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    odie got a reaction from kaylee in So What Will You Do ?   
    The only thing open 

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    odie got a reaction from BTM_Pix in So What Will You Do ?   
    The only thing open 

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    odie got a reaction from BenEricson in COVID19 Kibosh   
    Thank you to all the health care workers who are working tirelessly!!!!! ( my Dad and older brother are both doctors working )❤️🙏
    we thank you!!!

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    odie got a reaction from Emanuel in Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!   
    Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
     
    thank you Santa

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    odie got a reaction from kaylee in Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!   
    Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
     
    thank you Santa

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    odie got a reaction from Grimor in Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!   
    Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
     
    thank you Santa

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    odie reacted to newfoundmass in Who wants to be grateful?   
    Heck these days you can edit 4K on a $550ish custom PC build. Rendering and export might not be very fast, but playback and editing is fine. Editing wise computers have come a long way and fast since the days when H264 would strangle my computer to death! I remember how frustrating it was to edit it on my top of the line Mac Pro 10 years ago! 
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    odie reacted to Mako Sports in Who wants to be grateful?   
    PC parts to performance ratio/cost is at an all time high!
    You don't need to $3,000 MBP to be able to edit video. You can edit 4K content on a PC under $1000.
     
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    odie reacted to KnightsFan in Who wants to be grateful?   
    I'm grateful for the abundance of cheap equipment and software.
    But I'm also grateful to the thousands of people who spend their time freely sharing knowledge on sites like this, from the retired pros with decades of industry experience, to experimental newcomers with more ideas than experience, and everyone in between.
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    odie reacted to IronFilm in Who wants to be grateful?   
    The Zoom F8 when it came out 4 ish years was a MASSIVE GAME CHANGER for the sub $1K price point, but *not* just for audio quality like many people think, and not just for how many tracks it was (ten!), but also for it feature set! Nothing else beforehand had all those features which the F8 now has: metadata, bluetooth app, affordable dedicated fader panel, USB keyboard, automix, ambisonics, TC I/O, and more and more it goes on...   plus all in a very very small size! With a low power drain.

    Unfortunately the F8 came out at a bad bad time for me, as: a) I had just recently invested in a Sound Devices 552 / Tascam DR680 combo (arguably for its time, the "best" low low low budget setup??) & b) I was VERY skeptical about anything from Zoom (due to their horribly poor reputation)

    But the users and reviews of the F8 turned my opinion around, so I got the F4 when it got launched. And wow, what a big leap forward that was for me!
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    odie reacted to Snowfun in Who wants to be grateful?   
    Choice.
    There really is something for everyone.
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    odie reacted to kye in Who wants to be grateful?   
    It's definitely a great time to be a film-maker..  
    One test that I think it useful is the "If I knew then what I know now" test, as it shows how much knowledge and skill count vs the other factors.  In film-making, yes, going back a decade (or two!) we would all make much better films (well, those of us who have made lots of films in the last decade!) but we'd have been doing so with far inferior equipment choices, and apart from memorising the lottery numbers before we went back in time, pretty much nothing we could have done about it.  
    Of course going back in time we'd have looked at the camera options and decided to spend the money on lighting and other things, which is still great advice, but tech is tech and (capable) cameras per year that someone can afford when adjusted against minimum / median wage is an equation that has tipped radically.
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    odie reacted to Andrew Reid in Who wants to be grateful?   
    We enthusiasts and pros are the success story of the entire camera industry.
    The entire DSLR filmmaking, and now mirrorless video revolution happened on a big downward slope for the a camera industry battered by smartphones.
    Now, with the not very passionate consumers gone, there's only us left...and now the central focus of ALL the camera companies, big or small.
    We are not a niche any more, and Nikon in their latest financial report expects enthusiasts, hobbyists, artists, filmmakers and pros to account for 90% of sales in the mid to long term. Going to write a blog post about that soon.
    We kept the passion up, when everybody else was losing theirs.
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    odie reacted to thebrothersthre3 in Who wants to be grateful?   
    Its the time to be alive for Indie filmmakers. 

    Cheap high quality audio equipment is also abound. The Zoom F6 has so much dynamic range its almost impossible to set the levels wrong all in something smaller than a loaf of bread. 

    High powered high CRI LED's are also becoming affordable. The Pixel video light has a similar output to a 1500w fresnel and its only $450. 
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    odie reacted to Jonathan422 in Who wants to be grateful?   
    cheap storage is big one for me. ssds and sd cards are really coming down. even c fast is starting to kinda
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    odie reacted to mercer in Magic Lantern Raw Video   
    No, not without an external recorder. But with the experimental build and 14 Bit Lossless, file sizes are dramatically smaller without any loss in quality. Also if you use MLVFS file system for post, the files open up in Resolve without any transcoding to DNGs. The whole process is really quite simple now.
    Honestly, all Zeiss lenses, I’ve tested, work great with ML Raw. I’ve tested Rollei Zeiss, Contax Zeiss and the ZF Classics.
    Although, the newer ZF versions are a bit sharper, I prefer the West German made Rollei Zeiss. I find they have the perfect mix of sharpness, color separation and character with my 5D3.
    Here’s a frame from the 50mm 1.8...

    And here’s a frame from the 25mm 2.8...

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    odie got a reaction from Mattias Burling in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K   
    +1
     
    ...and I hope they pick up my film which is being shot on a super 16 Arr sr 2
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    odie reacted to Mattias Burling in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K   
    It still seems like you haven't fully understood. The Netflix 4K requirement is for productions made by Netflix. I can use whatever I want and if it's good enough they will accept.
    To this day almost half of all the movies at the Oscars etc are shot on film or HD. And they all go on Netflix.
    Netflix even still pick up TV shows shot on s16.
    This has been talked about to death on this forum in the past. So let's get back to the real subject.
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    odie got a reaction from hansel in FS7 in 2019   
    I’m filming with a super 16 mm film camera in 2019 so I wouldn’t worry
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    odie got a reaction from webrunner5 in FS7 in 2019   
    I’m filming with a super 16 mm film camera in 2019 so I wouldn’t worry
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    odie got a reaction from hansel in I am at Photokina. What would you like me to ask?   
    from the Kodak booth is  Ektachrome in 35mm finally officially on-sale. 
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    odie got a reaction from Deadcode in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K   
    I shoot mostly on film but I always need a lowlight camera for inserts (I’m using the 5d3 ML now which is really good)) still I might test this camera when it comes out 
     
    but guys 198 pages for a camera??
     
    stop the chit chat and get out there and shoot!
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    odie reacted to Kisaha in The cameras used on Netflix's Original Films and Series   
    @jonpais+1 for the cinephile references, I do not know many that have seen Lilya 4-ever! also, + another 1 for the content.
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    odie got a reaction from BenEricson in Aronofsky's Mother! 16mm Genius   
    “While digital sees blue Kodak film sees shades of blue..”
     
    a remarkable view..in a very competative market with Kodak giving the dp a step up
    go to  Panavision in Woodland Hills where a super 16mm or 35mm camera is waiting ..it’s your destiny
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    odie got a reaction from Dick Sweeney in The Bolex-Anamorphot 16/32/1.5x thread   
    really great ...
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