Andrew - EOSHD

The world needs less brutality in reality (you know... real life) In art and fiction there is always a space for brutality and violence. Violence can be done well in a fictional form... as a form of art... many films and actors are an example of that. I am against mindless violence in films seen by kids and idiots and don't want it normalised in the general public. But in an art-house film by Von Trier, it has an artistic purpose. Some people can't see that artistic purpose, and will complain. But as it's a work of fiction not a real murder spree, it is your artistic freedom as a director to do what you fucking like. And the freedom of the audience to decide whether to watch it or not. "His violence" Has he personally inflicted real-life violence on anyone through his fictional violence? So what's your goal here exactly Richard? Censor what you don't understand? Nice find Agree with this bit... "I did a couple of tests by giving a few scenes from the film to Éclair Laboratories in order to get an HDR copy (EclairColor standard). I found the tests to be a great success and I would really have liked to have shown the film in that version at Cannes. Unfortunately, I was told that it’s too early to do that in terms of equipment there. In any case, what I like about HDR is that the increased contrast you get with digital cinematography absolutely doesn’t look fake. But, that’s almost always the case when you want to get a flashy image in SDR from a digital camera. It helps me to get away from the obsession of low-contrast images and to provide films with a new palette of expressions." For me HDR is about getting a more realistic high contrast scene, with lots of colour and pop, that looks like it was shot on film. I hate high dynamic range for low contrast scenes.

In final testing stages now, so early next week hopefully.

At the end of the day you can project the same image into a smaller space. That's physics. What Northrup was suggesting was wrong. An F2.8 aperture is always an F2.8. The optics don't physically change shape when you have a smaller sensor behind it. A lens that covers a smaller sensor at F2.8 is still a wider opening than F5.6 - with the same brightness as a full frame F2.8. So no, manufacturers should not be calling a Micro Four Thirds F2.8 lens a F5.6 lens at all. Using equivalent aperture to calculate depth of field vs full frame, is the only useful use of it. It's for us in our heads to use. It doesn't apply to other aspects. If you put the Canon 24-70mm F2.8 on the Speed Booster XL 0.64x on 1.86x GH5S, you get... A 1.19x crop sensor, practically full frame. An F1.8 effective aperture. 15-45mm focal length on a 1.86x crop sensor, so an equiv. range of 28-84mm. Not bad I'd say. You forgot the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 on a Speed Booster 0.71x as well. That is a 28-52mm F2.7 equiv. on the M43 SB and Super 35.

A lot of people shoot in aperture priority mode that I know, especially for stills.

Looking forward to seeing how you guys get on with the adapters... post some videos!

Nice find. Have you also tried their Nikon F mount for Sony E-mount adapter? Curious to see what the AF is like on that.

This is another reason I shoot video from stills mode - I can do a quick AF-C burst to confirm and lock focus before I hit record, then it stays put during the recording of the clip. Don't always want focus to move during a shot.

Will be joining the YouTube party at some point.

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Hello, I don't have a DVX200 unfortunately so have never developed Pro Color for it!

"Knowing Sony"? I think you might be confusing Sony with Canon! Sony have given us stuff well above and beyond expectations. Aside from the FS5 II, which was never meant to be anything less than a minor update, if you look at the jump between A7 series cameras they have been HUGE.

@ntblowz Regarding the Speed Booster, do you have a link to this guy in Korea doing the conversion? Also does it Dual Pixel AF through it after conversion or are the electronic contacts completely useless? I've been very lightly toying with the idea of an M50 but only for my Super 16 glass which adapts and matches the 4K crop factor. If it becomes a Super 35mm camera, that means it goes from nearly 3x crop to 1.5x crop with your Speed Booster - which would need a reduction factor of 0.5x!!... Seems a bit of a hefty step? Isn't the Speed Booster 0.71x for APS-C? Which would mean 2x crop like Micro Four Thirds on the M50...

