Jonesy Jones

So, not to rain on my own parade, but I have been concerned about moire with this cam since no olpf. Should be better than og pocket and bmcc I'd guess, but....

Check out John Brawleys video. The AC vent in the upper left hand corner is definitely showing some issues.  

Will be interesting to see more footage and reviews of this.

The third party olpf's will be coming soon I bet.

Still a great camera.

48 minutes ago, CaptainHook said:

Vimeo link if you prefer:

Thank you @CaptainHook. This is my next camera. Most likely it already was but this was the icing on the cake. Just gorgeous. (My GH5 will be listed on eBay in 5, 4, 3....).

Please also thank everyone there at Blackmagic and Mr Petty. This is simply stunning. We are so blessed and spoiled as filmmakers. I wish all the best to BM and hope they sell an absolute shit ton of these. I hope BM makes so much money that Mr Petty gets to swim naked in his vault of money like Scrooge McDuck.

For those looking for the OG mojo. I think what you are after is nostalgia. However, I think what BM is delivering is actually a higher calling or standard, and the nostalgic look can still be had, it's just not default ooc. For further proof, have a re-look at @John Brawley's UM launch video. Clean and modern and spot on. Now have a look at Olan Collardy. His work screams of beautiful nostalgia. 

Looking for magic?.... make it. BM cameras won't hold you back in the least.

So happy. 

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

Here is the Vimeo link. I t looks better on there than on You Tube. No surprise.

 

I gotta say that on my end, the Vimeo version is night and day better than the Youtube version. Or maybe my data rate was super poor on Youtube. My goodness. I think the footage is stunning. I am so much more excited about this camera now. Can't wait to see more footage, and for the release.

25 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

computational computing

Hmmm...

I'd like to try photographical photography with one of their cameras.

2 minutes ago, mercer said:

I think what I’m seeing is a similarity in the highlight roll off, not necessarily a DR similarity with the GH5. With that being said, I enjoyed your impromptu family short film.

The Ursa Footage is in a different category than the P4K, as it should be, but I definitely think this is some quality first footage for the P4K. That midday sun, in the middle of the woods is a bitch on almost any sensor.

I'm thinking Wyatt did no favors for the P4K with the TOD he chose. That's it. Same great composition, just doesn't feel right. The last series of shots on the beach particularly is not flattering for the P4K. But I don't think it would do any cameras any favors.

Thanks @CaptainHook for sharing this with us. Please don't take my comments as a complaint. I'm encouraged actually. I think Wyatt's footage with different light or weather would be vastly improved. But actually, this was hard conditions for the camera and they still look great. I'm betting footage from this camera is going to keep getting better. Can't wait to see skin.

Well, I shot this short/test for fun last summer with the GH5 with similarish content and conditions. Maybe some value in comparing the two.

I think I intentionally went 'darker' with my CC, but if I had to guess I'd say the P4K has more range than the GH5.

Here's one of the initial released videos from the URSA mini with similar content shot by the same guy the P4K footage above. There's something magical about these images. Can't compare the two cameras. But good for reference.

1 hour ago, mercer said:

Well, after some recommendations, I took a look at the photo pool on Flickr and there were some nice shots but then out of curiosity I took a look at E-M5 Mark II and E-M1 Mark II photo pools and there was a night and day difference in favor of Olympus.

I didn’t dig too deep, so the jury is still out but from what I saw, the GH5 stills looked like they were shot with a point and shoot compared to Olympus.

I've noticed that about Olympus as well. 

Can I make an observation? Hopefully this is received in the same spirit as I intend it.

I think I've only ever seen you post still images. That one with the birds is rad btw.

You've been talking a lot about and referencing stills. Especially obviously in this thread.

Is it possible that you really want a stills camera? Maybe you'll just love telling stories with still images. At least with this camera... obviously you have the 5D for video... which btw is decent for stills as well.

I'm not saying you should hang up your video shoes. I'm just wondering if there is a photographer inside of you dying to introduce himself to the world. 

