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hey friends, filmed made last may. but also did a quick one last week. so, here some pre corona single room fun:)

Someone buy this before I do. Zeiss 25mm 2.8 with Duclous Cinemod for $500 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zeiss-Distagon-T-25mm-f-2-8-ZF-2-Lens-for-Nikon-F-Mount-with-Duclos-Cine-Mod/324159982075?hash=item4b7970c9fb:g:LFUAAOSwZ-ReoIlr

Have you ever heard of the HTML <video> tag? The times where you had to embed players (back in the days, via Adobe Flash) are gone for 10 years now. What exactly is the "video player issue and the standard on page display issue"? I tell you what: they don't exist, and you're just making up nonsense, like you always do here, because you are a full of shit. "I build and maintain a lot of wordpress sites" - yes, and you also hire and direct DPs from Disney and have internal connections to Canon, among many other things that you wrote here before. Your postings are not only bullshit, they poison this forum (and people looking for advice) with wrong information. Can somebody please check your Egyptian IP address?

I haven't done that specifically, but the concept is sound. The challenge in your situation would be ensuring that there's enough clearance for the QR plate (both female and male) and the camera to fit under the top part of the camera rig. I've invested a bit into QR plates and mounts to make my equipment interchangeable depending on what I'm doing. I have a tripod, monopod, Gorillapod 5K, Manfrotto Pocket and a Peak Design Capture, which are either designed to receive QR plates or I've added them. Then I have my GH5 and Sony X3000 action camera with QR plates from Peak Design on them, so either camera works with any mount. The QR plates from Peak Design are the best I've found as they're well made and are super-small and low profile. I've even put a wrist strap on the one on my GH5 for when I'm hand-holding it (which is common for me) and the strap doesn't stop it being mounted in a QR mount.

A couple of my local camera shops are clearing out their Wooden Camera demo units and I want to pick one of these up. However, my issue is that I primarily work as a photographer and use the same body for video work. My video work is in the early stages and I spend about 1-2 hours a week shooting, mainly documentation work on construction sites. I saw Gerald Undone talk about the small rig's QR cage, and I like the quick release built into the cage body. I haven't pursued SmallRig due to delivery from China and with covid, I don;'t know how long it will take to get to me. I'm throwing it out there to see if anyone has attempted to add an arca swiss clamp to the Wooden Camera Unified Body's base where normally the camera's bottom goes? Or if anyone know that is even possible?

you didn’t specify which camera you use, but here’s a cage for Sony: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1449314-REG/smallrig_2238_arca_qr_half_cage.html

Yep. Again, you don't necessarily need a separate clamp -- you could just bolt an L-bracket directly to the cage. Of course, using Arca-Swiss clamps or other quick-release system makes the changeovers faster (and adds height to the camera).

I think most L-Brackets take 1/4-20 threads on both sides, so you might not even need a separate mounting clamp -- Arca-Swiss or otherwise.

@kye Thanks for your feedback. I was looking at the height dimensions as well and might need to see how well a medium sized cage fares including in portrait orientation as well. I have heard about Peak Design having a very low profile but need to check it out in person now that I have your feedback. @tupp see attached screenshot taken from Wooden Camera's instruction booklet, so it should be possible to mount a arca-swiss clamp

@tupp thanks for dropping a reply. I appreciate it and confirms my thoughts as well. I might as well take the plunge and find out. Makes sense to have a camera with an arca L-Bracket incase there is a need to shoot vertical videos.

Not familiar with the Wooden Camera cage, but most Arca-Swiss clamps have standard 1/4" or 3/8" female threads or have a counter-sunk hole. So, if the cage has a way to attach cameras/plates with those threads/hole, then it should be easy to find an Arca-Swiss clamp that works

Probably the best test;

been playing with the p4k and the tokina 28-70 and resolve. Heres a jpg of a sunstar through some grape leaves. i sorta learned its not parfocal last night trying to do some zooms in on the flames in a bonfire. At first i thought it was me. Then i reread jordans post, now i dont feel quite so bad lol.

Fascinating how different everyone is. I love the size/weight/shape of the S1 like no other camera I've ever owned. I change my mind sometimes when it's on a Ronin S with a monitor mind! 😄

A simple talking head setup - check! Only 1 bulb (out of 4) used and - okay, I admit it - it was a bit too bright to my liking in this scenario. Don't ignore inverse square law, lads and guys! The key light was ~ 50 cm away from me. f/1.4 , 1/160 s, ISO 1000, WB - 4000K BTS:

Panasonic has confirmed a entry level S series full frame camera will be coming.

