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The BSFF will be hosting a free screening of "Last Days in the Desert" during our festival. The screening happens the afternoon of 01/16/17. In addition, an after screening Q&A will take place with the director. http://www.borregospringsfilmfestival.org/about/ To have a film made in my town featuring the upper echelon of cinematic craft is incredible. Director Rodrigo García, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and actor Ewan McGregor; wow, not a bad list. Obviously, we feel blessed to have hosted this production and, quite frankly, we're still a bit in awe that it happened here. As y'all probably know, Lubezki has won the Oscar for best cinematographer the last three years in a row. Birdman, Gravity, The Revenant. All this talent along with the cast, crew, and location? Not too shabby. I'd like to invite any of y'all on the forum that are in this corner of the world (or even if you're not) to drive on over to our festival and attend. We're trying to become an extremely filmmaker-centric festival, and to have filmmakers there offering their feedback would be very welcome.

Based on my EM5II, the answer is: "the clips look better slightly under." BTW, that review in regards to ergos and operation pretty much sums up my EM5II experience. It's one of those cams where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. I am impressed to see that one shot @:54 and realize what's going on there. That sort of "transparent" delivery of what would otherwise be a worthless shot is nothing to be ignored as a doc film maker. Glad to see Olympus in the game at any rate.

Oh, I think you can speak for at least about half of Americans with that sentiment. Make no mistake, POTUS campaigning is a game of rhetoric. Clinton is not good at it, which is why she was unable to turn out the vote. She only needed to convince about 1 outta 200 voters in the swing states to win enough electoral votes. More absurd rhetoric and concerted outreach to uneducated rust-belt whites would have helped her, to be honest. A little more verve with some "I'll totally create jobs for you, absolutely!" stuff. On the other hand, that's not who she is. She knows coal is doomed, for instance, so why promise jobs to the sector? Things like that. Pragmatism in a campaign is not a good strategy. It's noble and honest, but not a winning game. And really, I'm not going to poo-poo Trump in everything. He gets a chance from me. A very very skeptical chance, but a legit one. He's talking about an infrastructure WPA-type program. Which seems like that would make the GOP's leader's heads explode, so we'll see. Totally bummed about the SCOTUS thing though.

I wouldn't disagree with that. I have my own views regarding identity politics, and I wish we were all more inclusive of each other, but I'm also not so naive to recognize that's there's a real backlash against the "thought police" thing. Americans are nothing if not assumptive that we're all individuals.

FWIW, I'm saying the race/nationality thing is irrelevant. Humanity can be awful all around. One race doesn't hold moral superiority over any other in these regards. So, rather than parse the statement of what was said and/or inferred, for me, the shock is that any sort of that rhetoric would come from a potential (and now actual) POTUS. A POTUS should know better. (keep in mind Clinton and Obama have been pilloried for insensitive rhetoric too. "Deplorables" and "clinging to guns or religion") I don't like it that Trump either 1) doesn't know what he said is a bigoted thing to say or 2) doesn't care and used rhetoric as a cynical ploy for voters. I'm not sure off hand, but I believe Trump's quote was something like, "Mexico, they're not sending people like you. They're sending drug dealers and rapist. Maybe some of them, I assume, are good people." I see an implication there. If you don't, I suppose that's your prerogative, but it bothers me. The answer to your question is "no," but I really don't see how that diminishes the actual rhetoric. Of course, my bias of Trump's rhetoric of bigotry was later solidified when he went off on that judge of Mexican heritage too. BTW, are you aware that legal "Trump School" case is going to shake out here in San Diego?

I'll go off on this tangent: Sadly, there are so many rapist in the world it's safe to assume that rapist of all nationalities are crossing borders all the time. In and out. I'm reminded of all the older pasty single fat Western white guys I saw walking in the small villages in Cambodia with teenage girls. There were so many of those dudes around when I drove through there a few years ago. The world can be a sad place. Man's inhumanity to man, etc.

Yeah, "you too!" is a fool's game to play. Finding that sort of stuff on either side is easy to do and hardly productive.

And, FWIW, this video by Ed shows exactly why (in my opinion as a midwest kid) Clinton lost. While the current DNC frets about identity politics and "maximizing demographic alignment," and seemingly paying lip service to labor while glad handing hedge fund managers, people in a crappy reality had to deal with that reality. As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words. Any politician that gets coy regarding this reality does so at their own peril.

As storytellers, let's consider that the "media" is always chasing good narrative thus they're chasing conflict. It's what we all do as filmmakers, if we're any good at our profession. Considering that parallel, it's not difficult to see why hard journalism based on straight-facts is more or less dead. How boring, right? It's not because good journalism doesn't get accomplished, but because not enough people respect it anymore or pay it any mind. Worse yet, many viewers and readers don't even distinguish between an Hannity, Maddow, or O'Reillly as opinion pundits vs. actual journalist. Less respect should be given to online info-tainment ideological websites. It's all an imbroglio, but I don't know if we should blame the media as much as ourselves. Information outlets seldom worry about objectivity these days simply because there's not enough viewers, ratings, or clicks in doing things that way. Why do they do it? Because we ask for it that way. They know EXACTLY what we want and what we're asking for. Believe me, they're doing all they can just to cater to us. They're a mess because we are as well. Actual journalism has marginalized to the corners of media organizations. It's there to lend legitimacy to their more popular opinion commentators, but make no mistake, the end game is to sell advertising. It's not to put forward integrity anymore. If that was the case CNN/MSNBC/FNC would hide in shame. Those are broad strokes. There are a few authentic sources out there, but a consumer needs to be savvy about the game being played and search them out. Typically we don't. For me, this whole discussion can devolve into an existential plight, and a serious reflection of what the health of the republic actually is --for I believe that we ultimately get what we ask for. And we, like all humans, turn to a strongman when life gets challenging. Not because it's smart or a healthy thing to do, but because there's easy comfort in it.

