PannySVHS
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@Milton Lopes Hey Milton, great post and fun to read. A lot of people here are not native speakers of English. Your text was written in perfect English and moreso in perfect manner. Those shots you did have beautiful color.
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@fuzzynormal, that´s a fine piece of filmmaking! Indeed gritty, rough around the edges, done with much skill and dedication and soul! Thanks for sharing! Plotwise it is absolutely okay. It works well to give us viewers kinetic energy to witness. The two leads are very well in their roles and awesome dancers as well. The dancing did a great deal to the film and contritbuted additional appeal to it with such skilled dancing and artful motion and expression.
Judging from your stills, the XAH1 was a great choice indeed for your feature. Colors show that 3CCD magic even on the small stills on your site.
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5.7k of eva might translate into 4K for GH5 might translate into eva sensor in m43 size and 4k pixel count. So maybe full VLOG curve and dual iso with 2500 iso. Well, will be fun to see how our speculation will compare to the news on the 15th.
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14 minutes ago, forofilms said:
Why would Panasonic lend the camera out to Neistat? Seems like a poor candidate to test/QC the range of features on this type of camera.
It would be a heck of a trumpingly tremendeous:) campaign to have Casey Neistat show off their new revolutionary AF of this new camera. The perfect vlogging camera, all these vlogging vips of the utubs universe have been bragging about.
People would go nuts and buy it for 2799, just for the best in class AF, Casey Neistat proven.
It will be a great time to buy used GH5 cameras very soon.:)
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2 hours ago, moxlyo said:
Don´t worry...I used the Sigma Art Photo lenses, mostly the wider ones like 24 and 35mm. This shot you posted was shot with the 85mm
Hey Max, out of likes for today. Looking great. So, did you focus manually or with PDAF? Do you like RAWLite better than C300II codec?
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2 hours ago, Julien416 said:
Yeah sure, there's not better way to spend his lifetime pension for a middle class retired american in Vietnam than buying an overweight 7000$ single focal anamorphic lens. Way to go dude. I mean... Guys. Come on. Overkill is the word coming to my mind...
It depends. If pension, it´s regular income, if middleclass, it might be of pleasing amount, if in Vietnam, maginficient place for filming. Overkill is all the technology we are using our natural resources on, TVs, smarphones with the calculating power of workstations just a few years ago, everything is overkill. So, taking the essence, I get out of your comment regarding 7000USd for one lens: No, I wouldnt buy it, rather have the Veydra and other fun lenses for shooting, stayin light and sharp.
I would love to see more of that 16mm Veydra and that 8mm 2.0 wonder. But it also takes a lot of work to do these videos Jon does. So I am happy for the insights you gave us, Jon. Thank you for that!
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10 hours ago, markr041 said:
The comparison that is relevant is the video I posted above using the GH4 and the Z with the same lens under dim, not low light. The Z colors are more accurate and the shots are less noisy. Comment on that, especially after downloading the original I uploaded. I agree that the sensor is not the only thing that counts, obviously. And i am not arguing the Z is the better camera, but the comparison video suggests at a minium no worse image for the Z, if not better.
I am just recognizing the terrible low light screenshots you have posted. They show super weird and nasty processing under these low light conditions. That would indeed be relevant to me if evaluating the Zs image quality. Another thing, 60mpbs bit rate for h264 UHD is too low for a variety of shots with motion rather than a photographic stills setup. So to me, I repeat, to me, it suggests, image quality is worse for the Z. Thank you for your testing, which I have always appreciated and I highly value. Just on that Z camera, I see it differently.
I must say, your Yi 4K footage has impressed me. For daylight that would be a fun camera. For the not modded version, how can one tame the fisheye effect?
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@Trek of Joy It would be no benefit to the EVA1:)
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8 hours ago, Tim Sewell said:
The video in the OP is one of the funniest things I've seen this year - I'm going to have to watch it all the way through this evening. Apparently Jim is now up to 'over 150' movies, according to IMDB.
It is really enjoyable and it hits some serious notes as well, the disappearance of the "middleground B movie", "the important playingfield.. open for experiments", "important entrance into filmmaking". I paraphrased but put in quotes for readability. Instead of Bmovie with a B movie audience and market, there are thousands of Cmovies with almost no market and small audience on one hand, on the other we have A features- the typical stuff, Television, web stuff. In the documentary it´s noted that Wynorski already moved from C to B and some of his originial spirit and drive of the past of B movies has been lost to his newer efforts, super quickly made booby films. One guys says in the documentary about shooting time for a feature, I´m paraphrasing, "first they do it in 48, then 30, then 18, then 12, then in three days". A very interesting and fun and kinda sad but very entertaining documentary. The main actress states something impressive about her pride in working as an actress, despite the lack of opportunities for working in B and A movies again.
