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I think what is kind of crazy the older stuff is better looking than the new stuff for a filmic look. Less is more in a sense. Other than a BM 6k or a Red Komodo the older stuff wins in my book. So yes, going through older threads reveals some pretty damn nice looking footage.
So PannySVHS get that Sony F3 fired up.

Is it this one (left)?
I still have it. Could never quite get it working properly.
Didn't even know it was single focus?!
Might have to try it again with some c-mount stuff.

The sub forums are gone but the posts are not, they were moved into the main forum, as I'd like to start discussing raw shooting cameras, anamorphic lenses, right bang in the centre of the forum rather than tucked and hidden away in a sub-forum.
I think this will help the amount of activity in the main forum and the diversity of topics.
Anamorphic sub-forum had been around for entire history of this forum, but I always felt the topics didn't get as much attention as they deserved, so sometimes having a sub-forum on anamorphic lenses hinders the general chat about anamorphic lenses.
Now when you post about it in the main forum they stand out and everyone sees it regardless of whether they duck into the sub forums from time to time or not.

Great lensing, 50 on S35 with an anamorphot looking sweet. Good old 5D2 shines even in 720p for some S16 emulation. I plan on coupling it with a Tevidon 25mm and use it on my BMMCC. I´m just a lazy and stingy cat when it comes to rigging and buying rigging parts.:)

Ha ha! I had one of these to mess around with back in the midst of the anamorphic craze. Picked it up for peanuts, knowing nothing about it as I think there was almost no info online at the time.
It gave usable results for sure! Here it is on my 5D2.... 12 years ago now!
 

I highly recommed to any S1 owner to shell out the 200USD for the VLog update. It also includes the great 150mbit 422 10bit 4K modes, 100mbit 10bit HD modes plus 4K 60p 10bit in S35mode, also full sensor open gate true 6K mode.
The photomode has less resolution than the full sensor open gate mode, something between FF and S35. So go ahead and treat yourself with the best and obligatory update for your camera, making it a true indy cinema camera powerhouse and music video dream camera! Without the update S1 does not offer 422 nor its awesome codecs nor modes, which mentioned above, open gate included. cheers

I'm seriously impressed.

I fully agree, Andrew's articles are the unrepeatable lead ingredient no one else is able to match, the secret sauce IMHO : P And where any youtubers struggle to compete, at least in independence/freedom, POV, knowledge, helpful information, really juicy-instructive quality content. What else can beat it? ;- )

You need to go with an Android phone to get the best results., Very little of all of the "aftermarket" apps or programs work on an iPhone. Raw is really the way to go if you want a lot of control. Be even some Android phones don't work well. Sony phones and some Samsung phones are not the thing to have. Some older 150 dollar ones work pretty well surprisingly, but the later models are best.

I have found him: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesyeung/page3
 
 

Been living in France for 20 years, this is my first trip to Southend-On-Sea (UK) in some time. It was a freakishly hot day in March 2022 and the rising heat was playing havoc but yet brought a certain charm to the shots. The Panasonic S1 and the Sigma 150-600mm is a heavy combination but it's great for long candid shots. Shot in V-Log.
https://youtu.be/RklH4m1JjYY
 

Heart would choose/have chosen, FP.
Head though, S5. Easily. Especially if you do not wish to rig it out.
Pulsing can still be there if you;
A: use AF all the time and
B: don’t tweak your AF settings. Mine are -1 and -3 respectively.
How I use all my Lumix cameras these days is to use AF to acquire focus and then immediately flip the lens to manual focus.
If the camera is on a tripod and I am tracking and need reliable AF, ideally a native lens plus f4-8.
These are of course ‘workarounds’ and it’s really only in faster/fast paced forward tracking there can ever be an issue with the subject actually remaining in focus, but used as above, works for me.

