Aussie Ash

You only live once Fuzzy - not much use sitting in your rocking chair thinking "I wish i'd done that when I was a young".Some people pay 3,000 English pounds for a 30 minute flight in a two seat Spitfire ,I bet they don't forget the experience !

Tilta are also considering doing this in RF,Z and L mount.

Philip Bloom ended up purchasing the Nikon ZR mainly because the large screen makes shooting easier.Here are his tests comparing the ZR and Z6III & what are you up to Nikon they aren't the same !

does it work with zoom lenses.

Christopher Doyle what a legend and his movie making skills were virtually self learned/experience.He is able to film with fluid and movement with such heavy lumps of cameras ,goodness knows what this one weighs on his shoulders ! Our modern camera rigs are a dream -I try and keep mine under 2 kgs total.

Even more amazing they were low budget B-movies with shoot schedules under five weeks !

Based on the collaboration between director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton, here are the films they worked on together: T-Men (1947) Raw Deal (1948) He Walked by Night (1948) - Mann directed most of the film but was uncredited Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) (1949) Border Incident (1949) Devil's Doorway (1950) The full movie of "He Walked by Night" is on youtube

Part of the reason they could make these film was the introduction of Kodak Eastmann Super XX film after WW2.It was rated at around 160-200 ASA which was over 2 stops faster than film of the 1930s.It also was known for its ability to be pushed (underexposing and overdeveloping)It was regularly pushed one stop to 320AS and sometimes two stops to 640ASA like on Citizen Kane.

I see Ironglass have been rehousing Soviet medium format as well they have 8 lenses going from 30mm f3.5 to 150 f2.8

Handy material here that has become buried in the archive

At least Red choose some catchy names V-Raptor,Red Raven,Dragon,Helium,Gemini,Monstro,Komodo,Gemini,Red Epic

In the interview he says they are not shooting in 17K ( at 3.4 mins) its about the sensor size and focal length and resulting look.

Not a very good interview but the short and curly of it is The URSA Cine 17K 65 retails for approximately US$29,995. In contrast, the Arri Alexa 65 is unavailable for purchase and must be rented, with high-end productions often spending hundreds of thousands on camera packages.

Very refreshing to see a movie made in a way that abandoned established norms.Having learnt the hard way how difficult it is to use a 19mm for landscape stills I couldn't help but notice "many of the ultra wide shots in poor things have no foreground compared to a still shot in landscape photography". The lens seems to be used to help create a surrealist world. Yorgos film "The Favourite" is a damn good film as well.

Poor Things Behind the Scenes 14 minutes -many spoilers

Thanks for the offer-I'd love to see some footage from your 12K LF please ! Doesn't have to be with Helios i also have several versions & having them auto focus is not far off ! Also which of these two cameras are you happiest with and why.

September 2025- Viltrox joined the L mount consortium, essentially committing to pay Leica royalties. Nikon is absolutely right to expect the same for the Z mount.

Tamron,Sigma and Voigtlander have licensing agreements with Nikon to sell Auto focus Z mount lenses.As I understand this seems to be a fee of roughly $100 per lens sold.Chinese lens manufacturers have been happy to ignore the legal implications.

here is the link to their site https://viltrox.com/products/nexusfocus-pl-e-adapter?variant=42993691164738 disclosure-I receive no free products or financial encouragement from Viltrox

Viltrox have started selling their adaptor according to their homepage.So the story goes that Sony gave them permission to have an adaptor use their autofocus connections.present adaptor is Sony to manual PL lenses.$599 for one motor or $899 for dual motors.Other brands of Lens adapters to come ??