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@mercer

That's with the eos-m. I've been thinking about getting a 5D3 though, but have yet to find a decent enough deal over here.

5 minutes ago, mercer said:

Can you judge framing at all or is it way off?

In my experience, I lose about 1/3rd of the top of the image which I instead gain in the bottom of the frame. Meaning; what I perceived to be the center of the image in the live view is in actuality 1/3rd lower. If that makes sense.

4 hours ago, bluefonia said:

Update. Just bought a used - march 2018, almost no use and still 1,5 year warranty left - for US$ 380. Very close to half price here in Denmark. Will arrive sometime next week.

Congrats! I've owned this camera twice now and never got along with it, I am however about to try it out again...

Across the pond here in Sweden they go for about 450-500 USD new, body only.

The trick-question brand bias thing was interesting to say the least, but it would be outrageous to call his "study" scientific.

6 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

One big idea behind blurring the backdrop is to keep the viewers focus on the subject. However sometimes it works against itself. The background blur can draw attention to itself. I see this in a lot of movies these days. Everything is shallow DOF and it looks distracting and unnatural sometimes. If I care about the show or movie I'll be focusing on the subject not a car moving by in the back. 

Yeah, in terms of cinema, DoF have so many uses and not just because it "looks sweet".

Similar to your example, shallow depth of field is a easy trick to make something look more "expensive". i.e no need for set design or mis-en-scène. This also, in my opinion tends to work against itself. When overused in narrative work, it can get so obvious that it looks cheap instead. It also greatly impacts realism in an image.

Nothing is more impressive than when a technique is used for a specific audience reaction, and it works.

But sure, it tends to look pretty too.

Sorry for OT, interesting video.

@Alt Shoo Luckily you can read all about it here. It's been posted in some em5ii discussions before.

6 minutes ago, Alt Shoo said:

I may be mistaken, but I don’t recall any em5ll footage posted mentioning filmed through a BM VA. 

Does this have clean hdmi out?

The e-m5 II was pretty impressive through the BM VA ?

@mercer thank you sir!

oh sorry, I forgot to mention that. It's the bmpcc.

Yeah I was told the f/4 was the same way. I even realised that the whole barrel spins when focusing :/

We are currently shooting a piece for my city's marketing company. It's all about inclusion and social diversity.

This shot is from a boxing training session for people with Parkinson's disease. A very humbling experience.

Shot with the Canon FDn 35-70 f/3.5-4.5 and a chinese focal reducer. I recently bought it for under 20$, while searching for the one with a constant f/4 aperture. The only gripe I have with it is that the front element and the filter threads retracts into the front barrel, and I do not have a 52mm ND-filter  

On 2018-04-19 at 11:05 AM, deatrier said:

What do you think? does it seem reasonable?

Yes. Do it, try it out. If you don't like it, you can resell it without losing any money. You might realize that Canon full frame is THE thing for you, and you might want to pick up the Mark III later on. OR perhaps you find out you don't like it at all, at least you tried it out.

Im actually thinking of getting one myself.

5 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

I quite like the design. Kind of retro, and it reminds me of the Panasonic DVX100, which I really loved back in the days of DV tapes. 

4 hours ago, Jacek said:

Better looking image:

People been mocking the "retro"-look. I dont get that feel at all.

I think it kinda looks like the lumix g6 in a sense, but without a viewfinder hump.

I've been waiting for a more "dslr"-like body from Blackmagic and I think this is it. I am excited

They just put 4K in this one for the marketing. Look at all the review article headlines. Kinda sad really.

11 hours ago, DimChron said:

So it does work?!! I didnt understand exactly what it needs to be done to work. I have a panasonic G7 and a bmpcc and this adaptor might be my only option to use a sigma 18-35 on both cameras since metabones is veeery expensive.

Shit happens. Wether it is a bug that can be fixed via firmware update or not idk.

Reseating the adapter while camera is powered on seems to fix it.

On 2018-02-13 at 9:19 AM, jagnje said:

Releasing the mount while the camera is operating ussually brings it back to life. Just an anoyance I learned to get by with.

On 2018-02-03 at 2:14 PM, Andrew Reid said:

Quieter than a PC

Is this in reference to sound or looks? Either way I respectfully disagree 

On 2018-02-03 at 2:14 PM, Andrew Reid said:

Can you use it without the trashcan casing attached?

It wont power up without the casing on. Surely there's a switch or something, but I'm sure you can modify it to work.

Been playing some with the Canon FDn 50 1.4, with the Roxsen focal reducer. 
First one wide open, second one is stopped down to 'bout f4.

