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    BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    If you don't want that prick talking about it and the price going up why have you plastered the video all over this forum?
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    BenEricson reacted to Caleb Genheimer in Anamorphic on 16mm Film   
    Kodak Atlanta are the lab I’ll use if I have a choice, yeah. This had to be developed and scanned by Pro8mm at the time, KFLATL were closed down because of COVID restrictions. They did a good job, but Kodak’s scans are just a hair more crisp. 
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    BenEricson reacted to sanveer in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    Thanks @Andrew Reid and @Anaconda_
    The Menu is extremely clean, and the screen appears Larger and more Square than regular LCDs.
    I guess the next level of ILC Video wars is beginning. It's almost feels like GH5 announcement 3.5 years back. 
    I guess once the Sony 7Siii specs are announced, too, people may start feeling the full thrill.
    It's Video ILC love in the time of Corona. 
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    BenEricson got a reaction from heart0less in Anamorphic on 16mm Film   
    Looks really nice. Cool to see more people on this forum shooting 16mm. Have you tried Kodak Film Lab Atlanta? Their rates and turn around time are the best I have found.
    Exactly. I shot this on the Bolex Rex 4. If you get high quality scans and treat it right in post, it'll be close to what those bigger cameras can do. Bolex is kind of like the DSLR of the film cameras.  I really love the internal NDs and simplicity of the camera. I think for solo type shooting, it is a really good option. 
     
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    BenEricson got a reaction from HockeyFan12 in Anamorphic on 16mm Film   
    Looks really nice. Cool to see more people on this forum shooting 16mm. Have you tried Kodak Film Lab Atlanta? Their rates and turn around time are the best I have found.
    Exactly. I shot this on the Bolex Rex 4. If you get high quality scans and treat it right in post, it'll be close to what those bigger cameras can do. Bolex is kind of like the DSLR of the film cameras.  I really love the internal NDs and simplicity of the camera. I think for solo type shooting, it is a really good option. 
     
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    BenEricson reacted to Caleb Genheimer in Anamorphic on 16mm Film   
    Taking lens was Navitron 25mm f0.95, mostly around f2-2.8. 
     
    I’ll preach 1.75X on 16mm until the day I die. The camera-to-dollar ratio on regular-16 versus super-16 bodies is kinda ridiculous. I just bought the absolute top quality 1.75X adapter (Kowa Inflight), and I have a crystal sync sound camera with coaxial mags and a color video tap... still all for cheaper than a S16 SR-2. 
     
    That’s the REAL beauty of film. There’s no sensor difference between bodies, it’s all in the film stock. Would I absolutely love a 416, an SR-3 Highspeed, or even an XTR Prod? Absolutely and maybe some day. But if I don’t tell you what camera I shot on, can you even tell? Not really. 
     
    There’s a lot of great glass out there too for cheaper simply because it’s not a PL mount body. I can get some classic Cooke and Angenieux glass in Eclair’s CA-1 mount or even in Arri STD. And C-Mount? Perfect for 16mm and very adaptable.
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    BenEricson reacted to Oliver Daniel in RED Komodo   
    That’s a bit sad. Some RED owners unfortunately act like they are part of some elitist cult. On the whole they don’t take criticism lightly. It’s the audience that counts, not the damn camera. 
    Although they’ve created a weird vibe about it recently, Komodo is interesting for sure. 
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    BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in Fuji H.265 vs Blackmagic Pocket 4K ProRes 422   
    I am about to start a big comparison between the Blackmagic Pocket 4K ProRes and H.265 on the Fuji cameras.
    Let's see who comes out on top.
    If it is the Fuji then maybe we can stop caring so much about our 7 year wait for ProRes on Japanese cameras.
    I have wished for so long that they'd do some form of Apple ProRes internally... surely a nice company like Apple would license if asked. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (original) cost what, $1k? So it can't be that expensive to license ProRes!
    And RAW is great but not practical for most.
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    BenEricson reacted to TheRenaissanceMan in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    A few more for the road. Damn does the F3 grade well.






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    BenEricson reacted to TheRenaissanceMan in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    Stills from some past F3 projects, all with Leica R's and the 5" Video Assist. Such a remarkable camera: lovely to use, easy to grade, solid in low light, lots of dynamic range...for the money I paid, it's earned its keep 50 times over.
     
