Tim Sewell

Off-topic, but the service being advertised fits in with a description I recently heard of today's web service industry - guys in the Valley coming up with apps to do the stuff their mums no longer do for them.

Bear in mind that without the consumer market to give a ROI your GH7 is going to cost you eight grand.

39 minutes ago, ThomHaig said:

Hey Don, thanks for getting back to me on this.

aha... I never considered that the physical aperture size of the metabones would have a limit as to how much light it could let in. Good to know.

I was also looking at Nikon and old Olympus Zuiko lenses, some of which have f1.2 offerings - do you know I were to adapt them to EF and use the metabones, would that run into the same problem?

Thanks

I've successfully used OM Zuiko manual lenses adapted to EF with the thin adapter, mounted via a Metabones XL EF to M4/3 on my GH4. They're rather lovely lenses. Have done it with the 28 2.8, 50 1.2 and a few third-party OM fit lenses.

fs700

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anyway please send my dollar to:

Kaylee Fabian

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Western Union?

6 hours ago, BenEricson said:

My xc10 came in the mail yesterday. This camera has a really nice image and is really fun to shoot with. The image stabilizer seems to work very well, I also dig the touch screen, works fine in bright light as well. 

The biggest negative for me would be the lack of ND filters. It's impossible to properly expose 24p in bright sunlight when shooting 1/48. 

A lot of positives, currently on a 3 day trip in oregon. I'll post some stuff when I get back. Thanks everyone contributing to this topic, been a nice resource. 

Im assuming zebras at 75 is the norm? Any other tips/tricks I should know about? 

My vari-ND lives on the cam when using log. However, after reading @kidzrevil's posts I've recently been playing with EOS Cinema Standard, where the problem doesn't really occur much as you can shoot as low as 160 ISO - the results are actually really nice (and FilmConvert has the correct profile) - I'm starting to think that log should really only be used in the situations where that extra DR is needed. There's supposed to be a firmware update coming that will add Canon Log 2 & 3, so I guess we'll see what happens then!

My only other tip would be that if you're shooting scenes with lots of movement it's generally best to use push-to-focus in manual focus mode, as the focus tends to wander in auto as the camera picks up faces.

On a more serious level - here in the UK we are already seeing considerable price rises on equipment due to the falling pound. Trump has indicated that he wishes to pursue policies on trade that could quite easily lead to a trade war with China. Given the nature of global supply chains in the camera business that would not bode well for prices stateside.

3 hours ago, kidzrevil said:

yes just like how canon log raises the black point.

you can find the Canon white paper here http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2012/cinemaeos_white_papers.shtml

I did a low light test with the XC10 and Canon Log 

 

 

Those are, to me, very cinematic images. What ISO were you shooting at?

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Assuming this is indeed the problem then in theory we can reduce it by capturing a flat but brightly lit image (reducing contrast but also pushing more of the pixel values towards the mid-point exposure value), running at a higher shutter speed and keeping camera nodal movement to a minimum (to reduce spatial aliasing). I'll also try some tests to see if I'm correct - at least in part ;-)

Unfortunately, this is a camera marketed for handheld use in unpredictable shooting situations - so let's hope for a firmware solution!

Typo, more like, probably used 1s instead of Is in the blog post.

Get saving!

http://www.hdwarrior.co.uk/2016/11/06/new-sony-fs7-11-no-price-yet/

On 11/5/2016 at 7:35 PM, Simon Shasha said:

Hi Mercer,

Yes, I did.

That was a great bit of work!

https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/davinci-resolve-fundamentals-power-windows-and-masking--ae-25585

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Creating-Masks/1

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/masking-tracking.html

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/technical/get_the_most_from_canon_log2_and_log3_with_your_4k_workflow_when_using_canon_cinema_eos.do?utm_source=newsletter_november_1_16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter

Hi @mercer - sorry for the delay. I've only just had a chance to look at the camera.

First off I have to thank you - while I was fiddling through the menus the lens unstuck itself, so I now don't have to get it fixed!

