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Ryan, I've followed you without knowing it for the last year. (Thanks for all the stuff you posted with the ML 5D3.) I think your grading chops are starting to reach critical mass. Psyched to see what you'll do with a Dragon.

How did you light the background so evenly? It's fantastic.

Shit, Mike, I actually took a look at some youtube videos of these things and I have to say the focus "stepping" lacks smoothness. (What's the point of pulling focus if it looks bad?) Plus I saw one with QC issues. I did watch a video claiming that Canon USM lenses work great but there wasn't any footage backing it up. :/ I took the plunge on a "remote" follow focus. The problems I encountered were: 1) I can't use a focus-by-wire lens. (Obviously.) 2) I can't use a lens with a loose focusing ring. (Obviously.) 3) My camera needs a cage. 4) My lens mount adapter needs to be mounted to a cheese plate. 5) My camera cage needs to be mounted to that same cheese plate. 6) The #@!$ing lens still wobbles, I need a lens support. 7) The follow focus servo has too much torque. 8) Break down, buy a cine lens, enjoy my new setup and the nirvana of pulling focus remotely. Anyway, I own this (that's just the remote,) a Wondlan. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, it's loud, finicky, and I had to swap out servos and solder a new wire to "fix" it. But now it works beautifully and I'll run it into the ground before I buy something else.

Possible solutions: use a wider lens, turn on IS, and/or get a ton of practice. If you're using EF lenses with auto-focus (pretty sure that's a canon zoom you have in that picture,) then you should look into a USB focus controller. Just a thought.

This may be a silly question, but are you physically turning the OIS on, on your lens?

ML on the 5D3 is very, very, awesome. But so is a crop sensor and the fact I can stick just about every lens EVER made on it, and rock near full frame if I choose to. The amount of gear accessible to the community verges on the ridiculous; these are great days we're living bros, we're jolly green giants walking the earth, with cameras.

Andy, why sell? (You've really championed Yashicas on this forum and I'm curious what you're selling them for.)

Composition, sequencing, grading and editing. You can't buy these things with all the money in the world (well, unless you hire right.)

Nice idea! Selling at $99 will net you a healthy profit: 120 backers is ~11500, milling and anodizing is ~50/unit. If you worked a whole month straight for eight hours a day, you'd be paid ~22/h.

Thanks for the discussion P13 and voyagervideo. I figured getting the step up would be best in the long run, resale value, put my order in a few hours ago. $50 for a piece of threaded metal. Ahaha. :(

Wow. That is awesome!   I think the shoot could've benefited from a shallower depth of field, but I mean come on, one take? Very cool. Was someone pulling focus, or was it auto?

  Awesome! Thank you for saving me money.

  What DSLR shoots 1080 RAW for $700?

  Check out the new Crucial M500 SSDs. A 900GB drive is selling for under $600. Maxed out sequential write is 130+MB/s which is fine for shooting raw.   Edit: Er, let me retract that actually. Shooting 4K RAW at 30 fps will probably require something faster. Probably on the magnitude of 200MB/s.

I think I'm going to buy a BMCC soon. While I adore the idea of the Pocket, giving up lossless RAW and the flexibility of using 2.5" SSDs for a 1080 sensor (would save so much time and money editing, could probably get by on a two SSD RAID array vs the beast you need to edit 2.5K,) isn't worth it. Or am I crazy? Anyone willing to give me their opinion? What type of image quality am I sacrificing? Does ProRess and Lossy DNG grade well enough to fix any white balance issues? I don't care so much about achieve a style in post, all I want is to be able to salvage even the worst shot footage and achieve proper colour.

The BMPCC is so awesomely cool. 1080 RAW is perfect. I'm worried about storage and battery, but it doesn't matter. I can't wait for the announcement today.

Source: Danielo Garcia (Twitter) 1080 RAW. 13 stops dynamic range. SD storage. ProRes. MFT mount.