webrunner5
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No sad to say. It has rained or overcast and cold as heck for days. But here are a few screen grabs I shoot a week ago. My new 14-140mm 3.5-5.6 mkII I think is pretty impressive sharpness wise. I haven't done too much AF with it, but I think it might work out pretty well on that part with good contrast subjects. The Jeep was done with AF with it. So was the Bird Feeders.
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12 minutes ago, mercer said:
Thanks Don, I appreciate it. I am pretty pleased with this set up. That lens is great wide open and gives me just enough dof. To be able to shoot Raw video, handheld is amazing. I was a little worried about interior shots... but after looking at a couple shots, I think they turned out alright for a 2 minute color process. However I still wish I had a better monitor than my MacBook Air...
They look a little browner than they did on my computer.
I also rarely shoot anything longer than a minute, so I may try to up the resolution to a 2.5k 2:35 variant to see how long I can record with it.
Wow the DR looks great indoors also. I don't see Any crushed Blacks, and the grade looks very realistic. You made a heck of a good choice on the 5DIII Glenn.
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5 hours ago, mercer said:
Thanks Dan, sorry I should have been more clear in my long post... this isn't 4K... I actually shot in 2:35, so it isn't even 1080p... it's 1920x810. Since I'm new to the 5D3 and ML, I haven't tested the 4K Raw yet... yet.
That looks crazy good for not even being 1080p HD. Wow. The last screen grab is sharp as a tack.
And who can argue about Canon Colors!
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Nice short video on tricks John Alcott used. I love his stuff.
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Wow this will be a heck of a lens for you C100 mkII and C300 mkII owners. Hope the price is Sort of reasonable.
http://nofilmschool.com/2017/04/canon-cn-e-70-200mm-lens
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28 minutes ago, IronFilm said:
That is the sweet sweet awesomeness of Panasonic, is very very extremely affordable to pick up their older cameras! I started out years ago with one Panasonic GH1, and over the years I've got very cheaply indeed: GX1/GF3/G3/GH1(another one!)/G6. Plus a little Nikon/Sony/Samsung/BMD in the mix too.
Yeah it is pretty amazing how cheap a lot of m4/3 cameras are on the used market. And a lot of them are damn good at video! Oly and Panny have done a good job for the little guy that is for sure.
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Nah, I read the Cliff Notes. Not impressed. Been there done that. If you do 1/100 of the stuff I have done you will die a lucky person. Now some of the stuff I had done I would not wish on, well thinking, well not you I am sure. You seem like a really nice guy.
But to have done all the stuff I have done you end up with a lot of ,ahh baggage that, ahh you can't get rid of. But that comes with the territory.
So I am not really into the "Triangle Thingy". It is a go with the flow thing. Not a lot that I have not done that I want to get done. And reading that whole book, well I have the time, but it looks like something I just don't want to embrace his concept. I see it as helping in repetitive stuff, and that is stuff I don't like. I want something that is fresh, not a thing that you already know the outcome before you start it. And doing Comic Book stuff, well you have to have continuity. So it is a win for him.
But at your age, I think it might be a lasting asset, his opinion, his read. At your age you have to , well you don't really, but knowledge is top of the heap thing. So yeah try new stuff, that is how you form it to what your beliefs, outlooks are in life.
Oh one more thing for you and others here. Learn how to speed read. Best thing you could ever do in your life if you want to grow, be entertained reading, enhance whatever you want to do. You can cram years of stuff into months. It is the cats ass.
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God, Dinesh D'Souza and Steve Bannon, AKA Otis the Town Drunk! What a couple of useless, goofy bastards they are. Yeah I hope no one aspires to become a film maker in their image.
And what the hell is that fat ugly guy about 50ish by now, that makes movies about hating Everything a Republican likes and loves Everything Democrats like. I hate that squirrely bastard also!
There is nothing worse than an extremist on either side. I hate all of them.
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1 hour ago, HelsinkiZim said:
I would be horrified if my legacy was being good at 'blocking'.
Literally, being the best at telling an actor how not to trip over their counterpart.
I would imagine this would be a 2nd AD role at Spielberg's level.
If we are, in fact, talking about the theatrical genesis of the term.
I think Blocking is Very important in a film. Other than the dialog maybe the most important. Well the talent to speak the dialog helps LoL.
It is more about setting it up for how the film flows, how the DoP even Knows what you want the film to look like. What focus pulls you want. The drama of it or lack of drama in a shot. You can't just expect people to stand in the right place and the camera guy to just start shooting when They feel like it. Blocking as I know it IS telling people where to stand and where to go. Gee, sort of important. It is a vision, and that is not a very easy thing to figure out in a movie. And that is the very first thing you have to do on a film, is to set the actors. I do realize there is a script, but how do you really interpret it to put it on film.
Even just whipping out a camera on the street you are Blocking the people you want to shoot. You cut the people that are in goofy locations, too close, too far. Even buildings you are blocking to fit them all in or a few of them in.
Hell I would love to be able to have the foresight to see beyond what normal people envision. To Create a scene that draws you into it, or make you repel with fear. Damn make me do that. That kind of talent leans on Genius, not just being pretty good at something, at least in my mind it does. I would like to have that legacy.
This article here explains what I think I mean. The 10 minute movie in the middle shows it in action. http://nofilmschool.com/2016/11/pre-blocking-movies-orson-welles
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2 minutes ago, kaylee said:
with all due respect, you have no idea whats in that book. maybe you should READ it, as i suggested
Just to piss you off I Won't read it. Over and Out.
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6 minutes ago, kaylee said:
every filmmaker should read this book
Ehh How OLD are you kaylee, JK I think?
Yeah I can see Comic books being a hell of a lot like a mini series that goes on, and on, and on. Same concept.