     












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    BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in Sigma Fp review and interview / Cinema DNG RAW   
    Is it coronavirus?
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    BenEricson got a reaction from austinchimp in My love/hate relationship with the XC10 and grading the C-Log files that I shot   
    Exactly. The exposure needs to be motivated. It is difficult to force shots that don't exist, especially if you're trying to match contrast through out an entire piece. This is why shooting log footage without a LUT gets confusing.
    Different colors will appear differently depending on how they are exposed, obviously. The Canon, Red, and Arri all make sure green hold saturation even at the top of the image. All the LUTS you will use are probably balanced for a more standard exposure. If you're doing things like pushing highlights and extreme ETTR, you'll run into problems with saturation on certain colors.
    Looking at your frames makes me want one of these cameras again. I really love how the footage looks. I owned one 3 years ago. I remember I messed with some of the baked in profiles, those looked really nice as well. Maybe Production Standard? I can't remember. I use the C300 Mk2 now so I get them mixed up. The color seemed a bit thicker than if I shot C-LOG and tried to match what a baked in profile was giving me.
    You can do a lot in post with those files but you need to know what you want to do when you get into the edit. With the violinist,  I would assume you'd want to compensate for the under exposure and then maybe throw some sort of "power windows" or gradient exposure on the clouds to keep some of that beautiful blue sky and green trees.
    With the portrait test shot / you're essentially exposing for the shadows because of how the light is hitting you. If you opened up to your left slightly and had a bit of diffusion, you could drop the whole image down by a few stops and get a more rich / darker background. As is, the light is kind of a back light / side light.
    Here is what I came up with on the two frames. I don't have resolve, this is just Magic Bullet Looks in Premiere Pro. I don't have a color checker, but your WB is great so it's not that difficult to just level it out and tweak a few color with the HSL sliders. I did my best to try to match the two frame just for fun.
     


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    BenEricson reacted to kye in The Resolve / Colour Grading resource thread   
    Cool video and solid technique.
    The biggest thing I have taken away from the professional colourists is that they have have mastered the basics, and most of the time they don't do anything fancy and don't have to.  They typically only have to get fancy when there were issues with how something was shot and they have to correct problems, so that completely lines up with that video, where the DP does basics to check they haven't stuffed things up.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from mercer in My love/hate relationship with the XC10 and grading the C-Log files that I shot   
    Exactly. The exposure needs to be motivated. It is difficult to force shots that don't exist, especially if you're trying to match contrast through out an entire piece. This is why shooting log footage without a LUT gets confusing.
    Different colors will appear differently depending on how they are exposed, obviously. The Canon, Red, and Arri all make sure green hold saturation even at the top of the image. All the LUTS you will use are probably balanced for a more standard exposure. If you're doing things like pushing highlights and extreme ETTR, you'll run into problems with saturation on certain colors.
    Looking at your frames makes me want one of these cameras again. I really love how the footage looks. I owned one 3 years ago. I remember I messed with some of the baked in profiles, those looked really nice as well. Maybe Production Standard? I can't remember. I use the C300 Mk2 now so I get them mixed up. The color seemed a bit thicker than if I shot C-LOG and tried to match what a baked in profile was giving me.
    You can do a lot in post with those files but you need to know what you want to do when you get into the edit. With the violinist,  I would assume you'd want to compensate for the under exposure and then maybe throw some sort of "power windows" or gradient exposure on the clouds to keep some of that beautiful blue sky and green trees.
    With the portrait test shot / you're essentially exposing for the shadows because of how the light is hitting you. If you opened up to your left slightly and had a bit of diffusion, you could drop the whole image down by a few stops and get a more rich / darker background. As is, the light is kind of a back light / side light.
    Here is what I came up with on the two frames. I don't have resolve, this is just Magic Bullet Looks in Premiere Pro. I don't have a color checker, but your WB is great so it's not that difficult to just level it out and tweak a few color with the HSL sliders. I did my best to try to match the two frame just for fun.
     


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    BenEricson reacted to tweak in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    True that.

