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This is probably a dumb question, but I am pretty ignorant when it comes to external recorders... If I were to use a D5500 with the Ninja, can you still utilize the flat profile of the D5500, or is every camera setting bypassed by the Ninja? Also, how is the audio recording in the Ninja, is it usable at all?

I was going to suggest he speak with you, but I didn't want to volunteer you for something. Quick question though, I recently declicked a zeiss Jena 50mm, the newer black version and it was pretty straightforward. After that success, I attempted to declick an older version that had a spring system. I was able to fix the aperture but not declick it. I recently picked up the zebra 20mm f4 for a steal, but the aperture doesn't work. I don't want to take the mount off and have the spring pop, if there is one, do you know?

No conspiracy, just common union tactics.

I'm sorry but, to me, that seemed extremely staged. One guy looked like he was reading from cue cards. The fact remains that workers have the right to unionize, I just feel the timing of the expose' and the union organization is a little too convenient. I hope it works out for all parties. But to be honest, there is not enough evidence yet that will keep me from shopping there.

Taking the easy route to what?

This is union muckraking, and I'm sorry, but anyone who doesn't see through this is stupid. This is the 21st Century US, not 40's Nazi Germany or behind the Iron Curtain. If the job is less than safe, then quit. They're not being forced to work there. Why weren't they reported to OSHA for their allegedly poor safety practices?I'm sorry but the timing of this expose' and the timing of the unionization of the BH workers are just too close to be called coincidental. And this nonsense that they aren't allowed to go to the bathroom... If you work a job that won't let you poop when you have to poop and you comply to their no pooping on the job policy... Then... You probably deserve to work that job. EDIT: I apologize "stupid" is a strong word, I should have said misinformed or naive.

I was one or two of those 43 views on the eos-m video. Great stuff. I just recently uploaded ML onto my eos-m and have been having a blast with it... Even though it infuriates me almost every 5 and a half minutes.

I have been using 3.0 CBR and it doesn't stay constant, or I am just trusting their figures too much. Either way it does look better. I have been using a 64gb Transcend and it's only stopped recording, maybe 5 times out of the 50 or 60 clips I took with it. I also have been using the 3x crop and I will say, it definitely cures the canon of the dreaded moire and aliasing. With the eos-m, I think TL is unsupported and the two merged together. I'll have to check out Visioncolor. Do you need the eos utility software to load it onto the camera? Btw, what's the encoder?

@Liam do you up the bitrate in magic lantern? If so, do you find it fluctuates a lot? I was shooting a few shots the other day and the bitrate would bounce between 35 and 65 and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. Same question to @ZachGoodwin I know you are well versed in ML.

Dang, as I'm sure you know, in screenwriting, a page equals a minute of screen time. So, if you have 5 pages for 24 minutes, with another 10 pages of script, you'd have a short, 72 minute feature. And yes, it's a thankless, lonely process. With the short I have up in the screening room, I think I bored my girlfriend to death making her rewatch the most minute of changes. And screenplays are even worse, you spend hundreds of hours working on a script and when it's done, you send it off to some contests, or ask some friends or family to read it and then maybe in a few months you'll hear from the contest, or maybe a friend will say... "I liked it," or "I haven't gotten to it yet." At times it seems like an arbitrary exercise of masochism.

Yeah that looks great too. It has an isolated feel to the color tone, or at least that's the mood I got from it. I love the BMPCC... If only I could get my stupid NX500 to look like that. Btw, I forgot to mention before... I really liked the shot of your lead running in the snow, the contrast of her black running gear with the white snow is great. I assume that's a piece of a longer opening? And yeah that Sigma is a nice lens!!! But what I liked about the trailer, is it felt like I could be watching a trailer for a feature, and it seems, from what I saw, you have all the ingredients to expand it. Great location, good actors, good equipment (I'm a big fan of practical lighting as well) and an isolated, contained thriller plot. Looking forward to seeing the finished short!

