Michael Coffee

It was a 9mm fujinon c-mount.

To quote from Game of Thrones
“Shame! Shame! Shame!”
How dare you recline in your sofa/ coffee shop/ bedsit and lambast Ed David for having a pair of balls. Not only is he rocking a heavy copper pair, he also gave you a lesson in storytelling.
What is it you loved so much about Serial, or Making a Murder?
Haven’t heard or seen those, ok, let’s spread the net…
Why did you love the Sopranos, Orange is the New Black, the Wire?
Ok, you’re still lost…
Breaking Bad?
It’s because in real life there are no good guys and bad guys. To try and bookend this episode with your own view of the world and how it should be will always make you a shitty storyteller.
Yes you can make your money knowing everything about a camera spec and DP for someone, but you do not understand the complexity of emotions in real life drama that unfolded before your eyes. You went through the emotional roller-coaster, you just wanted to wait until the dust had settled before taking action. That's the difference between art and criticism.
Where were you when you could have put your cards on the table many times during the episode? Where was your defense or attack?
Michael Moore said that the most important thing a filmmaker can do is to find an opinion and fight for it, it doesn't matter what side its on. The honesty as you work through your honest emotions is what everything is about. Werner Herzog was a bit more enthusiastic - he said you must stare death in the face (I think he had the same general jist - be honest about your own humanity).
Where were you when all of this humanity was unfolding? Anger, sadness, remorse, arrogance (defensiveness?) and full circles over and over again...
Oh, youre here now, book-ending and categorizing the winners and losers.
Those are the cheap seats.
Ed went through so many stages of emotions, and at each stage he gave us such honesty that it is ridiculous that you sat at your desk for a week and still feel you have a right to pass judgement.  he showed it all…
... in defense of YOUR community... our community.
For that, I will always remember a one Mr. Ed David.. that filmmaker in New York who fucking loves this racket we are trying to make it in.
... and he will have your back if you get screwed...
... and he's fucking nuts.
Go find someone like him on any other forum. I dare you.

But for really young filmmakers just starting out in video and they want to make short films with their friends, it seems like a camcorder is a no brainer. Of course, people are making feature films with iPhones nowadays, and they're getting released in theaters, so a small sensor camcorder must be a step up from that.
 
Btw, my XC10 finally showed up. I didn't have much tim to play with it, but I did go through the menus and fiddled with it a little... definitely the nicest camera I ever owned... well built and insanely ergonomic... the ibis is stellar... even on the long end.

Do you accept western union?

It's always nice to be nice - and I've got a week off lol Knowing the content he was shooting also is a no brainer to help if possible.

On the situiation between Ed adn ES: hopefully it will be resolved in that thread and not dominate the forum forever more!
A lesson remains: never use western union to send money for private purchases. The risk is too high.
I wasn't involved in banning Zach, and had plenty of decent chats with him, though he does come across as unstable. That meant that every single thread he waded into was derailed onto the T2i even when it was completely irrelevant. It started to negatively affect the forum as lots of threads went way off-topic and turned into arguments. I think there were enough fair warnings there TBH across a lot of topics and messages. He's actually not deleted but he is post-blocked for getting two warnings, so you can read messages. These blocks can be revoked too.
As for the community here, I think it's excellent. I've known Andrew a long, time, though we don't see a huge amount of one another I do know he's kept his passion for being an advert-free independant voice.
In fact I've been here since i had a T2i (first serious camera i had) and have learned a lot and taught some others.
Compared to many communities, I feel we have a good balance and fair moderation standards. There's no atrocious ban-hammer, but there's a sensible limit set on bad behaviour.
Here's to many more years of learning and lolz

iZotope Rx.

I think Ehbrahim Saadawi and Ed David are the same person, like in fight club. 

Be careful not to turn this into another Ebrahim thread, they are watching you.......  
When I got my first camera (Canon XHA1), I had no idea what I was doing, so I forced myself to read complex posts in forums like this until I "got it". 
This forum has a vibe that others don't. It's a good vibe.

Yeah, I was very interested in the all-i, tried it out but it seems you loose audio - and having that audio input was a big reason I got this little beast.. 
Just tried it again, it seems to be working ok with audio now at 3.0x bitrate, and all-I ..
 

I didn't ruin ES's life and career.  I threatened to.  There is a difference.  I wasn't asking for a pat on the back, anonymous person.
And you know, I have been scammed before.  I lost $2000 when I was younger.
And back then, I would have died to have an older, crazier person whose been around the block a few times help me back then, get my $2000 back from a corrupt production company that prayed on young talent.  I worked 10 friday nights from 6pm till 6am when I was early 22, and never got paid a dime.
And then two years ago I was owned $6000 and fighting tooth and nail I got that money as the company was collasping from a Ponzi scheme.
Again, I would have just loved to have someone older help me.
And, what, the guys didn't ask for my help right?
Well that's right. So why did I do it?
Because one of the scammed victims was threatening violence, very early on.
I was actually scared for ES.
and because not everyone asks for help, but the guys came on the forum and thought it was a lost cause so they kind of opened the invitation to find out more, and a lot of other people helped too - we all backed each other up.
And if that stupid rangefinder that doesn't even work that well actually makes it to the guys, that's something, I guess.
That we got back and got organized and got a scam artist who was using his leverage and thinking he could play the crowd for what they were, seeing those yankees stripes and thinking nothing past it.  But people were able to rise above it, just as everyone should always do.

