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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from gethin in Dirt cheap lights that are actually good   
    I recently acquired a Godox SL60W and a SL300W - both seem excellent VFM so far.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from kye in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    I would pay good money to see it!
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    Tim Sewell reacted to IronFilm in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    DPAF simply can not feel the emotion of a scene to tell the story like a 1st AC can. 
    A 1st AC has far more fine detail over control of the focus so he can express what the DoP/Director wants. 
     

    I can not recall the last time I was on a shoot that used AF.
    Guess sometime last year, perhaps?? Think there was a small corporate shoot I recall the cameraman using AF.
    Yes, there are people that use AF a lot, but you can't deny there is a huge amount of work being done that never even thinks to use AF. As not even Canon DPAF is optimal. 

     
     

    "Upstream Color" was referenced to illustrate how MFT can do ridiculous levels of shallow DoF. 

    There is no level of DoF in Jaws that MFT couldn't do if you so wished. 
     
    He could even be an Egyptian dentistry student. 

    Or his grandfather?
     
    Thank you. I'm not hiding anything, I'm easy to find/stalk!

     
      

    Thank you :-) Although I am indeed "that audio guy"! haha
    But also, I think I'm a bit more than "just an audio guy", am probably the most camera nerdy soundie there is. 

    And just to be clear, I carry no ill will or animosity towards you! (or anybody else on this forum)
    Hopefully you can see I'm just very robustly debating the topic/facts/opinions, and not attacking (or at least, I hope not!) the person themselves. 

     
      
    liftgammagain is like jwsoundgroup, in that the vast vast majority of the active users there are full time professionals with years and years of experience behind them. (except, one is colorists, and the other is production sound mixers)

    Reckon that is why they have the tone each do in their forums. 
      
    Not sure I'd agree with that, I'd say for your average joe run of the mill working crew member on a film set who is making a good living, then having excellent social skills ranks quite highly. And you should aspire to being as friendly/agreeable/sociable as possible, and not an anti social intolerable asshole. Because networking is key in this industry.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from IronFilm in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    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.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from Emanuel in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    I would pay good money to see it!
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from kye in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    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.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Andrew Reid in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    Logged on and what do I see
    Yes another topic waylaid by Super8 causing arguments
    If you keep it up, I will have to do what's best for the forum as an informative tool for filmmakers. And you know what that means.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to newfoundmass in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    Yeah, Facebook proves people are willing to be as awful under their real names as they are under aliases. 
    Though I do think when someone is being condescending to others and acting as though their experience is more significant/important than others, they should be compelled to show who they are and what they've done, otherwise they're just denigrating others work and experience while hiding behind anonymity. 
    It's not too difficult to see @IronFilm's work/experience, as I subscribe to his YouTube and see him active on Facebook groups, so seeing someone diminish his knowledge and experience by just calling him "an audio guy" really kinda ticks me off. 
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from noone in Lens owning plans for 2020   
    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!
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from heart0less in Lens owning plans for 2020   
    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!
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from IronFilm in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    "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.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from ac6000cw in A new industry standard: Fully controlled reviewers   
    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.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from noone in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    "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.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to noone in Olympus sells Imaging Business   
    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.
     Makers will also take longer to put out new stuff at the lower end to keep it cheaper or have to put up prices  and either way, phones (or devices that have both a phone and camera in them more like) which will just be on an even faster track comparatively.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Andrew Reid in A new industry standard: Fully controlled reviewers   
    Tim, there is nothing wrong with tasteful and honest advertising.
    The problem comes when you mix the editorial with the advertising.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from Emanuel in A new industry standard: Fully controlled reviewers   
    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.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Alt Shoo in JVC GYLS300 In 2019   
    @IronFilm I definitely agree with you on a wait and see approach with the Komodo, but I believe global shutters are just going to get better with the proper development behind it. With companies like RED pushing this technology, it’ll certainly invite other big manufacturers to enter the foray. 
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from JordanWright in Lenses   
    This may help - in the second half of the video he demonstrates changing the mount (and de-clicking): youtube.com/watch?v=EUjUxKvXgpw
     
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from filmmakereu in Sojourn   
    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!
     
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Femi in Sojourn   
    Nice work! Very calming to watch
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    Tim Sewell reacted to rawshooter in Anyone heard of Softy Lite?   
    Their website is from 2014, and their webshop is dysfunctional - so I'd expect them to be old tech...  Quality of LED lights (particularly color rendition) has dramatically improved in the last couple of years, so I wouldn't buy an old light.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to kye in Sojourn   
    Nice work on your edit.  The image holds up quite well, and the music was definitely a good choice  
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from kye in Sojourn   
    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!
     
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    Tim Sewell reacted to canonlyme in GX80 in 2020? Graded AVCHD 24mbit 24p 28mbit 60p!   
    I know this is probably not anywhere close to the real quality, but if anyone wants to watch the video on a phone i shared it on instagram. Feel free to have a look or if you want high quality screengrabs tell me or alternatively I can upload it to vimeo. 


     
     
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Juank in Cheap, punchy RGBs   
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