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@Parker what you said, and the native lenses are fine too, the 45 is 1.8, the 30/2f, the 16-50 2(!)-2.8f, e.t.c

Even for the after parties, if you "search" for the light, it is ok, I have done it with even cheap zoom lenses (3.5-5.6 for church and parties and 4-5.6 inside the church). 

There wasn't a time in motion pictures history that you didn't need some kind of lighting. Even Kubrick with his special lenses was putting candles everywhere!

 if you don't mind, it would be nice to add an NX-L review in the NX subforum, there are a lot of us that are waiting for a credible review of the speedbooster!

That's interesting, a friend's 6D sensor fried a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't even aware that it is still possible, and we always search for light sources..

Yes, the 16-50 2-2.8f is perfect for that, a workhorse really, and can be found for -relatively- cheap. Yes, the XC15 would be amazing as a B cam, but you have the a7s already and NX can be your B, or A (straight 73minutes recording, no heating issues) and it is not exactly cheap for a small sensor and a few features missing. 

3 cameras are too many to add another! Something has to go, and if you really want to buy something (I definitely would with such a big contract!) I would consider the Canon C100mkII with a 18-135 STM, it mixes very nice with the NX (you can have a prime lens for this one if you don't want to invest more, the 30 and 45 are nice, the 16-50S is unbelivably versatile as well) and you still can do great low light stuff with the C100.

If you want to spend, buy the C300mkII or the new Sony FS7mkII.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-thin-Camera-Guide-Plate-Lights-LED-Photo-Video-Light-Lamp-PC-K128C-LC-/162269898486?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253Df700954a08e34cfe8edc90367159972e%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D8%2526rkt%253D19%2526sd%253D201590451629&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460

This amaran seems amazing, but how powerful really is in real life situations?

I have a similar to the one above (again, android version of the forum is problematic!), and it is the best cheap one that I have ever seen. Really thin and light, very good color reproduction (for what it is) and output, and good battery consumption.

Similar ones in my country sell for 70-90euros.

It's good to leave the post here, even if you answered your own question! Maybe someone will need such a solution.

I use the Varavon one (not with the battery grip), which I just noticed has an extremely low price http://varavon.com/collections/hot-deal-zone/products/armor-ii-nx1-pro-cage?variant=4096862915

there is the standard version also, for less!

NX is good for everything, A7sII is perfect for the party later, and anything really low-lightish. I always use 2 cameras at least, or we are 2 cameramen.

The contract seems very good, maybe you can afford to have an assistant, it is so much better to have someone else for help and a second camera.

As mentioned above sound is VERY important, and a few (really good) LED lights.

There is a reason(or two) that big tvs cost much less than small computer monitors.

Good job, and a lot of special effects to this teaser! 

Do you care to share the equipment and your process?

@MattH i am not even American either, thanks for replying civilized by the way;

I make my own mind and U read multiple sources. I am very well educated, well-read, and kind of old, to judge things and opinions.

Today I have read 4 articles from July to this days about Tony Schwartz, that wrote The Art of the Deal. If you care, read one, is from New Yorker to Guardian.

This man is no mystery, quite the obvious really, as he seems to not stop talking all the time! If you are just being mature enough to follow the news the last few decades you know who Donald Trump is.

People got bored of mainstream politics, and they will explore other options, but real life is not a game (or video game), multiple wrong decisions can lead to war, death, nuclear disaster (since the begining, that was a wrong decision), pollution, extinction of hundreds of animals, e.t.c

Right now, the middle is vanishing. The middle class, the medium incomes, the centre in politics, right now the fars are gaining power, far left and far right, when these two will meet because there is a critical point that these two will clash, then there will be another world war, and I don't know with what guns this is going to be fought, but the next one will be with rocks and sticks (not my line!).

Well, I refuse to play the role of the ignorant beast, I am no left nor right, to be in the middle, right now, is a stance of resistance, not accepting the hate and divide of human nature. 

Basic knowledge of history and the whole situation is loud and clear, I just hope people will not choose the negatives of this world and enjoy all the wonderful opportunities this planet, and this life (the only one we have anyway).

Well, wishful thinking.

11 hours ago, MattH said:

I feel for you man.  I'm all for criticising people where criticism is due.  It's nonsense and blowing things out of proportion that irritate me.  I think its interesting that you have basically regurgitated the whole CNN media narrative, proven by the fact that you have actually missed the one element that Trump should be criticised on more than any other: The fact that he supports waterboarding and 'stronger than waterboarding'.  Of course the media stopped talking about that because it wasn't juicy enough to put in their headlines.  The fact that he said that and you are whinging about what he said about his daughter:  That tells me what I need to know.