It may just be my imagination Andrew, but when you post, there is more engagement.
You are the forum leader after all so as it should be.
However, when you go quiet, so does the forum.
As Kye suggests, more content from you is 100% the way to go. Providing you have the time of course!
Where’s the OM-1 ‘review’ for one thing?!
Maybe I am a bit olde schoole, but I am a fan of forums for info and a bit of chat over anything else that has come along since and sadly I have seen several die and in each case it was because the leader stopped leading.
Lead Andrew and they will follow…

When I got my iPhone 12 mini I didn't really look at the camera specs, but I've since discovered it can do 10-bit video and have been examining its performance.  What I've found is that there seems to be a potential for high-DR video that isn't realised.
I've only really researched the iPhone 12, but I think that what I've found applies to all modern smartphones.  
Here's what I've found so far.
This video does a test between various modes on the iPhone 12 camera:
That video showed the 10-bit to have more subtle colours but lacked some of the tests I was interested in such as dynamic range, so I did my own.
My phone actually has five options rather than the four, and I shot a very unscientific test in the backyard but of a high DR scene.  I should have done it using manual settings but I didn't and I was comparing the default app to Filmic Pro too and the default app doesn't have any controls so the test was always going to be a compromise.
Here's some stills from my test..   I did some matching in post to compensate for levels but didn't correct WB.

Same image with the levels pushed right up to reveal the noise floor (the levels adjustment was applied to all clips identically):

Adjusted down to look at clipping levels:

and with a ridiculous curve to try and break the image and see any banding that is occurring in the sky:

One thing I noticed was that according to Resolve, the file from the default camera app was a 10-bit file.  The iPhone marketing indicates that the app will automagically switch to whatever mode is best, so I assume that it either uses 10-bit all the time or saw I was pointing it at a high-DR scene and switched to it.  I haven't followed that up, but it's worth noting.  It's also worth noting that the bitrate from the default app might not be the same as the Filmic Pro one as I had set Filmic Pro to its maximum setting.
What I took away from this (and playing with the phone in very high-DR situations where there was huge clipping) was that the 10-bit has the same, or very similar, DR to the Dolby Digital and "Video HDR" modes, and that the 8-bit mode has less DR than the 10-bit (I assume the 8-bit just rejects the two most-significant bits the same way that JPG images clip earlier compared to RAW images on digital cameras).  Incidentally, I couldn't find anywhere what this "Video HDR" mode actually did - it's not mentioned online anywhere I could find.
So what's the problem?
Well, where is the high dynamic range?  
I mean, where is the multiple-exposures high-DR?
Imagine this..  a smartphone can pull images off the sensor at least 120 or 240 times per second.  Why not just bracket those two frames and merge them together?  Motion is a problem, but if you're talking about camera shake then you have OIS to smooth that out and we're talking 1/120s or 1/240s delay - that's minuscule, and if you're talking about subject movement then that's well well under the delay of any temporal noise reduction mechanism which operates at as much as 1/24s delay (10 times the potential delay) and exists in many high-end cameras.
Why do I care?
Think about this.  A smartphone has something like, what, 10-stops of DR (I'm being pessimistic here).  If you imagine that we ignore the bottom two due to noise, and we decide to overlap a stop for a smooth transition between exposures, that would still give us video with 17 stops of DR.  SEVENTEEN!
Hot damn would that be amazing!!
Now, don't get me wrong, 17 stops is a huge issue in colour grading - rec709 only has 5 stops or something so trying to compress all that into an SDR output would be very difficult, but imagine if all they did was to emulate the exposure curve of film by having some stops in the middle that are relatively linear and then roll off the highlights and shadows.  Even if they only exposed the darker stop one or two stops darker (and thus created a 1-2 stop shadow rolloff) that would mean they could have an extended highlight rolloff like film.  If the app gave you control over this contrast then you could dial in having a higher-contrast look or lower-contrast look with more stops in the linear range.  Dial the contrast right down and you'd have a flat image that could be graded nicely.
The people who shoot with their phones are more likely rather than less to be shooting outdoors in high-DR situations.  
Is this a greater trend to not space out your DR bracketing?
From what it looks like, there's no multi-exposure HDR going on at all, or if it is then it's not bracketing the two images 7-stops apart.  I've noticed that most dual-native ISO cameras only have their native ISOs a few stops apart, 3 maybe 4.  These are 12-stop cameras that do this - WHY?  The Sigma FP is a notable exception, with its native ISOs being 5-stops apart.
Smartphones have a different set of strengths and weaknesses than normal cameras, this is a potential strength and serious potential advantage - why isn't it being utilised?

