Cool video! The shots with the perspective shift really work, like a dolly-zoom but with a changing perspective. Other shots are more traditional, but work too. Gotta watch those shadows though. This is perhaps the main challenge of 360 video, keeping the equipment and operator out of the shot.

I'm curious, why do you think that?

Hi everyone, here comes a new music video shot on insta360 v4. Somehow the process is really fun becuse after shooting you get to animate all the camera settings in the insta 360 app. That ist actually quite fun, feels a bit like old analog photography as you find new aspects that you did not see during the shoot. Nevertheless the process is not too good yet as you have to animate the camera settings in the app, then export it and then edit it in Resolve. Pretty time consuming! So i hope there will be a resolve plugin in some time in the future... If you have any experiences using this technique i would ne happy if you could share it here!

More blogging My lens has arrived, i think. Well before my birthday. Haven't opened it yet will do that later today. I would open it except its a pretty ordinary day here, overcast and a few drops of rain. I'd be more excited if it were sunny... The postie has done her normal thing and left it out behind the rose bush, apparently no one will notice it there. I guess she also assumes someone will pick it up before it rains... I got an andoer 50cm camera slider, it moves quite smoothly. I'm impressed with how solid / rigid it is, i wouldn't try standing on it, but for every camera and mount i have subjected it too, its been awesome . In hindsight i should have bought the 60cm slider as it would still fit between a doorway and i'd have an extra 100mm of travel. I tend to lose 45mm of travel from each side of center which is a bit annoying. The only issue i have had is when i mount it to a tripod within a minute of use the 3/8 bolt loosens and the whole slider can then swing in the breeze. Not exactly inspiring. To fix that issue i inserted a 10mm end mill into the drill press and cautiously milled some material away. There are two holes in both the mount and camera slider, neither match up. One is 3/6 and the other is 1/4 inch. The 1/4 inch hole got slotted as well which allows the holes to align. I previously have had to machine the front away as it was catching on the tripod somehow. If this doesn't hold it steady i'm not sure what else i can do. One of the first things i did, was to cut 100mm of a 600mm steel ruler, it fits snugly between the rails there's double sided tape holding the ruler in place. I dabble with animation and i figure it would help with consistency.

Get GRAINY cinematography with the Arri Alexa 35 - YouTube

An interesting vid about Arri Alexa film grain optionsGet GRAINY cinematography with the Arri Alexa 35 - YouTube

Would you like to make a gentleman’s wager on that? If I was going to…and I won’t, it would be more likely Nikon, but I have only made 2 fundamental brand changes in my 25 year career to date: 2000-2011 Nikon 2012-2020 Fuji 2021-… Lumix other than the last 1.5 years when I brought in a single Sony and a single Nikon for stills, now replaced with an additional Lumix, the S1Rii. Trialled a few Sony’s and Olympus cameras over the last decade or so, but nothing serious. So nah, unless you know my mind, history and business better than me, I don’t think so!

You'll be back to Sony and/or Nikon by the fall.

Very funny MrSMW, One of the guys involved in making F1 the film said " we are aiming at bringing the "Top Gun experience to Formular 1 racing".The financial experience may have also played a part with Top Gun 1986 box office $357 Million and only a $15 million budget Top Gun Maverick 2022 $1.5 Billion box office and $177 million budget.Top Gun was arguably the first film to give a reasonable impression what it was actually like to fly a f14 Tomcat .The films story is cheesy to say the least ,even the shag scene was added at the last moment. Much of the 2025 F1 film actual racing sequences the camera position changes every few seconds leaving only a vague impression of driving.Have a look at this for comparison- F1 Grand Prix (1966) - Music Video - Lost but Won - YouTube

Glad you are making progress Max .I dug out the Soviet color filters both are red ! and were normally used to increase contrast with black and white film.

I found this Japanese guy flexible picture profiles very pleasing. Give it a try Andrew: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/chk03x3iovaj1ewa3h6ki/ANk2wDtpX3R7ua0lv6C6LM4

OK, next gen to what I had then! I probably will resist the BF as I have just downsized my kit and I really don’t want to increase it ever again!