It's not a shame to admit that you are a KKK/White Power/buy guns everywhere/Wannabe Ultra rich/Trophy girlfriends/Chauvinist sympathizer. This is the government you vote for, you must be proud.

Haven't watched CNN not even 15 minutes for the whole year by the way.. 

P.S Of course you are not, but this is what you vote for. Maybe you are a victim of your system. Only 2 political parties? This is not democratic at all..Check the Swiss democratic system to note the vast differences between them.

Anyway, this is what John Weaver, (Republican) said about Bannon (you know him, right?) “The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America.”. He is not trying to be poetic.

The guy admited commiting these acts. Spending so much mind power to try to prove the unprovable is plain sad. 

The people he said that he will put in his government are favorable of the white power movement and pro-guns. He even said that he would prefer teachers have guns to control violence in schools. KKK,yes, the famous one, not the Kupa Keep one (Cartman's team in Stick of Truth) declares that for the first time there is a worthy president, and from 3 things that he thank just after his election, one was the NationalGunAssociation.

The guy said on public television "that if she wasn't my daughter, I would date her", he has insulted almost every minority in the whole world (except KKK ofcourse), women, lgbt community, muslims, latinos, blacks, poor, eastern European countries, Germany, South European countries, Japan, Korea, and I am sure some others for sure, he respecta Putin and Erdogan, 2 of the most autocratic and imperialistic rulers (that rule since forever by the way, because of the new laws they discover everytime), he born ultra super rich (not a working class hero I guess) and he always was consider women as his trophys.

You can vote for whatever you want, and I will support your right (as I did here as well, I commented 4-5 times and didn't insult anyone for his vote) but do not play with logic, reasoning and common sense, some things are objective, and you are not only "loosing face" (what a degrading term, only fools loose face, wise people learn from their mistakes and they are open to other people's wisdom or knowledge) but your whole substitute.

The above video was just terrible. I do not know the German message, but I don't care to learn either, it didn't created me any positive emotions at all.

The big humans in history (the greatest examples, Aristoteles and Da Vinci, the best in ancient Greece and Rennaisance), were trying to be as complete as possible. You can not care only for one aspect of our job. I hear that a lot from empirical shooters, that underestimate Universities. no, NOT going to university is not going to be a disadvantage in real life, but being in a Bachelors degree program in another country, study and work there, was an immerse experience that made me who I am know.

More "succesful" people I know here, didn't study anything, usually they had the connections because their fathers were working for the state television (Watch the Bacalaureat, the Romanian film, if you want to know how things are done in east/south Europe), maybe they have more money (they do!), does that make them better people and/or professionals? Most of them are terrible people full of complexes , the worst to work with.

Everything is relevant, if you want to achieve great standards. It is funny to see that people that argue about "comment/money/views/likes only" are the young ones. 

To be a complete human with knowledge, logic and reasoning, goes beyond making you a good professional, it makes you a good citizen.

Know how to use your tools is another trick in the craftsman's sleeves. Everything is part of the story, either being an Alexa shot, or something purposely shot on Sony Experia Z phones.

Libels, yellow press, propaganda, demagoges, misinformation was always here. Since the ostracization in Athens (civilians were writing names in shells, of people wanted to exile), the offending graffiti in Pompei, to ever.

Always (self-)education, logic and reasoning are the only "weapons" we civilized humans have.

As I said before, it is an evolutionary thing, maybe we humans are not ready to go further, maybe we have to pause for a bit, take a few steps back, and decide from there. A lot of things happened the last couple of centuries, maybe some peole's bodies and minds are not capable to process, and evolve.

Do not forget that we still have some Neanterdals genes in our genome. Some people more so!

On a more positive note, at least things have been accelerated, this "steps back" may won't last 1200 years, like the last time!

Novim and Arihkam, excellent opinions that complement one another. Very well thought, and nice analogy.

I just felt that a "like" wasn't enough.

Also, you saved me time to reply to something so obvious, since the palm painting in pre-historic caves (I take your book analogy, and put it half a dozen thousands of years back)!

Cheers.

Well done Ricardo! Even though I just do my own grading, and just add 30-45 impulz film grain I will consider them when/if go down in price in the future.

The most apealing to me is the Denver one, can you comment on this specific one?

