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34 minutes ago, buggz said:

Hope I don't divert too much from the topic,

What is a good microphone for recording school chorus in an auditorium?  Or small church audience environment?

I'm always in the back.

Amateur currently using GH5 and Azden SGM-250 with Audio Technica 3 way selectable pad XLR <> 3.5mm adapter into audio in port.

Always wanted the Panasonic external audio adapter...

Is the school and church using a mic that is running through an audio board?

The reason why I'm asking is that, if they are, you could probably plug into the audio board and get better sound.

4 minutes ago, ghostwind said:

Is it the C200, shooting in 4K 4:2:0 8bit and down converting to 2K/1080p in Premiere?

What was all the talk months earlier about converting 4k 8 bit down to 1080 and the extra colour space that arrives as a result. Can any of the tech heads here comment?

13 minutes ago, mercer said:

When it gets caught. 

Right, and that's usually when it's ovulating.

I get it that there are all kinds looks and styles, but considering how slo-mo tends to make many things look juicy, when is it just a just lazy artifice?

When I look around, it's being done to death, thankfully it hasn't really invaded long form quite yet where it would most probably be a distraction from the narrative.

How many of you use slo-mo in your personal projects as a creative decision?

There are two ball parks:

1) What do you need for your personal projects?
2) What do you need for outside projects?

For me, it's all about story. And on personal verite doc projects in difficult conditions, I need a camera that helps me capture good audio easily... laying in music under video afterwards only takes me so far. The C100MkII ticks all boxes in a nice small and cheap package with long takes. Under good light, if exposed correctly, the 24mb codec holds up very well. But in the night, under less than idea lighting conditions, I wish it fatter so I could reef on it more... this is where the C300MkII (or Amira) would help, but at a much higher price.

But for now, when the audience lights come up, and the snarky highlight roll-off/ buzzing shadows hipster takes the mic, I'll cram the entire camera package up his ass.

5 hours ago, IronFilm said:

I'm seeing AMIRAs more on "low/no budget" productions I'm working on that might have been a FS7/F5 type project instead in the past. 

Good. I absolutely love this camera. It's the real deal.

Here is a great doc film shot (by one person) on it: https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/fire-at-sea-gianfranco-rosi-cinematography-best-documentary-oscar-1201773480/

1 hour ago, ghostwind said:

Canon did something different apparently. 

- They sure did...
It's easy to understand why so many people are frustrated with them.

Arri Amira?

https://www.abelcine.com/buy/cameras-accessories/digital-cinema-cameras/arri-amira-advanced-camera-set

Behold Sony Xperia 1
https://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-1/features/#gref

Anyone still left holding out for 4:2:2 10 bit in their A7(x) lineup?

"The Xperia 1 has a 10 bit equivalent display (8 bit with 2 bit smoothing) that can display a myriad of colours without banding."
- Mmmm... smoothening.

CineAlta branded.

No audio port in or out

7 hours ago, ghostwind said:

I'm assuming for 1080p, the C100MKII's 35Mbps MP4 is probably very similar in IQ to the C200's?

- Though I haven't compared them, I'd say so.

7 hours ago, ghostwind said:

They both do 4:2:0 8bit internal, and 4:2:2 10bit external, so probably yeah..In that case, you'd be looking at the C300MKII for the internal 4K or higher bitrate/10bit 1080p?

- Yep. 2K/HD 10/12-bit 4:4:4 up to 60fps is all I'd ever want for what I do. 4k for hire.

If you have the cash, just buy the C300MkII and you're good for the next 3 years.

My two cents...

I shoot verite docs, so for me the C200's raw feature will pretty much never get used.

Aside from raw, Canon's ability to pack a decent amount of info into a lightweight file is exceptional.

For sure 4k is great for cropping, but who sees that extra resolution 6-10 feet back from the screen? I can easily push 125% into a C100MkII file with no major quality loss. Someone recently posted on a C100 to 4k up res that seemed decent enough.

For fun, though it could be true, I often think that the C100 MkII is the last camera I need to own as it ticks so many boxes. I'd consider a C300MkII, but will wait for the prices to drop and then take a look.

I think many of us are here for the same reason... camaraderie and support. But at one point the real world awaits.
Hats off Marty and best wishes in your undertakings...

I once heard a story about the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner where he may have mentioned the importance of not introducing children to formal education until their second set of teeth had grown in. The theory behind was that this juncture (second set of teeth) was to allow for the development of the child's imagination. I then wished I had passed through something like a Montessori School (no official grading system)... until I began to hear jokes that these graduates lacked a kind of necessary 'hungry drive' to establish themselves in the capitalist world. Go figure.

It's no surprise that some of the most original works arrive from nuts who grow up in places far and away from Williamsburg and Berlin. Though I don't read near enough, I like what Herzog mentioned, " Those who watch television or are too much on the Internet, they lose the world. And those who read, they win it."  But hey

In my process I like a narrative thread, though it doesn't have to be overt. I'm hunting stories in places where the ridiculous, surreal and absurd play out as everyday life for so many hundreds of millions... material I can't always or easily find in the developed world. Blurring the line between reality and fiction is the most exciting place for me... the challenge is to shake off what I grew up watching and more fully embrace my inner idiot.

