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I used to shoot the EM5II with the FD55mm lens and a speed booster. Always found it a lot of fun to use. I'd do entire corporate run and gun shoots, no lights, with that. Wonderful flexibility as I could get decent exposure anywhere I went. I'm not into wedding videography, but I always imagined that set-up would be ideal for such. A longer lens with a ton of character combined with an underrated but superb hand held camera? What's to to like? I'm with the GH5 and a collection of Voightlander lenses now, but still miss those EM5II days.

My wife is Polish and I feel the same about Poland. Mostly because I'm ignorant about what really goes on in Poland and I just think it looks pretty.

Do it for the gram?

I'm part of a film festival that takes place in January. We're already considering having to adapt to a "planB" and go to a streaming fest in 2021. Who knows? Vaccine probably ain't gonna be around by then, so...?

I was a somewhat new user on EOSHD running with a 5DII back then and the chatter here by Andrew led me to buy it. Solid recommendation then, still good today depending on your wants/needs. Another anecdote. Gave the Gx7 to my 14 year old nephew at my wedding and told him to get stills of my family's smiling faces at the reception. We put the Oly 45mm at f1.8 on there and set it to point and shoot. The kid got better shots than the Pro photog we had running around. Proof to me that it's often the skill of interacting with people that's sometimes most important.

I had this camera. Shot a few docs on it. GREAT camera. Man, the image was just so pretty. I'd say better than the GH5 in some regards. Never messed around with the IBIS though. No need. Still, if anyone wants to buy a cheap and awesome 1080 mirrorless cam, I'd recommend giving the GX7 some consideration.

Good info. Yes, as mentioned, it's potentially for a state park so the location will always be a bit remote and there's only 1 tower to serve most of the area. Consolidating a dozen SIMs and dedicating that bandwidth would go a long way to protecting the stream. And, yeah, costs passed on with the invoice, so no worries there.

Thanks for that suggestion. A few months ago I had a request for live streaming in a remote part of a state park. Knowing that this technology could be used sounds promising.

Try being an older video pro that's had a long career and now has to deal with the devaluation and ad-hoc nature of this new video production reality. It's hard not to keep one's head from exploding.

Hours and hours of diffraction.

I have a 10 year old werewolf horror film that's absolutely horrible. Always wanted to re-edit it. I've also always wanted to create some stop-motion for it, or something similar to make the film more campy and silly than it already is. I wonder if I could make 3D CGI to look like Harryhausen character animation? Any advice from anyone that dabbles in that realm? Seems like with all the apps out there right now it might not be too difficult. BTW, I actually tried to do old-school stop motion, went as far as creating a foam werewolf with bendable armature and shot scenes with it, but it looked too trashy and lousy to be campy, if that makes sense.

I do think it's naive to assume people are not being manipulated for ulterior motives across the board. Somehow Americans think they're immune to this while, ironically, being the most vulnerable to it.

It's kind of crazy that I could easily pull quotes from Ronald Reagan and it would sound as if Bernie Sanders delivered the lines yesterday on some podcast. I could probably paraphrase the Declaration of Independence, post it on Facebook, and start a flame war among half of my friends that would disagree with what I typed.

The last time I was in Cambodia was on a tourism shoot and I was driving through small rural villages. The communities seemed to have more fat white western males in it than actual villagers. It really made my skin crawl. There's one guy I really can't get out of my head. His pudgy visage hit me the same time as the epiphany of what was going on. Not great.

Ha! Fair enough for pointing out the redundancies in that sentence. Like I said, my English teacher was a jerk. 😉