Also, I would like to say that the original in camera footage seems great to me also. Very good exposure I guess.

Thank you for your great job.

33 minutes ago, Richard Bugg said:

If we look at environmental impact, climate change, disparities between the wealthy and the poor, access to medical care, the proliferation of guns and gun-related violence, and so on the picture is less clear. And how many of the political class in the US are not in the highest few percentile regarding access to wealth? These issues are a product of the system of government and its implementation. There may be other models of democracy that are superior to US style government in many regards.

Yeah, almost all of the rest!

For us in Europe, crime rates, guns everywhere, extreme capitalism, health system, non very eco friendly, cheap Sony cameras are very far from the system here. Still, if we look elsewhere in the world, US system is the closest, and the friendliest to us than Communist(?!) China and Democratic(?!) Russia.

1) My point was that the Russian's you think are going to save you, are the worst enemies of their own people.

2) point about Australia. The best that ever happened to you (and a lot of Greek friends there), but the worst of the thousands of people thrown into tiny islands, that can not escape with gangs ruling by the law of the jungle.

3) I didn't talk about the people protesting for Clinton (I know about the Clinton family), but the fact that they CAN PROTEST, something that wasn't possible in your country before, nor in Russia before, or now, or ever.

Western World is the best we have right now. You are being romantic if you thing there is a better possible solution right now. You take the best that there is, and trying to build from there. 

If I had to choose between a Theocratic State, like the one in Turkey, that just yesterday passed a law for men that says that men that have rape girls, are innocent, if they marry them, and Russia that the state murders or puts in jail whoever is against the government there, and put Academics and Journalists in jail in both countries, then yeah, definitely Western World isn't such a terrible place.

It is undeniable that Assad was ruling the state without being elected, and there were people there that felt excluded from the government, and I believe those people were the majority of Syria (and I have to state here, that Assad's regime kept the country stable and peaceful, that is the truth, but the majority felt like revolting, that is another Colonization Britain's map making of the past). It is pretty obvious that when Libya started, CIA and the western world didn't know what to do, and was unprepared. Qaddafi had just signed tenths of different papers with Western governments, and stayed in Italy (in his tent!) for a whole month. The West was pro Qaddafi. The revolutions, the Arabic Spring, DID started from democratic people, but as the history shows, the naive democrats and the young, soon felt the barrel of a Kalashnikov in their backs, the radicals capitalized on the instability, and guns are more powerful than protests and twitter. 

Historically, this is the best chance the Kurds have to make their own state, they are 30.000.000+ without their own state, they fight through this war to their freedom, in their new US funded armored 4WD and their new shinny boots. For them, this war is an opportunity, and Kurds are inhabited the area a few thousands of years since BEFORE even the Turks arrived from the steppes of far east (1109).

Simon Sasha, again, you seem to thrive and make dreams, because you are living in a western world country, not in Russia, not in Azerbaijan, not in Nigeria. 

There are people protesting everywhere in the US because they afraid that their elected president will not respect minorities and communities, the other day Pence (the vice president) went to the theater, and the actors declared their fears on stage, and audienced boo=ed the vice president. Could you do that in Syria 10 years ago? Can you do that outside Kremlin?

Also, Australia has the strictest immigration policy right now in the whole world. Have you not notice that tiny islands a lot of hundreds of miles away from the whole Oceania continent have thousands of people living in terrible conditions? Who is going to make a documentary about them?

See, your dream is someone's else nightmare.

I hope you can go back to your city soon, and do your documentary.

@arourke please, make a new thread on the NX sub forum, something like "LUT" to post everything you have done so far, and for whoever wants to add their own!

Thank you!

First of all, we consider Syrians friends and family, since Alexander the Great conquest of the Persian empire, and especially the Orthodoxs of the later centuries. There is an uninterapted relationship and intermixing of thousands of years until the genocides of the Turks in the 20th century that killed or expelled every Greek in the region that lived there for almost 3000(!) years! So, I know a thing or two about ethnic cleansing. Both my parents's families came (in different centuries) from Constantinople (Istanbul= Is tin poli = Greek for the "To the city") to avoid the massacres.

I tottaly agree with everything you say, but for every war and destabilization of the west there is another one of the USSR, or Russia. Unfortunately it is uunavoidable.

You live in Australia, would you like to study and live in Russia or where you are right now? The fact that NOONE wants to go to Russia, but to the Western world, is an indication of what society humans instictivly prefer.

