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Hey Andrew, the fun part IS your footage. And I don´t say that for trying to play it nicely to you. Seriously, you got a nice down to earth approach, and it´s very classical. Only one time I didnt feel exited when you approached a camera and that was the FZ1000. Not my taste of grading and colors. But for instance your 5DIII RAW vs GH4 video was killer. Also, all your GH2 stuff. Liked you original version of the Bladerunner vid better than Shian Storm´s graded one. Though Shian´s GH4 music video done in Cine D!! looks absolutely killer! Your clear footage, not too over the top graded, is beautiful. Just had to say that, cuz your forum/place keeps me exited. Also, since I´m an Eastgerman and so not shy of pathos (don´t know if that would be an Eastgerman sterotype anyhow:), great guys like the humble maxotics, the wild child Aaron Chicago and the mystical Andy Lee are great characters to get a narrative out of! Oh, forgot the rocker rocker Oliver Daniel! By the way, how and what is Andy doing? And, very happy, maxotics is back! cheers and sorry for spilling all the honey, it´s a mess now:)

Hey Aaron, is this 10bit footage? Wonder what 8bit V-Log could do. Doesn´t matter anyhow, it´s never gonna be available for GH4 cheers

Hallo Benjamin, I would need to rewrap the mts files to mp4 if I´d like to use Rocky Mountains Movie Converter on Windows. Do you know a nice n easy rewrap tool without encoding, so there won´t be another encoding step and quality loss when rewrapping? best regards, Marty

Hey, I´m very happy with the G6. Resolution is pretty. Codec doensn´t mind a little bit of color correction and messing with LUTs. Usually shooting all -2 on Natural, color mostly on 0. Kinda sucks for peaking though. Gonna post some examples and my short vid very soon. best regards

Hey, would love to see some more GH3 stuff on Natural profile. On the G6 train and a happy traveller:) Will post a video soon done with the G6. Would you consider showing one or two videos of yours? Also, I dropped you a line on the lens topic. Seb Farges did a video with the 10mm SLR Magic. Looks great. He states it´s sharp wide open. regards, Marty

Hallo, I think Andrew Reid has experience using them, also Seb Farges, who does a lot of lens and anamorphic tests on vimeo. Seb also checks in here sometimes. So maybe you can send them a PM. Here goes a link for one of Seb Farges´ beautiful vids. It´s for the SLR Magic 10mm. cheers

Darn. First one looks stunning! For 15.000 it better does:) Seems like it´s still a big load of money differentiating the high end picture from the prosumer tech. @Aaron, how close could you get with the C100 II of yours, regarding color and the kinda airy feel of the picture? I know it´s not a 15stops camera. Wouldnt know if the picture even demanded the full range of 15 stops though.

Hallo Greg, the sensor seems almost on par with the newer m43 sensors. Looks like you pushed your photo 1.5 to 2 EV in Lightroom. Something I could do with a Panasonic G6 as well. Regarding to Dxomark, RX100 III sensor is a little bit better than G6 sensor in the low iso department, higher isos it´s the other way around. So for daylight RX10 II seems like a great camera on par with GH4 and G7 in the photo department! Would really love to see some more 120fps footage, if it has Full HD resolution like 24p or 30p. Not just on paper but in reality. What is your impression on that? cheers and best regards, Marty

Hey again, maybe giving it a little bit more contrast on the shooting profile could get rid of the tiny amount of greyish cast? Picking -2 or -3 like it has been suggested a lot of times for shooting with the G6 on Natural profile. Did that and in Resolve picked an input LUT like this one: http://juanmelara.com.au/downloads/video2log_lut.zip. Got it from this friendly fellow man: http://juanmelara.com.au/print-film-emulation-luts-for-download So maybe in camera a little less flat and "flatening" via Input Lut in post, then your beautiful Arri LUT on top. Maybe that could cure the greyish cast?

