Francisco Rios

Why? AF series ergonomics are outdated. Small cameras is where it's at. Just look at the Epic. Easier to rig and easier to customise. More stealthy too. The only thing I miss from the AF100 is the built in ND filter. Exposure is important. Every camera should have it.

lighting is the most important part of the job - what ever camera you use
 
and then hire the best 3d artist you can as all that green has to be replaced on every cut you make - and in perspective too.
so the most amazing pull off your 4.4.4 camera is no good if you are replacing green with junk -
so we spent more time 3d modeling
designing the virtual sets -
lighting the virtual sets,
pre grading the virtual sets to fit the live action ,
texturing the virtual sets etc etc etc
layering and layering and layering rendering rendering rendering get the look
 
more time doing all of that than doing green pulls off my 4 2 0 camera as thats was the easy bit!
 
green replacement takes time - lots of time , its not always fun waiting for massive renders

[media]http://vimeo.com/77268402[/media]

68GB worth of material was used to get a studio based test this finely tuned, with the cameras matched in post as close as possible. This effort to remove the variables of grading and camera settings leaves behind a truer picture of the differences in hardware capabilities.

The 5D Mark III raw (from Magic Lantern), if it were a film stock, would be Fuji. Warm vivid colours which may need taming a bit in post. The Blackmagic is more Kodak, cooler and more muted, it often requires the opposite treatment in post to the Canon cameras. The 7D is totally back from the dead - with Magic Lantern raw and the Mosaic Engineering VAF-7D tested here, it offers lovely image quality from a Super 35mm sized sensor, at a similar price to the Pocket Cinema Camera. The Panasonic GH3 - best of the standard system cameras out of the box without modifications does a good job keeping up with them.

The scene was lit three ways to test resolution, dynamic range and low light performance.

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11350/depth-test-5d-mark-iii-7d-raw-vs-blackmagic-pocket-vs-gh3]Read the full article here[/url]

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
leonardo da vinci
 
 
 
 
grasshopper
 
 
my child 
you name this in honour of a god who fell to earth.
leonardo of italy.
 
i call it panasonic japan.
 
you name your plastico fantastico
your
wing yip
your long dong of china.
 
as tribute to a man sent from the stars
mighty leonardo da vinci.
 
ohhhh
ohhhh
 
to be damned with such faint praise.
 
 
poor leon : (
 
 
 
 
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Hope the patent will work at 24p...

schhh get rid quick the moller is tired history the future is bright it is 1.33.

we sorry few lunatics have hit an iceberg.
gentlemen we are going down.
no band to play for us.
no buxum breasted irish girl for a last romantic dance.
just the ice winter cold of the deep sea drink.

Redstan has forgotten more than most of us know.

Sadly, most quality built products are often overlooked and undervalued these days...Redstan Is a cottage industry that will not sell substandard tin foil goods, this may not suit the people who want everything 'yesterday' but these are the people who deserve the crappy pipe and screws from other clamp makers in my opinion.

You get what you pay for.
 
In my experience that is top quality of build and service (as long as you don't act like a tit), not to mention the invaluable information and guidance he gives out privately or on this forum.

 
 Viva La Redstan.
 
 
P.s - I want to buy a Redstan branded T-shirt with 'Bokeh Tit' written on it...as Well as other famous quotes from his posts over the years.
 

a new capitalist revolution my friend i pay you to take my tin products and i thank you as well.
how dare you call it a clamp it is a screw on adapter.
it is the curvy scarlett johanhanssonson of the clamp i mean adapter world.
scarlet from a few years ago when she was in japan with bill murray.
my adapters will be young un fresh .
not like dog tired  brad pitts and angelina jolly smokin bong dope stoned with 20 kids running around a french chateau .
fresh and sleek like young scarlett of old : )

Tony i am not doing less than accusing you of making me buy two möllers!

Haha, Francisco before learning any new vocabulary i have to learn speaking :)

Yes!
:)
Indeed , you can do some rack focus...
So we can expand our "....limited cinematic vocabulary and grammar...."  ;) 
 
Great you are back QHR.
Best.

I really haven't had much of a chance to play with this lens, unfortunately. But if our Government remains closed next week, I may have a few days off and perhaps I will get around to it.
 
