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kaylee got a reaction from Zach Goodwin in Sony FS5 - why I bought one
congratulations on your purchase andrew looking forward to hearing more about it!!
...i think this is a fun discussion~!
cuz ykno, if we ALL agreed on this stuff 100% and we ALLLL shot with the SAME CAMERA...... well, how boring would that be~?!
cheers guys~!!
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kaylee reacted to Mattias Burling in Film vs Digital "Shootout" for Fun
Thats pretty much what Gorilla Grain is. Just place them on a layer on top of your video and switch them to "Overlay". Done. Looks great.
A tip, don't buy them straight away. Sign up for their email and download the demo, what a while and they will send you a 50 dollar rebate.
They have one for free that you can try first.
http://gorillagrain.com
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kaylee reacted to Mattias Burling in Film vs Digital "Shootout" for Fun
Disclaimer: This is just for fun. Not meant to be fair, well lit, perfectly graded, scientific or anything else. Just a few shots while I had the two film cameras loaded.
IMO Film still kicks the ass of digital in looking what I consider "Good" and in dynamic range and color. But this is not suposed to be proof of that concept.
If you want an example of that I say watch "The Hateful Eight", "The Hurtlocker" or any other well shot movie on film.
In this video I compare some footage from a BMPCC, Digital Bolex and A7ii to a 16mm Bolex H16 and a Krasnogorsk-3.
I did it just for fun so don't read to much into it
The BMPCC was shot in Prores and the D16 in Raw. Both where graded with a 7207 LUT.
The H16 was shooting actual ISO 250 Kodak 7207.
The Krasnogorsk was shooting ISO 50 Kodak 7203 so thats the LUT the A7ii received.
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kaylee reacted to Micah Mahaffey in Short Film shot on the BMPCC and T3i (Upscaled to 4k)
EXACTLY! 4k on Youtube looks very close the the original footage before youtube compression. So 1080 uploaded in 4k is a huge benefit. For instance. If you watch my film above in 1080 the film grain/noise looks like blocky moving pixels and ruins the film look and feel, but in 4k mode it looks like fine grain and doesn't distract.
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kaylee reacted to Micah Mahaffey in Short Film shot on the BMPCC and T3i (Upscaled to 4k)
from 0:00 to 1:34 is the T3i, and 1:40 to 13:59 is the Pocket, then it goes back to the t3i from 14:00 until 17:30.
I graded all the pocket cinema camera footage with Neumann luts "The Halfling profile"
As a final render I upscaled everything to 4k and uploaded to youtube. So for best viewing results 4k is your best bet as it does benefit quite a bit with youtube compression.
Let me know what you think
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kaylee reacted to Stanislav Schubert in Merry Christmas! With an amazing magic lens LOMO 35 mm
I found an amazing lens LOMO OKC 35mm F2 with PL mount, perfect for special, amazing pictures. It has a central hole in one of the glass gives hallowed halos around objects and boke in the shape of circle. In the movie version with a Pl mount and ARRI focus ring gear.
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kaylee reacted to richg101 in BMPCC Used on Age of ultron
I'm a huge fan of the bmpcc. It's the ONLY camera that fulfilled the needs of my FORBES70 prototype camera in terms of DR, low light performance, resolution, compatibility with adapted specialist lenses, solid codecs, etc. since the bmpcc's release there has yet to be anything that comes close to its overall performance when paired with fast modern c-mount lenses.
The sheer number of so-called high end cinematographers interested in FORBES70 but who disregard it based on that fact that the internal camera is a BMPCC is amazing. Also those who complain about anything the camera does visually are asking far too much. £800 for the best picture available from any camera in the price bracket where re-mortgaging isn't required to make a purchase.
https://vimeo.com/136554487 password : fbs
I hope the bmmcc does the same amazing job and better!
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kaylee reacted to Oliver Daniel in Ursa Mini 4.6K new footage and info...
Most "tests" are terrible.
This camera is obviously a powerhouse imaging device and will be spectacular in the right hands.
I cancelled my pre-order as I needed to spend my cash on a camera system that was working now for next lot of work. Sure I'll be re-visiting a purchase mid-2016, if it ever gets released!
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kaylee reacted to Don Kotlos in A7rii and A7sii gets longer 4k recording with firmware
He is at 2.5 hours without overheating. I guess we should never speak of it again. I can say I did not expect this. Good job Sony. Seams to me companies have started listening more and more these days.