Aaron, looking sweet. Kinda fleshy and rich. One thing though as with a lot footage done in Cine D+LUTs: it seems in some shots there is some greyish tone in the skin color, very lightly though. Am I wrong? Other than that, looks like a Canon color parade. Or am I wrong on that one too?:) Thanks for the LUT. Gonna check it out. cheers, Marty

Hallo Miraud, interesting catchy terms you´re giving- motivating further communication:) Poverty mostly comes from exploitation of one´s labor. Respect for the hardworking angry poor people of all ages! You were bold enough to leave that aspect out, so I guess it takes formal boldness to be leaving out up close in your face shots. There is no boldness just in filming people from close. It would be interesting enough to analyse Andrew´s piece regarding the formal, visual decisions have been taken by him. I think, it is a beautifully done little vignette about the daily ways of things, with sense for motif, combination and order of different framings and shotlengths. It´s an opptimistic outlook on the opportunity this place is providing, a stimulating poetic and also practical overview of different places and activities. Do you have other pieces within that running time providing this kind of overview, and that in a stimulating but also factual manner? Haven´t seen too many. Berlin is not an just okay city, it´s a beautiful as any place in world, when you don´t let it be stolen from you by people with money they´ve been steeling from the hardworking people they´ve been exploiting. Takes boldness to make a film about that in Germany, because there is not a large audience for it over here, so financial risk would be quiet a bit involved in that bold task. Would you like to share your pieces? Maybe I can understand your point of view a little bit better. (no irony intended) Cheers You are welcome sir! Have been inspired by your forum and your work quiet a bit. If you like assistance, I´m a man not shy of hard labor:) Loved your Bolex vid too, showing me a place where i pass by every day but having never been there- that´s what I meant by inspiring people to take opportunity. Opportunity- quiet an American paradigm we people cannot be pushed towards to enough! Thank you for that and that in a tasteful and appetizing manner!

Oh, wow! When I saw this piece I felt like it was such a unique way of showing Berlin- such a positive outlook on beautiful places showing opportunities of doing things and enjoying them. You know(at Miraud), Berlin can be such an exhausting place, full of people seeking their once in a lifetime opportunity of getting their piece of the boheme lifestyle piece of cake. I think Andrew´s video shows a very down to earth outlook onto the grounded beauty of things in Berlin. It´s a perspective hard to keep one´s focus on with all the hype and hystery and sale out all over the place. Thanks for this encouraging poetic piece of truthfulness. A lowkey, beautiful digital film revue of the beauty to hold on to in Berlin- the capital of the Capital (Das Kapital:), once the city of the people. By the way, the GH4 looks more and more appetizing- heck I love my G6- GH4 would be even more 8bit filming heaven!:) cheers.

​ Hallo Ed?!:) would you allow to watch your piece and provide the password? By the way, really digged your modelshoots and your differnt grading approaches to it. cheers, Martin

Hallo, The Roxsen/Camdiox example I just tested for m43- FD was not precisely enough manufactured. It almost did'nt come off the camera and lens almost did'nt come off neither. So it seems like it could be a gamble. Just don´t force your lens on to it like I did, rather do some light metal work on the boosters mount, so everything can fit.

Hallo Fuzzy, I assume, you´re considerations are about video, right? I did a 3min short with just one 28mm 2.8 FD lens last Sunday, with lighting, small beachtek soundpackage and so. I must say, the 28 did great! It has a very pleasing rendering to my eye. Handling and built is beautiful. It has only five aperture blades. To me Bokeh looks nice. The 50mm FD 1.4 has eight blades. With a focal reducer, I´d get the sturdiest one possible I think. The 50mm FD is a heavy sucker. I tested a Camdiox/Roxsen focal reducer a few days ago, and it was pretty loose on the m43 mount and weird enough it almost didnt come off the camera, neither did the lens. The FD ring is also kinda tricky I guess. best regards

Beautiful images and nice pace and rhythm. Very encouraging and inspiring piece. If any criticism makes sense, I´d say your film is loosing some pace a little bit from 1.29min to 1.47min, because sequence of images seems a little bit repetetive to me, also without clear motivation of montage- closing shot of it from 1.47min on is beautiful again though and well motivated. Also, I´d prefer smaller and higher placed subtitles, also not in Italics. By the way, what camera did you shoot with? Cheers and Thank you for inspiration!

Looking great. Saw a C100 M1 at the rental house. Man, is that thing a pretty looking one. Did you rent the Mark II? Started doing video again, my last time was when SVHS(C) was still the amateur guy´s, like me, mojo machine. Things have changed. It´s really worth it to walk the road and put some lights up. Watched your bowling vid with the GH4 when you posted it. Cool stuff! Affordable equipment paired with talent and ambition puts out some beautiful stuff. Thanks for showing!