It really does seem to be the full package, at least for my purposes. I think that mine looks pretty great at f/2.8. In my opinion, it has more character than many of the more popular and sought-after anamorphics out there.
 
(And by answering this, I am losing my '666 posts' status that I have been hanging on to for a while. Rock and roll.)

Sorry for loosing your 666 post status but good for the forum you post again.
Interestring that you were searching the perfect 8mm anamorphic. Perfection is hard to find. For sure many of us are addicted to anamorphics. Searching, collecting, selling. It is not so easy to be happy with what you have. You own or have owned many anamorphics I think (Iscorama, Lomos...) Great that you found the full package now!  :)
I like the tiny Bolex Möller so much: Lightweight and very easy to use instead of double focussing. After one day of practice you can do some rack focussing as well.  :wub:

don't say that i have been accused of being a no nothing racist for droning on about the baby moller.
 
and yet it is unique 1958 technology that is state of the art today.
but what do i nose A.

I just had to make this choice, and went with 5D MKiii.
 
Just about the best stills camera around, aside from medium format ( I have used a Hasselblad H3D out and about, foolishly enough. My wrist hurts just thinking about it.). Nikon D800 may pip it, but it's quite clunky in use and the video sucks. Raw feature and Magic Lantern in general will mature as the cards and storage catch up, so it's relatively future proof. Now raw is impractical, in a while it won't be. Harder than Chuck Norris in a Viagra factory - it won't break if I take it to a desert. If it does Canon will fix it more quickly than most other companies. Size matters. No moire issues. A tiny bit of softness doesn't distract. A tiny bit of moire does. Enough resolution. I don't care about absolute resolution, pixel peeping is silly really. I like 16mm film best of all formats. The feel of the image is more important than razor sharp eybrow hair. See also The Hobbit. The G6 has a video feel IMO. I'd rather have a softer image that's more cinematic. Brilliant low light performance. Menu systems that I understand. All my lenses are adapted to EF.  Full frame means buying one longer lens though... A huge range of accessories, as it's industry standard. It's familiar to my collaborators - on a corporate shoot recently, we all knew what we meant when we chatted settings. I got a good price second hand, which was important. The retail is a bit high IMO. Depreciation will be minimal, comparatively.  
The G6 is sharp and has 1080/60p, but I don't want to be swapping bodies a lot and I feel it would likely be superseded swiftly. I prefer to learn one and keep it for a long time, much like an instrument.
 
I also feel the image quality itself is pretty video-like on the G6. This is hard to pin down, but laymen (and wives and girlfriends too, often) will use terms like "cheap" or "TV like". That's important to me as it's audience reaction, not geek reaction! ;)
 
I had an RX100 for a while and though it's impressive, it just has a real video look that stood out when I cut it with Canon EOS. As far as I can see the G6 feels similar. Just a personal preference, your mileage may vary, but I can't buy off a spec sheet, I must purchase on real-world application. I won't repeat mistakes.
 
I would buy and RX100 in a heartbeat for documentary or TV work. It almost renders camcorders obsolete I feel. It's just not very "filmic".
 
So far 5D MKiii raw appears to look more electronic than Alexa/Red/BMD. I feel this is because many tests are relatively unprocessed, too saturated and sharpened, and I look forward to taming it creatively as it becomes practical to use technically.
 
I may still keep the 600D with Mosaic filter, just for the 3x crop video mode.
 
I wish Canon would put this mode in the 5D.
 
In short, yes I know they are cynical with feature splitting across SKUs. I do agree that it's frustrating.
 
But at the end of the day a creative tool needs to  work on many subtle levels. Being the best at one thing doesn't cut it. Having a good all-round package, whether I like to admit it or not, does. So they get the cash.

i am sure these new lens will be great compared too the century and the panasonic as all the design work was done years ago,just a question of figuring out what panasonic and century did wrong.
and engraving a new logo on .
 
1700 -2000 for the letus is gonna be an interesting sell in the age of pocket cameras..
an interesting test will be century with achromat against slr magic at f2.8 and f4.
i did a test close up lens at  mag power +0.12 and it was way to mild and subtle waste of time.
tokina magnification is great but as i had a few left i thought i would go milder at 0.25

many people even dp's still say single element is all you need and mild magnification does not generate any chromatic shit but i can see it on a battered old gh1 screen zoomed in.
i have some old angenieux single element i have tested the new doublet against and it beats the single element angenieux.