That would be yuge. Really great. The best camera. The best. I gotta say though Ed, surely you sensed this coming. You have an unvarnished view of Clinton. And anyone that's spent time in the rural midwest and then really looked hard at Hillary...well...considering that she had this locked up was never a reassuring thing. Americans are many things, but attracted to the pragmatic aloof intellectual? Eh, not so much. In regards to cameras and production, I am curious to see what the economy does as this odd amalgamation of Trump and the GOP burp out their supply-side ideas onto the nation. If the economy withers, will the corporate gigs get even thinner and anemic than they are now? Or, would potential self distribution of my work become somehow more viable? After all, the one industry that tends to thrive during tough economic times has always been entertainment.

I got me the EM5II. This is an issue with that cam as well. Minor, but it is one. Kinda annoying. Head phone jack is low on the EM5II battery grip so it's not a problem, but still that mic port gets in the way.

Try Best Buy. Looks like the readers are in stock in Orange county.

FWIW, Disney LAND. Not Disney WORLD. Anyway, wouldn't the Anaheim Fry's Electronics have one?

Too bad they couldn't get it to 72. Three second slow-mo bursts in RAW? Could be fun for video. Two seconds? Still interesting.

I'm encouraged, but still waiting for the reviews. The thing about Olympus, for me, is that it actually encouraged me to explore more stills photography. Usually I kept those cameras separate, even though I certainly use all sorts of "hybrids" that technically do both. I'd normally shoot stills on Fuji and video on whatever else...until I used the EM5II. Liked it so much it became my stills cameras AND motion picture camera. At least until I started shooting 4k on the GX85. Anyway, would love to parse down and just have one camera, two primes, and my 12-40 f2.8 for my upcoming 2017 work. If, and only if, it makes sense for video. We shall see. https://robinwong.blogspot.com/2016/09/olympus-mzuiko-25mm-f12-pro-lens-review.html http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Panasonic_Leica_DG_Nocticron_42-5mm_f1-2_H-NS043E/ http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/tag/olympus/

FWIW, I used the ZOOM R16 recorder a few years back to do 8 channel live recordings of a garage band while touring. Worked great even if the fidelity wasn't top notch. Just the allowance of being able to live record the band separate from the house PA was wonderful. I'd certainly be more partial to the Roland gear however. The pre's on 'em are impressively smooth.

2015.3 works on my PC somewhat smoothly. On my Mac it has the strange "conforming" bug. Not the most elegant software, I admit, but it's like a supped-up cheap Japanese sedan running on a race track. It can do what it does half way decently. However, it just feels like it might fly apart at any given moment and wasn't engineered to handle the stress put on it. I never feel like I can totally trust it. FCP7 had a lot of limitations, but it felt solid within its parameters. Maybe with Premiere I just need to add a huge spoiler to the back of the hatch? That outta do it.

FWIW, macintosh apples don't make for good pies.

Yeah, but I think they made a MarkII version that only used SD cards. I'm pretty sure of it. Google would know. As for the film, it only screened 2 times 'kuz we never really finished all the scenes. It was an incomplete edit. Now-a-days it sits in a hard drive on my bedroom shelf asking, "Won't you complete me!?" The answer is no; probably because we decided to try to do stop motion animation for some of the monster shots --and that shite is HARD to finish... My co-creator did load one of the scenes I shot in Michigan to youtube: (man, showing this stuff is like admitting that years ago you dated the neighborhood crazy person that bathed in tomato juice and would only eat a lentil/candy diet.)

Yeah, I don't get the Julian pie thing. I guess I was spoiled by my grandmother, her baking skills, and our own apples growing up.

Good adivce. Great camera for handheld video. I own two. I'm selling one of mine at the end on November when my current gig is in the can. I'm sure folks could find a cheap used one on eBay.

Yeah, here's the silly trailer. Funny thing is, our main actor became best buds with Matthew McConaughey after our shoot while doing that HBO series with him. Oh, timing! Fair warning, this movie is pretty ridiculous. Man, to think this was a decade ago. Too many drugs, not enough script. (not me doing the drugs, the actors) Good combo? Probably not.

Personally, I still prefer OS X, but if you're on Premiere and are just doing prores for preview, I think you could get away with any of the DNxHD to ProRes transcoding solutions. Thus, a cheaper Windows machine might be an option.

I think I've reached the point in my life where getting disconnected is an asset rather than a liability, so maybe worrying about connectivity should be low on my priority list! Thanks for the advice.