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Great advice! Thanks, Andrew! Some of the newer footage looks indeed like from a BMPCC in 4K. Possibly, from what I read, other budget options could be LG G8s and LGv50. I am wondering if the android driven MFT camera would do- the Yongnuo YN455. It has a Snapdragon 660 in it. So, don´t know if that would work or not.

I like the original question because it inspires perspectives on size, ergonomy and camera choices. So, silly me, I decided to buy a BMMCC and so I did. But what reasons for? I got attracted by the cute size, by the prospect of cutely sized files in Prores LT and a great image to size ratio. I will see how that plays out regarding lenses. Tevidon lenses are not that easy to rig. After all small size is not a virtue by itself I figure.

I agree with the DP of the Komodo and Sony vids, the Komodo footage looks much better, like from another league. Not a fan of the A7iv video.

Best color I´ve seen so far from the S series. Blacks are a bit too crushed for my taste, even though I do like a rich and contrasty look.

Would love, if the Lumix CM1 phone was able to pull some binned HD off. But it has 2gig of ram only, so below the required specs of the motion app. @Andrew Reid Do you still have a CM1 to test? That would be super kewl!

Nice web presentation. Very pleasing to look at. Like it! Go OM, go!:)

I think the Laowa 7.5 F2 does not have AF and weights a little bit more than 150g. Other than that I am pretty close.:)

I think for a newbie this could be an interesting choice of a camera. Brandon Li was one of the very few people on the net who was able to get somewhat nice colours from this camera though, in my eyes. His Autumn leaves color profile became pretty popular back then.

You mean the bmmcc or the og pocket? A steal! I paid 650 for my bmmcc with cage, rawlite filter, npf battery adapter, hdmi and breakthough box, plus shipping from Litvia.

Have been asking myself the same for a EVF which was bulit for the mft Olympus cameras or the one for the Lumix GX1. Elegant, small size EVFs for cinemacameras are non existent, which I find akward. I also find monitors to be on the bulky side for smaller setups such as with DSLMs or with a BMMCC.

@leslie You could also get a cheapo focal reducer with 0.71 factor instead for less than 90USD. Yeah, following the route BTMPix is describing has all the mentioned advantages. A single adapter solution could provied better fit without the jiggle of a seconde adapter and without uncertainties such as lacklaster infinity focus due to mediocore quality of second adapter and so on.

My two cents too, vimeo vids shot with tech pre 2015 are much nicer thought out, are more felt with an artists sensibility and competence, more interesting done than with hightech stuff from the later years. Low budget HD cams beginning with the likes of GH1, Canon Ti and so on showed an approach more connected to the possibilites and impact of visual cinematic language than these days. I am talking about semi pro stuff. Pro ads and big money productions are not of interest to me when it comes to the short form of film.

But kye, it would indeed be dull to me personally if this site started catering to the average tech review taste. Apologies accepted big time of course!:) If smartphone reviews help me to pull something off like Tangerine, that would have to be "one charming motherxxx smartphone review".

300dpi CMYK print for getting ones eyes very, very close and still believing the print to be a photograph would work very well. Like I said, there are guidelines for certain viewing distances. I do think that statement makes sense. Other than that, you are´nt coming across to me as kind in responding as you used to. You are a native speaker. I´m not. That´s all sense I will be making for the rest of this week. I have not seen a metal print in real life, nor have I seen a Daguerrtypie in real life but would love to see it.

Wouldnt support influencers with knowhow and brains but stay focused and true to cinema with my words and message. For stills there are guidelines for printing resolution. There have been building size ads done with 6MP cameras. If Andrew sees benefit to himself and this site in covering smartphones, great. If it inspires me to do a film like Tangerine, even better. Just catering to the needs to a youtube tech audience would be dull for me.

Instead of waiting for a breakthrough in artefact free image acquisition, we could get the creator of the raw recording motion app on board. We could furthermore support his efforts. Maybe the android powered mft camera would record raw with the motion app! https://github.com/mirsadm/motioncam/releases

I wouldnt second the assumption of lesser talent at all. It's lack of opportunity and collaboration. In the end Eoshd could develop a bit more into a collab space with meaningful feedback and exercises and experiments plus curated discussions. So how about for all the contributors of this thread, to try to give a meaningful vista a glowy gloomy painterly look, just one framing. Should be possible to attempt.

