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2 hours ago, Hans Punk said:

I love how occasional 0.5 - 2sec shots from crash/pov cams make the rounds on some forums as 'This camera shot the whole movie!

 

I generally agree with you on this but I don't quite understand where did you see such claims in this thread or in the linked article.

3 hours ago, Hans Punk said:

Most of the time cheaper cameras make up parts of a quick cut sequence that could include a crayon drawing and nobody would notice any mismatch in quality.

Some quotes from the article - reasons why DP chose BMs (image quality mattered to him it seems):

“One of the most important things when shooting action scenes for any movie is to stay consistent with the established look of the movie, so once you transition to an action scene, there’s no difference to the eye, and it feels like the same scene and style,” explained Meglic. “On ‘Bourne,’ it was especially important because of the particular visceral documentary style of the film.”

“We chose the Micro Cinema Cameras and Pocket Cinema Cameras because of the combination of size and performance they delivered, which in turn helped us match the look and style of the film. I haven’t found another camera that will deliver on those two things: being as light as they are while still delivering the image quality needed to blend in with the A cameras. I always try to extract as much as I can from a camera, so they are dealing with good footage in post, and the dynamic range on both cameras was very good.”

I really think it would be smart for BMD to make a series of real world tutorials and BTS from movie sets to show us what can be done with those great little cameras, how the pros rig them, what lenses they use etc. Probably most of us don't have access to big productions and sometimes you can research online until judgement day but simply there isn't any info out there.

http://www.provideocoalition.com/blackmagic-micro-cinema-cameras-used-on-jason-bourne/

36 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

Looks good... I like the hot swappable power options on it too

Yeah, that is a great feature, the only issue could be balance in some situations because both batteries are on the same side.

2 hours ago, Jimmy said:

In terms of getting started yea... The premium price goes into making a noticeably better product though.

Just getting 4K, 120fps is worth the extra alone, for me... Though I have not used the newest Atomos range, maybe that has it now?

It seems that Shogun Inferno could be the one to beat CD 7Q+, specs are almost the same but it has high brightness FHD screen(1500 nits) with an option to view footage in HDR.

https://www.atomos.com/inferno/

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1247728-REG/atomos_atonfi001_shogun_inferno_7_4k.html

6 hours ago, Ed_David said:

So with this logic (and correct me if I'm wrong) - the scam artist made about $7,500, based on standard of living in Egypt (rough estimate) 

I get your point but I have to correct you on this. You are only partialy right here because it doesn't mean that all the goods are 10 times cheaper if you live in a country where your average salary is 10 times lower.

5 hours ago, Ed_David said:

Its not torture

To clarify

I message his friends. Tell them hes in trouble for scamming 1k usd from buyers.

He then says make it stop to me. What do i want?

I say a confession.

He confesses.

Then he asks me To lie to his friends and tell them he didnt scam people. After i told them he was in trouble for scamming people and pointed them to this thread. I told  him ok. Saying i would lie to them was a lie. I didnt tell them that it was another person because i know and pretty everyone else here knows hes a pathological liar who created a fake dad or grandpa.

 

He wanted me to lie to his friends and say everything was okay.

Its not.

And the only ones who will help this guy is his real life friends.

Not us.

We are nothing to him.

Just objects to steal from and endlessly lie to.

And still honestly f him for ripping off three peole who honestly didnt know better.

He also hurt the reputation of this site.

Which is a shame.

Cause i think this is a great site.

And to that you say...so do i.

Well im an idiot but i never scammed anyone or lied about myself.

I use my real name.

I post.

I try to share.

Again im sorry.

I went too far.

But man reading the third scam victim made me turn into that guy from la confidential played by that australian guy russell crowe

I don't see absolutely any problem with this, only it would be more appropriate that guys that were scammed did that and not you. But still someone had to, otherwise i think that imaginary 1Dc thief would be hard to catch for Egyptian police, well because he is imaginary.

46 minutes ago, luminescence said:

Hello,

              I have recently relocated to Portugal and half the items I had in my Amazon UK shopping cart dropped out after a few days - including one seller who was supplying the Lumix GX85 for instance. Now a long wait for stock of 1-2 months. I tried Amazon Spain but nothing there. Amazon Italy can supply and I have brought other items from them before, although its a bit of a pain using Google Translate to check everything.

Can anyone recommend anything better? Amazon Germany or Netherlands for instance? It would be helpful in English of course but most Amazon branches seem to stick with their native tongue.