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kaylee reacted to richg101 in Kipon / Baveyes medium format speed booster for full frame Sony A7 series
It all becomes moot when you consider why a user would shoot 35mm rather than medium format. It's all about cost and compactness. Otus is a doubling of your investment of a 5ds or a7rii, for a 'normal lens' of 50/1.4.
very few dslr users will think it viable to invest in the Otus lenses and a d810, a7rii or 5ds (which do get you very close to medium format). If they do, their camera system becomes heavier and more cumbersome than a phase one system and the difference in price isn't as much of a factor (even if investing £20+k in a new setup (usually on a lease). you can get a phase one camera with a 80/2.8 and a outdated 40mpx back for the same price as a 5ds and an otus, with 16bit colour (which actually makes the 40mpx more powerful than the 50mpx of the 5ds).
The debate here is coming from those who wont ever have the need for an otus and a 5ds in either their professional or hobbyist endeavours. Why bring them into the equation?
The fact remains that assuming this adaptor doesn;t degrade the iq (and compresses the image circle down in a lossless fashion), users of the a7rii and a good MF lens like a pro quality 80/2.8, they'll have a lens of similar quality (resolution, fringing, distortion, frame illumination uniformity) to the otus 50/1.4. get a good 80/2.8 for £300-400 and this adaptor and you have a sub £1000 otus setup.
Unfortunately I doubt the optical designers, and the manufacturers of this unit are at the level of that from zeiss, who left no expense spared on the otus line.
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kaylee reacted to Shield3 in Canon 5DS takes a backwards step for video - severe rolling shutter, moire and lack of uncompressed HDMI
The 5dsr 1080p/24 footage looks noticeably better than 5d3 non-raw footage IMO. Nice and detailed; clean. Shot some last night and the good 'old Canon colors are there. The AF in video mode works better than I thought it would. Not quite to the level of the 70d's dual pixel AF, but much better than not having it. Very impressed with the still image quality of the 5dsr so far. I've tried it with the Sigma 50 1.4 art, the 35 F/2 IS, the 70-200 II and the 16-35 F/4 IS. All look great.
...which annoys me why Canon didn't include 1080p60 on this camera.
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kaylee reacted to Xavier Plagaro Mussard in Why 4k TVs Make Movies Look Like Soap Operas
I don't know in your countries how broadcast tv looks. I bought a new 4K 55" panasonic tv here in Italy. I dedicated 10 minutes to cancel any "improvement" to the image from the tv set. But the problem is broadcast, it looks like shit. SD is a seminar on compression artefacts. HD is somehow better (only 5 channels on national TV in Italy and not all the time!). SKY satellite is horrible too. Then I watched one of my videos on YouTube (with the tv app) and it looked wonderful! It's pretty sad that broadcasting is destroying the work of thousand of professionals.
I still remember when broadcast was the quality and for the web the bad one!!! Nowadays is the opposite!
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kaylee reacted to Nrubloc in Not just vinyl for hipsters! The return of Ultra Panavision 70! Film is back with a vengeance and Tarantino has a behind the scenes look for us
Seems a few wrinkles have developed in the opportunity to view/show the film "Hateful Eight" in 70mm at a Cinerama Dome location in LA. It seems Disney wants Star Wars to be shown instead, during the holiday season....
Quentin Tarantino slams Disney over 'Star Wars' 'extortion' on 'Howard Stern'
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kaylee reacted to Oliver Daniel in Why 4k TVs Make Movies Look Like Soap Operas
I've lost count at how many family/friends TV sets I've "fixed".
Quite recently I walked into a friends house and they were watching the Walking Dead. My first reaction was "why does it look so cheap"? and within 5 seconds I picked up the remote and turned off that awful "Tru Motion" thing. As if by magic, The Walking Dead didn't look cheap anymore - it was looking great. Nobody in the room noticed the difference untilI I switched it to compare. "You are a genius!" they said. Erm...
To be honest, it absolutely bamboozles me why the TV manufacturers have this hideous setting on as default. It's as if they are trying to programme our minds to watch things differently. But it's just not right. Like the Hobbit in 48fps... it's horrible. The magic is gone.
The magic of natural, seamless 24fps is timeless. It works. It doesn't need altering. The TV manufacturers need to stop.
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kaylee reacted to richg101 in EOSHD advises Leica on LOG as SL system gets new firmware update
Very promising. I find the SL a very beautiful system. Big is beautiful. A full size HDMI connector sold it for me. Their promptness to approach Andrew rather than a typical 'still photography ambassador' for opinions on video functionality is very promising.
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kaylee reacted to Andrew Reid in EOSHD advises Leica on LOG as SL system gets new firmware update
Since the issue of black levels in LOG mode on the Leica SL was raised on EOSHD, Leica have reached out to me. Here I can reveal Leica are working hard on video related refinements.
Last week in Berlin, product manager Steffen invited me to see the new firmware in action.
Read the full article
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kaylee reacted to Oliver Daniel in Even Apple Doesn't Use Final Cut Pro X
I don't know why FCPX continues to be bashed.
