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  1. Andrew Reid
    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.
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    [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
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    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.
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    '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.
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    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.
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    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!
  7. Andrew Reid
    These are quite possibly some of the rarest lenses I've ever seen.   Absolutely no idea on price!
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    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!
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    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  
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    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.  
  11. Andrew Reid
    Thanks to low weight and small size Go Pro cameras will be part of the next NASA manned space flight, possibly to Mars.
  12. Andrew Reid
    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.
  13. Andrew Reid
    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!
  14. Andrew Reid
    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.
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    It stores the audio in a separate WAV file with raw. The NLE (like Resolve) syncs it automatically to the images.
  16. Andrew Reid
    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.
  17. Andrew Reid
    Yes full manual control but minimum shutter speed is 1/400.
  18. Andrew Reid
      Not just mirrorless. You can have an electronic shutter mode on a DSLR in live view as well.
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    If true this at least shows they have finally moved on from analogue sensors.   Only a digital readout can do such high continuous bursts.   Knowing Canon this is the sensor they will use for the next 10 APS-C cameras over 4 years! It better, therefore, be good.
  20. Andrew Reid
    haha I'm a fan of Don Hertzfeldt's animation... Brilliant. I'm trying to get an interview with him as his film's recently joined Vimeo On Demand. If you haven't seen it yet... Do!   www.vimeo.com/ondemand/itssuchabeautifulday
  21. Andrew Reid
    More pro GH2 love...   http://www.zacuto.com/shooting-video-gh2-z-finder-evf-pro   David Linstrom is an Emmy Award winning cinematographer and director with more than 20 years of experience making television for PBS, National Geographic, Discovery and more.
  22. Andrew Reid
    They own a ReWo cage (Wondo and Philip sold them some) but on this shoot it isn't used - I think it is part of the copter gimbal or a custom design.
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    [UPDATE: Sorry, have removed the article for now. An updated article & interview with Extreme Facilities will be online next week] Extreme Facilities who provided the BBC with RC copter drones for the recent Top Gear Africa Special have some behind the scenes shots of the GH2 and GH3 in action.
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      Just to clarify the fixed pattern noise comes from electronic circuitry on the sensor, it isn't anything to do with gain or ISO. To add to that the Nikon picture profiles go extremely flat and really can bring up the shadows a hell of a lot. There's also the D-lighting feature, turn it off.   The answer is simply not to dial down contrast all the way and don't use a flat picture profile. Simple.   Grade in-camera with the required look baked in.
  25. Andrew Reid
      Good point about anamorphic. Popular shooting format, yet no support on all the main digital cinema cameras or DSLRs (aside from Alexa Studio). It's bizarre. I've seen mega-budget music videos shot in 3.55:1 because even they couldn't get a 4:3 chip!
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