Forget N-log or Z-log, I'm waiting for one of these cameras to implement Captains log. 

1 hour ago, Trek of Joy said:

I'm still trying to figure out what that lame teaser image shows. Any ideas? 

Chris

Its the corner of the camera with the shutter button. 

Well that'd be a strange place for a shutter button. Probably I'm wrong. 

@mercer, Fuji would be at the top of my list if stills were going to be close to half of why I owned it. Fuji has top class colors. Fuji also has great lenses and I want to get a Fuji so bad. The caveat though is of course worlds worst RS. Autofocus and and IBIS seemed iffy last I looked, but those could have improved. I haven't been paying close attention.

If you go with the GH5 you'll absolutely love IBIS. I never would have guessed how awesome it could be. The files feel as good as prores to me. With Sage's LUT colors are great (I actually don't have it yet though but from what I've seen it looks great). I've used the GH5 for stills and they look great. First is before CC.

Again, if stills is close to half of your intended use, go with APSC or greater, therefore Fuji. If stills are an 'also ran', go with the GH5. 

16 hours ago, mercer said:

Here’s another shot from the Canon 28mm f/1.8 I bought a few months back for a song. I actually didn’t expect a lot from it when I bought it, but it’s been my goto lens for my short film...

But I really need to start investing in some lights. I got a great recommendation from Jon, with the Fotodiox Flapjacks, but does anyone else have any good suggestions for on camera lights?

This is basically the focal length I’m going for. I’ve decided just to sit tight with my 18-35 for now and pick up the bm4kpcc when it ships. I wish there were more/faster lenses out there in the +-20mm range. The 18-35 is actually ideal except that it doesn’t have hard stops and is a bit long. 

1 hour ago, mercer said:

Read this about Minolta lenses... 

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?92246-Minolta-Rokkor-Survival-Guide

 But I’ve had many many Nikkor lenses and you really cannot go wrong for value to price with Nikkors... the 28mm f/2, 35mm f/2 and 35mm 1.4 are excellent lenses. 

Are you making a feature with the GH5?

Can Minolta be adapted to EF? I don't have plans to use an EF camera, but I'm just wondering.

Man plan is to make several shorts. Been working on an idea for several months. Hopefully I get a chance to produce them in the near future.

Hey guys, looking for your input. 

Im looking to put together a small set of lenses, probably either Nikkor or Canon fd to pair with my GH5. I already have a couple Nikkors and the speedbooster, but I’ve heard great things about the fd’s, but I have no experience with them. 

I’d love to hear from folks with experience with fd’s, especially who’ve also used Nikkors. 

EDIT: add Minolta Rokkors to the  possible list.   @mercer

24 minutes ago, John Brawley said:

What would a C200 give me in drama shooting that the UMP doesn’t have ? 

The Canon logo, and less features. 

Next to film, Sony Venice is my favorite image. Then UMP. It’s really a special image. 

I really hope it’s upcoming little brother rocks. Not that the UMP is huge, but I’m trying balance image with size. 

Kaylee. I’ve not done Resolve to AE. But I’ve often done Premiere to AE. Of course those two were made for each other, but the basic principle I believe is the same. 

In my experience and opinion, I’d save cc for last. Meaning, end in Resolve. If Resolve is your editor, begin there. Or Premiere, doesn’t matter. Any clips that are going to need fx work just keep in timeline as temporary placeholder. Once your timeline is edited, bring the clips that need fx work into AE and do your thing. Export those and then drop them back into your editor to replace their unfinished originals. Then color correct. 

Thats how I’ve done it. 

If an entire sequence needs fx you may consider exporting the whole thing and bringing into AE. But you’d probably still want to end with cc. 

To me the reason for ending with cc is that’s often where you push or pull the footage the most. Doing fx work after that could put too much strain on the footage. 

