tehgeek

5 years? What a joke.

Magic Lantern is free!

But the cards to make it usable are far from free.

Sadly not a surprise.

Good advise.

I was going to say CGI the sunset shot but no idea how you wold go about the interior.

Exactly. There will always be something better around the corner.

I just think we should be happy with what we have because it's amazing and will only get better with time. Canon's "mistake" has changed everything and we should be grateful, not whining about what we don't have all the time. Yeah there are limitations but story is king and always will be, make something great and no one will give a fuck what it was filmed on. 

I do not understand your obsession with video on stills cameras. Video is an added feature on a stills camera so how can you compare them to a BMCC that is made purely for video? Stills cameras will always be stills cameras, the video will get better as the tech gets cheaper but it will never be the main focus. We are a small market and will be treated as such.

Thanks for the rundown.

The battery issue really kills it for me, other issues are workable and some will be fixed but having to carry, charge and swap a ton of batteries all day is super annoying.

Who the fuck cares?

I have a Z-Finder Pro and it's so fucking well made it's crazy, you really are paying for quality. 

The footage from this thing looks great but those highlight blobs are a real bummer.

This is my first real attempt at a music video. This was made for Frank Loves Joan a new artist from Adelaide, South Australia.

https://vimeo.com/73212331

Most TV shows shot on digital are prores as well. 

Pretty sure he has done this a few times now. He isn't quitting, he is just taking a step back and working behind the scenes.

That is nowhere near MoVI, why even mention it? It does look nice but not in a natural way, something about it looks off but I can only imagine how good this will get in coming years.

And people cried about pros not being excited about the raw hack..

They never asked if anyone was interested in seeing a Lone Ranger movie and that is why it failed.

7D is not looking promising due to it's dual processors. Do not hold your breath.

Indeed that is dropping frames like crazy.

Well said.

I am not concerned about the camera burning out as much as I am about the cards. A lot more write cycles and a lot more intense then typical expectation. But I guess you can view them as disposable if your work deserves RAW treatment. However there is no way at all to have redundancy, and you can easily blow a $5000 shooting day if your cards are toast at the end of it. Total failure you might detect with periodic offloads but the worst would be glitches and skips right in your best takes that you don't see till long after wrap.

 

Simultaneous uncompressed HDMI out to a Ninja would be a nice safety...a proxy on the internal SD card would be at least something. I always record to the internal SD cards on the C100 even though they are only safeties for the Ninja footage. Regardless, we are going to learn everything about the state of Compact Flash in the coming weeks.

This is exactly why "some people" aren't jumping up and down about this HACK. Is it a cool and interesting development? Of course. Would you rely on it working for a paid gig? FUCK NO. For hobbyists this is a great thing and if they can extend the recording time from 40 seconds to several minutes that will be fantastic. Yes 40 seconds is ok but in the real world it will not cut it at all.

I enjoyed Phil when he was genuinely putting out useful regular posts. Super 35mm adapters, DSLRs, all workarounds he endorsed. Built his name on DSLRs in fact, wouldn't have a well known blog without them. Now all I see is extreme self love and a formidable self obsession. Pics of Bloom on a plane. Pics of his cats. Instagram self portraits. Fooling about at NAB, Looping Vine videos. Posing here, posing there, posing doing this, posing doing that. It's enough to make you go insane. HAD ENOUGH

 

The cult of personality has overtaken the filmmaker for me. Hate all the moral posturing too. Philip uses the moral high ground and his sense of humour as defence mechanisms against those he doesn't agree with. His ego HATES any form of criticism however constructive. Sad really, as in doing so one is left with just Bloomies and groupies around you. Say you don't like so many ads on his blog and you are met with standard response THIS BLOG COSTS SO MUCH TO RUN, and he tries to claim the high ground. I know how much blogs cost to run. Very little. In the past I did EOSHD one-handed on a shoestring for years. So make no mistake, the blog is to promote Philip Bloom. It is not only a selfless act of sharing he makes it out to be.

 

Met Phil quite a few times, each time has been odd. Charming and coldly indifferent at the same time. At Photokina, he belittled me and basically humiliated me in front of two strangers in the name of humour knowing it was inappropriate in the circumstances - very barbed passive aggressive exchanges disguised as humour, really uncomfortable to be subjected to. On other occasions he was fine. I think he has issues.

All this coming from the guy who blocks anyone on twitter who disagrees with him.

Other than the form factor these cameras are very interesting. I hope we will be seeing footage from all over the world in August this year, sadly we might still be waiting mid 2014. Hopefully that isn't the case. 

Lets hope they can actually get these ones made somewhat quickly.