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  1. 17 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

    Who gives a shit about a little wobble. 

    Malick and Lubezki certainly would agree with you: "Song to Song" (in enormous quantity) and even "Knight of Cups" are full of wobbling handheld shots. And there it was not even intentional pseudosymbolic usage (as, say, in chasing to describe distorted perception) - they simply and really didn't "give a shit about little wobble" mesmerizing spectator in constantly flowing, poetical, juxtaposed, surreal movement.

    Actually, there's no more rules in movie language. Moreover, probably never were - except to now how and where to cut across them in most efficient way.

    Personally, I think that creators of that war movie obviously use wobble with purpose, as much as colors and light leaks. 

     

     

  2. 11 hours ago, tekeela said:

    Can I get some feedback on my planned P4K purchase list? This is my first camera, first lens, etc. I've tried to do as much research as I can, now I just need some learned eyes to double check I haven't made any real dumb decisions. Planned use will be no-budget narrative fiction and a bit of casual street filming.

    Lenses: Meike 25mm T2.2 + Meike 16mm T2.2
    Filters: Tiffen 77mm Indie Pro Infrared/ND Filter Kit
    Monopod: Sirui P-326S with VH-10X head
    Storage: Samsung T5 2TB

    I would be planning to buy more of the Meikes as they came out, and I don't have to worry about sound for now. The other alternative would be to go for the Metabones + Sigma route. I already have the camera, a smallrig cage and a couple of batteries. Not sure if I'll need a bigger battery or not.

    Let's me to try to be useful :)

    Lenses: T2.2 might not be enough flexible (as exclusive in arsenal); 25mm and 16mm are too close

    Filters: That one is pretty expensive and slowing shooting process solution

    Monopod: Maybe to try first with some UW lens and see how you manage handheld shooting with it regarding style and possibility

  3. 1 hour ago, kye said:

    There are many things that really define what a camera setup is capable of..   DR, 8/10/12bit, lenses, filters, etc, but sensor size isn't one of them. :) 

    Yes, words saying that size actually doesn't matter but DR consoled me through all my life :)

  4. 16 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

     It is not even half as good as the footage I showed from the OG BMPCC with a piss ass little s16mm sensor.

    One of the most beautiful and skillful cinematography I saw in last 10 years belongs to "Lore" by Cate Shortland director and Adam Arkapaw as dop... they used exclusively s16 in it. I'd dare to recommend that movie to everybody who yet didn't see it - at least just to take one breath relaxation/inspiration from hard battle of sensor's size/capability fascination.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1996310/

  5. 34 minutes ago, Skip77 said:

     If all the GH5 owners are waiting on the Gh6 then that makes sense and I would do the same except if I had a GH5, like my G7, I would have already figured out that the 4/3 sensor is not even super35 size and I would have already done my research that told me and glass. I think most Gh5 owners know the faults of the camera and what the S1 and Z6 do better already so no need for me to call it out. The GH5 is just not the camera I would recommend for anyone looking to upgrade.

     

    Hi, I'm curious: if I, after reading remarks to @Kye's post made after his awakening, confirm that 4/3 sensor is not even super35 size and that Hollywood cinematographers are moving toward full frame sensors - so consequently Z6 and S1 are more recommendable camera than GH5 - would you disagree in something with me?

  6. 6 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

    Thanks, test confirm me my one experience: difference is pretty obvious even in exposing just one snapshot. RAW has noticeable better 3d definition, more details in the ground, more DR in left part of the clouds which seems to keep same form and position through shots. Watching footage flow without web compression makes difference even more pronounce.

    Prores HQ might be sufficient for somebody, not enough sufficient for someone else. For me, personally, having possibility of RAW shooting is exclusive quality and reason why to choose BM cameras instead others with better ergo, IBIS etc.

  7. 1 hour ago, Shirozina said:

    Can you post some side by side examples as this has not been my experience unless the Resolve has misinterpreted ProRes as Video range and clipped the highlights.