I did first hear about the new film's Cannes reception on the BBC News website so I guess it is officially newsworthy. Really though, my article is not a news story, it's an opinion and an essay on a subject quite close to the heart of filmmakers. Not all of us want to be entertainers. Read this article for example, which starts off by saying... "Lars von Trier's inclination to think and say things that seem unusual and insensitive is vital to the genius of a director who's here to trouble us, not entertain" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/22/lars-von-trier-david-thomson Exactly He is here to trouble us and to prod, to get us out of our comfort zone and possibly even to give a few of us nightmares. That to me is very exciting, quite thrilling.

I don't think the majority of his work is even meant to be enjoyed. However in all of the Von Trier films I've seen, I've felt an intelligence and deep layered meaning was there behind all of the graphic scenes. If certain things are to be censored like sadism, then it means certain stories can't be told and I don't agree with that. Of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion on a film and whether they enjoy it or not is up to them. It's hardly going to be a date movie is it? But to get hysterical about it and walk out of the cinema like those 100 at Cannes is more likely a result of these people not really seeing beyond the surface. As for left vs right politics, let's try not to get into that here, because it isn't really what the article is about. The left has gone more extreme, has gone hysterically politically correct, but the right has gone more extreme as well and both sides at their most extreme are as batshit crazy as each other. I don't support any form of political extremism either left or right. What I do support is the freedom of the filmmaker to make a film of his choosing without censorship.

Well Pro Res RAW is an Apple tech so Sony only have to go to Apple to license it. Atomos aren't the gate keeper for that one, however they do seem to have a pretty close relationship with Sony - maybe one day they will be bought by the Japanese company and their tech extended to more than just recorders / monitors, etc. Going to investigate this and get back to you!

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Great stuff. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with the A7 III

This is quite amazing. Congrats BTM_Pix! It looks lovely and ergonomic. It also has a bit of style. Looks like a Gameboy from the 90's updated for 2018 In a good, minimalist way. I am all for stand-alone physical interface to an app. Touch screen and apps in heat of the moment can let me down. May I ask how many have you made? Would you like a guest blog post about it on front page?

It sticks to the metering mode you select in the menu. Say, multi-metering. But it behaves differently with a mind of it's own and tries to pull your image down to protect the highlights whether you want it to or not. The only way to stop it from doing that is to go into full manual control, set the shutter and ISO and aperture, so it forces the camera not to bother metering the scene. It is annoying because in stills mode you have the exposure shift on P,A and S, whereas in movie mode you have no exposure shift between LV and recording, but no way to shoot damn stills! They need to get metering consistent between video and photos... And let us take photos in video mode. In fact I'd get shot of the mode dial altogether and do what the X-H1 does. Dedicated ISO and shutter dials, with option for auto on both, and auto ISO.

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Yes you can use it for photography if you want to colour grade JPEGs.

Considering the effort is meant to stifle innovation in their competitors, they don't seem to be doing a good job of that.

The dynamic range charts are meaningless because when you push for the maximum dynamic range, your colour falls apart and there's no contrast shaping the scene. High dynamic range makes flat lighting look worse. It is only useful in a handful of situations. The NX1's stills and sensor are just fine. I've had results from it to rival full frame. Considering the 5D Mark III has an absolutely enormous full frame sensor and only 22MP, you'd think it would be further ahead than just 1 stop difference shown in the ISO 3200 result above. I don't know what you're seeing, but I'm seeing a 28MP APS-C sensor in the NX1 with very usable ISO 3200 and much better resolution than the Canon... at one third the cost with added 4K video and OLED screen and EVF!

The Fujinon E-mount lenses are also very long, I'd say it would be a product along those lines. 10mm-ish corresponds to a Micro Four Thirds sensor cropped to 16:9 In 4:3 they are 17x13mm

If that is for a Micro Four Thirds sensor then it's a damn impressive lens spec. Very high-end optic. The Olympus 12-100MM F4 remember is the current state of the art zoom for Micro Four Thirds. This is a F1.85 to F4 and it zooms to 385MM?! That is equivalent to 24-770mm in full frame terms. Maybe they are speeding up the aperture with the Speed Booster optic at the back? I'd be tempted to say it is more like the spec you'd find with a high end Super 16mm lens... But 12mm would be 32mm so not quite wide enough. Would have to be 28mm at least. Unless they are using a 2.4x crop sensor.