Tim Sewell

7 hours ago, Snowfun said:

It’s going to be quite a month - R5, Sony ?, more Komodo footage...   none of which will actually improve anyone’s creativity and imagination...

Yes - but it's our collective duty to restart the economy!

1 minute ago, kye said:

For example I can't imagine how Werner Herzog would go in the forums!

I would pay good money to see it!

4 hours ago, kye said:

Interesting.  The liftgammagain.com forums are real names only and are very civil.

I think that's possibly to do with the fact that the vast majority of liftgammagain's members are working professionals - many of whom probably know and/or have worked with each other outside of the forum (or might be asking each other for work at some point in the future). I visit the place quite often as there really isn't another resource like it for colour matters.

I'm currently building a set each (28, 35, 50ish, 85, 135) of M42 SMC-Takumars and early Minolta Rokkors, with the intention of keeping and building on the set I prefer and reselling the other. On experience so far I'll no doubt end up keeping both sets!

An excellent piece of work.

"When the market shrinks to one tenth its current size, yes, more expensive because the cost per unit to make anything will be dearer and in order to make a profit it will just have to be.      While there is lower stuff to sell in volume they can make higher end stuff a bit cheaper than it otherwise would be but once that lower stuff is swallowed up by phones ...well look at Leica....otherwise it will be cheap rubbish."

Absolutely this. The reason Zacuto can charge hundreds of dollars for pieces of shaped metal with threaded holes in them is precisely because - in manufacturing terms - the market for those bits of metal is almost undetectably small.

1 hour ago, noone said:

June issue of Australian photography has a full page ad for the Fuji X100V on page 19 and on pages 54-57 is a review of the camera (not singling out Fuji, it was just their turn).    Of course I actually think that is a very nice camera.

As an erstwhile tech-oriented ad salesman I have to tell you that any such person - on finding out that editorial were devoting 3 or 4 pages to a favourable review of a particular camera would, within milliseconds, be on the phone to a decision maker at the manufacturer's HQ. There's nothing corrupt about that process, it's just how it works.

So, so sad. I absolutely love the recent Oly M43 bodies and their lenses are gorgeous. Going for a cry!

1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

I hope they don't succumb to the same mistake Z Cam did in this situation, and JVC puts out a Global Shutter camera. 

The day Z Cam brings out a global shutter S35 camera is the day I sell everything (including my children) to buy one!

21 hours ago, Mr. Freeze said:

I have the same Samyangs/Rokinon/Walimex Lenses. What was so awful with your 24mm? Besindes the focus ring having not enough resistance for my liking, it is a nice lens.

Just curious why you didn´t like it.

The one I had was soft below f8. Compared to the others, even once sharp, it was pretty lifeless too.

I used to have the 24, 35, 50 and 85mm Samyangs. The 24mm was so awful that I never used it. The 35 was serviceable, the 50 and the 85 were - for the price - stellar.

On 5/22/2020 at 10:38 PM, JordanWright said:

Just ordered 2 Leitax Adapters (spare one for the 85mm 2.8 that i'll inevitably buy) & The screwdriver Leitax recommend. Ive been told by Leitax it could be up to 10 days until dispatch & up to 2 weeks postage time... fingers crossed its a bit quicker than that! Hopefully I don't strip the screws. Would be very interested if anyone has any experience changing the mounts themselves, Simmod lenses recommend heating up the screws with a soldering iron before unscrewing to melt the glue... time to source one of those I guess haha!

This may help - in the second half of the video he demonstrates changing the mount (and de-clicking): youtube.com/watch?v=EUjUxKvXgpw

I recently acquired a Godox SL60W and a SL300W - both seem excellent VFM so far.

I've just seen some LED panels built in UK called Softy Lite: http://www.softylite.com/index.html

They're on EBay at £47 a shot - has anyone experienced these? What are your views (whether you've tried them or not) on what's on offer here?

Thanks guys. For now I've gone with a FalconEyes FP7, which looks to be a (pretty good) copy of the PilotFly AtomCube. It just arrived and, while I haven't tested with the camera yet, it seems to put out just sufficient light for my current needs.

25 minutes ago, heart0less said:

How do you like the camera?
What made you consider and finally buy it?

Thank you for your kind words!

Quite a while ago I had a Mk2, which I liked a lot, but had to sell. With this, I happened to spot one on Ebay that had no bids and a low reserve, which meant I got it for £500. Now, I don't make money from video, but at that price I figured it was cheap enough to have as a 'family' video camera.

I have to say, in many ways, I prefer it to the Mk2. It's got the DPAF upgrade and all said, coupled with - in the video above - the 17-55 2.8 it's just a really simple, non-intimidating camera to use. It gets out of the way and lets you concentrate on the creative bits of shooting moving pictures. I also like that I can, if I want, use it fully stripped down - although in general I'm preferring it with the Zacuto EVF I managed to pick up, also for a song, on that well-known auction site!

Next project is a short narrative piece, for which I'll start lighting and grading tests tonight. Can't wait!

For my next burst of lockdown creativity I'm going to need to shoot some CU and MCUs night for night. The keylight will be tungsten illumination from inside, but I also want some blue fill from the other side. I was trying to remember the code for the filter gel to get that nice steely fake night blue (and if anyone can remind me, that would be great) but then I got to thinking it's payday and the pubs aren't going to open any time soon, so maybe I should get an RGB LED light source instead. So can anyone point me towards a reasonably punchy RGB panel (other fixtures may also be considered) that will suffice, if necessary as a key in low light, for around or under GBP250? Preferably with a UK or EU supplier. Many thanks, filmic funsters!

I accidentally bought an OG C100 during lockdown! This is my first outing with it - although there's not a lot of action around at the moment!

I haven't bought or used any video gear for over a year, but yesterday I accidentally picked up an OG Canon C100 for GBP500. Oh well.

On 1/25/2020 at 11:07 PM, Andrew Reid said:

Anybody got any city scenes and low light material? Throw it our way. I am curious to see how current cameras compare especially X-T3 F-LOG, Panasonic S1H and Nikon Z6 raw.

They're from 2014, and shot on mainly Alexa Studio, but there are a whole bunch of things shot by DoP John De Borman demonstrating Cooke Lenses, including lots of low-light and city stuff. Here's one: https://vimeo.com/89719974 - I'm sure you can track down the rest. I don't know if the original files are available, but given the target audience I expect a visit to the Cooke website might yield some results for you.

This new X-T2 firmware will be like getting a new camera. Top marks to Fuji.

9 minutes ago, Django said:

..and welcome to ETTR class today folks in the Fuji X-H1 thread!  

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

3 hours ago, Attila Bakos said:

Yeah, the A7III is a steal :D

Yep. Works particularly well with teh SLR Magic Rangefinder, or so I hear.

2 hours ago, jonpais said:

Name calling and personal attacks are the tactics of last resort employed by pathetic little fanboys with no moral character or reasoning ability.

Your aggression and unpleasantness is starting to seriously impact the enjoyment that others derive from this forum. You derail thread after thread with your deeply insulting scattergun imprecations. We get that you don't like what Fuji have done with their new camera and we get that you don't like Mattias. So why don't you do the adult thing and leave both this thread and his posts well alone.

Edit: for the avoidance of doubt, I'll be using the ignore feature from now on. I shouldn't have to do that, in a generally respectful forum.

Damn! I just bought one that looks just like that. The sales guy told me it was Apple's new 'distressed look' version. He said anything I watch on it will automatically look like it was shot by Vincent Gallo. I can't work out how to turn it on though.