Unfortunately, except in HFR mode, there's no indication of framerate anywhere - however I found this on dpreview:

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No specifications list in the 200+ page manual, wow.... But sure enough, on p. 150 I had found what I was looking for. The European LX7 being sold in Europe shoots 50p, 50i, and 25p only. Not 24p, and definitely not 30p. 60p, and 60i. And like with the No. American version, you cannot record AVCHD at 24Mbit/sec either unless you are using the 50p overcranked frame rate. For the other AVCHDs, quality drops down to only 17Mbit/sec, so it is even lower than what you can get out of the camera in MPEG-4 codec mode (17Mbit in normal AVCHD versus 20Mbit in highest quality MPEG-4).

So that seems fairly conclusive.

https://***URL removed***/forums/post/50747107

Sorry not to be the bearer of better news. The video sure does look nice, though, even within the limitations of framerate and bitrate. I always shoot it at 1/50 and motion is as good as I'd expect from this kind of camera.

7 hours ago, Dan Wake said:

can you suggest good quality/cheap red heads to buy on internet please? I have seen some on amazon but its are too filmsy. thanks

Ianiro are the original redheads and are still competitively priced (http://www.ianirouk.com/categories.php?CategoryID=40) - even better if you can pick up a used kit on ebay!

Gotta say - I just bought (in August) a new 15 inch Macbook Pro, the one with the i7, 16GB/512GB plus AMD whatever and I was a bit worried I might have jumped the gun, but I actually think, what with the price rises, that what I got is probably better bang for the buck than waiting for the new line-up would have got me.

And it runs FCPX like an absolute dream!

1 hour ago, kaylee said:

i was in Julian the other day and i had apple pie with cheddar cheese on it

Only in America...

6 hours ago, kidzrevil said:

... or I will try the Fuji XT2.

Nice colours, but every clip I've seen from it has had horrible motion.

3 minutes ago, mercer said:

Does the LX7 have 24p? 

I'm about to go out trick-or-treating (groan!) with my 2 youngest, but I'll have a look this evening and get back to you.

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But I'm serious. I may look to one of the old Panasonic P&S cameras like the LX7... That little camera made some cool ass video in the mjpeg codec.

LX7 was the first video-capable camera I ever bought and is ultimately responsible for the GH4/FS700/XC10-sized holes in my bank account. I was (and still am) blown away by the quality of the video you can get from it - although a fair bit of the credit for that has to go to the 1.4 lens. You can still get them - I bought one for my daughter last Christmas as her first 'proper' camera - but they're fewer and further between. Mine, which has been our family camera of choice for outings etc for several years now, has a stuck lens at present that I'm hoping to get repaired.

Edit to add - and it has a 3 step ND built in!

I haven't done the festival thing - or yet made any movies of my own. I did, a long time ago, write a screenplay that was made into an internationally distributed (big screen) feature (it bombed). So one thing I would say is that if you are taking your feature script anywhere you definitely need what in the UK we call a selling synopsis. Basically getting your film onto a single sheet of A4 in a way that the reader can se what it is about the project that makes it deserve their money. No-one is going to read a full screenplay at an early stage so you need that elevator pitch on paper to even have the smallest chance of someone calling you a couple of days after the festival and wanting to chat.

So, @kidzrevil et al - inspired by recent chat here I'm thinking I'm going to buy a Black Pro Mist 2 or 3 and an Ultra Con 3, with a view to sending one of them back, probably. I've chosen the two because their seem to be 2 schools of thought about the best route to getting this look we're all crazy about - would you say these are the right two filters to start with?

Ouch!

25 minutes ago, hyalinejim said:

Some landscape shots from a country walk yesterday. 4K CLog ETTR at ISO 500 to 1000. FilmConvert Kodak 5213 Vis3. Very pleased with sky v foliage v skintone colour separation using FilmConvert on XC10 footage.

 

You've got to love that this is a camera that you can sling around your neck and look like Joe Tourist yet grab images of this depth and colour. When it came out the reviews were dire, yet everyone who has actually used it sings its praises to the ceiling. Canon - shitty marketing department, sensor department on steroids.