Tim Sewell

Wouldn't a colour space transform be the better approach? LUTs (unless really well made technical ones) tend to reduce dynamic range.

"Where do you sell/buy gear in Europe?"

I dangle it in front of @Andrew Reid!

Try MPB? You won't get as much as in a private sale, but you'll definitely get it! https://www.mpb.com/en-uk

Nice colours there, @ac6000cw! I wonder how a run through Topaz upscaling would look.

11 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

I'm not sure about fitting in the pocket

Potato Jet just about managed to get it in his cargo pants pocket.

It looks like fun, but the image and camera control is meh. Very much a consumer item.

Although I think a larger version with the sam - frankly rather amazing - autonomous capabilities could be very interesting for one-man docos etc.

1 hour ago, BTM_Pix said:

the lens on the FZ2000 at its longest end isn’t quite as sharp as the FZ1000,

I found it unusably soft - sent it back to MPB actually.

15 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

It is a legit excuse isn’t it Tim?

100% (but don't tell MrsSMW I said that).

3 hours ago, MrSMW said:

Could also be an option for stills if they wished to print a 3x life size version of themselves on the side of their house and a legit excuse for me to buy a Hassie X2D

Happy Days Are Here Again!

3 hours ago, IronFilm said:

It's criminal how little a FS7 sells for these days 😭😭😭

Yeah, but even if it only sells for the opening bid, I'll have made my money back on it!

Hi, UK-based EOSHDers. I have a bunch of stuff up on eBay (with more, especially LED lights coming next week).

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=145941180961&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=ti_sewel

I just got a FX30 last week and I'm finding the AF almost magical! Of course, this is the first camera I've had with anything close to state-of-the-art AF, but it's really revelatory how well it works.

This is the Kodak Vision3 500T variant, by the way.

Thanks. Lens was just the Sony 18-105 f4. I wasn't expecting to shoot any video that day, but the fog made it mandatory to do so!

I was bored so I put together some A6600 S-Log-3 footage I had hanging around from earlier this year and graded it with the help of Tom Bolles's new CinePrint 35 powergrade. I'm definitely liking the colours and he's simplified the node tree somewhat, making it a lot easier to tweak.

I'm off to the Cambridge folk festival next week with my 15 yr old and I'm going to be shooting a mini-doc focusing on why people love this nearly 50yr old festival so much, ie I won't be risking trouble by filming the big acts etc - more aiming for lots of vox pops and street-style imagery.

After a lot of thought I'm just taking my A6600, a couple of my Super Taks - probably the 20mm and the 55mm, together with a straight adapter and a focal length reducer. To go with it and allow me to have some control I'll be adding a 12 inch tube light and a magnetic little RBG, a 14 inch collapsible 5-in-1 reflector/diffuser, 2 little wireless lavs and a VideoMic. All needs to fit comfortably in my mid-size messenger bag. I may take my knock-off cinesaddle as it can double as a pillow in my tent and something to sit on while watching bands!

8 hours ago, bjohn said:

I forgot to mention that many digital mixers nowadays can record directly to a USB key or an SSD; I use the QSC Touchmix, which can do this. And as a bonus, it records the individual channels so you can remix in post. Not all mixers can do this, though, so it's not something you can count on being available.

Last band video I did the engineer did this for me but unfortunately for some reason there was a 3 second jump in the track. I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out what was going on, thinking something had gone wrong with my camera. After I'd covered it up and published the vid one of the band members congratulated me and told me there was a similar gap in every track.

Good points - thanks! If recording from the desk I'd expect to record an ambient mix as well as you want a bit of crowd noise anyway to keep the live feel. I think you're right in tems of a 32 bit solution for this.

This was A6600 on the wides and FS7 on the CUs. Sound was from a wireless shotgun into the FS7 - as you can hear - it clips at the loudest moments and as I was concentrating on operating I didn't have the bandwidth to ride the levels - so any suggestions from the hive mond?

I have this lens and it's a perfectly serviceable general purpose piece of glass that has the benefit of being super small!

43 minutes ago, mercer said:

If I remember correctly, didn't you used to have the Zeiss Flektogon 35mm 2.4? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Someone else, sadly.

I have the 20, 28, 35, 50 1.4, 55/2 and 135 3.5 in the Super Taks and I love them. Sadly I sold the 85 1.8 as I needed to free up some cash a couple of years ago and now I slightly bridle at paying GBP350 or so to get another!

8 minutes ago, mercer said:

I often read that you can also adapt almost any lens to these mirrorless cameras, but it seems that a lot of folks that say that, usually only shoot with native lenses.

Both are true. Just from my own limited experience - my EF-S 17-55 2.8 has worked well via adapters/focal length reducers, with functioning AF, on every Sony body I've used (FS700, FS5, A7R1, A6600) but is terrible compared to the inexpensive Sony 24-105 f4 - literally worlds apart. So if AF is important, it generally has to be native.

Personally I only use it for 'fun' shooting and for anything intentional use my Super Takumars, but even for the 'fun' stuff I want AF I can rely on.

56 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

It's damn hard to black out a house, yet often still an easier path than forcing people through a series of night shoots!

I only had to do the one room but yes - especially as I don't have stuff like speed rail etc and it was rather windy.

In fact, I was going to move on to blackout the back ground floor for the next sequence but by then it was just too windy so I had to black out inside and bounce my lights (shooting day for night) inside rather than having them outside.

Actually when my mate arrived to help he did comment that the neighbours might be experiencing a frisson of worry.

Front of my house on the day.

And yet Biden has achieved more bipartisan legislation than any president going back for decades. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, plus numerous programs and EOs combatting Climate Change, protecting equal marriage, reducing racial inequality etc etc. He's actually one of the most consequential presidents in living memory. It's frankly rather astonishing that he isn't a shoo-in in an election where his opponent is a three-time loser, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.