BTM_Pix

thank you!
lol exactly
i hear ya.
i basically decided that since so much of this short is about sleep, i wanted to show that my way, insofar as not like this

although shows get away with this shit all the time, and i understand why, im not an idiot, people want to see the actors faces ? but this doesnt feel dark to me, sleepy dark time feels
(a) dark
and 
(b) low contrast
so i went with that.
in the first shot, i wanted the young man to wake up ~in the dark~. he cant sleep. so, that being said, this IS supposed to be dark af, darker than anyone goes on almost anything

i just saved the above .png screengrab from quicktime, put it online, and tumblr compressed it, but look how much you can still pull out of it

this image gives you an idea of what the original exposure looked like. i would post stuff from my resolve file, but after imac broke its gonna take a couple days to put that timeline back together again, but u guys have inspired me im totally gonna do it...!
your assumption is correct~!
yes, i said to myself, Self, what is 5d3 raw GOOD at?
well, COLOR. DEEP, RICH color. its good at... looking kinda filmic, way more lo-fi and analog compared to say, a gh5, right? totally different look. so that was my idea: make it look like that, to exploit the strengths of what ml raw is good at, and avoiding its weaknesses whenever possible in my shots. that was kinda the plan
liike i said, you guys might be somewhat interested in what i did with the color creatively, so when i get the resolve project back together ill post some stuff. i mean, a lot of how this looks is the grade u know
in general tho, i simply exposed for the highlights i wanted, and ALL the dark shots have been graded down in post, some WAY down, to avoid the noise of high ISOs. that worked – i did zero denoising in post, and i shot up to ISO 6400. yes. that exposure looks like absolute shit, with all the noise youd expect from ml raw at that iso, but like i said i reduced the exposure SO much that all that just disappeared~! lol i kno it sounds crazy but i did some tests before hand and it worked fine, and it allowed me to shoot the whole thing with practical/natural lighting~! ☺️
 
oh, i have a great answer for this – the actor in the first shot posted an even less finished version online EVERYWHERE – and called it a "trailer" for his own movie. he knew i was furious, wouldnt answer my calls or messages, and i had to do like 6 dmca things against him. sooooo he can go fuck himself
 
SO MUCH. i mean where do i even start? the main thing is that doing ALLLLLLL this by yourself, with NO ONE TO HELP YOU AT ALL ON "SET"... is insane? its too hard, you start to fall apart, forget things, cant think straight, etc. its a surreal level of stress... sooo i wouldnt do that again without at least ONE person to be a general PA/script supervisor. that was a bad idea and im ~lucky~ things turned out the way they did, but again all this is much easier said that done when you have ~no money~
my main epiphany about making this lil thing is that JUST DOING IT has been SO empowering to me, because NOW I FEEL LIKE A FILMMAKER. i can be a shitty filmmaker, a lil baby filmmaker, but im sure af not an imaginary filmmaker. not anymore! and you CANT make a second film until you make a first film~! so my SECOND and THIRD films are already in development! wow!!! amazin @ Zach
the OTHER thing is the process, that you just need to complete to see as a whole: from start to finish, writing, storyboards, casting, locations, etc etc, post, color, vfx, sound....... i see the gestalt of it now, and thats huge. hard to explain, i just "get" it, so im rlly looking forward to doing better in the future
 
that would be the above post, talking about ISOs and so on... ill pull some shots from the actual grade tho, might be fun~! will do soon!
nothing else worked brilliantly. everything else ~kinda~ worked pretty good lol.
oh, one thing: i literally shot this in 2.39 to
(A) save data
and
(b) hide my feet in the first shot, i kid you not ?

For the price of an iPad and iPhone I got my phone, Surface Go and a gaming laptop. Do not know why you have to bring Apple to everything we talk here.
These foldables are quite expensive now, but in 3 years they will be quite mainstream. I am sure there will be an iFold in a couple of years, more expensive than anything else and you will jump to it like is the greatest thing ever!
What @BTM_Pix said, and I have expressed before, is that Samsung with 4.6"/7.3" are too small for a smart phone/tablet and the whole concept would be more interesting/practical if it was a tablet, becoming a super tablet.
Phones are big enough already, and small tablets are not selling very well - if at all, but 10-13" devices are becoming very popular productive tools and they sell easily for 1000 and up to more than 2000$€£, so foldable prices already..

