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  1. I have used MF still cameras since 1984 ... lots of Hasselblad Mamiya 7 ... traded out of dozens of lenses and bodies

    for my first MF digital with the H2D and a Phase 20 back. Moved to the H3D 39 II .... Leica S2-P ... Leica S006. Lost 

    money every iteration of the cameras and lenses. Video ... Sony EX1R to a Red One to RED Epic ... could have dried my hair with

    the fan on that one ... Honestly enjoyed my hacked GH2 and small lenses better ... but that may have been that I did not have a 

    5K monitor and everything looked somewhat similar ... I now review my old Epic files on the Dell 5K and wish it were still here.

    DOF is one element that must be used with an end in sight regarding presentation ... just traded the Leica Noctilux as it had

    such small DOF and wild bokeh that I would get dizzy reviewing the files when processing them in LR/PS. I much prefer the 

    50 LUX/50 Apo presentation.

    The H6D is not that different from my H3D 39 II and I cannot imagine anyone messing with it for video ... 

    Truth is everyone wants to present themselves as unique ... whoever does this with the H6D-100 will work for their money.

    Just sayin' 

     

    Bob

  2. 2 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

    Plus it has Raw, yeah Raw MF output. That is a huge thing, no pun intended.

    4K is not MF ... and JCS is right ... put a Noctilux on a FF A7S II in 4K mode and your depth of field will be 

    so shallow that nothing will be in focus ... for long.

    Give me the Leica SL and a couple of Leica C Summicron lenses ....

    http://www.madeinwetzlar.com/filming-with-the-leica-sl-summicron-c-lenses

    Nothing against Hasselblad ... although I passed on a pre-ordered X1D ... GH5 and a Leica Monochrome

    instead. Their lenses ... other than the HC 100 lack much character or mojo ... really sharp but bokeh and

    cinematic feel lacking.

    RAW is compelling but if the underlying color science is close ... not that big of a deal. 

    Bob

  3. I am continually amazed at the lack of congeniality that is exhibited on this forum.

    Ad hominem attack is the standard of the day ... disagree with me and I will make you look so low, so incompetent ...

    Really guys it is all marketing ... find a platform that works for you ... shut your mouth and show your output.

    Ideally if we were all sitting in a pub ... talking then the interchange would be perhaps a bit more civil. Should

    be the same here ... 

    Started with CPM moved to DOS then to Apple then to Windows then to Unix then to Windows then to Mac OS ....

    It is all a window painted onto the reality of the hardware ... nothing more. You like Tomatoe I like tomatoh

    But to assume you are my better because of your hardware ... knowledge ... sensibilities ... 

    Would love to see a mature discourse on this site that did not degenerate into an immature attack that does nothing to

    advance the knowledge of those who hope to be informed not entertained.

    Just sayin ...

    Bob

  4. Perhaps NEW MAC: SLEEK ... etc.

    Mine is big has 4 internal bays with Fujitsu enterprise drives plus two optical bays now populated with SSD drives ... eight memory slots ... three fans ...

    27 inch Dell 5K monitor and two external RAID arrays. Last of the MACs that could be loaded and I am hopeful that they will bring another one in

    a year as this one is running 15 hours a day ... going on 6 years. Every time there is a system update I have to put an older video card with Mac BIOS

    in just to configure it with a new nVidia driver.

    Runs hot and when I am processing video sounds like a drone is circling the ceiling of the room.

    My office runs about 4 degrees warmer than the rest of the house in summer ... wish I could mount it in a closet but none close enough. 

    So hoping 2018 brings back a professional machine.

     

    Bob

  5. 4K 10bit 150 Mb MOV files read natively in Resolve 12.5 Studio ... a bit slower than CDNG to process when encoding to H.264 or ProRes HQ but 

    had no problem with 40 minutes of files ....

    I posted this 4K to HD example in another thread on GH5 test footage ...

     

     

    Bob

  6. 6 hours ago, IronFilm said:

    You can:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange_focal_distance
    46.50mm vs 44.50mm (EF is 44.00mm)

    Although, hmmmm..... maybe that half mm difference is why EF adapters exist but not Alpha Mount adapters:
    http://www.ebay.com/sch/Lenses-Filters/78997/i.html?_sop=15&_from=R40&_nkw=nikon+sony+mount+adapter

    But quite reasonable given the number of products Nikon has and their general life cycle. 

