Tim Sewell

Absolutely right. I am continually amazed by the amount of shadow detail I can bring back in my X-T2 stills (haven't really done much video with them yet - awaiting the spring). Also - and many have said this - upping the ISO brings out noise that really does just look like film grain, with virtually no banding or false colour. I shoot mine at 800 most of the time, as it's pretty much noise-free, but one of my presets, based off Classic Chrome, I shoot at a minimum of 6400 and it looks gorgeous!

My understanding is that they sent him one for review and he loved it so much he bought one. He's produced some beautiful stuff with it - for a cinematographer he's a pretty tasty stills photographer! But seriously, @webrunner5 - film is dead? Fujifilm cameras are crap? Did someone steal your car this morning or something? There are no rules when it comes to creative endeavour. People will use whatever realises their creative vision the best - for them. There's really no need to shout people down and disrespect their creative choices.

My wife saw this and was raving about it for at least a fortnight.

Thank you to all who have resurrected this thread - you reminded me that I have to cancel my Vimeo plan before the end of the month!

I think PB has a Kinefinity (can't remember which one) on test at the moment - from his comments on Instagram he seems to quite like it.

Try Bruxelles Midi station - they sell it there (although it might be the international edition). I don't have a subscription, I'm afraid, as I read it online. I can buy a copy and post it to you if you like. PM me your address.

The Guardian runs job ads.

Maybe, but the Cion would look much nicer on a display shelf in my lounge.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AJA-Cion-4K-Cinema-Camera-FULL-KIT-Battery-Media-and-more/263397430773?hash=item3d53b5d5f5:g:DRwAAOSwSZFZvr~c GBP3900 with a bunch of extras. Not bad, really.

I'm a fan of his work too - although I sometimes think 'Crikey, this guy has decorated his house and dresses his kids in such a way that he can always get a nice retro looking shot'! I think he does quite well out of selling presets too (and yes, he's mainly a Fuji guy).

Firstly, Andrew posted an opinion piece so he wasn't really attempting to state any kind of universal truth except inasmuch as he sees it. But actually there is - at least across a fairly large portion of the world - a fairly accessible selection of objective moral standards. Loudmouth Breitbart commentators and presidents might try to subvert those standards in the minds of their gullible acolytes, but actually, most of the world agrees that you shouldn't kill or steal, that you should love, or at least respect your neighbour, that you should help those in trouble. These are basic human altruistic impulses that are codified into law in virtually every 'civilised' place on our planet. Likewise I'd be surprised if - had you access to the world's population - you could rustle up anything more than a tiny minority who would agree that behaving with disrespect to the corpse of a man in such pain that he had to end his own life was anything other than despicable. So moral relativism may be a fun debating gambit but it actually falls over not just in the here and now, but across a pretty large portion of human history. Some people like to say that the relative decline in the West of organised religion has led to a reduction in ethics and morality, but those phenomena existed long before any of the organised religions came on the scene and will far outlast them. An objective reality? Well everything is altered by our gaze upon it, but human values (not political ones, BTW) that are agreed on by the majority of my peers will do the job for me. He does have the right to be an ass - we have the right to ignore him - as does YouTube, should they choose to. In certain countries people have an inalienable right to free speech within the bounds of the law, but I'm not aware of any constitution that says they also have a right to utilise a private company's platform to disseminate that speech. It would be censorship to lock the knob up for his unpleasantness, it wouldn't be censorship for YouTube to tell him to take it elsewhere.

YouTube, social media and the web in general is still at the stage of being a world-wide social experiment of which no-one (or their kids) asked to be the subjects and that's controlled not by scientists but by corporations whose only duty is to their shareholders. And we wonder why the whole shit house is going up in flames.

https://www.junocalypso.com/ June Calypso's work is dramatic, enigmatic, cinematic and flawlessly executed. I absolutely love her stuff.

Here's some XP2 4K footage: And the blog post: https://blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2017/12/some-more-fuji-x-pro-2-4k-tests

Image quality is only half the story at most, surely. My understanding is that high end productions use Alexas because they rarely go wrong, but when they do there's an unrivalled international network of companies that can repair or replace them at extremely short notice. Also they are an integral part of an established professional workflow, from support and grip through to edit and grading, that's entirely familiar to industry professionals in every corner of the world.

FWIW, Photo Rumors just posted this: https://photorumors.com/2017/12/14/here-are-the-detailed-panasonic-gh5s-specifications/

That camera has a beautiful look to it from these quick shots - looking forward to seeing more (and have cut up my credit cards).

The video in the OP is one of the funniest things I've seen this year - I'm going to have to watch it all the way through this evening. Apparently Jim is now up to 'over 150' movies, according to IMDB.

There used to be a restriction whereby you could only edit raw files if you were paying - has that been removed?

So... we'll see. At the moment I'm using Lightroom for DAM and Alien Skin for processing, which is a pain.

I find it easier to get my kids to read than to watch 'old' movies. The visual entertainment made for them now gets them into a terrible habit of requiring a beat in every scene to keep them interested - even what seemed like fast paced movies when I was younger now seem interminably drawn out to them now. It's a terrible shame and I can't see it getting much better - I think as time goes on the enjoyment of 20th century cinema will become a micro-niche pursuit.

I'm sure Rupert Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and Richard Desmond, who between them control the larger part of UK media (except the BBC) will be interested to know that they're lefties.

Yet even though growth slowed to 1% last year, 2016 was still the all-time record for global box office - in the UK it was far and away the best ever year. I think you're correct, though, in the case of films that aren't aimed at teenagers - for more thoughtful fare the trend is definitely towards home viewing. Who knows what will happen, but it will be a sad day when movies like BR2014, Dunkirk and so on can't be shown on the big screen, where their visual beauty can be properly appreciated.

I think we often see that massively-hyped films with great opening weekends often fail to sustain their momentum as word of mouth gets around that they're not actually that great! Hopefully BR2049 will do the opposite (I haven't actually seen it yet, but I'm salivating at what I've seen so far of Deakins's photography).

Unfortunately the lion's share of the money left in the private sector tends to end up behind an anonymous brass plate in some tax haven, not financing wonderful new discoveries. I read the other day that without any form of government subsidy the passenger aircraft industry, to name but one, couldn't exist. Why? A new airliner design can take decades to show a return on capital - timescales that no bank will lend on. The only bodies able to swallow billions in spending on 10, 20, 30 year timescales are governments. If it had been left to the private sector we would not have realised the myriad advances brought about by the space programme, we would probably have 'just slightly better enough to get people to upgrade' bakelite phones and steam-powered computers. Our current world would be unrecognisably different to what it is now.