funkyou86

18 hours ago, Timotheus said:

Congratulations on your purchase. Any idea how the single focus mod works?

Cheers, Tim

Thanks!

The seller said that there is a self made variable HQ diopter to make the singlefocusing solution.

Hi folks! 

Just got my 2x Sankor Compact Cinemascope from my favourite german anamorphic retailer, and I'm quite amazed how sharp is it! Usable picture from f2! There is a custom single focus mod on the lens, it rotates 480 degrees, not really follow focus friendly, but with a wider a ring and a bigger ff gear it should work without problems. I can't wait to try it out on my next music video shoot, meanwhile here's a test I just shot. 

All shots were shot with Gh4 + k&f mft to ef adapter + pentax 50mm f1.7, set to F2.8 + sankor, everything shot 16:9, some 4K, most of it into 1080p.

55 minutes ago, Damphousse said:

Is it 4k though?  I mean my BMPCC does raw to SD cards but it isn't 4k.

I'm not a BM guy, so maybe I am wrong, but the product desc. says that even the 4K video assist feeds the SD cards. Hard to say what will be Panasonics move, I guess there will be two slots for SD cards, but let's wait for the confirmation of the quality of 4K video. Andrew, what do you think, is it possible that the GH5 4K will be anything else than 10bit 4:2:2?

Rec709 preview is crucial, anamorphic desqueeze would be also very welcome!

5 minutes ago, Hanriverprod said:

4k 10bit 4:2:2 to SD card?

the BM Video Assist alredy does 4:2:2 10bit to SD cards, why so surprised?

2 hours ago, tellure said:

Thanks again funkyou86.  So why do you think there are almost no flares in the A7R video you posted?

I have no idea, he could reduce it with some kind of technique, but here's another on from him and the flares are present: https://vimeo.com/86847092

The aperture does not affect the flares. The quality of the videos differs, but it is crucial to read the others reviews before you buy the lens. This forum is the greatest resource!

Here's another flare test:

The SLR Anamorphot gives you digital flares and a not so vintage look, it could be what you're looking for, maybe not, it's your choice. Sharp from f2.8-f4, so don't expect to shoot wide open. I personally would love to use it for several projects, but I just invested into a 2x ana lens :D

45 minutes ago, tellure said:

Thanks, should have RTFM I guess :).  So anyone use the Anamorphot 1.33 with the FE 55mm 1.8 then?

I'll work with the 55mm  Anyway here's a clip of it (zeiss 35mm + 55mm)

10 hours ago, tellure said:

Does anyone have experience using the SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x 50 with a Sony A7R2 (or any recent A7 series camera) and any of the following lenses:

• Zeiss 24mm 1.8 (APS-C)
• Sony 10-18mm f/4 (APS-C)
• Sony FE55mm 1.8 (full-frame)

I'm considering picking up the Anamorphot 1.33 50 for an upcoming trip but from what I've read the pairing between the anamorphot and the lens is quite important so I'm wondering if anyone has experience with any of the above lenses.  Thanks for any help!

No wide lenses with the Anamorphot.

http://www.slrmagic.co.uk/amfilerating/file/download/file_id/3/

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Suggested taking lens based on sensor size:

40-85mm focal length can be used for Full Frame sensor.

Have you understand what is SLOG, and for what is it used for? If not, than you should not shoot in to log profile because you'll have problems like now.

Here's some walkthrough what is slog: 

http://www.xdcam-user.com/2011/01/understanding-gamma-cinegamma-hypergamma-and-s-log/

http://www.newsshooter.com/2011/09/22/sonys-s-log-for-dummies-matt-allard-explains-how-it-works-with-his-pmw-f3/

24 minutes ago, Grégory LEROY said:

Is this the slog2 Lut by default on DaVinci? It brings horrible colors. I would be very interested in some kodak though, do you have some?