If the EOSHD site was solely about cameras, and that was it, full stop, then I say a ban on politics is fine. However, Andrew's site has always been a place that is non-corporate and "unsterile," if you will. He's not afraid to drop his opinion and that's why I stick around. If I want bland regurgitated information, there's plenty of on-line options for that. Crossing the line is something all of us but the most rhetorically disciplined have been close to doing, but erring on the side of staying respectable isn't too hard to do. And, ultimately, EOSHD is a site that prioritizes gear, but also exists as a refuge for aspiring filmmakers. Filmmakers should have passion. Otherwise, what are we? Just content creators? That's okay for some I guess, but standing for one's ideals with integrity and rationality should be a filmmaker's or artist's ethos. One of the most influential people in my life was a high school teacher that was willing to engage us students. He would talk about the world and encourage us to participate in it as productive citizens. His lectures were fascinating revelations about his value system and why it worked. Often times we would stray from that semester's syllabus and spend the whole hour just chatting about ideas. We were a room of equals simply by the way he behaved and respected us, a bunch of dumb high-schoolers that really didn't deserve such treatment... but there he was giving us agency when every one else in the system, it seemed, wanted to make sure we stayed in our place. Funny thing was, he was an auto-shop teacher. The other funny thing was that he was a staunch conservative. An 'all-in' Reaganite; can't even count how many times he went on about Thatcher either, to give you an idea. I thought his ideas about society we're complete and utter rubbish. Still do. But the fact that he didn't beat me down with ad-hominem attacks because I disagreed with him, and encouraged me to debate made him the best teacher I ever had. I still can't do a valve job properly and fix a timing chain, but he let me realize how important it was to have integrity, a slightly more important lesson. Meanwhile I had a liberal English teacher so far up her own ass you couldn't say one thing to her sideways without her feeling insulted. And she was teaching writing for god's sakes! So there you go. My anecdotal response. Whoopie-de-doo. Bottom line, conservatives ain't all bad, but some are. Liberals ain't all bad, but some are. Be kind and try to ignore the true jerks that just don't want to respect you.

Fine options if you just want your work to be seen. Making money doing it? You need to put a lot of work into marketing. In order to make modest money with sales on Amazon or Vimeo, you'd need to make a product that 10's of thousands of people would be willing to pay a few bucks for. Easier said than done.

Taking your film into a movie house. You pay to have it screened in their auditorium with 4 walls. You take the film to the next town and do it again. And so on. The old fashioned way of doing indy film distribution.

There are ways to get into the black doing a "4-wall", but the numbers are modest, so the realistic idea is to just use theatrical release as promotion.

I got a POTUS that's saying 15 days. Or are you asking who (among actual serious people) believes this will be over in four weeks? In the meantime I'm absolutely upset at myself for not having a fire sale of my gear this past November, to sell it during Christmas time. The re-sale value of gear is going to be a disaster for a long long time and I have too much sound equipment and cameras just laying about.

In the midst of the most impactful global event since WWII, what exactly should anyone here expect to happen? Our careers are tied up in this mess. When people in power make things messier, it matters. Also curious that an argument you're making is essentially telling people that trying to be informed is a big problem. Ignorance is hardly an effective refuge at this time. I wish people were more informed, not less informed. It could have saved us weeks of inaction. But you did say "turn off the news" which implies television media, and yes, that's pretty much nonsense. Are you watching FNC much? They've been on the "gosh, this is serious" side of things for only about a week. Coincidentally, someone named Donald has been as well. Coincidentally again, some FNC talking head made the same complaint you made about "the media" last night, criticized Dr. Fauci in the process, and then DT hit caps lock while repeating the same sentiment online. And here we are mentioning that same sentiment in a camera forum the next day. Checks and balances indeed.

And the resolve to do what's just for the greater good. It's a level of integrity that's in short supply when you build a society that often seems to shun it. This is not going to be easy. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

For many of us here in the United States, it's been, "Oh man, it's going to be so much worse." Which is why the dismissal of the threat has been so frustrating. Even the rhetorical push back, the cruel jokes, or the claim it was all some sort of hoax was, sad to say, completely expected. This is who we are. Which makes things especially scary when one starts to think about the virus mutating and causing contagion wave#2.

Dang, nice library of international images. I don't have near as much impressive travel stuff in the footage I shot from past years (most of my travel was over a decade ago), but this is a great idea and I have been wanting to consolidate/organize my footage that I do have. Right now it's just laying about on random hard drives. And HDV tapes, ugh. Your work makes me think that if I went through it all I might be able to pull something similar together. Not as good what you did here, but at least it's a project that would have a bigger purpose than just tidying up my media.

I agree to an extent. I sincerely doubt that the culture in the USA will awaken to facts over myth. We have a system here built upon a foundation of nonsense, where what we want to hear is more important than reality. Europe has felt the sting of that attitude to an extent, we have not. This American culture has helped create a health-care system built for the affluent, not for everybody, and that's a system I fear will probably not withstand the crush of contagion. I pray that I'm wrong about that, but there's nothing I'm hearing from the current administration that allays my concern. The USA is going to be in the thick of COVID repercussions Mid-May and not back to anything resembling normal until mid summer. That's a long time to reflect --and 33% unemployment (that's a "new normal" that I'm not happy to face) will shake some marbles lose, so maybe attitudes will shift somehow...but... man, I just know people here. Many are family. I see how they think and behave. The attitude is a blessing and a curse. These people I live with are not outliers, they are average Americans.