Darn the both of you for making me reevaluate my statement. I never felt the mojo was right in my face. The 1DC was always a mystical camera to me. In that way it had mojo. But the images never wowed me enough. Maybe the Wow was not big enough for the big chunk of money which it cost back then. 12000eu/usd was astronomical! I was still fancying it for the plain fact of CLOG and lack of "artificial sharpening" and for its mystical status. My S1 does not feel effortless to me. I don't know what it is. It does not excel under natural light. Maybe I couple it with the wrong lenses. On paper it smokes the 1DC. But mystical qualities are not surrounding the Lumix. 1DC pieces always had a muted look to me. I never saw any grades going into the 70ies or Kodak look. It sometimes looked so neutral as trying to hide lack of potentially thick colors by low contrast and understated color palette. Whereas other cameras impressed with rich and thick color, 1DC seemed to love the understatement. For instance 5d Raw always wowed me on the other hand.

I think my fascination for a Lumix G6 is emotional but with good reasoning, giving a magical hd image with the right settings. But having a fascination for a 1DC seems less rational to me. Akward. Maybe it's because it still costs a bit and does not offer more in the image department than similar priced Lumix S cameras. Whereas a G6 can be had for 150eu and gives you a satisfying image for very little money. So question is, would a 1DC make sense to image connoisseurs? I never saw that 1DC mojo like others did.

I consider myself to becoming one. I have a lot of respect for the footage and its DP above. As a gaffer I have been an integral part contributing my lights to different DPs cinematography over the last couple of years. We all work hard for the art and dont get paid well often in the microcosm outside the general tv industry. But recognizing the average quality some well paid people produce, I won' t hesitate anymore to call myself becoming a cinematographer. By heart, effort and work ethic. 😊 And regarding framing, lensing and feeling and seeing I would consider you the same:) @mercer I hope to get to post more in the future and to enjoy the effects of exchange and inspiration. Well all could do more of that and remember what it takes to produce material like the og post shares.

Kewl! An exiting beautiful camera to look at and to hold in hands. Not so many official EM-1 MKII filmmakers around here. I remember Oly had the best Jpeg colors in town with their Pen series. cheers

I joined EOSHD in 2015. I´m sure I remember that right. To find this video now, which back then stunned with its kinetic energy and beauty, its choice and combination of images, its rhythm and synergy with sound and music. So I guess this bump is like the goose bumps, which it gave to me back then- it is very, very obvious.:)

Bmpcc 4k giving the bmmcc a good run for the money and has better 4k:) As the camera is not as popular anymore as it used to be around its hype, more serious practitioners of the art of cinematography shine through. Here is a piece with its own look of digital emulsion that looks valid and beautiful to me and I enjoyed the obvious crispyness in the mid frame, stunning resolution and the anamorphic bokeh magic and sharpness falloff to the sides. bmpcc 4ks are getting amazingly cheap on the used market. I liked the colour response of bmpcc4k material in grading. If not IR poluted these cameras are fantastic. Here my favorite piece of pure cinematography of the last couple weeks, a PannSvhs pick of January:)

You are more than welcome, Andrew! I remember articles of yours and subjects you discussed a by heart. So I remembered the review title for the G6 was GH2 redux. I then googled that and enjoyed it again.:) I think your massive high quality content needs curation or, as I think you just implied, a more accessible layout/ structure through the site. Searching via Eoshd feels less intuitive to me than looking for Eoshd content via Google. For instance, I am never efficient in looking for thread titles. Often I mistakingly look up stuff with single search terms from the text of thread posts rather than from thread titles. Fi, looking for my beloved 8bit BW thread results in having all threads with the letter combo bw in it. Anyone of us has started threads themselves which became of keen interest to them. As for me these are fi threads about 3 sensor CCD 2/3 Varicams or Jeff Wynorski, Roger Cormans infamous list of a filmmakers last resort list and so on. On a personal level, Eoshd did not only make me want to become a practitioner of cinematography, it made want to enjoy Berlin more. I did and both and still practice cinematography. Besides that I learned so much about lenses, the now not so secret Pentax version of the Zeiss Hollywood and much more. I would love people to revise their own threads and live up to the promises of creating. My Konica 35 to 100mm 2.8 needs to be tested. My F3 needs the heck graded out of it just like I did with my G6 which I bought due to your review. Best camera purchase until now, until it broke down on me one year or so ago. Why?, because it started it all for me. And your review was an essential part of that. Anyway, looking forward to discovering and rediscovering the treasures of EOSHD. cheers

Your S1 has an AF lens sticking to it, which you decorated with a mask?:) Why, Mark, why?