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sudopera reacted to jase in Compact camera for run&gun filmmaking
Since I am a run & gun type of guy I can tell you about my experiences with The LX100, the RX100 IV and the GX80. In my opinion, the whole choice boils down to the following aspects:
- how important is a zoom for you?
- how important is size for you?
- how important is focus pulling / grading for you?
I first started with a GM1 in combination with a fully manual prime. Loved it, but due to GAS i thought i could even ante it up. Then I had a odysee of different cameras: A7s, which I liked for low light and hated for the price and the color (although one can achieve pretty good results out of the box with manual WB and a good profile). Went with an A6000. Liked the Zebras, the punch in zoom (in fact i liked the functionality), didnt like the colors that much. Then I went with the LX100. Perfect compromise for a small package with decent DoF and a good stabilized zoom. Didnt like focus pulling, started to hate fly by wire. However, although I did know better, GAS once again striked back after reading the awesome review of the RX100 IV by Andrew. Bought it, it has amazing features, but the image just dont feel right. In the end, i kept on tweaking and tweaking and did not take the camera for many shots with me because I just was not satisfied. And DoF just sucks. Really, if you want decent DoF control, dont go for it.
After using both the LX100 and the RX100, i kind of went back to the roots. Rebought my Voigtländer - back in prime land. Bought the GX80 and I love it. Awesome stabilisation and the image feels right.
Long story short:
RX100 iV if:
you need 120fps you need the smalles package you dont need DoF you dont mind fly by wire you somehow are able to grade Sony cameras LX100 if:
you need a compact package with zoom and stabilisation you somewant need DoF but it is not on your primary list you dont care about shitty focus pulling due to fly by wire GX80 if:
you dont necessary need a compact package with a zoom that has a better f-Stop than a kit lens you like stabilisation you like manual lenses you like easy grading capabilities you like changing lenses in general In general I can sign all the people saying they dont "feel" the Sony image. I tricked myself by telling "i can surely do better". However I dont. In fact I like the Panasonic image.
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sudopera reacted to Mattias Burling in 5D mk4 Spec
Its nice that they are getting 4K, but imo, an old 5Dmkiii with ML still beats A7sii/rii, GH4, etc and probably will trump the GH5 as well.
So there is a big chance the new 5Div will get its ass kicked by its own predecessor.
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sudopera got a reaction from User in Vimeo Plus Or Youtube Or What?
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sudopera reacted to iaremrsir in Why does RAW DNG change depending on what software you use?
Premiere defaults to sRGB which is brighter than BT.709. Adobe also has a default curve it uses before conversion to sRGB if I remember correctly.
BMD Film also has a relatively low middle gray point and black point at 392 and 36 respectively on a 10b scale. So BMD Film's middle gray is actually lower than sRGB and BT.709.
Also, because each program uses different methods to do color conversions, you'll find that each program can produce a different results. Adobe uses the DNG SDK while Resolve uses libraw which is based on dcraw.
DNGs are not like ARRIRAW, Sony RAW, or REDCODE. All of those have specific SDKs and using those are the only way you can process those raw files. In order to use a different method, you'd have to reverse engineer the formats. But since the DNG/TIFF is an open standard it's not hard for programmers to put together their own processing pipeline.
It just comes down to programmers using different methods to process the same data.
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sudopera reacted to Michal Gajdoš in I am depressed by the lack of articles on this blog.
I agree 100% so many awesome lenses ! the cameras are good enough that we can focus on the lens and its rendering only
i would have never guessed. Have you tried 24mm 2.8 FD ? my personal favorite,leave it on 2.8 come close about one meter and let the magic happen !
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sudopera got a reaction from kidzrevil in I am depressed by the lack of articles on this blog.
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.
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sudopera reacted to Andrew Reid in The Digital Bolex just got False Color
That film is damned talented, a great find, pressing all the right emotional buttons with just images and sound alone, no words, just really nice audio/visual poetry. Loved it.
The Digital Bolex also has one of the most 'emotional' images in the same sense... incredible colour, dynamic range and a sensor size perfectly matched to pre-1980's Super 16mm vintage lenses.
I just wish the D16 cost $999 and was available in great quantity... but that in a way is not the point of it. It is a camera that has a habit of getting into a disproportionately high number of talented hands, which means they're building a really special community around it.
Also, it's one of the few cameras you can shoot jerky handheld footage with and it still looks great, for whatever reason - the CCD and global shutter having a hand in that magic motion candace of course.
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sudopera got a reaction from Mat Mayer in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
It just crossed my mind a few days ago that maybe I should shoot monochrome in my spare time as much as possible, so I could train myself to frame better and maybe see better compositions without the distraction of colors. Sometimes when there is some fast and spontaneus shooting involved, my mind simply blocks and I hate my average framing/composition in those scenarios, and I find myself thinking if I just had a few more seconds to let my brain to catch up. It seems to me that with b&w I could force myself to pay more attention to composition and contrast, and simply see the details that are important for my framing more clearly.
It certainly won't help over night, but I feel it could pay off in the long term.
Just a tought, what do you guys think?... and don't laugh at me you naturally gifted people
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sudopera reacted to Justin Bacle in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
just FYI,
On the Panasonic AF100, you can set the EVF in B&W for easier focusing, but you can also set the recording mode to B&W. This allows for better compression of the images as the full 24 MBps are used for the Luma encoding only (i.e. the data not used for chroma can be used for additional information on luma channels).