Sound is 70% of a film.

This little pixie (and unique creative force) had my heart going bang bang back in the day...

What's not to like?

1 hour ago, kye said:

and the EOSHD Nihilist quote of the day goes to..........   *drum roll*

???

Gosh Kai, thanks! What an honour, for a moment there I thought my comment might have been a little too hip for the room  

And because we leave no stone unturned in our undertakings, the idea of 'emptiness' actually comes from the Theravāda Buddhist concept of Sunyata...

"Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to and takes nothing away from the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there's anything lying behind them. This mode is called emptiness because it's empty of the presuppositions we usually add to experience to make sense of it: the stories and world-views we fashion to explain who we are and the world we live in. Although these stories and views have their uses, the Buddha found that some of the more abstract questions they raise — of our true identity and the reality of the world outside — pull attention away from a direct experience of how events influence one another in the immediate present. Thus they get in the way when we try to understand and solve the problem of suffering."

It's hard to see folks suffering at the hands of camera manufacture's limitations... just trying to do my part.

I really should be editing... but this is just too much fun

Sometimes I like to harken back to the days where I believed others were forcing me to do things against my will. In time I came to realise I had a choice. I then chose emptiness. 

Best way to expose on non-log profiles?

Sorry, bored and couldn't resist... back to the front.

Smaller and with 60fps, I say that if you nail exposure correctly, it's better than the C300.

8k is for men with small penises. In that regard, I still watch, and more precisely, shoot standard def.

9 hours ago, kye said:

Luckily we have a bunch of things that are meaningless to most people that we all argue passionately about and are saved from having to develop film with coffee to add interest to our days....

But can you imagine... a collective where we could bare knuckle brawl it out while sipping spent developer coffee from the ringside?
The first rule of FilmClub is that there is no rules.

 

14 minutes ago, tupp said:

I don't get the reference, but "Brian Jonestown Massacre" is an interesting pun on two tragedies.

No worries, I only meant it as comic relief. And that one could easily find a pinch of potassium bromide at a BJM show
Anyway... he obviously developed the film with those material... because he could. And for the hordes who are looking to take the edge off their high count sensor, this makes light of just how 'organic' this process can be... if one wants it.

3 minutes ago, tupp said:

Not sure why he didn't just an use an off-the-shelf developer, stop bath and fixer.

- Maybe he decided to process the material at a Brian Jonestown Massacre show and just used the things he saw laying around on the ground.

Two bulls are standing on a hill overlooking a field of cows... the older bull turns to the younger bull and says, "Bring the H16."

A few years ago or so, someone here mentioned something about how some knucklehead types just throw money at gear as a way to muscle their way in... and I often see post go up on crew websites from producers requesting DPs that must have a Red to get the gig while saying nothing of how they can light etc.

Anyway, this up today and worth a read for the perspective:

Jenkin: I made a 45-minute film a few years ago called Bronco’s House, which was processed in a developer made of instant coffee, vitamin C powder, washing soda crystals and a little pinch of potassium bromide to keep the grain down. You can make developers from anything, really, as long as you’ve got an alkali base and an active acidic ingredient. I quite like that side of things. I like experimenting with how you can create pictures.

https://filmmakermagazine.com/108148-with-digital-you-have-to-spend-a-lot-of-money-before-it-becomes-free-mark-jenkin-on-his-hand-processed-16mm-bait/?fbclid=IwAR2tzdi_7xggt6PKoF1XJZDiWH1VYQoeaut0w9L97JwhtA4f-qLGlTgv0ko#.XWqjp5NKjOR

2 hours ago, kye said:

Most things in life are hard to see from a huge distance away, and look nice from a sensible distance, but when you get right up close the flaws become visible and the magic kind of fades.

It sound s like you are talking about marriage

I'm not shooting with anything above my C100 MkII but aside from chromatic aberration and unsharp corners, I thought I'd been hearing the it's helpful to use 'softer' lenses to take the edge off the higher mp sensors. The term 'clinical' sharpness comes to mind, which is fine in gynecology clinic... but even then, maybe better to dim the lights and up the Barry White

2 hours ago, PannySVHS said:

Watched a DVD projection on a 9foot projection screen. Looked awesome. "Coffe and cigarettes". Awesome BW photography. Looked as good as any streaming from netflix. @User Yes, the horror of pixel and tech race. The rants about segmenting tech and about these awefully short product cycles and redundant products are more than justified!

For sure. And, aside from image quality, I'd put Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes against 99% of anything on Netflix... if just for the ethics involved in making it.

I can imagine that many of us here live on very little to do the work we love, that has certainly been the case for me these last years... it's a trade off that I don't regret (as two teeth currently rot in my head). And and as our biosphere bakes and smokes under incessant human greed and narcissism, I rest a little easier knowing that I'm not caught trying to keep up with the Jones. Some call it 'voluntary simplicity.' And I appreciate the spirit of the folks here who are trying to eek out every last notch of their older gear (a la Magic Lantern etc.) before being forced to carry forward.