    Just to note or remind: in case of additional (and crucial) highlithts recovery possibility (that thebrothersthre3 mentioned in post) there's no need for examples: with RAW you can do it on rec.709 timeline, with ProRes you can't. As simple scenario, shot same scene with both, intentionally making clipped highlights. With ProRes you can't bring them back. With CDNG do such settings in Resolve CameraRaw menu

    Decode Using: Clip

    WB: As Shot

    Color Space:  Rec.709

    Gamma: Gamma 2.4

    ... and picks of highlights are coming back from void (and such view has metaphysical impact on me), so you can further mold distribution of DR as you wish.

  8. 13 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

    If I use an ND filter (which I am planning to do anyway) is there less IR, or it is completely irrelevant?

    If I have to use ND, do I have to put ond of those aforementioned filters before or after the ND?

    1. I'm afraid there is more IR with ND filter.

    2. I think it is irrelevant where to put IR filter.

    (If you in aesthetic choice chase for little bit of vintage look, IR pollution actually might be useful.)

  9. 2 hours ago, Shirozina said:

    There is no more DR shooting RAW over ProRes

    I have to disagree from my experience with BM cameras - not strictly taking notion of DR (that after all debates seems to me too vague), but simply true RAW vs PR HQ looks better or made such impression-feel even at first glance. Not day and night, but there is a visual difference as I can see. Of course, my eyes are not at all ultimate judge, it might be result of autosuggestion - so rather call for everyone to try and compare. (I don't know how BRAW stay in comparison.)

  10. 1 hour ago, mercer said:

    How do you know they haven’t offered?

    I know about offer - but I just supposed that noble counter offer was: post of CEO or nothing, because they didn't choose right, as through all history all Canon-ized smart asses... so to say while mr webrunner5 is still awake to quickly correct me in my indian-american try.

  11. 4 hours ago, IronFilm said:

    Because the entire Digital Bolex market is a drop in the ocean to the Canon behemoth 

    I see... That's probably also answer to (I think logical) question why Canon yet didn't choose to hire mr @mercer from EOSHD for its ambassador. 

  12. 2 hours ago, mercer said:

    I just found this 5D Mark II ML Raw video by accident.

    It’s an ML Raw test from the early days. It is a test for a horror film so it has some graphic/violent content... in case that bothers anybody.

    Looks brilliant to me. Surely I'm naive, but I can't quite understand why Canon can not simply repack, say, that 5D II + ML Raw sensor/codeck solution and sell it as some sort of its own Digital Bolex version to so many devoted Canon indie/moviemakers and admirers?

  13. 1 hour ago, Geoff CB said:

    Soooo I'm going to throw stones here a bit. I tried out the camera an had some serious problems with it. The form factor threw me off. Why for the love of god are BM still putting reflective screens on their cameras for video? 

    Thanks... Is the screen that bad for your usage? There are pretty different information from reviewers.

    Also, I suppose  ou know it, and know better than me, but just to remind - actual power of BM camera line lays just in these magic sliders at the left in Resolve when using raw files :) It is so mystical exciting to me to see how blown highlights getting back their picks, how truly molding is WB... I can't resist to feel that something similar maybe it is still possible with my life: bring back to life picks of hopes, totally change skintones of my destiny...

  14. For sure there are so many different aspects and layers to reckon in it, but back to the topic...

    I'll get in wednesday Moza Air Cross - it has interesting unique feature of expandable plate space, so I'm curious if P4K can fit in it without additional accessories. Strange, I didn't yet manage to find anywhere if somebody has that gimbal working with P4K. Although it has 1.6kg payload, it is still enough for that camera and yet very light (under 1kg). Air Cross could supply power for GH5 or Sony cameras via dumb battery,  and I think that the same easy could be possible with P4K and Canon LP6 with maybe just changing jack in... I bought it for Micro cinema camera so will see...

  15. 11 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

    He filmed Movie with a Camera before all that happened to him. He fell out of favor way after that movie. Yeah at the end he may have seen the light as they say, but he was thick in it in the beginning. Shit happenings. But still.