It looks great. Suspenseful. From what I saw, the acting looks pretty good. I agree that maybe it could be a little longer, but all in all good job. I actually like the color the way it is. What camera did you shoot this on?

This whole story smells fishy. If it is soo horrible, then don't work there. They aren't slaves. The part that made me question them is the stacks of pallets bit... An electronics pallet is probably 5 feet tall, so 3 high sounds like normal practice to me. And then they speak of not being trained... It sounds like union rhetoric. As if B&H, one of the largest camera stores in America is going to allow untrained fork lift drivers barreling around millions of dollars of fragile merchandise.

I just recently started using the waveform in Color Finale and it seems great, but I am yet to truly utilize all it's functions. For instance I thought lift gamma and gain did control my highs mids and lows, but from you explanation, it seems there is more to it than just that? Back to tutorials.

@Sekhar do you use waveforms or other scopes when you adjust your highs and lows, and do you use curves or wheels?

Honestly, I'm not here to dissect how your mind works. I wish you good luck with this lens, and that whole college thing, and maybe there was a good lesson learned. Life isn't about the mistakes you make, it's about how you react towards your mistakes.

The contest was for a Gin company, the moral of this tale is that Gin brings people together and can cure the last man on earth of his loneliness. The short was shot well, the story was told well. What's not to like? Sure, maybe it can be a little tighter in spots, but all in all it is a successful piece.

Nope. It was sad when he didn't know any better and the seller led him to believe it would work on his t2i. From that point on he received well informed advice, but he still wanted to give it a shot... Okay youth and all. It was then sad again when he received the lens and it didn't work. At that point, he should have just returned the lens... eBay has such a liberal return policy. But not sad anymore when he decided to take a screw driver to the thing, and other lenses, and attempt to create a Frankenlens. If he was paying attention earlier, he would have known that the mount had nothing to do with it not working. And then, assuming he was able to reassemble the lens, he went and told the seller he disassembled it... He probably wrote it in an email as well. I'm sure when he talked to him, the guy was grinning ear to ear, and ended the call quickly. So, what's the next best bet... he seeks out an optical engineer... I don't mean to be hard on the kid... I really don't, but this is getting ridiculous. And if he would show a little humility when he converses with people and an open mind, he wouldn't be in this predicament and he could be sitting pretty with a brand new BMPCC.

Cinematographers are the worse... Optical engineering is where it's at. So he's going to add a teleconverter to it and charge you another grand... Have you ever heard the phrase... A fool and his money will soon be parted? Don't be a fool. You don't need an optical engineer... You need a camera that will utilize that useless chunk of glass you just spent a small fortune on.

Very well done. Whimsical and weird, but good hearted. My only real critique is you should have held on the close up of the warning on GinGer's back a little longer. Any question about background is irrelevant to this story. Who cares why he is the last man on earth. Who cares why there's another girl and another gin robot... Now they can double date... The end credits may play well with a bunch of Polaroid snapshots of the them painting the town. Have the robots together. Have the new couple together. Kinda like the ending to Vacation. Good luck with it!!!

I do, I think, but they're all good in different ways. Hmm. I need to do a more controlled test to know for sure, but so far, the results are intriguing. Was that vague enough for you?

I don't know much about Hitfilm, but I would imagine they have some color plug ins, or something. And, I was able to use davinci lite 11 on a MacBook Air without any issues, so you may have more than enough power with your pc. Btw, yeah the c-mounts are a blast. I am in the middle of editing a comparison video between the nx500, the a5100 and the eos-m with ML. The results are actually surprising me.

I think Ryan Connoly has some tutorials on Hitfilm, so you may want to check it out. Are you on a PC or a Mac?

A chance for what?

Obviously, he won't take it back now. Good news is... You have less options now. Your best bet is probably a t3i, or an eos-m. But I'm not sure if there is a BNCR to eos-m adapter... So you may have to go with a t3i.