52 minutes ago, kidzrevil said:

In its defense the box office aint been doing too well in general. A movie breaking 30 million in the era of NETFLIX, HULU & video on demand is a miracle. 30 million at the box office is like splitting the red sea at this point ! People have abandoned the theaters and even broadcast television ! Imagine if they made Blade Runner a NETFLIX only movie release ? 

I've yet to see it and im pumped to see it even with movies like "It" out but less face it...the big screen is on its way to being a dead platform

Convergence culture is king. Whilst the big screen is important, accessibility is even more important. Of course you can have both the theatre release as well as the streaming release. Obviously they might be opposing forces.

I co-wrote a dissertation about horror films last spring (speaking of "It"), and while I learned alot about building suspense, I realised how cheaply they can be made and how well they can perform at the box office. The last couple of years has been great in that genre, with films making two times their budget on the opening weekends. Maybe the only genre that can to that, persistently, in this day and age.

@Trek of Joy

Hey! Thank you for the interesting points of extra stats that would come into play. I still think domestic opening weekend numbers are somewhat irrelevant.

28 minutes ago, Trek of Joy said:

opening weekends can be a fairly accurate predictor of overall success as 25-35% of the total gross typically comes in the first week of release.

The following is just to humour myself, please dont take it the wrong way

If we follow this fairly accurate predictor (does it include rentals, dvd, blueray and streaming etc or just theatre by the way?) we would get the following numbers:

Domestic opening weekend: 35M$

Assuming a 35(Domestic) to 65(Foreign) ratio:

Foreign opening weekend 65M$

Total:

Assuming 25% of revenue the opening weekend:

Domestic: 35M x 4 = 140M

Foreign: 65M x 4 = 260M

Thus giving us Worldwide gross of 140M + 260M = 400M 

wow, they will make the break-even point

Again the last bit was not serious.

Edit: 

I just saw released numbers of that 50M$ foreign gross. Keep in mind it haven't premiered in South Korea or Japan yet as stated in my first post.

20 minutes ago, Damphousse said:

That is contradictory.  If it doesn't make box office or rental numbers there won't be any more movies made.  Hollywood isn't running a charity.  No matter how sweet and nice Harvey Weinstein seems.

I don't really think it is, maybe I wasn't making myself clear enough. I refered to opening weekends. Obviously film is a business and they have to be profitable. I just don't really subscribe to the "instant domestic success".

Notice how I also refered to The Martian and The Revenant, which are 100M$ and 135M$ (production budget) films respectively, with low domestic opening weekends. Now roughly two years after release they have grossed 630M$ and 530M$ respectively. I would not consider them box office bombs. 

@pablogrollan

My point is that we have no way of knowing how much money was spent, and where (in which markets) on marketing. And you are still stuck on Domestic grosses. 35$M opening domestically might be poor but also kinda irrelevant.

I really don't care about measuring a films success on box office numbers, and especially just domestic numbers. I'm just quite happy the film is made.

I anticipate a performance similar to that of The Martian or The Revenant, i.e pretty low domestic openings, while maintaining a 30-35% domestic- and 65-70% foreign gross.

4 hours ago, That Guy said:

they didn't spend 400 million, the 400 is the break even point.

That's not very reliable. Studios doesn't release marketing budgets.

"Those affiliated with the movie have been saying that $400M is the magic break-even number" - what does that even mean?

I would guess that is more of a "goal" than an actual break-even point.

It hasn't premiered in Japan or South Korea yet. I'm unaware of how popular it is over there but it might be a huge market.

The ties between Columbia (Sony) and Japan are of course obvious.

I remember the articles about the Warcraft movie and how poor it did domesticly, while it made most of its revenue in the Chinese market. Legendary pictures also had strong ties with China.

Just a thought.

On 2017-09-15 at 10:56 PM, Damphousse said:

...show off features on a bright show room floor next to other TV

True. 
Although I've never gone to an electronics store and seen a "real nice picture" on a TV.

Oh, well I think I did once, but I suspect Philip Bloom had been there and already turned off all the extra bells and whistles.





Thank you Philip!

My go-to benchmark of 16 mm is Andrij Parekh's work with the Arriflex 16SR3 (if I remember correctly) on Half Nelson (2006).

Talk about sexy grain.

@PannySVHS The G80/85 body just dipped close enough to 800 dollar where I live. I was about to jump on it when I got an offer to buy a GH4 in great condition at 750.

IBIS must win over the Headphone jack, I am however currently trying to make sense of the different recording formats... but at least I will be a Panasonic shooter by the end of next week.

Cheers!