    Sorry, it was contrary. After that movie he received whole support... But that pre-Stalin era was (just in term of creativity and indeed revolutionary ideas) totally different from usual manner represented in West: some of the greatest painters, writers, directors were offsprings from initial enthusiasm  of pure revolution, before it degenerated in Soviet version of controlled state.

  16. 24 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

    Dziga Vartov was supported by the whole communist system doing their propagands. He had hundrends of people working under him.

    Same as Riefenstahl. The whole system working for them.

     

    Oh no... Maybe you are thinking about Sergei Eisenstein? Dziga Vertov filmed Man with the Movie Camera in exile in Ukraina  after he lost job in central Sovkino at Moscow because of criticism of mainstream line of Party (he than refused to make pure propaganda approach of Advertising and the Soviet Universe for the State Trade Organization). But because of success of it - yes, they hired him again and made mutual creative parthership  :)

  17. 29 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

    Yeah but had a crew of thousands, not really, but you get the point, to help him out. Hell All he did was direct, maybe stick his face in the viewfinder every once in awhile. He didn't do Everything like the average person has to do, they do all of it, or maybe have your crazy uncle hold a boom mike, the easy part. ?

    Actually, Dziga Vertov was all alone (I'd dare to try after your leading: alone as ass of hell?)

     

  18. 21 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

    I can tell you from experience when you start doing this stuff for money you spend one hell of a lot of nights awake. You are into a business that mostly on paper you have ONE shot at doing it. And if Anything is off by a good bit your goose is cooked no matter what you do to try and repair it, either in Post or with the Client. And there is always some talented as hell 16 year old kid down the street that is nipping at your heals. Because now they can get in pretty cheap at the start and look like a shooting star to you and your clients lol. Now it pretty much boils down to who screws up less, and has the better ideas. That is what keeps you up at night, because that is an unsustainable career path to always be better.

    Just do this as a hobby and be happy, or work for someone else lol. YOU might live longer if you do.

    Yes, well, me personally more and more did this (but with luxury to choose) stuff for money :) But it doesn't matter... Recently I watched again some De Sica's movies - what a richness and uncanny taste in framing with his than-a-days modest BW cameras! What perfection in evolving scripts through language of visual evocation of emotions! What a usage of perspective plans with totally absence of shallow DOF! Whole give-me-just-Alexa-color-science-and-nothing-else and flying crans mumbo-jumbo are smashed to trash in front of mind that experienced, suffered and searched enough and have something to convey about it... Excuse me for digression, back to the topic: De Sica, or even Dziga Vertov, had not any gimbal, but shoulders are always with us :)

  19. 29 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

    Yeah I would spend my money on a Zacuto Gratical HD LCD with a shoulder rig over a 7" monitor and the MX. Now if you have a crew looking over your shoulder, or you are looking over their shoulder lol, than I can see the 7" monitor. But man looking though a high end eyepiece is pure joy over an external monitor, especially outside.

    The big trouble is you probably need to have both, and that is why doing video is so damn God Damn expensive if you want to get serious about it. That is why I got out of it years ago, there is no end to the money you really Need to spend to stay competitive. And now with new stuff coming out every week that is actually better than what you got, it is a death Sentence now to do it. You are Always going to feel behind. Because lets be honest, this newer stuff is just flat easier to use. Manual everything is a pain in the ass when you are rushed, or tired, or frustrated, or worse, unsure of yourself in the job you are undertaking. Man now that is when it is some scary shit.. And that will, and does happen when big money is on the line from a client.

    Yes, but, from the other side, as pretty serious intruder from plethora of creative realms, I'm so often shocked how "shallow", one-dimensional and lacking of (time and knowledge and inner peace for) truly original perception/ideas are people strictly learned for film making... And how restricted are with their instruments, as fundamentally deprived in capability for play, for empathy, for seeing different angles and perspectives...

    What I deeply regret is that I saw such enormously talented men and women at vimeo, with some so deeply original ideas and concepts that are high above of resulting artistic level (or lack of it) of regular movie productions... but those talented people, being poor and outside of mainstream connection, will stay forever anonymous :(

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