Thank you, appreciated! Regarding your question: ML footage comes out a little bit contrasty compared to the VisionColor CineTech picture style I'm using (which is my favorite of all I ever tried, and it has more dynamic range than even Technicolor Cinestyle or Miller's C-Log). Being contrasty, it means it's more difficult to manipulate MLRAW footage. For that reason, while I own three EOS M cameras that are capable of ML RAW, I still use the M50, with just 32 mbps h.264 bitrate at 1080p. It works well enough. I'm planning on buying the new M5 MkII in October, that reportedly has IBIS. The 4k on the new M cameras has 120 mbps, and while 4k is 4x the 1080p resolution, the 4x bitrate is actually like 8x (it's how perceivable quality works). So h.264 at 4k at 120 mbps is more than enough to do a good job, without the need of the unstable ML RAW. Even at 8 bit, the kind of grading I do does not destroy the footage. If someone doesn't need IBIS, I'd highly suggest the M6 MkII, that already has proper 4k with AF, without crop and without the massive rolling shutter of the M50 in 4k mode.

Looks like Fuji have some firmware homework to catch up on... Maybe employ a Samsung professor!

Youtube compression doesnt like grain(facebook compression is the worst though), so I cant skip vimeo. Too bad the alternatives are so limited.

I see videos on vimeo that i enjoy more because I follow those directors/dps/producers etc. there than I see on youtube. On Vimeo you follow those people and on Youtube you have commercial accounts and youtubers. Vimeo is for people who do videos I look up to and youtube is for everyday videos, gear reviews, tutorials and "general culture". But I no longer consider vimeo as a viable payment plan. Their user experience is too bad to recommend.

This is the closest we will ever get with spherical lenses. There are a few more tricks to play though, like adding anamorphic lens distortion, as I have done so above. Overall, it's close. If you look at some modern anamorphic lenses, they lack the character of the old anamorphic lenses too.

Bokeh can be made to look anamorphic but the thing these anamorphake lenses don't reproduce is the differing look in the foreground compared to the background (or in focus vs out of focus areas). This is where true anamorphics (especially those with bigger squeeze such as 1.75-2x) get a lot of their look. Bokeh shape is part of it but it's not everything.

Γεια σου πατριώτη! Nice footage! You're not supposed to decompress anything on a fake anamorphic recording though. It's still square pixels. So when you shoot with Magic Lantern, you should not tell it that it's anamorphic recording, but rather normal recording. Then it will appear correctly when editing. Here is mine from today (Canon M50, Helios 44-2, Viltrox Speedbooster, Vid-Atlantic anamorphic aperture filter). I also have a modded Helios 44-2 (that doesn't require the Vid-Atlantic filter to get anamorphic bokeh) in the mail, coming soon:

Now with a human subject. Everything done by myself - so those screen grabs may be slightly out of focus. Alright, here are the results: No key light, only Neewer CN 176 giving some background. Partially geled with an aqua foil. Power @10% f/1.4 , 1/60 s, ISO 1000 (can't get any lower when recording HLG video), WB - 3700K Next - adding a key light. Approximately 2.6 m (~8.5 feet) away from me. Yongnuo YN-300 III 5500K @1% power f/1.4 , 1/60 s, ISO 1000, WB - 3700K No light modifiers in front. I didn't point it straight at myself, it was rather feathering me. YN-300 @10% power f/1.4 , 1/60 s, ISO 1000, WB - 5700K And @100% f/1.4 , 1/125 s, ISO 1000, WB - 5700K I used an external monitor with false colors to match the exposure on my skin. All walls in my room are white and it's really showing here - the light is bouncing everywhere and the depth is gone. What's more, I think the colors are more yellow-ish? Finally - two of the four LED bulbs I teased you with earlier. Each rated @17W, though in reality they aren't as powerful as one would expect. Key feature: >95 CRI I put them in a reflective umbrella (95 cm diameter), pointing at the back of it, and then hung one layer of a diffusion cloth in front and a grid to make the light more directional. Just like this: Since there is no way to dim them (I can only turn them on or off), they were blasting at their full power. And once again - not pointed directly at me and around 2.5 m away. f/1.4 , 1/60 s, ISO 1000, WB - 3700K I like the color rendition and the quality of light here. I only wish these bulbs were more punchy.. Sure, I realize that the gridded umbrella may cause around 2 stops light loss (I haven't measured it) and that I used 2 bulbs out of 4, but still. Though, if I was a YouTuber, I think a setup like this would be sufficient. No need to overpower the sun when you record in your own room, right? Total costs of the final setup, if that interest you: Neewer CN-160 ~15$ An aqua gel ~2$ Light stand ~20$ Four socket bulb holder (~10$) and 2 bulbs (~4$ for each) 95cm umbrella softbox with grid ~35$ All in all: 90$ Not bad, I guess? Also: I need haircut.