    Your other work on the BMPCC looks really good as well. I've been shooting super 8 a bit and I have to agree, it's very easy to grade. I'm trying to get my 16mm setup dialled in so I can shoot something more proper, your work is good inspiration for me, there's something there that just makes you want to do it.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from PannySVHS in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    I really enjoyed using this setup. I work for a studio that has a pair of the C300 Mk2s and I really got used to having something that was really compact and easy to use. I should have shot more projects with this camera. 
    I could run the camera and monitor for around 2 hours from one Swit battery. I would love to see this camera with some Leica Rs or high quality PL glass.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from tweak in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    Yeah, I mean a camera is a camera. The F3 is a lot easier to get to a nice point color wise though. A bmpcc 4k or something can look good in the right hands as well, it just takes a lot more post work / experience in my opinion. Flat film scans are probably the easiest format to grade.
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    BenEricson reacted to tweak in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    Funny you say that, because I could see some bits were actually shot on 16mm (sharpness and motion), it just looked like that other stuff was fake over lays haha, my apology's. 

    You're right though, the two match really really well, I haven't seen digital matched to 16mm as well as that, especially not in a skate video. Maybe you shouldn't have sold that camera (or maybe you just know what you are doing, in which case you'll be fine with another camera).
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    BenEricson got a reaction from tweak in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    Thank you! That's actually all real 16mm film shot on Bolex! I suppose this just shows how much of a film look the F3 has. I had to tone the 16mm down a bit to match.
    I've done a bunch of projects on 16mm but a traditional skate project like this is not feasible to do all on film. If you're curious, you can poke around my Vimeo. 
    https://vimeo.com/benericson
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    BenEricson got a reaction from tweak in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    I really enjoyed using this setup. I work for a studio that has a pair of the C300 Mk2s and I really got used to having something that was really compact and easy to use. I should have shot more projects with this camera. 
    I could run the camera and monitor for around 2 hours from one Swit battery. I would love to see this camera with some Leica Rs or high quality PL glass.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from kaylee in Self financed $700k sci-fi movie   
    Amazon. They pay well. Bezos wants to sell more shoes.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from IronFilm in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    I really enjoyed using this setup. I work for a studio that has a pair of the C300 Mk2s and I really got used to having something that was really compact and easy to use. I should have shot more projects with this camera. 
    I could run the camera and monitor for around 2 hours from one Swit battery. I would love to see this camera with some Leica Rs or high quality PL glass.
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    BenEricson got a reaction from Hannes Famira in Sony PMW-F3 with 2500 hours on it. Should I buy it?   
    It does 60p, you just need the 7Q recorder. The 444 model does 60p to the black magic video assist tho.
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    BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in Forum rules: No links to Cinema5D, DPReview, Nofilmschool   
    It's time to take a stand.
    DPReview for the umpteenth time refuse to lift the blanket ban on EOSHD URLs on the forum, so I am going to do the same. No DPReview links are welcome on this forum and they'll be deactivated automatically. Of course you are still free to discuss their articles, but I don't see why I should drive their traffic while they do their best to shut me out and censor their own forum users.
    To be honest it'll be no great loss if you didn't discuss their articles, in my opinion.
    Now the same goes with Cinema5D because I disagree fundamentally with the ethics of those who run the site.
    They have been absolute horrors towards EOSHD and never supported my presence as a rival from day one. They deleted their user's DSLR community, tossed an entire forum in the trash. Remember this and please don't draw attention to their articles which are in my opinion, blatantly misleading biased reviews, like with the 1D X Mark III rolling shutter situation and the hatchet job on the GH5 when that came out. You can get your info directly from me here instead so you don't need them anyway.
    Nofilmschool are banned for same reasons due to my view of their editorial and business ethics.
    With Nofilmschool this is also a zero loss. I don't think there's been a mention of them for years. Who reads that exercise in SEO any more?
    Please appreciate, that my appeal to all of you in this forum is....Choose your sources with thought and care!!
    This forum should be good quality info.
    I don't want it to become an aggregate of misinformation and a place to bookmark YouTube clickbait, page after page.
    Best of all, let's create our own content. We all have a camera. Let's test it, shoot with it, compare it. And lenses too, and software, and computers!
    There are so many good people out there doing superb cinematic work and camera reviews.
    Let's draw attention to them instead.
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    BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in Andrew Reset My Rep 😂   
    Yes snow bro I am enlightened now. A sudden new dawn of self reflection is upon me as a result of your wisdom.
    I have chosen to be that dude you aspire to be.
    That dude did it in politics and now says whatever he wants lol
    Before now I was severely limiting myself. But now I can now say what I want, do what I want, even grab a pussy if I want.
    I embody your values now. Wonderful isn't it.
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