Not sure what are you trying to accomplish? Have you used a rec709 preview on your A7S while shooting? If not, then you might wrongly set your exposure/scene/etc.

Every scene is different, rec709 brings you closer to standard picture profile, but it's not magic. 

If you're looking for film stocks, try Filmconvert or Premiere's lumetri built in presets. Or just share your footage to get some advice on grading. Cheers!

Alex

3 hours ago, Grégory LEROY said:

Hello everyone,

Are Sony engineer smoking crack? I rent the sony A7SII camera, shoot some SLog2 footage and oooh my god it's horrible..Skin tones look like corpse, sky look like on LSD and those file are impossible to transcode.

Can you share your workflow to color correct those horrible colors on DaVinci resolve? Any free LUTs to recommend to me?

Thank you

 

Try the Slog2 » Rec709 LUT 

https://luts.iwltbap.com/free-lut-log-to-rec709-and-rec709-to-log-conversion/

Hi folks!

Thanks for your contributions, here's how I graded it:

And here are the BEFORE/AFTER shots:

I'm going to write a longer article on the mistakes I made and post it to EOShd forum, thanks for your help. Cheers!

23 minutes ago, no_connection said:

I think all of them are reading the file correctly, but the two top apps think they are sending the signal to a TV and adjusting the output to match. If they read the file as 16-255 it would ether be left alone or being clipped/expanded to 0-255.
If you are using nVidia card, check settings and see if you can force output to be 0-255 range, it might be that and hardware acceleration that causes it.
I use MPC-HC so I can't help you with quicktime or VLC.

Cheers mate! That was it, I changed the output at Nvidia's settings from limited to 0-255 and it works!

2 hours ago, maxmizer said:

VLC could be interpreted in the wrong way...

try more ... (quicktime)

Yep, looks like VLC and quicktime is interpreting in a really wrong way. I compared the shots with different players, take a look please. Looks like windows and YT is reading the file properly.

16 minutes ago, no_connection said:

Looks like the right version is remapped to 16-235 range.

The clips were recorded at 0-255 luminance level. So why is premiere changing these settings? Sorry for going offtopic, but this seriously pissing me off.

Can someone tell me why is Premiere doing this sh*t to me? It is not the first time it's happening to me, the export is absolutely different than the source.

Source: .h264, 200 mbit/s, .mov
export: .h264, vbr 2pass 100mbit to 200mbit or MATCH source, or AVI uncompressed, or qucktime .mov matching source, it's always the same. What am I doing wrong, can somebody give me a hand please?

58 minutes ago, no_connection said:

I don't really know what the video is about or what you want to say with the picture mood. Make the exposure work for the mood and add character.

Looks solid. 

I'm trying to push some cold-blue colors (to the shadows) at the girls footage, and some warm colours to the band.

Just raised exposure, contrast and saturation?

Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate it!

4 minutes ago, cantsin said:

@funkyou86 - here's my shot. Graded/corrected your PNGs in Resolve. In the first shot, I also applied Neat Video's artifact removal filter. You will be able to get rid of the image noise if you apply Neat's temporal filter to the material. (Which I couldn't do with the PNG stills.)

I also included the drx files so that you will be able to use these grades in Resolve (if you work with the program).

1_1.1.1_1.1.1.drx

3_1.3.1.drx

3_1.3.1_1.2.1.drx

Thanks mate. I will give it a try. I downloaded resolve to grade with it, but unfortunately plenty of footages are "interpreted" in premiere (speed and aspect ratio) and I wasn't able to import the premieres XML, so I'm stuck with lumetri.

Hey folks!

I'm curious how would you grade these shots: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6wqoFFMeKowaVRXY3NRWjdpcFU

I pretty messed up the settings on the set. It was shot with GH4 (almost JM settings). The shots are underexposed, the skin tones are pretty bad, the lights were 5500K, noise is very much present. So, how would you bring life to these shots?

Thanks for your time!