Just wanted to say I'm proud of everyone coming together to help out three members here get on their way to get their money back.
It was an intense few days or so.  But this really, in a dorky way, felt like a real community.  A weird meta one, since none of us know each other in the real world, except for me and Mr. Coffee after a great skype interview session.
Now I am crying.
I am crying and crying and crying and sobbing and need to get a hankey.
Okay got it.
Anyway goodbye guys!
Till the next hot-buttoned issue!

I just bought mojo during the red giant 25% off sale. Neat little plug in, I just wish they used the correct words instead of "punch it," slam it, finger ram it... Wait that's a different program...
But seriously, I always liked Prolost Flat. Since everybody had a rebel back then, if one of my friends showed up, you could just dial in the settings and you're good to go. 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/272086620613?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT looks nice, good price..

49.96 - 50.05? I guess this is normal.

I'll second VisionTech - it's easily the best of the bunch by a long way.
But remember that you shouldn't grade too much with 8-bit H264 files, as they'll fall apart. You need to get it as close as you can in-camera, then adjust for contrast & saturation and/or very minor cc.
Cinestyle is absolute rubbish & looks rubbish, it requires you to grade the footage too much & you'll run into problems with 8-bit footage.

MODERATOR INTERVENTION:
Moderator Jonpais and myself as fellow Moderator have been talking and we are going to keep this thread open for now BUT
THESE ARE THE CONDITIONS :
the thread stays open for the four people involved in this crime to communicate, it stays open to keep Ebrahim Sadaawi honest and full fill his promise to refund everyone involved ......eveyone one else back off and let them resolve this issue .
NO MORE POSTS on this thread from now on or we will delete them if you are not involued in this situation.
Ebrahim Sadaawi you keep in contact with Tim , Thomas and James who you have stolen money from , you stick to the plan to refund them , you keep in regular contact with them and let them know exactly what is happening no excuses and no stalling .
Tim, Thomas and James you keep in regular contact with Ebrahim Sadaawi and you can use this thread to keep us all informed how it is progressing .
If Ebrahim Sadaawi goes back on his word and starts stalling post on here and keep us informed what is going on .
 
Everyone else does not post anymore on this thread,   yes that means you  !!    no more lynch mob and wolfpack tactics . lets get our fellow EOSHD members refunded - that is the priority now.
let Ebrahim Sadaawi repay Tim, Thomas and James .
If Ebrahim Sadaawi does not keep his promise to refund all three people he scammed , Andrew Reid will be taking this futher with the authorities - this is his forum.
EOSHD MODERATORS

Just read all todays madness
Time out Please!
ES needs to refund the 3 people involved in this matter , it's between him and them .
Andrew is away filming and I don't think he will want an internet intervention lynching branded by EOSHD members when he has said if this is not resolved he will get the authorities involved.
 
ES contact the three people involved , keep in regular contact with them and get on with the plan for refunding them in full with a realistic time frame they are happy with and stick to it.
or you will be dealing with Andrew Reid direct.
 
 
 

Not to put a downer on all this, but shouldn't you guys move off/away from this forum?
This is Andrew's forum/blog, after all & he might not take too kindly to all of this.
Remember that you might be dragging his name down with yours & this scammer.
Have any of you checked to see what he thinks or what steps he is taking? Might be worth doing, before you rush headlong down this route.
Just saying, because in the past he was quite quick to ban people for a lot less that what this kid has done & what you are doing.

I have to say all this drama has been a refreshing change from the constant posts about motion cadence recently
The idea of a short film about this is also interesting. We could each shoot a scene for the film. And the constant changing of locations etc in each scene could be tied into how the protagonist has a multiple personality disorder or something.

I thought I did read in a recent post that Zach was banned, but I sort of thought it was an off-handed joke, not really the truth. 
Truly, his worst sin, if you even want to call it that, was that he was wildly naive and earnest; dash in a heap of ignorance.  Quite honestly, after three dozen pages of this thread I think we all deserve some of his sort of youthful alt-reality.  I'd welcome some of those types of halcyon days at this stage of my life, believe me.
The wonderful insane messiness of all this stew we read here is why this site is actually interesting.  Banning Zach seems like a bit of a take-away from that vibe.  You don't get this sort of juice from sanitized corporate curated websites.

The game right now is empathy and patience.
Let's all hold back the comments until tomorrow.
If ES does mail the rangefinder, he will have done something probably none of us would have done - stayed on this forum, in front of a pack of wolves, and tried to do the right thing.

That is a very decent thing you did Ed, giving him a way out. No its on him to show he deserves it.
 

I'm with you on this Bioskop.Inc ,
this is International criminal activity with no regard what so ever for EOSHD members , not to mention 3 years of lies on this forum ,
and suddenly everyone is friends again and all is ok .  come on guys  Its not OK ! wake up !
ES is a very sophisticated criminal who stole from EOSHD members and they need paying back asap. We have to wait and see if that EVER happens.
 
Be very very cautious about anything said by ES its not all of a sudden all true.