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Same. Well I only have one body but I'll never sell it. If not for a few modern conveniences, none of which being higher resolution, I wouldn't even bother with any other camera. I bought and returned the R50V. I actually really liked the camera, especially for the price, but its inability to display exposure tools and the View Assist LUT at the same time was way too frustrating and the Histogram wasn't accurate enough for me. But I did see they updated the firmware to allow the LUT and False Color to be turned on at the same time, so that's pretty cool. Of course that happened exactly 3 days after I returned it. I picked up a refurbed V1 directly from Canon and I like it a lot. Am using it, and the 5D3, for a short film I'm writing. That's exactly what I thought about the FP and when it arrived my jaw dropped seeing how small it is... but... then you quickly realize how big the thing gets once you add a cage and an SSD on top. I spent hours upon hours researching and testing different configurations to keep it compact. I looked at the Dark Power stuff, but I was trying to keep the camera package as cheap and small as possible. The best I could come up with was to shoot it in 8bit cDNG mode with an SDXC card and a NiceyRig handle. The 8bit quality isn't bad at all in CDNG. But the cards are expensive and you can't get much footage onto a 128gb card... plus I'd rather shoot 12bit so I got a generic cage off Amazon and bought a couple SSDs and just attached them with a phone tripod clamp. I also bought a SmallRig drive encasement and put a Samsung drive inside and that kept it fairly small. Last summer I finally had a project to shoot with it and with all my tests, I didn't really realize how quickly it ate through batteries until I was on set. Luckily, I had just enough power and drives to make the day, but I was starting to get nervous. That's a great price for the FP if you can find one. I'm probably going to trade mine in to take advantage of the ZR $100 trade in bonus through B&H. I'll get a little less for the camera, but not that much less when you add the fees and headaches of eBay, private sales. I was wavering between the ZR and R6V, I really like the idea of the 3K S16 crop mode on the R6V and I love the body style, but the ZR just offers to many other shooting options internally and the internal 32bit audio... no brainer for me for now. All that said, if you like shooting raw video, which you obviously do, then the FP is a fun camera with a bunch of little quirks that aren't necessarily deal breakers but can be frustrating sometimes. -
During the shooting of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, the lead actress, Maggie Cheung, complained to her co-star Tony Leung that she had absolutely no clue what was going on. He told her something along the lines of not to worry, because they would end up with a masterpiece. That uncertainty was not accidental, but part of Wong Kar-wai’s working method. Rather than starting from a fixed, fully locked script, he often finds the film during the shooting itself, shaping scenes, characters, rhythms and emotional tensions through repetition, variation and discovery. The actors may not always know exactly where the story is going, but the final film emerges from that process: less as a pre-planned construction than as something gradually found in the performances, the silences, the gestures and the atmosphere. It remains one of my favourite films, and Wong Kar-wai one of my fave filmmakers BTW : ) On a personal note, my own career in Asia as a filmmaker began there. Not only because of the beauty of his images, but because of the way he turns uncertainty, restraint and emotional incompletion into cinema. Few films are so precise while seeming so elusive, or so deeply romantic while refusing almost every conventional gesture of romance. With Wong Kar-wai, desire always seems to exist somewhere beyond the frame. The way the inner universe of the male character is developed makes cinema an internal experience: from the male character into the viewer. An absolute gem. Wong Kar-wai shoots the soul from within, and the inner world through the soul. Remarkable stuff, and yet it is there. -
By Bioskop.Inc · Posted
Zoom Vs Primes! Horses for courses isn't it, but more and more i will go out with my Tokina 28-70mm f2.6-2.8 - 3 focal lengths in one, no brainer! This is not to say that I don't like primes, well not entirely - I'm not too keen on wide angle lenses as they produce distortion the wider you go. And then this can be a bonus, try doing a close-up with a wide angle lens - the wider the better. So, the whole thing about you have to use a wide lens for landscapes or an 80mm for portraits is just nonsense. You use what you want to achieve the result that you want - there are no rules or if you are more traditional, rules are meant to be broken! If you follow the herd, you'll just produce pictures/films that look like everyone else's - how are you going to stand out if you aren't being creative in your lens choices? -
By Bioskop.Inc · Posted
Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai Absolute masterclass in film making. Think it was shot in S16mm film, but the most impressive thing about the film was that he shot it in 2 weeks whilst waiting to edit Ashes of Time. The script/story changed whilst they were filming and they shot on location in Hong Kong. I think if you're going to write to make a film, keep it simple - if you look at Wong Kar-Wai's early films like Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love etc. - the premise is always simple/basic and they shine a focus on very few characters which really draws you in and with quite limited dialogue. He creates a mood and you should use the environment where you are filming to make it another character in the film, which complements the atmosphere you are trying to create in the story you are telling. Having filmed a lot for TV in cities etc. it really makes you focus on what you are trying to do and ultimately achieve - you've got to do things quickly and ignore what is actually going on around you, get the shot and be ready to be adaptable. -
By newfoundmass · Posted
That's such a bummer, re: the overheating. I've been eyeing the original S1R for stills. Was hoping he used price would go down more, but it hasn't moved much in the last year.
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