BenEricson
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BenEricson reacted to webrunner5 in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
We surely didn't think we were going to get an Arri Alexa build quality, specs wise for 1300 bucks including Studio Resolve did we LoL.
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BenEricson reacted to jgharding in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
God I hate all this "TACTICAL ASSAULT ARMOUR" bro marketing stuff, I'm sure it's a great product, but Red style MONSTER ENERGY WOOOOOOO HIGH FIVE TRIBAL TATTOS marketing puts me of
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BenEricson reacted to Castorp in New iPad Pro as External Monitor?
Would love a future setup where one could use the Mac Mini, with keyboard and mouse and the iPad Pro as screen.
Can’t wait for the day when I can switch to using an iPad as my main computer. Right now it feels like the inability to use external hard drives is the main hindrance.
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BenEricson reacted to Stefan Antonescu in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Looks really good, love the vintage feel.
Out of curiosity, why did you choose to shoot with the Pocket 4K and Gemini instead of just one camera ? More coverage?
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BenEricson reacted to sanveer in Panasonic announces 8k Camera system with Organic Sensor
This sensor has been in development since the time of Adam and Eve. And probably won't be ready before judgment day. ???
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BenEricson reacted to Cas1 in Happy halloween - Europe to introduce Article 13 - Making filming and photography in public illegal
Loosing 'rights' every day,
Under cultural attack every day,
Being told I'm guilty of the worlds 'problems' every day,
Forced to paying taxes to fund all this propaganda,
Such is my life as a white male in our place of origin, Europe.
We're at the most technological amazing time, why do we let this get messed up?
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BenEricson got a reaction from JeremyDulac in I am leaving Vimeo over their scandalous DMCA policy
I’m surprised so many professionals use copyrighted songs... ?
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BenEricson reacted to Andrew Reid in I am leaving Vimeo over their scandalous DMCA policy
It's not that simple dummy.
I won't bother repeating what I wrote in the article a second time. It was clearly lost on you the first time.
You probably haven't got the talent to match music to images so you'll probably not understand what's at stake. Like freedom of speech there is such a thing of freedom of artistic expression, if I wanted to set some cinematography to a Pink Floyd track in the privacy of my own edit suite at home, and not release it, I am free to do that. So yes, pros do use copyrighted songs. It is when sharing the results with friends and followers where the problem is, because in order to do that in the age of the internet some form of 'publishing' has to happen and anyone can view it. You are not using it commercially, it's just for fun. Other pros have done it all the time, like Philip Bloom before the music bed, it's been very common and you Ben seem to ignore all the other issues and grey areas as well in an attempt to vote against your own artistic freedom out of some dumb attempt to simplify the subject down to either right or wrong, black or white. You are an 8bit binary thinker. You are worse than a GIF. If you were a codec, you'd be AVCHD.
I was recruited by the DJ Paul Van Dyk once and he wanted to use my footage over his music. Boot on the other foot. I said yes. If artists don't share, they don't create anything. Not everything has to be about money or paying for a license.
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BenEricson got a reaction from Scott_W in I am leaving Vimeo over their scandalous DMCA policy
I’m surprised so many professionals use copyrighted songs... ?
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BenEricson reacted to Inazuma in I am leaving Vimeo over their scandalous DMCA policy
Why is everything a scandal with you?
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BenEricson reacted to helium in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
This thread is aggravating enough to revive the dead.... You do realize you're grading a grade, not camera original? There's no way to know how much original highlight detail was in the shots, because current levels are baked in. It's like trying to grade a bluray and concluding that 35mm stinks, because you can't push the highlights without clipping.
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BenEricson reacted to Jim Giberti in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
I've been impressed at how much I've been able to lift the blacks and mids with no noise on a number of challenging scenes.
One shoot was brilliant bright fall light streaming through an autumn canopy for an all day mountain bike segment.
The light and contrast changed constantly with no time to adjust even with a couple of grips with bounces.
Bottom line, I don't even think about ETTR with this. It's a totally different image/negative.
Very clean very gradeable - and all we've shot so far is in ProRes HQ UHD.
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BenEricson reacted to KnightsFan in Global shutter M-mount camera announced with eye-opening smartphone "hotlink"
Global shutter is the future I want. It's always nice to see progress in that area.
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BenEricson reacted to Ben Corwin in Global shutter M-mount camera announced with eye-opening smartphone "hotlink"
Come on Andrew... commenting on EVERYTHING except the Black Magic 4K Pocket? I hate to say it, but you are quickly becoming irrelevant. It's a massive bummer because I've been such a big fan of this site over the years.
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BenEricson got a reaction from webrunner5 in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Agreed. I haven’t seen any RAW from the P4K that looks better than even the 1080p ProRes from the old pocket. ?
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BenEricson reacted to tonysss in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Thank you, the sample DNG already contains high cliping, left down in those lights, any manipulation with ISO will no longer help with this overexposure.
The dynamic range is definitely worse than the old pocket and, unfortunately, the colors, I have been doing a lot of adjusting DNG and ProRes from my old pocket for a long time so I know what it can do. that color noise in the shadows is unpleasant.
The colors are much worse than the old pocket! it helped me in that I definitely will not sell the old pocket ? Thank you.
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BenEricson got a reaction from webrunner5 in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Better looking footage than any of the BMPCC4K I have seen.
I recently rebought the pocket as well. You need an external battery and the IR Cut filter, but once outfitted, the camera is really excellent.
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BenEricson reacted to webrunner5 in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Great footage by the way. They are an amazing camera no doubt. I am sure in the right hands the PK4 can be also.
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BenEricson reacted to tonysss in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
exactly the opposite ? I bought BMPCC recently and I prefer it before my GH5 for DR and Color
BMPCC for shooting people document, music video, film (BMPCC will not forgive you, you have to learn the filmmaking craft, nothing slowmo YEP ?
last work https://youtu.be/Pk_Qyuy_r5M
I use GH5 for shooting event, wedding, (Run&Gun situation)
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BenEricson got a reaction from jonpais in Film is Make-Believe
So much better than the BMP4K thread. This was great.
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BenEricson reacted to Turboguard in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
I’ve done commercials with BMD cameras and Software that A LOT of people have seen, a lot more people than the people writing and viewing this thread, did I get a free camera? Can we put this shit behind us?
I have P4K, T5 and 5 LPE6 at the moment. Probably rounded up to say 1800
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BenEricson got a reaction from andrgl in Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Sure, but we’re talking about this camera and those highlights don’t look so nice. The original frame was posted to rave about the DR. I don’t see it.
I am fairly certain that even a c100 in log would handle that better.