@kaylee, maybe it does, kinda also looks like Oscar bait:) I think it does both. I am sure it does both.
@mercer yeah about GH2 and GH1, we talked about that before, them kids really gave theirs cameras a ride for what they are worth. Best DSLM stuff and REAL shortfilm filmmaking. I won´t look for cool footage done with GH5 anymore, just slomo, walking behind subjects and did I say slomo. Rather watch footage of cats and trees and just people.
I think I found a camera I would love to try out. Panasonic HPX-3000, 3 CCDs!, writes to cards, HD, AVC Intra 10bit 100mbps. Much more expensive still than a Sony F3 or Black Magic Cinema these days.
@fuzzynormal great write up. I can really relate to that so much. Films don´t have to succeed at every level all the time, some masterpiece do, but the should rather show some kind of guts, energy, mojo. What festival are you working at. Would love to send you an entry once it´s done. It is campy in some parts, unfortunately and less so in others, unfortunately too, but it is colorful and quirky, not perfect but fun to watch. Well, it will be, once post is done:)
Will watch the shortfilm you posted above in a bit.
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11 hours ago, Matt Culley said:
It’s human nature to always want improvements. Doesn’t mean anyone thinks they can’t make great stuff with the current GH5.
And still more shitty movies are made than ever before. It´s human nature to sell stuff. It´s human nature to see that and reflect upon that, unless other parts of human nature take over and make people buy a Sony A6300 as A camera for a low budget feature film:) Seriously, human nature has us tricked into all different directions and has us pulled back out again. Enough talking, give me your GH5:)
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I think media for f355 is not sold anymore and seems adventureous:) It was a great search for a camera. One of the Panasonic HPX series would be it I think, if for used GH4 prices. Thanks for the ride! I think for nonpros like me it could be great fun shooting with one of these. C300 II is boring and 12bit 2K for snobs:) Seriously, I wish ongoing filmmakers would shoot more with lesser cameras, that way we would have not to put up with all the glossy, polished, but heck it´s boring, crappy dull dumpster crap. I rather watch some campy stuff. Some of it is even great.
@fuzzynormal I have not seen a Wynorski film yet. Just discovered him. But I think there are some very fun films from him. Fun in a fun way, not just "so bad, it´s good", but real fun. There are so many films I never heard of, worth watching. Btw, your film has great angles and editing!
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31 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:
This might be a better way to go!
Tasty. 3CCD monster writing to cards but not HD yet:/
@webrunner5, As a man who like real cameras, this looks like 3ccd HD heaven:)
Edit: does not write to cards:/
But this one: Panasonic HPX-3000:), AVC Intra 422 HD, 3 CCD, yesah!:)
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1 minute ago, mercer said:
Panny, pick up a hacked GH1 for $100 and make a feature film with it. It will be the greatest marketing story since Tangerine was shot on an iPhone... or pick up a $200 camcorder with a mic input.
not the ergo of a F900 and no 3ccd magic:). Well it was fun considering some of the oldies again and great insights into the F900. Thank you guys! Learned a lot! Just loving the idea of 3CCD 422 HD, written to cards and being an affordable "real" camera with ergos for great one operator operation. F900 close, but writing to tape and not Panasonics P2 as I assumed:)
4 minutes ago, mercer said:I’ll do it too... 6 months to make a feature film on a hacked GH1 or consumer camcorder. I double dare you.
Too tough of a challenge. How about a shortfilm first?:)
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The closest of having 3ccd magic HD (720p) writing to cards and not being plagued by aliasing would be the Sony AX2000, which is one generation older than EX1, which is still around 2000usd. Tape is a pain:(
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10 minutes ago, mercer said:
I do like the grungy look as well but I think that look can probably be pretty easily obtained, even with an iPhone. Probably a hacked GH1 could easily give you a similar look, with a few touches in post.
I don´t find any HD trailer of the Witches film, which this documentary is about.:(
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15 minutes ago, Cinegain said:
HDCAM... so... video tape cassettes.
( https://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/ext/cinealta/docs/HDCAM_Card8.pdf )
great find. another one showing it has 3:1:1 sampling
http://vmi.tv/training/useful-stuff/choosing-a-digital-format
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@Cinegain Wow, you´re right, legendary camera. I knew, I was up to something. Still more expensive than a GH5:) Would like to shoot something with 3 CCD magic and a nice codec. What codec does the F900 have? Writes to P2 cards I think.
