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Def getting there. As you said, bokek is better when it's not distracting, like in most of your recent images. That and the very contrasty-darker frames make the image better. I think that's it. You'd just have to add a couple of actors that move within the frame to fill the last piece of the visual puzzle.

Nice! The contrasty light makes this images much more interesting than the previous flat ones.

Sounds good, can you name that specialized AI and the purpose it serves in your workflow? Thanks.

It is, but true artists love the craft. That's why they are artists and not accountants. When talking about AI for creativity it's always about the program used, never the person doing the work. "How do I make this easier?" is the question of an engineer or someone who wants to cut corners. Now we all use some sort of AI for our day to day jobs. I get it. It's either that or get out. But no self-respecting artist goes into the daily creative grind thinking I should embrace tech to increase my output and spend my free time on TikTok.

As the poster above said, the cinema look is hand-crafted. I would add dramatic lighting to your list. Think of the great Italian chiaroscuro painters from the XVII century. By nailing that artistic expression you're 99% into cinematic. Lots of light makes things uninteresting, didactic.

Put a lady's stocking on the mount of the lens to soften the image, maybe?

Well, that's something. It's clear that key and fill lights are the main differences between all the high-quality movies you mentioned and your samples. Hours upon hours go into the cinema aestehtic so it will be very hard to replicate via YT without the proper means. Add some very good actors and the bar stands incredibly high. Ever shot with older tape-based digital cams? Maybe you'll get some better results with a different media altogether. Newer sensors are just too clean.

Thanks for the detailed answer. You're right, only the more advanced videocameras will allow to you record at different fps, either higher or lower than 24fps (8, 12, 18, for example). Not sure about your GH7, though. But as you mentioned, you can play around with a lower shutter speed to break the 180º rule. Try 40 or 30 instead of the usual 48 or 50 and see what happens. Can't lose anything for trying, right? I don't mean to be rude, but it's hard to make innanimate objects feel "cinematic". We'd get a much better feel of the cinematic vs. video aesthetic you mention by recording human movement.

DP Reviews image tests on the new RX1 Mark III just came out. The lens is incredibly soft. Too many MPXs on that sensor for a 10 year-old lens.

Still too clean for me. Dod you record at 24fps? Maybe try lower at 20-21fps to give a more filmic cadence?

Yep, still useless. AI has no feelings. No promp-master can make AI distinctly his own. The output will always be an interpretation of something synthetic devised by the AI being used. I'm not talking about shooting your own material and enhancing it with AI. That's a different thing altogether. No. I'm talking about movies made 100% prompt after prompt. No wonder the current examples of these prompt-driven "films" always put the AI tool used before the author. It's what ppl want to know. "What tool did you use?". "What prompts did you input?". It's never the author. Always the tool.

Ahhhh, resist, resist friend LOL The DF actually used Nikon's D4 sensor. Seems it was very very solid. Those D4 models still go for huge money used.

I think they saw the high prices the previous RX1 models go for after 10 or more years. As for a electronic tech goes, the RX1 line has held up like no other tech out there, maybe only surpassed by the Digital Bolex videocam and the Fujifil X100 line in this regard. Other than those two outliers, I can't find any other old or very old digital cameras that still garner such high prices relative to their age. So Sony saw that and the recent compact camera fad and thought that they were leaving a ton of cash on the table.

Just out of curiosity, did you by any chance ever shoot with the older Nikon DF? Seems it was a banger for stills.

Yes, even though electronic music has been around for decades ppl still play guitars, flutes and bang drums like they have done for 50,000 years or more. Think of all the mediocre electronica outfits out there vs the ones who get it right. Objectively, even a mediocre guitarists is better than a mediocre electronica artist just bc the way he expresses his artistic intention. The exact same thing will happen with AI. Of all the trillions of Terabytes done with this tech only 0.1% will rise to the surface and have any merit.