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  1.   Yes it is.   Goodbye tracks, dolly, tripod, slider, steadicam.
  2. The shots this allows you to do conveniently and quickly are incredible in my view, very cinematic.   Check out the GH3 footage shot with the MoVI in his other video at Vimeo On Demand http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/movi
  3. [media]http://vimeo.com/62917185[/media] Check out the GH3 MoVI footage and donate to charity - $3 at Vimeo On Demand If you've ever wanted to pull off just about any camera move with a tiny handheld rig, that just became reality. Potentially replacing the traditional steadicam at a stroke the tiny lightweight MōVI (easier to Google as "Movi") is a gyro stabilised platform with gimbal and hand grip. It appears to be so effective it allows you to pull of a tracking shot without a track, a pan / tilt without a tripod and a dolly shot without a dolly! [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/9985/movi-set-to-revolutionise-filmmaking-vincent-laforet-shows-gyro-stabiliser-by-freefly-systems-with-footage-from-gh3-and-1d-c]Read the full article here[/url]
  4. I'm keen to find someone back in Britain to service LOMO anamorphic lenses. The one I know is superb (Olexander or Olex Camera Services) but being based in the Ukraine has me a bit afraid customs may open the box and kick the lens around the floor for fun :)
  5. As far as I know if you do it as a business or gain any kind of credit / reward for operating one, you are wrapped up warmly in red tape.   No such regulations go for drones operated merely as hobbies, non-commercial uses - which is great but also a little silly - as the pros are more likely to operate one safely and yet anyone else can seemingly do pretty much what they like with no rules!?
  6. Above: the 4K FT-One click the image to enlarge Japanese pro audio / visual company FOR-A have just announced this high speed monster ahead of NAB. The spec is truly ground-breaking. http://www.eoshd.com/content/9973/first-of-the-new-nab-2013-camera-announcements-ft-one-with-global-shutter-4k-900fps
  7. OK first a disclaimer - I have no idea if this image is real or not - it was just tweeted to me and quite difficult to validate the source of the photo. NAB 2013 is being prepared and this appears to be a giant ad board for Blackmagic's next version of Resolve - version 10.
  8. Hehe. I also have a dirt cheap old lens with perfectly round aperture when stopped down. All it takes is a few extra blades!   Some of the old Russian lenses have 12 blades or more.
  9. [media]http://vimeo.com/63285458[/media] The Canon 1D C has taken to the skies for the first time thanks to Perspective Aerials founder Anthony Jacobs, who has just stepped up their drone to fly heavier cameras. The new rig has a custom built RC follow focus by Anthony Lenzo of Air See Land (ASL).   Read the full article
  10. Voigtlander 25mm you mean? F0.95?   Yes should work on the 2.3x crop.... Just!   I've tried it on the GH3. It covers the 2.0x crop of the sensor with my 1968 Iscorama with a very mild soft light fall off in the corners.
  11. 'Oberkochen' is the German town where the Allies moved Carl Zeiss to from Jena after the war.   F1.2 18mm Zeiss? Surely that is a Super 16mm lens.
  12. Here are some points to consider:   Before there was a few film stocks, and the look didn't change for decades. Now the sensors are changing year on year and the look of cinema is evolving very quickly.   Film cameras used to be big heavy beasts, now they are much smaller. So the rigging has got more creative and smaller too - example gyro stabilised RC quadrocopters where a real helicopter used to be used or a crane!   Then there's accessibility. Anybody can shoot with a look closely resembling Super 35mm film now, on a consumer DSLR. The price barrier on the camera side has come down. The price barrier to employing a crew and actors however remains very much in place.   Good luck for your final year.
  13. These cinema lenses are certainly nice, but the margin must be huge on them. They all seem to be derived from photographic lenses and the Cinema EOS cine lenses I've tried all breathe!
  14. These are quite possibly some of the rarest lenses I've ever seen.   Absolutely no idea on price!
  15. Hopefully James we will see Panasonic in the US do a similar thing one day.   Usually this kind of event isn't open to the public. This is the first such competition and quite a rare thing! For those in the UK enter now as there might not be another one for the GH3. Enjoy!
  16. EOSHD and Panasonic have two exclusive workshop places to give away to readers and filmmakers. You will meet the Panasonic team and get a privileged inside view of the brand new Panasonic GH3. Enter before midnight on Sunday April 7th to win a place at Panasonic's exclusive Lumix GH3 workshop.   http://www.eoshd.com/content/9929/eoshd-competition-win-a-place-at-panasonics-exclusive-lumix-gh3-workshop  
  17. http://vimeo.com/53914149 Cheetahs at 1200fps on Vimeow I love slow mo and it is great to be able to do it now on the Nikon 1 series, albeit limited to a low-fi look. Now the technique has gone 65mm - yes medium format sized. The Phantom 65 Gold is a 14bit raw 4K cinema camera. It can shoot 200fps in 4K mode, 396fps in 2K anamorphic (2.35:1 - 2048 x 872) and up to 718fps at lower resolutions.  
  18. Thanks to low weight and small size Go Pro cameras will be part of the next NASA manned space flight, possibly to Mars.
  19. He says it isn't a camera, or an April fools joke.   I'm guessing some kind of new stabiliser or an advance in LED lighting.
  20. Thanks for posting anyway.   The magenta cast to the GH3 footage is user error... He can change the tone and white balance manually.   This myth about the GH2's limited dynamic range... 6-8 stops... WHAAT?! I've tested it vs the GH3 and it actually has a wider dynamic range with the hack!
  21. Kit lenses don't have 'additional sharpening'   I'd say the GH3 won hands down in that test, I don't see any evidence of better colour or dynamic range on the D7100.   Those shots test resolution more than anything else really. The GH2 would have looked even stronger.
  22. It stores the audio in a separate WAV file with raw. The NLE (like Resolve) syncs it automatically to the images.
  23. Calling it an Iscorama is indeed fraud in my view.   Same as listing a $400 Sony NEX 5N under the label 'FS100' and charging $3000 for it.
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