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    hyalinejim got a reaction from deezid in Panasonic S5 II (What does Panasonic have up their sleeve?)   
    Personally, I would never, ever in a million years add sharpening to a video clip.
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from Emanuel in Panasonic S5 II (What does Panasonic have up their sleeve?)   
    Personally, I would never, ever in a million years add sharpening to a video clip.
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    hyalinejim reacted to FHDcrew in Share our work   
    Let’s share our work guys!  I’ll start. Here is an interview I shot and lit the other day, featuring a congresswoman from Indians!  One camera was a Nikon z6 recording into an Atomos ninja v.  With a Tamron 45mm 1.8.  The other was actually the ancient, cheap Canon 7D fitted with a Canon 85mm 1.2 shot at f/2.5!
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from Thpriest in Panasonic S5 II (What does Panasonic have up their sleeve?)   
    A Facebook user reported that phase AF works fine with a Viltrox adapter.
    I'd be interested in the Fotodiox one with ND or any adapter with ND. Does anyone have any experiences of them in general? Aside from AF, that is, how is usability, compatibility, ND quality (colour cast, X pattern)
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from karin in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    Wow! I guess site founder Phil Askey got out at the right time. His Insta profile describes him as "now travelling and eating around the world". Here's a recent interview with him.
    https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5323285840/phil-askey-founders-interview
    The comments towards the end are a little ironic now
    "Amazon are giving the site everything it needs to continue to be the leading voice for everything photography related."
    ...until they pull the plug! The forums will be gone. I still have esoteric questions that a dpreview thread will answer. Are FB groups where it's at nowadays? They suck because they're insular, hard to read, and search. 
    I imagine in the future, when these words are also gone, I'll be telling my kids "once upon a time there were internet boards and forums".
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from FHDcrew in 8 vs 10 bit   
    Canon WideDR profile is supposed to be precisely this. You could also look into cameras that allow you to bake in LUTs.
    However, something like WideDR is like a halfway house between log and a standard profile. It's probably not quite contrasty enough so you're going to end up grading anyway. And as @TomTheDP says, grading log is not difficult if you have a good LUT.
    The only way you're not going to be grading is if you're shooting with an absolutely lovely profile or baked in LUT and you nail exposure and WB every time. With log you can relax a bit while you're shooting.
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from SRV1981 in 8 vs 10 bit   
    Canon WideDR profile is supposed to be precisely this. You could also look into cameras that allow you to bake in LUTs.
    However, something like WideDR is like a halfway house between log and a standard profile. It's probably not quite contrasty enough so you're going to end up grading anyway. And as @TomTheDP says, grading log is not difficult if you have a good LUT.
    The only way you're not going to be grading is if you're shooting with an absolutely lovely profile or baked in LUT and you nail exposure and WB every time. With log you can relax a bit while you're shooting.
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from PannySVHS in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    Yes, I think the first shot of the sun coming up on the landscape has a fade in of something like sixty seconds. So like, it is indeed getting brighter in the scene but I'm also doing a one minute fade in from black. At the time I probably needed RAW for this. I think it was just before the GH5 10bit 422 era.
    You mentioned in a DM that the original file downloaded from Vimeo is much cleaner. There is terrible banding in the streaming version for the first minute, but the footage itself is pristine.
    What's interesting to me looking at it now is the softness of the footage as I'm used to looking at 4K (and I think the softnes looks great). I may have shot it at 2.8K or something, I'm not sure, for 2048 x whatever DCP delivery. But then I may even have blurred it a little bit! I know I definitely blurred the title and end credits as they looked a bit too sharp to me.
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    hyalinejim reacted to TomTheDP in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    I have never had to make that choice as the difference in price is minimal. If you are getting an Alexa Mini or Sony Venice that is a different story.
    But yes between choosing one of the 12 bit readout cameras on the market and an older RED or Alexa I would definitely go with RED or Alexa. I always have access to basic lighting packages. Now if it were a situation where I thought we would have to film at 6400 iso or something I would have to go with something like a S1H but aside from that personally I wouldn't.

    Looking at Gerald Undone's review and his dynamic range tests of that sensor, it looks significantly better than the previous Fuji sensor which I owned at one point. Almost purchased the XH2S as soon as I saw that review and his findings.

