QuickHitRecord
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Advice on eBay anamorphic lens listing (No advertising)
QuickHitRecord replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
This is either someone reselling my Lomo square front set (asking about twice what they paid me for it about a year ago), or using the images and description from my original listing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141271312464 -
I just wrapped up a travel shoot with a three-LED kit from Fiilex (P360EX) that my work bought. I haven't reviewed the footage yet, but it looked good in the LCD. They were a joy to work with -- bright, lightweight, and checkable on my flight.
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Baby Hypergonar is focus-through. Wonderful lens though.
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If you value a large sensor and raw over 4K resolution and workflow, then absolutely.
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I've used them with the doublet, no problem.
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Can you share a link to where this was posted? EDIT: Nevermind, it's in a1ex's signature!
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Looks nice. Some of the better looking footage from this lens I have seen.
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Canon 7D raw video with the Mosaic Engineering anti-aliasing filter
QuickHitRecord replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
The "rant" in this article has been some of my favorite EOSHD material yet. -
No one has mentioned Nikkor AI and AI-S primes yet. I have a set of five, cine-modded by Duclos, and I have been pleased with them; first on my GH2, then on my FS100, and finally on my 5D3. I've also had them on a RED Scarlet, and they looked great at 4K. They are compact but well-built, and the lens characteristics match closely across the set. The only downside that I can think of is that the focus ring goes the other way, making a reversible follow focus a necessity. Here's a nice rundown on them by Caleb Pike of DSLRVideoShooter:
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Some of the converters have "vertical stripe correction" built in and it seems to solve this issue. The one that I am using right now is this one (definitely works on MLVs, not certain if it works on .raw files): http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9731.0 It's not the latest one, but it seems to work well.
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I used one of these for my old Baby Hypergonar. I do not think that it will be able to grip the Iscomorphot 8/1.5 properly (as I recall you have to secure this lens by the silver portion at the rear of the lens; the black part rotates when focusing). There is not much surface area to work with.
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Here's another way to mount it, if you have parts like these lying around:
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NAB is only a month out. I'd wait.
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I think that you have to use conversion software with "vertical stripe correction". Not all of them have it.
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Wow. A simple search in this very forum will give you all of the information that you need.
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Pretty neat. Reading the thread, it looks like there is a new version right around the corner. I've been using an older converter (with the recursive0.4.command file) to convert to DNGs. It applies "vertical stripe correction", which I assume removes some of the fixed noise pattern that can appear at higher ISOs. Do you know if this one does anything like that?
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Most forum users have probably already read Andrew's article on the effects of scaling 8-bit 4:2:0 4K footage down to 10-bit 4444 1080P footage: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> We in the anamorphic world are constantly rescaling our footage, though only on one axis. What I am curious to know is whether this can affect (positively or negatively) the color space and bit depth of the resulting footage. Also, can we better preserve footage by using wider pixels (as opposed to using square pixels + resizing)? This is new territory for me, and probably for a lot of others as well. Note: I posed the question in the thread above, but I think that this deserves its own thread.
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A great film. Agreed. The technology is there, and it's accessible. We have already have a slew of affordable ninety-percent imaging solutions out there but so many of us are focusing all of our attention on each new 0.25% improvement rather than putting in the time and effort to master the craft, assemble the crew, recruit the talent, and bridge the gap that imaging technology never will.
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I can see how that would be the case for a de-squeeze, but how about stretching the image (i.e. enlarging it horizontally)? In the past, anamorphic shooters have surmised that image quality doesn't really take a hit when doing this, but we weren't really looking at it through the lens of this new theory.
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Would the opposite be true (i.e. deterioration of bit depth and color space) when stretching anamorphic footage horizontally?
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That was really funny.
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ML gives you several aspect ratio options, and then resolution options therein. To use as much of the sensor as possible (at least vertically), you can choose up to 1600x1200 (though I have found that continuous recording is iffy at this resolution). The smaller the resolution, the greater the crop factor. Hope this helps.
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No one can say for sure yet. Downscaling to 1080P from 4K will definitely give you a sharper image, but not everyone wants a sharper image. Aesthetics are purely subjective. As always, it will all come down to personal preference. ML raw caused a flurry of excitement last year. Everyone HAD to have it. But the thing about shooting in raw is that it's not for everyone. It's not for casual shooters. The ML frenzy died down when most of those people realized that the workflow takes more time, and the novelty and excitement tapered off quickly. For those of us that stuck with it, the workflow has only gotten more stable and easier with new developments and conversion apps. You say that you have yet to "dive in" with ML raw on your 5D3. Why don't you go ahead try it out on a project? You'll answer a lot of your own questions. The GH4 isn't available for purchase yet anyway.
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What do you hope to accomplish by posting something like this? What is the best possible outcome for you?
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For documentaries, I'd probably go with the GH4: longer recording times, flip out LCD screen, easier to nail focus, better stability overall, and the GH cameras are just quicker to whip out at a moment's notice -- maybe something to do with the camera's size and weight.