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11 minutes ago, HelsinkiZim said:
Im on his side - if his response was doing what he is doing now, then that is a lesson for all of us in resilience.
I don't follow him All the time LoL. So I am not sure What his response was. Knowing him he did not bring it into his Blog. He is a very Professional guy. At least I have not seen it in his blog.
I am amazed how much talent he has, how he is kind enough to help others out with every aspect of his job. I know he makes money off of it, but he does have a lot of stuff for free that is very important stuff to learn. He is a rare person in Hollywood that does it that's for sure. But I think his wife has a lot to do about it happening also!
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Man Shane has a Beautiful wife. He is a lucky guy what she is capable of doing with him. They make one heck of a team. They have known each other since they were 3 years old.
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19 minutes ago, HelsinkiZim said:
Another thing... I truly believe that filmmaking is no different to painting, woodwork or sculpting - you only get better by actually buying the tools and materials and doing it.
Yeah the great thing about Digital is you can Afford to keep screwing up, over and over, and it only costs your friends patience Lol. You just have to go out and do it, and do it, and do it unless you are just super talented from the start. And I doubt many of the greats were in reality. I think they watched people on set to sort of mimic their craft.
I bet you could Never learn how to do this stuff well without actually being on a big time move lot a lot. I would imagine we can't imagine what all goes into it without seeing it in action! I guess.
I am a big fan of Shane Hurlbut, I know he is a DoP, but this website does show a lot of "On Lot" type stuff. Well worth anyone visiting it often. He does update it a lot, and what I like, answers peoples questions. http://www.thehurlblog.com/
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5 hours ago, AKH said:
Anyone interacting on DPReview should take this advice.........
Ahh hell no wonder they love me on there LoL. I have been Banned a few times there. Perma Banned on the Sony Forum. Me and the Sony Mod and me don't see eye to eye to say the least. He is a Jackass! Ugly bastard also.
Well as you can see, I really don't like him. I don't like Richard Butler either. Hmm hell, a lot I don't like about it. Probably why it is rare I comment anymore. I like the Sigma forum the best. Had a lot of their cameras.
One hell of a lot of Video haters on there I can tell you that for sure. Pretty much out of touch with reality is what is amazing to me on there. It is Canon, Nikon and a few Pentax fanatics, other than a pretty strong m4/3 group on there. Sony guys Always take a beating from the Canon guys LoL. I think Canon better wake the hell up, and soon, or Sony is going to eat their lunch, they already have ate Nikon's lunch.
4 hours ago, HelsinkiZim said:Ha ha... I think he was the first person to make us all think about 'alternative facts', aka 'how the fuck do we know what is real in the digital age?'.
The hubris (balls) to reappear are so unthinkable that he must be real. But then again...
Hence the current 'truth crisis'.
Yeah he is the Poster Child for the definition of a total digital age Bastard that you want to just punch as hard in the mouth that you can muster! The old "Hay Maker"
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O Porto 2016
In: Cameras
Wow Porto is a beautiful city. I regret not going there now when I was in Portugal! Ahh looked like a bit of Rolling shutter on the train shot. That is too be expected I guess.
Yeah I thought it was very well done also, not too sure about the backwards part though? But it did come off as different I think. Same O same O can get stale.
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I have called him out on there a few times lately on DPR. He has not responded to me LoL. I am sure he is probably smarter than me, but he says dumb things just like me.
So is he smarter??
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1 hour ago, BasiliskFilm said:
If they could do 8K downsample to 4K they wouldn't use line-skipping in the A7Rii, but as we know from the A6500 they have the processing to perform 6K > 4K.
The size of the photosites is less important than the total area covered by photosites - the A7S has better coverage than the A7RII because it reads from the whole sensor without skipping like the A7Rii. In which case I would expect the A9 to do a similarly good job in low light.Yeah but Pixel Pitch does matter, the bigger the better.
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I guess things have Really changed since I, and others in my era, Only had One camera at a Wedding! Gee all those poor Millions of people that had Weddings really got screwed!
I guess they missed out of people wiping their butt in the bathroom, little kids picking buggers out of their nose, boys looking up women's skirts when they bent over etc. , etc., God I feel bad for them.
Sorry people for me Only taking shots of the shit you REALLY needed!
I am poking fun at you guys, I guess, well not too sure, yeah I am, I think, hmm.
Scratching head, then ass, then head, wow something stinks. Ehh.
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2 hours ago, bamigoreng said:
ML, the binning patterns are described here: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=16516
Well that is clear as Mud LoL.
I Sort of get it. 
I guess it just means it samples smaller blocks? Well L's in essence. 
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7 hours ago, Michael Burr said:
My A7rII is 42MP. Why is the new A9 only 24MP?
I would imagine it is due to the fact that they would not have been able to process all that data and maintain the 20fps they wanted. The higher the MP count the more data you have.
Plus the files would have been a lot bigger for the Sports guys to try and upload to the web, or to the editors. So that would slow them down. And well it would take a lot more memory card space to save it in the camera.
Plus the less MP a sensor has the better the high ISO is. You can have larger photosites to gather more light, = less noise.
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Matt you are a Sick PuP! Those balloons, well, what can I say. Very well done. I thought the colors on it looked great. Keep em coming!
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Gee it only cost $29,995.00. But it is pretty damn neat.
5D3 ML Raw Screen Grabs
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I had the little Canon 40mm f2.8 Pancake lens. It was Really sharp. And they are cheap. They are around 100 bucks used on Amazon. I would latch on to one of those in the future. Talk about a small, light setup up! And it is pretty stealth looking. Just about my favorite focal length.
I think it is close to what we see with our eyes. Not the total width, but our aspect ratio, focal length. So I have always thought, if it looks good to our eyes why use a lens that is very far off from that.