1 hour ago, TwoScoops said:

 

Sorry to be off topic. Just curious why you shot the first/last in HD instead of 4K? Is it becaue 4K can be unflattering (esp to females) so close?

Because of the 60 fps, the camera was on a dolly and I needed the slowmo. At the second one I needed stability (more details later), so I mounted the camera to tripod, used 4K, then I added some movement in post without any loss of quality.

The video will be published on 30th of july. But right now I'm having some serious issues with grading, because Premieres lumetri panel is painfully slow, and the structure of the whole project is now so complicated, Resolve can't import properly the XML feed  So few more days to see what can I do with the noise and grains...

1 hour ago, JazzBox said:

Thank you!

Thank you!
Yes, the lights was just what we have in that room plus a mini-Led... normally I tend to shoot with far more light... Luckily that was not a paid gig, but just a favor for a friend... but I think I have to buy the G7, that (Andy Lee says and I'm sure of that seeing the results) it is far better in low light. 

You're welcome  Is there a point to get the G7 when the GH5 will be announced in mid september? 

Anyway, try to turn the grain and the noise to your advantage, make it look like it was a part of the post process  I shot this with (James Miller like) Cinelike D, but after half of year shooting with the GH4 and these settings, I'm going to switch to Cinelike V. The reason is pretty straight forward, there is no point shooting "pseudoflat", your DR is not better, you're getting far more noise and you have to grade heavily. Of course there are scenarios where you have to blacks from crushing, but otherwise, shooting to near rec709 seems like a better option with the GH4. I need to get these LUTS and after that we'll see If I regret it :D

I really hope that the GH5 will have a rec709 preview with the V-log.

4 minutes ago, Timotheus said:

I love this place as I find inspiration and positive energy here, so I don't like posting something negative, but I feel you need to be warned.

A month ago I paid @Ebrahim Saadawi for a SLR Magic Rangefinder he offered for sale both on this site and on dvxuser. He had previously done an extensive review of the Rangefinder, also posted on the EosHD forum. I assumed he was selling this unit; he told me he had no use for it and no interested buyers in Egypt. As he claimed there were no other payment options in Egypt than Western Union money transfer and knowing his excellent track record on the forum, I decided to give it a go. Yeah, really stupid me I guess.

He went totally silent after my payment confirmation on June 17th. I sent four update requests since then through the forum's message service, which he all read (the site shows you this). Also messages through Instagram and email. Still no reply. Being certain (and baffled) that I was scammed I was considering what to do. Then I read @Tito Ferradans cautionary tale in Facebook's anamorphic shooters group of a LOMO scam he barely escaped (he also posted that on this site). On Facebook, another group member, Tomas, mentioned he also bought a Rangefinder from Egypt. Same seller, same story.

So we have the second highest rated EosHD account ever (second only to Andrew himself) through which at least two people have been scammed. Now here is the catch: the account of Ebrahim is used by two people. Ebrahim senior, and his grandson Ebrahim junior (the profile signature also mentions this). The other buyer did get in contact with the seller, which turned out to be Ebrahim junior.

It looks like Senior has build quite the reputation with posts I myself have also greatly enjoyed and learnt from. Junior pisses all over it now with this crap. We'll see if this post helps him reconsider, at any rate, other forum members may be prevented of becoming 'fools' (as Junior so sympathetically described me).

 

Very sad, disappointing and disturbing  After doing the transfer via WU, do you have any options to claim your money back?

Your GH4 is not faulty. I'm having the same issue with mine. Just shot a video at night, and it's full of noise, I was shooting with ISO 400. IMO it's the downside of the MFT sensor, but I noticed that grading helps to smooth this noise out.

Here are some snapshots from my footages (straight from the camera).  The second one was shot in 4K, the first and last one in 1080p 200mBit/s

1 hour ago, Timotheus said:

 

Hell yes. You will be hearing more very soon. So angry man.

No paypal just Western Union, right? Already suspicious.