@webrunner5, would be cool to shoot something worthwhile with this lengendary camera, I mean a fiction shortfilm. Have not found info about codec, bitrate, color subsampling yet.
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By the way, to put it with the words of Andy Sidaris: "It is still necessary that we do B-movies". A nice to watch and to hear segment from around minute 59 on, about the beauty of B film filmmaking.
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Glenn, the documentary shows the production of a feature film. They show the camera a few times, which has been used for filming the feature.
@Cinegain They also show that camera at 22.55. I don´t think it is possible to shoot this kind of feature with a LS300, especially not in three days.
@IronFilm You shown footage with some kind of weird characters shot against a sky, very colorful costumes, some kinda futuristic power ranger ninja style of shock epic. Sony F5 in 4raw glory even? Did you distribute it? Netflix likes cool and campy action flix. Would you mind to repost it?:) I am all for cameras which enable us to have a state of mind like Wyinorski does.
@webrunner5 , I think you should be right, that´s a camera that has higher resolving HD than a GH4 and equal lowlight. Way ahead of its time and still more costly than a F3 these days.
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Hey guys,
does anybody recognize this beauty of a camera? It is a single operator shoulder beast for feature film production. The only other second crew member was the sound guy.
So anybody has produced anything like this auteur epic with a camera like this? Please no mini DV assumptions here. It is a HD camera for sure. I know that Ironfilm has done
a film with plenty of cinematic energy and ninja like extravaganza with a Sony F3. But anybody with that camera like in this documentation? It´s a camera that shoots a film
in three days. I would like that and use the saved money on production value for my micro budget shortfilm.
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Your lowlight test in the church with posted framegrabs shows enough of a basis to say: there are a lot of GH4 videos showing much, much, much better low light quality than that. Same sensor is not enough at all, if implemented badly. EM5 Mark 1 has the same sensor as GH4 and its HD material is even much worse than GH1 quality. GH4 has better lowlight than a A6000 or a Nikon D5300 has, to compare it with cameras of its time.
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@markr041, thank you for your tests. I think the lowlight shots are full of very unpleasant digital sharpening and noise reduction artefacts. Are these screencaps? Results from GH4 look better, judging from a friends footage and what´s on the web.
Glenn, LX100 sounds good. Not many great video examples out there on the web but a very very few super nice ones. EVF is not best and screen is no swivel. Today I held a GX8 in my hand. Was beautiful to hold, awesome EVF. Too bad it´s without IBIS in video mode. Will be interesting to see what camera you might be deciding for. I would suggest a G85 for having some fun time. The lens in the LX100 is tempting too, but ergos, EVF and lack of mic and swivel screen and 15min 4K recording limit to consider as well. Oh well, G85 is winner:)
My favorite LX100/Leica 109 video on vimeo is this one for nice but natural colors (but nice also) and whole feel of the image. My favorite color wise, also compared to other model shoots shot by another guy. This one below is showing off some nice 60p also.
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Love the article, Andrew! Thanks, a super fun read and a bit of basic math is a great joy to keep the creative possibilities of different tools in perspective. On the GH5 in HD Ex Tele mode should have a crop factor of 5.6 compared to full frame photo cams, the same like cropped HD from the UHD 1.4 Ex Tele mode of the GH5. So a 600mm on GH5 with cropped HD from the 1.4 UHD Ex Tele mode would become like a 3360mm, that speedboosted by factor 0.7 gives us 2300mm compared to photo full frame for a HD glimpse on the moon.
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One thing is the heavy lens. Luk stated its weight of about 5 pounds. It looks to be mounted without any lens support, which would be a statement to the strength of the camera mount, even moreso since an additional adapter has to be mounted as well.
Does anybody know this camera? Anybody shot a feature with it already?
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Where have you been watching it? Vimeo on demand? These 3ccd HD cameras are more expensive than a Sony F3, I said that before in anstonishment. There is someting exiting in having a camera with 3ccds larger than the ones in the EX1 with a 422 codec, even available in 10bit AVC Intra flavor. Just something from the guts. Also having a real shoulder cam with these stats is appealing. Just a yummy package. That deal on adorama is tempting though:)
This is another documentary about Bmovie filmmaking, about the lengendary Roger Corman, with legends like Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Julie Corman and the likes, a whole bunch of very delightful people. Jack Nicholson is especially charming.