I was always more interested in the Huawei one when it and the Samsung version were first announced.
I'm not sure as a phone really but my interest was in them in a tablet form factor that folded out into a more laptop sized version. 
I can see much more potential in them for that.

The old 'tape over the contacts' trick has made a comeback !
Manual focus and locked aperture but at least it mounts and I can see some enterprising 3rd party making a cheap semi-smart adapter now that has aperture control.

The old 'tape over the contacts' trick has made a comeback !
Manual focus and locked aperture but at least it mounts and I can see some enterprising 3rd party making a cheap semi-smart adapter now that has aperture control.

Just to say - for those that dont know (like I didnt) - it is actually possible to send A7iii/A7riii videos to the ipad pro via usb-c (to usb-c) - you send directly from the camera.
1. Set the usb connection on the A7iii to MTP.
2. Turn off usb power supply.
Connect the ipad. If your card is relatively full it may well give a 'no photos to import' message but it is just taking its time to read the card. You import via the photos app. Import time are painfully slow - 8MB/sec - so I timed a 1.9gb file at 4 minutes to transfer

I was always more interested in the Huawei one when it and the Samsung version were first announced.
I'm not sure as a phone really but my interest was in them in a tablet form factor that folded out into a more laptop sized version. 
I can see much more potential in them for that.

I have the older model (ND2901)... and while I haven't used it in a bit, it worked pretty well when I did... this new one looks like it'll be a great upgrade.

Most have USB host ports though so you can just plug a reader in to them.
I do like the look of the Nexto (and whilst not cheap its actually cheaper than I thought it would be) but for my uses it lacks the ability to serve the files wirelessly so I'm still looking at the DIY route.
There is a new SBC called Rock Pi that as well as USB3 ports also has an M.2 interface onboard.
That is a bit of a gamechanger as it means you can have 1TB on onboard SSD storage for portable card backup in the field that can also act as a wireless drive to an iPad and can even transcode if you wanted it to and all for a total cost of under £200 including the storage.
I've built experimental ones with other SBCs but even the ones with USB3 have had that achille's heel of needing external drives to dump onto which makes them a bit clunky.
I'm going to try and pick one of these up and see if it can match the potential.

You forgot my Hasselblad

When they've finished they give the cameras to influencers like Gnome Knows Kodachrome here to hype it up.

Yes, image stabiliser works too!


 
 
I use them a lot as I work full time in video production, that speaking from my experience since I have huge sample size not just shooting once in a blue moon.
Obvious S1 is not targeted to you, there are many tools out there to suit your needs, I just buy whatever fits my need.
Compare to c200 it is much lighter, I’ve done c200 handleheld for half day, so S1 weight is totally fine for me.

When they've finished they give the cameras to influencers like Gnome Knows Kodachrome here to hype it up.

You forgot my Hasselblad

Santa Maria eh?
Here is your namesake ship.
Why don't you load it full of your Spam and make like Columbus and fuck off in search of new lands.

When they've finished they give the cameras to influencers like Gnome Knows Kodachrome here to hype it up.

Santa Maria eh?
Here is your namesake ship.
Why don't you load it full of your Spam and make like Columbus and fuck off in search of new lands.

There is also the 7Artisans 50mm f1.1
Cheaper than the Mitakon too.

Canon ones have a special gnome prison in theirs where they keep all the dissident gnomes that want to paint on the whole area of the canvas instead of just the fenced off area in the middle.

Canon ones have a special gnome prison in theirs where they keep all the dissident gnomes that want to paint on the whole area of the canvas instead of just the fenced off area in the middle.

Canon ones have a special gnome prison in theirs where they keep all the dissident gnomes that want to paint on the whole area of the canvas instead of just the fenced off area in the middle.

Canon ones have a special gnome prison in theirs where they keep all the dissident gnomes that want to paint on the whole area of the canvas instead of just the fenced off area in the middle.

Quite apt calling it an Oasis when its run by a frequently angry Mancunian

 

Bravo.
And a good reminder to everyone about how much sound design brings to the party.
And well done on casting @webrunner5 in it too
 

Back to M mount with the Voigtlander 40mm f1.4