So I think it may be good in that case to record directly in B&W, but you have to get the look right in camera (which is always a good way to work IMO)
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sudopera reacted to kaylee in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
an interesting proposition~!
my first thought is: to improve your abilities in this department, i would highly recommend a two-dimensional design class~!
for the uninitiated, the vast majority of what you would learn in such an environment applies to all two-dimensional imagery. a good teacher will demonstrate that fact with visual aids from throughout art history and contemporary work including painting, illustration, graphic design, photography, etc., in order to illuminate design elements and principles.
thats my best ever advice for ALL photographers/filmmakers who havent been forced to do shit like that in art school already lol. seriously tho, many find the experience transformative
not that i dont love black and white photography........
lol omg same. when im rich youll know it because ill have an outrageously expensive screenless monochrome rangefinder ?
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sudopera reacted to Mattias Burling in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
Im more for a b&w setting on the screen or evf, not for the finished product.
For stills it's different. Film I love shooting and developing in color. Digital stills somehow always look better in B&W.
I'm fighting the urge every day not to buy a Leica Monochrome, and have been since release. If their new screenless camera comes in a monochrome model... The fight would be lost.
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sudopera reacted to AaronChicago in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
A lot of the great directors first films were B&W simply b/c they didn't have the budget or team to precisely light/process for accurate color. I remember Christopher Nolan saying he shot FOLLOWING on B&W b/c color added a whole set of skills that they didn't have time/money to do.
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sudopera got a reaction from Zach Goodwin in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
It just crossed my mind a few days ago that maybe I should shoot monochrome in my spare time as much as possible, so I could train myself to frame better and maybe see better compositions without the distraction of colors. Sometimes when there is some fast and spontaneus shooting involved, my mind simply blocks and I hate my average framing/composition in those scenarios, and I find myself thinking if I just had a few more seconds to let my brain to catch up. It seems to me that with b&w I could force myself to pay more attention to composition and contrast, and simply see the details that are important for my framing more clearly.
It certainly won't help over night, but I feel it could pay off in the long term.
Just a tought, what do you guys think?... and don't laugh at me you naturally gifted people
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sudopera reacted to Hans Punk in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
Sounds good...I guess find whatever works well for you - there should be no hard rule on what helps in judging composition. B&W shooting can be a great way to achieve this and definitely worth trying out.
My only point was a general one about monitoring in B&W for colour work (and getting too reliant on that) - is that sometimes colour is a critical factor to making a composition work. An ideal solution could be a switchable monitor, where you can toggle to colour/ waveform - just to check that there is no screaming/ distracting colours that would ruin your composition if delivering in colour...Something that could easily be missed if only monitoring in B&W.
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sudopera got a reaction from Hans Punk in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
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
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sudopera reacted to Hans Punk in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
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.
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sudopera reacted to sgreszcz in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
On the latest Panasonic cameras you can put the EVF/LCD in monochrome and it records normally in colour. I have the peaking in yellow which also helps...
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sudopera reacted to The Chris in Shooting monochrome to help develop better framing skills
I learned on old Sony beta cams and the VF's were all B&W, nothing wrong with that at all.
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sudopera reacted to DBounce in New Canon 1DX Mkii Footage
I'll be doing some testing soon with some new picture profiles. I will post what I learn.
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sudopera reacted to sam in TRUMP +1DC + F35
The Trump lens series is a perfect match for the F35, right down to the black and gold!
I wanted to get a general idea of the look from the Trump series of lenses in a simple natural daylight setting without flaring. Realize there are a million variables, attributes, characteristics, mechanics, etc... The optical characteristics the Trump lenses are most famous for (wide open low contrast, flaring, custom bokeh) are not shown here.
Camera settings: 1DC iso 400, roughly 180 degree shutter, standard profile, daylight wb, 4k 8bit 422 (log is my preference, but wanted to use a profile all Canon cameras have in common so it would be easier to see the lenses characteristics without a custom grade getting in the way)
F35 cine ei mode, adjusted exposure slightly in Resolve, slog, sgamut, 180 degree shutter, daylight wb., 1920x1080 12bit 444 dpx, upscaled to uhd (for easier comparison to the 1dc files) keep in mind the scaling probably doesn't do the F35 any favors.
Apertures: T3.1 very roughly for the Canon and Trump, T3.9 on the Cooke
I used latest version of Adobe media encoder to export tiffs with best settings possible. I delogged the F35 footage in Resolve with Sony's F35 Aces input transform with an srgb output. Captured stills and exported as tiffs from Resolve 12.
Below are low res jpegs. Srgb Tiffs to download here :https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6dC48Sfvqr4c3k1aVh4UkhBS2M&usp=sharing
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sudopera reacted to andrgl in Red One MX - Why I bought one
Not kool-aid, more like finely aged CCD wine.
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sudopera got a reaction from Orangenz in Requesting a 4K 5D Mark IV! Werner meets Canon in Germany
Unless someone as a hybrid shooter is really interested in good stills/video combo, I don't really get why to even bother thinking about 5D IV. It will probably shoot cropped 4K, and previously the greatest appeal of DSLR-s over regular video cameras was FF look. I guess the price will be around 3500$, so as a video shooter if you're ok with 4K aps-c / S35 video, why even consider it when for a similar price you can buy something like JVC GY-LS300. I think this video speeks for itself.
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sudopera reacted to Richard Wait in Thinking... iMac vs. new Mac Pro
I've (this week) ordered an iMac with the i7 4Ghz and the M395X GPU. Ram and HDD I left standard, as aftermarket ram is substantially cheaper (and is a user 'allowed' update) and as I'm using a RAID already didn't feel the need to mess with the HDD (as its a fusion SSD combo)
My decision was based on the fact I'm almost 90% in FCPX - and the performance of the iMac is so on par with the a 6 Core MacPro with dual D500 GPUs. Which is crazy for the price difference and the included 5K screen....
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sudopera reacted to AaronChicago in Blackmagic URSA Mini - $2995 - official thread
Here is the finished video. Everything was shot on the UM46 ProRes UHD. One shot on a beach was with an iPhone 6.