I tried B&H in NYC but they will not ship overseas anything with lithium batteries. I left Ebay years ago due to some security issues, am I going to waste time doing business with them again? I see that my item is available on UK Ebay, the supplier is in Italy, but can post to Portugal. At a very good price.

Any advice appreciated!

You can swich German Amazon to English

4 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:

Just to clarify, it's the frame rate that's the problem, not shutter speed.

In Europe we shoot 50 and 100fps for slow motion. 60 and 120fps is for Canada, USA and Japan.

So, switch to 50 or 100fps when close to electrical lights and the problem is solved.

Mattias, no hard feelings but this time I think you are wrong. I shot 60p with 1/100 shutter speed (in Europe) to be conformed to 25p so i could squezze a little bit more than 50% slowmo and didn't have any flicker. I actualy planed to shoot 50p but then did some research and found this online flicker free guide/calculator on RED webpage

http://www.red.com/tools/flicker-free-video

I bumped on some Varicam LT footage from Ben Meredith, here is the Dropbox link for download: 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kuob6f0x4ec1tkw/AACWBldY6E_rjXKLpOeEKTKSa?dl=0

5 minutes ago, kidzrevil said:

I am truly excited but not ready to sell what I have for it...I'll wait till the reviews hit the web

I also have high hopes for this camera but you never know if there is a deal breaker lurking somewhere around the corner, especially from a company that didn't give much thought to video side in the past. IMO it is better to be patient and wait for reviews and GH5 arrival, and then make a decision.

2 minutes ago, Geoff CB said:

go to :41 to see rolling shutter. Seems pretty significant.

LOVE the colors I am seeing out of this camera though. I have a D750 I'm about to sell and was going to pick up a second sony. Buuut I might get this instead.

The colors are great, it is just a shame that F-log is only through hdmi. Don't know how much is possible to tweak the in camera profiles, judging by these videos image looks a little bit too contrasty to me.

PS: I am also in the D750 club and I'm keeping mine even if later I buy something else 

Nice B&W

Just now, kidzrevil said:

@sudopera yeah I am super excited to see how my contax zeiss set looks on a fuji body with speedbooster. If the 4k isn't crippled by moire and macroblocking then I am sold

color is certainly great on Fujis

26 minutes ago, kidzrevil said:

throw a speedbooster on this thing for the full frame look and we just may have a sleeper hit with the xt2

yeah, i forgot about that option

5 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Just posted this on another thread:

Just spotted a deal for my US chums.....

C300 mk II is now only $10,640 , cheaper even than B&H ($11,999)

http://cvp.com/index.php?t=product/canon_c300_mark_ii_4k_video_camera

Damn, what was the price before in pounds?

I am quite curious about this one, specs seem great for a hybrid.

Who knows maybe it turns out great for low budget video, just hope that it isn't cropped in 4K mode and have decent DR.

Unfortunately it seems that the grip is required to shoot 30min of 4K.

http://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-x-t2-full-specs-images-leaked/

– 24.3MP CMOS sensor
– Image processing engine X Processor Pro 
– Video 4K30fps. Full HD60fps 
– Video of the bit rate is 100Mbps 
– The maximum speed of the shutter is 1/8000 seconds. 1/32000 sec electronic shutter 
– Synchro speed of the flash is 1/250 seconds 
– AF 325 points can be selected intelligent hybrid phase difference AF 
– The body is in a magnesium alloy, improve the durability of the dial. Dust and water specification 
– EVF is 2.36 million dots. Refresh rate 100fps 
– 3-way tilting 3 inches 1.62 million dot LCD monitor 
– Dual SD card slot. UHS-II support 
– AF-C custom settings 
– ISO range is ISO200-12800 (RAW) 
– Wi-Fi built-in. Remote shooting correspondence. Instax Share printer support 
– 16 kinds of film simulation modes, including the ACROS 
– That can customize the settings screen “My Menu” 
– Normal / boost mode switching 
– 14bit RAW lossless compression. Camera RAW development 
– Exposure compensation +/- 5EV 
– 256-segment metering (multi-spot average, spot, center-weighted) 
– Interval Shooting 
– 13 kinds of creative filter 
– The battery is NP-W126S. The number of possible shots 350 sheets 
– 3.5mm microphone jack. 2.5mm remote terminal. USB3.0 terminal. Micro HDMI terminal

30 minutes ago, Ebrahim Saadawi said:

Just to remind people on this 4k subject. 

if you believe that 4k is the only element that affects high quality, think of how these two images compsre: A 2009 12mp Nokia still image, vs a 12mp A7s Still image. 