So I bet, many of you have heard or read of the Iscomorphot 8 1.5x anamorphic adapter, which is a tiny and single focus gem. It was built for Super 8 cameras and even works for S35 but with inherent flaws regarding resolution, since it was built for Super8. Here is a beautiful video in its own right and vertical use of the anamorhot, which means that camera was rotated by 90 degrees. Camera was a m43 Zcam, so the sensor was in a 3 to 4 format position after rotating it by 90 degrees. Taking lens was a 90mm Voigtlaender. This should give us a 3x1.5 to 4 format = 4.5 to 4 = 1.125 to 1 ratio! Enjoy and happy hunting for the Iscomorphot! 🙂
 
 

Well, you know I am all eyes and ears for Smartphone stuff. What amazes me is how on an iPhone especially right out of camera is really about as good as you are going to get for the average person other than DoF  stuff from a real camera and even that on my new OnePlus 9 Pro is not even bad.  They have the HDR, AI, Computational stuff Really down pat on them. The video side is amazing also. And sure, it is not great blown up to big sizes but who even does that anymore.
But yes, this raw stuff is really getting good and interesting. It is certainly the future for new people getting into all this stuff. going to be even more Super exciting down the road.

Have to say I am a bit impressed by this result, not just how well the smartphone keeps up with full frame but because it shoots internal 4K RAW (Motion Cam) and A7 IV, erm, doesn't!
But just for kicks I did shoot a RAW still on the Sony to see how it would come out versus the RED (RIP) Hydrogen One. It is not even a very modern smartphone by the standards of 2022. It comes from 3 years ago.
HydrogenOne 4K RAW converted to JPEG:

Sony A7 IV

Yes of course the A7 IV is cleaner in the shadows, I wasn't able to push the phone as far around the wall and tree due to noise, but there's something about the way the dynamic range is handled on the phone I like. I think the A7 IV almost has an HDR effect going on whereas the phone seems more real to me.
It was much easier to do a quick grade that looked nice on the phone as well.
Anyone let me know if any interest in doing a more serious comparison and in downloading the original RAW files if you want to grade them yourselves.

Phoneraw sounds pretty cool. Regarding pinned topics, eight could be a good number, providing a spot for the original phone raw thread and some other hotties like the BMMCC one fi. It would fit the bill and spirit as well I feel. Just 28! was too many imo.:)
There are a whole bunch of youtube channels done by people who appreciated the credo of small and old school gear and great dedication of using it. They are all around the 500 to 4000 followers strong. So, still good stuff out there, seemingly overwhelmed by the clickbaiters. If Gerald would be the only one, he would be a great addition to the voices of camera techies. But the large number of copycats is dull as dull can be.
Hopefully i get around within the next weeks to contribute some fun stuff. Just a bit busy with the heat and tideous jobs. Got a nice onetaker with the BMMCC, shot with the Canon FD SSC 35mm f2 on a focal reducer. I used a nice little old school trick at the beginning of the sequence and a self built mini jib. It´s gonna be a great pleasure to share all that with you very soon, dear friends. cheers and have a nice week!

I must admit I had to think on that a bit. 😨

Wonder if it might be worth picking up the RX100 style GC100 Android compact they did to experiment with that ?
They are cheap and plentiful on eBay and it seems you can root it.
https://androidmtk.com/root-samsung-galaxy-camera-ek-gc100
 

Or just drip feeding depending on your level of cynicism 😉 
The mad thing is that Sony had the integration solution between real cameras and smartphone nearly 10 years ago with the QX cameras.

It was possibly ahead of its time when it launched but I've no idea why they haven't resurrected the concept in the meantime.

Got a OnePlus 9 Pro as well.
Put GCam on it and turn HDR+ on with RAW
Results are stunning.
I would like to get this next but seems somebody has destroyed it...
 

Well for all you BM guys out there looking for focus and AF help this may be a cheap answer.
 
  
 

The E-M1 Mark II does 60fps RAW. You get very short clips that you slow down to about 2 sec. max.
Didn't really bother repeating the experiment as you're better off using Magic Lantern or a Sigma Fp.
It has no legs really.
There are so many better options available in 2022.

I've been thinking about this since my first test with RIFE. The problem is that none of the old CCD cameras I would want to do this with can capture more than about 5fps.