Caption competition...
 

Camera supplied by CVP who came through and fulfilled my pre-order from NAB in early April. Personal note: I was saddened to learn of the death of CEO Phil Baxter earlier this month and in Phil's memory a fund has been set up which will donate a pot of cash to the Make A Wish Foundation UK charity. This charity helps fund memorable experiences for young people fighting life threatening illnesses. Donate here even just a small amount helps those kids.

The Blackmagic Pocket Camera is finally at EOSHD HQ, and comes from one of the first new batches to ship since the white orb sensor calibration issue was resolved. Have they fixed it? Let's not get too caught up in things like that for the moment. For me this camera is all about the lenses.

I've been a Micro Four Thirds shooter since day one with the G1 back in 2008. This was the first camera to tempt me away from Canon and over the last 5 years I've been building a rather ridiculously obsessive collection of Micro Four Thirds glass for my GH1, GH2 and lately the GH3, as well as c-mount glass.

The best c-mount glass is mainly vintage Super 16mm from the 60's and 70's. Classics like the Kern Switar 26mm F1.1 for instance, which an ex-BBC cinematographer once described to me as being "made by spacemen" such was the performance before the technological era of computer assisted optics design.

 

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11233/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-first-impressions]Read the full article here[/url]

A short film from Germany, shot with the Pocket. They speak english, because Germany isn't exactly the home of cinematographic talent, and the latter has to be invited from elsewhere. However, it's graded rather extremely, but it has a story and not just landscape or cats. One of the marks of cinema.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_INEKUQpA#t=22

i am restarting my anamorphic project anyone with a blackmagic camera based in london that wants to meet and give me some feedback that would be great.
it would be handy if you had played around with scope lens before.
please ping me a message if interested cheers.

All of Edgar Wright's films have had impressive or, at the very least, quite pleasing and slick cinematography and his most recent installment to his and Simon Pegg's "Cornetto Trilogy", The World's End, is no exception.  There's a great feature article covering the style and technical approach to the film in the September issue of American Cinematographer Magazine (http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/September2013/current.php).
 
When it got to the lens selection for the anamorphic portions of the film (once the scifi madness kicks in) I wasn't at all surprised that Wright and his DP went for a classic sampling that included C-Series lenses for their greater character versus new cinema anamorphics.  Wright likes to shine lights into the lens as much as anyone here (and he does it so much better than JJ Abrams).  Coincidentally, Panavision made a discovery at their Woodland Hills location, a B-Series that Panavision had failed to catalog and been long forgotten. 
 
 
Given the way a lot of discussions go around here over this anamorphic or that anamorphic, I had to smile when I read the part where this DP praises aberration and soft edges.  
 
 
 
 
...and I always like when they go into this sort of detail, about working or target stops used on a film.  Anyway, it's a nicely detailed story about a contemporary anamorphic film that's worth grabbing an issue for.  
 
Only God Forgives is likewise covered in this issue, and though it's not anamorphic it is, very surprisingly, a mostly practicals show with very few cinema lights used.  Having seen the film it's almost too hard to believe the information in the article. 

I'm all for 10bit recording as well.  Doesn't matter if is 4K, regular 1080P60P is fine, but let's get 10-12bit recording please.

[media]http://vimeo.com/74286078[/media]

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is slated for an end of September ship date now in more quantity, after a small tricke-out - the good news is that the extra time has given Blackmagic some leeway to tweak the camera.

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11181/blackmagic-fix-black-hole-white-orbs-new-firmware-sensor-calibration]Read the full article here[/url]

anyone dumping iscorama and moller 1.5 i will buy them all seriously
i really think you should dump them quick before they are worth 100 dollars.
vintage germany cannot compete with modern china copy of a copy.
 
i have 600 dollars per lens waiting for you guys get out quick china is coming
 
and they have a revamped optex ready for ya : )
as for the lexus is it lexus tweaked panasonic yes no

Who knows about a viewfinder for pocket?
It needs to cover 3.5'
Cheers.

Yes, seems that simple and fast calibration did the trick. A very attractive 10-bit-codec, resolution much better than expected, with a promise to get raw some day, for under 1000 bucks - and still lamenting? Reminds me of a song from the 90's. I just can't get enough ...