    A lot of the dynamic range of that sensor is in the shadows and it does get noisy. But if the color rendition is maintained and the noise monochromatic I like that look. One of the traits of an Alexa is that underexposure results in noise. However it doesn't have color noise and maintains color rendition nicely. Of course the XH2S doesn't have the Alexa's highlight retention.

    @jpfilmz
    There is also something about older canon color science that is really nice.

    @hyalinejim very nice work!
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from TomTheDP in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from solovetski in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from PannySVHS in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from jpfilmz in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from mercer in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim reacted to ade towell in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    I'll 2nd that, you have a great eye some lovely compositions
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    hyalinejim reacted to Tim Sewell in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    A truly beautiful piece of work.
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from Django in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from Tim Sewell in 11 year old 5d MK3 superior to newest releases   
    At the risk of going off topic, I also remember when on video forums people would post videos that they had made!
    It's the same everywhere else. On FB groups people post pics of their setup rather than something that they shot with it.
    By the way I think it's worth pointing out that the original post of this topic was something along the lines of "does 14bit give noticeably better colour?". It's a perfectly valid question or talking point for discussion about one aspect of image quality, and has nothing whatsoever to do with lighting, story, frosted glass or frosted flakes or whatever somebody had for their breakfast... So to veer off into those topics is to miss the point of this thread.
    Now, here's a video! This is the last project I shot on the 5D3. Hope you like slow cinema!
     
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    hyalinejim reacted to Joe G in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    Personally. I seem to be able to recall the written word  much more easily, than a rambling video by some person more interested in their own voice than getting to the point. I gave up on YouTube years ago. Sorry to see the demise of DPReview. Slowly we move toward the New Dark Ages ...
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from IronFilm in Panasonic S5 II (What does Panasonic have up their sleeve?)   
    Lol, I saw that video and I usually quite like Sam Holland but the title is a little bit clickbaity. For anyone that's interested he's talking about focus transition which has been around since the GH5. Maybe the reason that nobody's talking about it is because everyone has been aware of its existence since 2017! I guess it was missing from the S5 though, which is what he seems to be most familiar with.
     
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from jgharding in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    Exactly! And sometimes you wouldn't even need to open the link. The answer is in the search result summary. If it's a video, even a short one, you have to click past so much irrelevance from someone who's in love with the smell of their own farts before finally finding the answer (if it's even correct in the first place).
    Honestly, it's getting harder and harder. I was reading something a while back on Reddit where someone said they usually skip to the second page of search results as the first is just trash!
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    hyalinejim reacted to jgharding in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    It's really short sighted. Fashion goes back and forth between YouTube and written word I think.
    We may be at peak YouTube, but I am also quite sick of huge sponsor midrolls, constant YouTube-fashion verbal ticks like "I don't love X feature" and "this is gonna be your shutter, this is gonna be thee battery door, this is gonna be the sensor, gonna be gonna be", and of Google answering my questions with a link to a massive video full of "WHAT IS UP GUYS SMASH A LIKE BUTTON AND BANG THE BELL" instead of one sentence that answers my f-ing question.
    There's seems to be a baby/bathwater problem these days as there alayws has been.
    Remember when manual focus photography lenses were worth very little? Remember when people gave away vintage audio equipment cos all the new digital stuff was "better"? Dumping stuff because something new exists has a habit of leading to regret.
    Imagine killing off the non-AI written word at this point in time :S
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    hyalinejim got a reaction from IronFilm in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    Maybe they figured they would prefer people to read reviews on amazon.com instead of dpreview.com
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    hyalinejim reacted to Davide DB in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    Perhaps at one time, when they bought it, the site might have had some relevance in bringing sales to Amazon. It was still the glorious period of forums and blogs.
    But now all the traffic comes from influencers and fu@@ing youtubers with affiliate schemes. It's much cheaper and that's how it all runs now.
    The shameful thing is that the site is really part of the global internet culture and it doesn't make sense to shut it down in a month. They probably already have a buyer. At least I hope so.  Chris and Jordan can do the same anywhere and with anyone but the mountain of info accumulated over the years on the site has enormous cultural value. 
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    hyalinejim reacted to Marcio Kabke Pinheiro in Now it is a surprise - DPReview is closing   
    I knwo that Amazon needs to cut costs, but close a website with THIRTEEN people on staff? Jeff Bezos have a bigger crew just to clean his balls.
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