Why is the former absolutely, inquestionly CRAP and the later is GORGEOUS? Because aside resolution, there are MANY other qualiries/elements that affect image quality. Many. 

1- Sharpness (not resolution)
2- Sensor size 
3- Lenses
4- Dynamic range amount
5- Hightlight rolloff
6- Noise amount 
7- Noise pattern/colour/motion
8- Bitrate/datarate (Mbps)
9- Chroma subsampling (4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4)
10- Bit-depth (8bit-10bit-14bit
(Raw has maximum 8,9 and 10)
11- Colour science/Calibration/profile/style
12- Motion cadence (deteemined by compression, Intra frame vs Long GOP)
13- Digital defects: Aliasing, moire, rolling shutter, FPN, 
14- Lens defects: Softness, corners, chromatic abberations, fringing, distortion, iris, highlight blooming/coma, contrast, character)

So 14 undisputable elements that contribute equally in making image quality right there in front of you, 

Still ”only” care about having 4K?

Alright.

Go ahead and happily shoot something sharp. 

I agree that 4K is far less important for a great image than some other features mentioned above, but there are also two kinds of 4K. There is 1Dc or most cinema cameras type of 4K that has the detail but not in camera sharpening, so it can still look very pleasing even in closeups, and there is 4K that is oversharpened on top of big resolution and that tends to look not so good. I believe you once already wrote about this Ebrahim. What I am trying to say is that for me 4K is a great feature if it is the right kind of 4K.

1 hour ago, BrorSvensson said:

i've done comparison with all the big options for optical flow/twixtor effects.
From what i could in tell this is the list i got, the things i judged was how smooth the clip got, how the background acted behind the subject and the amount of artefacts.

1. Da vinci Resolve

2. Twixtor

3. Fcpx 

4. after effects timewarp

5. Sony vegas (unusable)

One thing to add is if you like to add the effect which i use sometime were you have a clip of lets say a skateboarder jumping and you want do have a super slow motion clip of it just floating in the air for a couple of seconds and you slow the clip down to 2-3% i found that the built in FCPX optical flow worked the best, both twixtor and da vinci have a hard time making up that many frames and i found that i got some stuttering.

 

 

 

Good to know, thanks

FCP X also has optical flow and frame blending settings for the selected clip, in the menu under video quality. Its OK but not as good as Twixtor

11 hours ago, User said:

I've always made due with a Vimeo basic (free) account. 500mb in one upload is all I normally have needed.

Now, I have a 1.2gb file that I would like to upload asap (and password protect) just this one time but this is not possible with this free account.

A 'Plus' account will cost $60. I don't really want to pay this for one upload.

I recently saw some posts on this site indicating the Vimeo is becoming shite.

Are there decent 'free' options? Anything worth recommending?

You can pay for upgrade to Vimeo Plus on a month to month basis, 9,95$ per month.

http://vimeo.com/store/plus_monthly

I think it would be great to turn a little bit more attention to lenses, new or old it doesn't matter, and rest a little from new cameras. In the past I always enjoyed topics about lenses, because there was much less arguing, and much more shared advices and gem discoveries.

Andrew, I still wait for your take on that Angenieux that you said you bought.

7 minutes ago, Hans Punk said:

Viewfinders on most ENG cameras past and present are B&W. It can massively help judge critical focus when the image is 'simplified' into a monochromatic range - it's often easier to see contrast and edge sharpness that way.

As for helping composition? - it might help in some cases, but often colour (or lack of) can affect the balance to a composition - which may well be missed if using B&W as monitoring for a colour 'capture'. If you intend to shoot B&W only - then yes, monitoring in B&W is the way to go. 

Best solution may be to have an external monitor or EVF that can quickly switch between mono and colour, that way you can be shooting for B&W - but actually be recording colour. That way you can always have the option of reverting back to colour if needed, but your exposure/ contrast to your compositions would be primarily aimed for B&W delivery. 

Yeah, I understand all this but I was just thinking that by shooting or just monitoring in b&w, I can improve my focus on composition and framing, so that when I do regular work and record and monitor in color my eyes and brain are better trained to isolate what is important and what is a distraction and shouldn't be in the frame or should be out of focus.

3 minutes ago, Ebrahim Saadawi said:

Magiclantern offers it too. Not on the d750 feature set sadly. 

Yeah, it is quite unfortunate that I don't have that option because in this case it is only important that the screen is in b&w so the footage doesn't have to be.

I am already thinking about adding an external monitor/recorder to my kit in the future so I can get that option that way, and for now I will shoot monochrome for fun and practice.

BTW, I must confess that I'm a little bit of a B&W fanboy