Hallo Beny! Examples are looking great, G6 samples look very tempting! Did you put the LUTs on the files available via Vimeo download or did you have access to the original files? Would you upload one or two video G6 clips as examples, if it´s not too much of a hassle to you? Also, what software can these LUTs be used with, also Virtual Dub or FFMPEG? best regards

Very cool! Any nice examples for it with G6 footage? cheers

Oh, and don´t worry about the bokeh, had a hard time to handle focus with F2.8 on 28mm focal length:)

​ Would really consider G7 instead of A7. G6 has been a great choice for my first short this weekend. Put some Canon FD glass into the play and you got a great setup for a beautiful picture, strong and light codec, nice handling. I did my shoot just with one 28mm lens, lighted the scenes up and was happy to be able to stay within 160 to 200 ISO. About the Lens Turbo, I´ve read quiet a few convincing comments about it. As far as my experience goes, received mine yesterday. It has a loose fit on the m43 mount and I almost couldnt unmount my FD lens later on. Pin within adapter was bent, though I do know how to mount to my normal FD adapter. Any way, 28mm is still wide enough on M43 and still has a nice perspective considered normal enough for Super 35 Cinema standard. My 20mm 1.7 Lumix lens just went over the edge perspective wise. G6 plus adapter plus lenshood plus FD cost me 320 Euros all together. For sound I recommend a Beachtek preamp I rented over the last weekend.

Hallo guys, Thank you for your replies! Mercer, yes, gorrilla pod seems like a great idea. I shot a short this weekend with an beautiful sirui photo tripod. Highly flexible legs helped for being used as a shoulder pad and camera arm and so. But sometimes one or two legs were a little bit in the way for camera movements. First time in my life that I rented lights and preamps. My first short for sixteen years. What an adventure. G6 turned out to be a great choice! Shot all on my FD 28 without focal reducer. It´s really a beautiful and very useful all purpose lens. After the shoot I received my Camdiox Focalreducer. But that one has a loose fit on the m43 mount. After mounting the FD, it almost didnt come off, because a pin was within too tight tolerances. After struggling unmounting it, it was bent. Did everything right, since I got used to mounting to my normal m43-FD adapter. Unfortunately that Speedbooster clone from Camdios- not really recommended from my point of view. Don´t know, if Camdiox is the same as RJ. So, anyhow, happy to post the result pretty soon. And, still my question, how do I implement X264 Codec for conversion in Videopad? I can only pick H264 for rendering. Thanks you all! best regards, Marty

Good evening:) Midloch, Thank for you very much for your answer! So I think I´ll use 24p for rendering with my Testversion of Videopad. Guess I gonna buy it. Was´nt able to pick suggested X264 codec for converting for vimeo and such. I rendered in 23.87, so gonna go for 24p. Anybody with hands on and experience with Videopad? Thanks guys for your help. Great to finally made the step buying a G6. Great suggestions I´ve been finding on this forum. Good that I didnt spend all on a GH4. By the way, would feel kind odd with a rig trying to fly under the radar at a public place:) I´ve seen some great handheld footage outthere. Never thought it to be that tricky! Thanks guys and Cheers

Hallo Midoloch aka Bushmanfilm! I´ve been following your work for a while. Really loved the Yoga India one. Really awesome stuff with the G6, would be worth any camera! Your posted recent piece is professional with a clean n mean:) look. Great work! My vid was a tester for the manual FD lens and some profile testing for the harsh sunlight. I felt it was kind of a nice so called organic look. Maybe it´s my monitor. Does the vid run smooth in HD and full screen when steamed on vimeo? Your vid runs smooth on Vimeo in HD and full screen. What frame rate did you shoot (completely 50p)? And what frame rate did you convert to when compressed or rendered? What codec did you render with? What else could be helpful to know about the vimeo "problem"? Thanks for helping out! By the way, you were the main guy getting me hooked on FD. Andy Lee got so many other great lens and lensmount suggestions, I lost my sight:) Regards

Hallo Rudolf, yes, some great books have been named around here, like that one great one on grading or "shot by shot". Oh, you don´t believe, how exited I was just to touch that manual fitted onto my G6, shakiness didnt bother me at that moment. I´m pretty happy how the corrected colors look and agree on the highlights, they are too washed out. Thank you for the link. It seems the current version of videopad doesnt allow export to x264. Since this will be my editing tool for my little project, I guess I depend on the quality I got on vimeo so far. Anyone on videopad and it´s options on converting footage? It has ffmpeg plugins, but in verson 4.08 no x264, as far as I was able to recognize. Advice on the converting, bitrate and X264 options with videopad are greatly thanked for. The link above states, triple or more the bitrate for your material before upload. Videopad doesnt seem to allow that. Thanks and regards