    Very optimistically speaking we might see one of D750 or D810 upgraded before the end of the year. But more likely both will happen next year. 

    One and one half millimeters is not enough to support much weight ... so the Leitax conversion is the only route ... and it works well. 

    http://leitax.com/Voigtlander-lens-for-Sony-cameras.html

    docmoore

  7. Lenses:

     

    Any Leica lens will work ... at some point. Presently T and M and R lenses via the T adapter. Soon S lenses with AF?!

    Any lens adapted to the M series will work with dual adapters ... looks like singles coming down the road ... so Nikon mount.

    Pentax 67 via new S adapter or the Nikon to M to T adapters.

    PL mount coming soon ... shown when the camera was announced.

     

    BH Lists coming adapters :

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Camera+Fitting+(Male)_Leica+T&ci=3420&N=4077634486+3934378023

     

    Bob

  8.  Scarlet Dragon checks alot of boxes.

    As long as the fan noise is acceptable it is a very nice camera ... not small and definitely going to necessitate a lot of add ons but 

    all that resolution and frame rates are great. 

     

    Bob

  9.  

    When we talk about that cinematic comes from proper lighting, composing,etc... and not so much the gear it's because in color these differences between poor and good carft don't stand out that much (if they would stand out that much we wouldn't be talking about it and take it for granted), in black and white it's more obvious. You need to have a wide range of tonalities, proper lighting, proper blacks, highlights in the right place, faces have to be in the very right spot of exposure and eyes need the white specular point, if they don't have it people will look dead (this is true always, but repeating it again, in black and white it's obligatory).

     

    If you have a true monocrome sensor you can use color filters, they will be part of the "lighting".

    I shot the video with a B&W MRC Yellow Filter to give a bit more separation and contrast.

     

    Bob

     

    The problem the Lieca M solves is getting a full-spectrum brightness at each pixel, in contrast to the bayer sensor which samples either R,G,B at each pxiel.  However, when a bayer downsamples 4 pixels, it has the same information as 1 pixel in the M.  Therefore, the real advantage of the M is getting HIGH RESOLUTION black and white images without spectrum distortions, essentially.  Using the M as a video camera, which must sample down to 2K, gives it no real advantages.  Indeed, the footage shot looks very soft to me.  

    Taking photos and putting them into a film would have given much better results. Video compression favors motion over single image IQ.  

    You might do another video where you compile it from photso taken.  I'd love to see it!

    The lens ... VC 35 1.4 SC is an older design with single coating on the element to give it a fairly low contrast look .... the video was shot at F4 and a lot of the softness is due to the restricted DOF with the FF sensor. Yes the sensor is stellar for single photos and loses a bit as video but the dynamic range persists. I added no sharpening in post as I thought that the look seemed fairly organic and did not border on the brittle look that reflects oversharp artifacts. 

    This was a 10 minute deal after 3 straight days of constant rain and just a trial of the camera in video mode. 

    I hope to put my Wooden Camera cage on it in order to mount it to my video tripod and use a few different lenses ... 55 and 85 Otus and Rich's DSO FF 38 58 88 for sharpness and flare effects. I am a bit disappointed that I do not have a HDMI out on the camera although I was surprised at how sensitive the internal mic is.

    I may get a chance to try single shot photos into film and am sure that the native resolution of the sensor will be better seen there.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Bob 

  10. No it is a FF mono sensor without a Bayer array ... in the M Type 246 a CMOS 24 mp sensor ... no HDMI on camera so internal

    capture to SD card. Much better than I hoped for ... internal mono mic but very sensitive ... you can add a stereo mic to the hotshoe

    but I will probably run an external recorder and sync when it is critical.

    My next test will be with Zeiss Oti lenses on adapters .

     

    Bob

  11. Shooting 23.98 in a country with 50hz power supply will not work as you have discovered if there is any light powered by the 50hz mains ....

    just the small shift to 25 eliminates the flickering. Conforming after the fact will not eliminate the flicker as it has been captured and I assume

    will still show up ... Should you shoot outside with daylight any standard will work. I assume that shutter angle C-scan or any other approach

    will leave you with a residual flicker .... now shooting at 25 and conforming to 23.98 would allow you to capture non-flickering video and render it 

    cleanly. The standards were set through the discovery of the problem and the solution is fairly set ... as neither the EU nor the American system will

    conform to the other system's standard.

     

    Bob

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