It's an absolutely incredible editing program, very intuitive, very fast and greatly supported by third party software (plugins etc).
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kaylee got a reaction from Geoff CB in Poll... STARWARS WILL BE RUBBISH?
regarding my vote:
i watched jurassic world the other night.
MY GOD was it terrible.
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kaylee reacted to tupp in Kipon / Baveyes medium format speed booster for full frame Sony A7 series
Generally there are differences in the look of larger format DOF vs. smaller format DOF, even though their DOF range can be made technically equivalent. I can see differences in the examples given in the link provided by jcs, even though the author of that page failed to provide images that were anywhere close to full res. The discrepancies are more subtle when comparing images from formats which differ by a factor of only 1.5 (FF and S35), but the discrepancies often exist, nonetheless. In digital, the main differences appear in how cleanly the DOF, focal plane and blur/bokeh are rendered.
To illustrate this point, let's consider two dramatically different format sizes -- ultra large format (11"x14") and S16. This is an early test of Gonzalo Ezcurra's "Mini" Cyclops DOF adapter with a 14"-wide ground glass. To me, the very shallow focal plane looks extremely clean and "solid" edge-to-edge, while the softer FG/BG blurs nicely and smoothly without abruptly going into complete mush. I don't think that a S16 lens exists that can give the same clean/solid look in a shallow focal plane with such a smooth, gently soft BG/FG.
Just the same, one wonders about the potential of mounting the Kipon/Baveyes medium format focal reducer to a MetaBones BMPCC speed booster. Can't wait to see the results of that combo!
Of course, when shooting a given film emulsion, the differences between format sizes are even more dramatic. Larger formats have less grain, more resolution and more color depth.
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kaylee got a reaction from jcs in Kipon / Baveyes medium format speed booster for full frame Sony A7 series
"more easily" was what i wanted to hear. ::boom:: thank u
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kaylee reacted to Jimmy in Scarlet W - why would I get a Raven?
Interesting camera.... If the Raven has an interchangeable lens mount, I'd stick with that...
Gotta laugh at the "obsolescence obsolete" tag red stand by.
In the time the c300 got a mk II... Scarlet has gone mx > dragon > W (with Raven in the mix too).
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kaylee reacted to richg101 in Kipon / Baveyes medium format speed booster for full frame Sony A7 series
The benefit of a FF-APS-c speed booster is a lot greater since the availability of fast and wide lenses for FF is pretty good.
In medium format terms your point is very valid though since there are still limitations on how you could go about trying to replicate a 150/2.8 for medium format, when using a FF lens. on paper you;d need a 105/2 lens for full frame in order to match a MF 150/2.8 and this 0.7x focal reducer (assuming the focal reducer is actually delivering good performance). HOWEVER, you'd actually need a 105/1.4, stopped down to f2 in order to obtain both the dof/fov ratio as well as the image quality you can obtain from the 150/2.8 MF lens wide open. There are NO 135mm format lenses that will replicate the balance of IQ and dof/fov that is achieved by a 150/2.8 on medium format.
The OTUS line of lenses somewhat bridge the gap. The new 28/1.4 at f2 on FF will likely outdo my Schneider SA 40/3.5 on 645 in terms of resolution, while providing similar fov/dof. But at £3000 per lens they become less viable. You can get 3 of the schneider 40/3.5's for the price on a single otus. This brings an interesting point, in that if you look at the optical diagrams of the otus lenses they are infact not that far removed from a high end MF lens with a focal reducer stuck on the back.
Since OTUS lenses are the only real option for wide open shooting with superb IQ on FF, these would be the closest direct comparison against high end lenses on medium format.
OTUS 28mm at f2 on the A7Rii will probably be a close match to a 40/3.5 wide open on a 6x4.5 frame of portra400, drum scanned.
if this focal reducer squeezes the image onto a smaller frame transparently then in some cases and with the best medium format lenses bought at good prices you'll have a poor mans OTUS.
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kaylee got a reaction from BrorSvensson in Canon 5DS takes a backwards step for video - severe rolling shutter, moire and lack of uncompressed HDMI
please share your results~! i wish more ppl were shooting video with the 5dsr. i want to see more from it
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kaylee got a reaction from Cinegain in Why 4k TVs Make Movies Look Like Soap Operas
lmao p much
the true horror of this whole thing is that ppl buy tvs with this motion smoothing/hfr bullshit turned on, and they never know to turn it off, and so they get used to it, and then when I turn it off for them theyre like 'No we liked it better the other way'
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kaylee reacted to Shield3 in Canon 5DS takes a backwards step for video - severe rolling shutter, moire and lack of uncompressed HDMI
My 5dsr will be here tomorrow - I am going to test this as well. Hopefully I'll have the same results; I will be using the Sigma 50 art stopped way down (F/5.6 - F/8)