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    Kinor 16 for the BMPCC?

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    Finally took my lenses/adapter up to Samy's on Fairfax over the weekend.  Confirmed vignetting on 6mm fisheye, 10mm, and even a smidge of it on the 15mm.  The 20mm and 25mm were both fine.  The 10-100mm is pretty bad until you reach the mid-ranges.  The 6mm definitely has a nice Terry Gilliam effect, though.

    GH2 to G6 (Or GX7?) plus focal reducer?

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    The internal mic is indeed very competent and while I haven't used the GH2 the external mic input is surely comparable. The noise floor is very low. There does seem to be some sort of limiter preventing clipping too. I recently recorded a fairly loud live gig with a less than fantastic microphone and was pretty surprised at the complete lack of clipping. In the past I've used a D5100 for video and the mic input on that was incredibly noisy to the point that it was unusable. The G6 is not like that.

     

     

    I use an external recorder (Tascam DR-100mkII + borrowed boom mic) and then use pluraleyes to sync with the internal mic on my GH2.  That's the best use for the internal mic, I think, to serve as a sync source.  :)  If I could find a good portable mixer on the cheap, that would also do wonders.

    The EOSHD Music Challenge

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    If you can find a use for garage-punk, my band, The Angel Sluts, would be down for this.  We have one video already.  If you like a more post-punky sound, The Switchblade Kid would probably be okay with it (singer of my band is the frontman for that band is always looking for more exposure) although he's already made videos for a lot of his material.

    Angel Sluts (shot (poorly) on a GH2 + driftwood quantum b hack):

    Switchblade Kid:

    Bought myself an ANKER External battery

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    I have one of these, albeit for playing ingress all day on my phone.. Sweet....

     

    I believe this is the one: http://www.amazon.com/15000mAh-Portable-Ultra-High-Capacity-External/dp/B00D5T3QK4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393350981&sr=8-2&keywords=anker+battery

    (I got mine as a gift)

    $50, 15000mAh.  It even has an LED flashlight for digging around in your bags at night!   :D

     

    Recharges via micro-usb, but I've found you have to use the cable they use as standard microusb cables are a little too loose and will fall out.  Hrm, two of these charged up will more than do a day's worth, and keeping a couple charged batteries would give you options for running without it...

    Kinor 16 for the BMPCC?

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    I have!

    http://youtu.be/2NYmNkye3dI

    In the video I used all my Russian arsenal:
     

    - Kinor 16OPF-12-1 (10-100 zoom)
    - Metor 5-1 (17-69 zoom)
    - Mir11-M (12mm)
    - Vega7-1 (20mm)
    - Tair-41M (50mm)

    The opening shot and a few more was shot with the kinor zoom. Mines reads "2.9" on the ring as the fastest aperture, but I've seen other units with "2.8" on them. I presume that is the T number rather than the F, maybe? Of course, the lens says "2.5" on the barrel, so I think it is still f2.5. Wide open is quite "bloomy", the highlight bloom quite a lot.

    Anybody else using Kinors on the pocket?

     

     

    I like.  We may have discussed this before (maybe not?), but where did you get the adaptor for the Mir11-m? 

     

    I just picked up the 15mm Kinor 16 glass, should be coming soon.  I think that rounds out the low end of kinor for me once I finally get a camera to shoot on.   I think (not sure) that the 15mm is the widest Kinor prime that won't vignette on the BMPCC.

     

    I will say, that more and more I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and take a short vow of poverty and save up for a set of Elite or Optar Illuminas for S16.

    Any BMPocketCC owners in Los Angeles?

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    Hey guys, 

     

    I know everyone's busy out there, but does anyone have a BMPCC here in Los Angeles that would have some spare time to shoot a few minutes of test footage using my Kinor 16 lenses?  I have: 6mm fisheye, 10mm, 20mm, 25mm, and 10-100mm zoom and the kinor->mft adapter.  I'd like to just meet up, shoot something that gives an idea of actual sensor coverage, etc, and then take the footage and put it together to throw up on youtube/vimeo for reference.  

     

    Let me know, maybe I can cover gas or take you out to all you can eat korean barbeque!  :D

     

    -Shane

     

    Lets Talk Audio....Recorders

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    If in the US, sign up at HelloMusic (dot) com .  They occasionally have DR-40s and DR-100s up there for relatively cheap.  I picked up my DR-100 mkii there.*

     

    Mixers, don't much about, but know I want one.  

     

    (I borrow a friend's Rode NTG-2/boom setup for my shoots, but plan to eventually acquire an NTG-3 or a sennheiser 411? for my own kit.)

    Kinor 16 for the BMPCC?

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    Just as an aside, I now have 2 Kinor portcaps from both Raf Camera and ciecio7 to use with my Kinor 16 -> mft adapter.  Both are perfectly functional.  Raf's is a plain black knobby job, with logo stenciled on the knob, no-nonsense and utilitarian.  The ciecio7 is a little heavier and has a neat little "slot" screw for orientation, feels a little heavier, and the knob is quite a bit fancier.  If we want to use car analogies, the Raf is a Toyota or Honda, the ciecio7 is more like an lexus/acura, just a little more luxe.  Both will get the job done.

     

    I'll try to put up some pics later.  

    Good editing laptop

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    My guess is you want something that takes a lot of RAM, has a couple of drivebays with fast external options (USB 3.0 and/or thunderbolt), and something that has a discrete graphics card for accelerating preview windows.  My work laptop is a Thinkpad W520 and while not a dainty little flower, has 16gb RAM, nVidia Quadro graphics, and I think it'd be a really nice video editing laptop if I wanted to install the Adobe suite on it (i'm loathe to use my work supplied gear for personal creative projects, though).  If I were to buy a non-mac specifically for video editing, I think a Thinkpad W530 (which supports up to 32gb RAM) would be a pretty tough machine to beat if you do windows. I know a lot of folks are using stuff like the ASUS ROG 17" laptops, or building out SAGER/CLEVO generics, as well.

     

    Check the lenovo outlet...

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