I feel so bad for what is happening in Syria that I am not worthy of talking to you about politics, or anything at all. When there is war, there is no humanity, but we the people have to realize that noone is coming to save us, we have to come to common grounds and build something new.

Cmon Kidzrvl! you didn't know that when you had yours ;) !!

@Simon Shasha I am from Greece, the war in Syria is closer than what it is to Portland, or Vancuver, or San Francisco. I lived in Cyprus and I have so many friends there, which is a hundred Khm from war, also Turkey that is becoming a theocratic state shows signs of high neo-Othomanic imperialism every day. Trump vote for everywhere in the hot spots is the worst could happen right now, it is not an exaggeration to say, that 3rd world war is closer by a lot right now.

I have the best of the opinion about Syrian people, a state with well educated people, and all of them that I have met in my life, I felt very close, I considered them friends, and not just people I met. Right now in Greece, a devasted and destroyed country by another war, a financial genocide, we are trying to offer what we could for thousands and thousands of immigrants from Syria (but other places as well). Me personally, I have been a few times to immigrant centers to offer clothes, blankets, food, and whatever people manage to gather, while UK wll accept a few thousands of people (4000 I think) until 2020, while there were as many as 4000 every few days in the summer, and this is true for the rest of the Western World.

Anyway, I wouldn't trust the Russians, as they play the Orthodox card whenever they feel they are gaining something, more than you and your faith, they care about their bases in middle east (Syria is the last to left) and the increased geostratigical importance, and imperialism of Erdogan. In my country, they created 2 or 3 revolutions in the 16 to 18th centuries, and when the revolutions started, then they abandoned us, and the Othoman Turks were killing and destroying everything Greek. Finally, in the 1821 revolution, even though they were Greek ministers in Russia and a lot of Greek merchants, Russia didn't help at all. You know who they helped? English! of course not because loved the ever-conquered Greeks, but because they show opportunity in Othomans empire resolve.

In anyway, the situation is more complicated than that, and always, in Asia, Africa there is only one to blame, England! Before they left, they weresure to create unstable countries, with the good old "divide and conquer" Roman law, so they created more unstable and problematic states, than solutions. Same happened in Balkans, that's why Clinton (the "Democrat") made war inside Europe a decade and a bit ago, and again Balkans, isn't resolved yet, there is still war left in this side of Europe.

Also, I truly respect your position, they destroyed your country for at least the next 50 years, but same happened to mine financially (which I do not compare with the total madness that war is, but half a million of young scientists and artists have left, hospitals do not even have basic medicines, education is completely ruined, people are commiting suicide every day because they can't afford to pay their loans, or bills, and we have to pay loans we are getting right now, for at least until 2080, a few generations ruled..), and do not forget that Russia, that seems like an Angel to you, for easter Europe is their worst enemy. Also, 2/3 of Syria are (were) belonging to Isis Chaliphate (so, not really Syria right now). History is more complicated than Angels and Demons.

Hey, I still have my AE-1 and the 50mm/1.4! (it's in the video, for whoever haven't seen it).

I thought we all knew that it is dead, I do not understand why to make it a big deal now.

Seriously, except my professional friends, I do not know many that have system cameras right now, or any kind of dedicated camera whatsoever (I have seen a few old people, holding a 10 years old point and shoot, sometimes) and why should they? For better DR? For 4K video? For better AF in 1.8f on a 85mm lens? Come on guys..

We are here because we care (for whatever reason we care), but we are like the 0,01%of the whole world (that we care! not here..).

In the end, there are so many more pictures, and most importantly, videos taken every day.

Let's leave the work to real professionals, the industry is just correcting itself of the previous crazy hedonistic decades of the end of history.

A big "bravo" to Andrew, being the one and only, still mentioning the NX system cameras.

Despite popular belief,

1) the cameras haven't self destruct, yet.

2) There are still new ones (that means, with new warranties that last from 1-2 years since purchase),

3) Samsung still services cameras (at least in Europe that I have positive experiences),

4) are still top overal hybrid cameras, for the reasons Andrew mentions plus 28mgpxls, 15fps, hack/mode scene achieving great things, battery life (anyone using 5-8 batteries for a7 cameras, will appreciate using half on NX, for the same amount of work), you have to grab one to realize the unbelievablr handling, and use one to appreciate the very clean and clear menu system and exceptional ergonomics.

Thank you Andrew for your unbiased opinions. To be fair and honest is becoming more and more rare in the new era of nationalism/financial instability/isolationism/alienationism/e.t.c