On 7/12/2018 at 1:43 PM, cantsin said:

Fujinon b4 mount 8-120mm/f1.7, used with activated 2x extender (16-240mm/f3.4) on a BM Pocket, until 28:10:

Until 28:10 on a video 26 minutes long? 

27 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

I have never needed to use every last facet of Photoshop so I'm probably not best placed to do the full A/B comparison but I don't miss not having it at all (even after 20 years use!) if that's an indication.

With regard to vectors (and I now have the Airplane "what's your vector Victor" scene playing in my head ?) that's not my area but a friend of mine switched to an open source package called Inkscape and seems to have lived to tell the tale.

It's the one that usually comes up in any "Alternative to..." searches and there are quite a lot of A/B comparisons with Illustrator. 

I just noticed that Affinity has a vector app called Designer. This is great. They seem like an experienced company (not likely to vanish in a year) with a cohesive suite of apps. I think this rounds out my alternative solutions to Adobe. I'll probably (finally) be switching soon.

Btw, I love the way you write. Doesn't surprise me that you get so many likes.

On 6/20/2018 at 11:15 AM, BTM_Pix said:

Over 3 years, the full suite, is not far off being the cost of the outright ownership of FCPX, Resolve/Fusion, Affinity Photo (Photoshop clone) and the MacBook Pro to run it on.

Thank you for sharing that about Affinity Photo. 

The combination of After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator are why it has been impossible to leave Adobe for Resolve. But I’ve been watching some videos on the Resolve/Fusion combo and it looks promising. Affinity Photo looks like it could easily replace Photoshop. Would that be the front runner Photoshop replacement? Any other strong candidates?

Also, how about a vector app? Are the vector tools in Affinity fairly robust? Or is there another better app for this?

Pixelmator seemed promising at one point, but I’m also trying to stay away from OS specific apps. 

Come September/October, I may be interested in paying “Full” price for Resolve, and getting a great 4K camera with it for free.

The look of those images is stunning. Do we know what camera he shot that with?

19 hours ago, Sage said:

I could; its really a matter of access to the cameras. Is there any way to get 10 bit out of them?

I'm considering whether to expand beyond the GH5. If so, I want to pursue an absolute precision standard.

 

I've been using it on some of my footage today without grading,

Very happy

 Sage I love those images. I will most likely be buying this coming week. Will probably have some questions but from what I can tell your PDFs will probably explain everything for me.

Very well done Oliver and congratulations. Looks big time. No one would watch that and guess GH5. 

Nice. 

And we thought Apple was abandoning pro users.

Yah web runner just lost all credibility with me with that statement. 

7 minutes ago, Trek of Joy said:

Looks great. I keep watching this one, makes my a7s2 shiver in anticipation of getting sold.

 

The aliasing is absolutely horrid. 

2 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

SOOC my ass. You can say a Canon T2i has a better color science, it might be better than the GH5s, but it doesn't mean it is worth a crap to compare to each other. Hell this is sort of suppose to be a Cine type forum not a beauty contest. Ohh my Reds are better than your Reds is what is happening with this Fuji X-H1 on here. It is a nice camera but it is like comparing a Sony FS5 to a F55. Both are good, one is great. That is what I think is the difference.

It is amazing how few people on here even give the GH5s a look let alone talk about buying one. It is a miracle camera for the money. You can make a living with it. A feature movie. There is hardly anything it can't do. And there is like 20 people on here in a Cine forum that could gives a shit, and there is 1,000 that think the X-H1 is the second coming of Christ! Crazy place, just crazy LoL.

The good news is that the cream always rises to the top. 

Like you I am surprised by the lack of fanfare for this camera. When I look up GH5s on Vimeo there are hardly any videos. I don't think they did a good job with the release and I don't think it should have been related to the GH5. They should have given it it's own name. People were bummed by the lack of IBIS and same AF performance. Maybe calling it an EVA mini would have been better.

The image from this camera is gorgeous. Give it some time. Someone important will realize its value and the minions will follow. I hope.