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No excuses.... someone managed to get a van around the Nurburgring in under 10 minutes! https://www.topgear.com/car-news/sabines-nurburgring-van-record-has-been-broken

Ah! I didn't realise the peanut gallery was awake ??? Right - new rule... to heckle from the back rows you have to enter the competition (or make a commitment that you will)! I've already entered, so it can't be that hard ???

Makes sense. I watched a reality TV show on Netflix about some freelance ENG guys called Shot In The Dark and the pace that these guys could edit was impressive. If anyone hasn't seen that it's pretty cool to watch.

Poland sounds like it might fit within the spirit of this competition...... In other news, a package arrived for me today, and I had a quick play and it looks pretty good! New lenses are quite inspiring I think. ???

This is a great idea, but I'd suggest the more you can make real and relevant then the better it will be, and by real and relevant I mean learning by doing. I'd suggest getting very very familiar with where the professional / legal / ethical boundaries are so that you're doing as much as you can. As a parent of a 15 and 13 year old, I'd suggest that your students are likely to have made videos before, even if they're TikTok, Instgram, gone live, Boomerangs, etc and maybe haven't 'published' them but have shared them in chats or other limited audiences. Unlike media classes even a decade ago, basically every kid has access to an entire media production suite in their pocket, so you should look at traditional media education very skeptically. This means that you can either help them to learn by creating content, publishing and seeing what happens, or you can help them understand what's going on with The Algorithm. I'd suggest that the latter will only be of interest to those who have inquisitive minds or who seek stardom, which isn't likely to be the majority of your class. Think about how many people are involved in making a film and how many are on-screen - talent is by far the minority and yet on social almost everyone plays the talent. Another angle is to go away from social media completely and teach them how to film a narrative. I know this is the traditional media education I told you to abandon only a few paragraphs ago, but (to argue against myself) it's a set of skills that are used by you tubers all the time that's invisible, and yet can be so important to creating better content. Depending on how long your classes are, you could even get them to go through the brainstorming, pre-production, production, post-production and delivery / distribution stages in one class "Now students, I'm starting a timer for 7 minutes, write down 5 ideas for a film".. It would be difficult for many students to keep up with that kind of pace, but do it a few times in a row (with students who managed to finish something sharing what worked) and you might get some traction with all students. Anyway, good luck!

No actual knowledge about this, but this is the internet so I'm pretty sure outright guesswork is allowed.. Firstly, people are becoming very highly visually educated and know what they like and what the various aesthetics are. People know that blurry backgrounds look 'professional' and many of them know about composition etc. Even if they don't know about these things consciously, they know a good image when they see it. Images are everywhere, and not only that, but really good images are everywhere. With all the billboards, TV ads, TV shows, movies, and image-heavy social media accounts from brands and influencers, people are seeing high-quality images like they've never seen before in history. Almost everyone with a smart-phone can now tell that the photos of their family on facebook aren't the same as the other images they see. My point is that TV stations know this and can cater to it. Secondly, I think that TV stations are putting more money into live events like sport, over fictional material. The great boom of reality TV was partly because it's hugely cheaper to make than narrative content, and I have heard that with advancing technology (and some channels even going to 1080p60!!) the focus is on sports. For the price of renting a better camera you can get HD content on air very quickly and easily (or at least, with basically the same speed and cost of it being SD) and my dad, who still consumes free-to-air TV here in Australia, says that the vast majority of HD content broadcast is sports, so it makes sense that they'd choose to upgrade this.

Just saw this, which is very good and shows how the YT game is played, and what is at stake in playing it.... Plus, this channel is awesome (This Guy Edits) so you should all go watch his videos ???

My completely uneducated guess is that this could be any half-decent video / ENG camera. Considering the ratio of subject distance to background distance, even a comparatively slow zoom lens would still get that kind of background blur, so I don't think it's an especially fast lens.

Randomly found this YT account while searching for lens tests. There's an absolute TON of lenses tested here, and they look to be pretty high quality tests too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgV58jUJM2H7NprdO5118tQ/videos The Anamorphic test has Master, Cooke, Todd, Hawk, Elite, Angenieux, Lomo, Cineovision, Kowa, P+S, Iscorama, Panavision, Atlas, etc... The older one has Canon K-35, Cooke Speed Panchro, Kowa, Zeiss Master Prime, Zeiss Super Speeds, Leica R, Nikon AI-S....

Good luck with trying to convince the internet that there are moral absolutes. If you're looking to argue with someone over, well, pretty well anything, then there are places for that. 4chan, 8chan, and many more. Put on your flak jacket first though! and since it seems that we have to have links to justify our opinions, here's a one for you ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

I've been tempted by these in the past. What are you going to shoot with it?

Those Helios 44-2s are spectacular lenses. From a huge lens test, here are a couple of comparisons: Zeiss Master Anamorphic at T1.9 (~$40,000) Dog Schidt (rehoused Helios 44 with coatings removed for reduced contrast and cool flares) at T2 (~$50-100) Zeiss Master Anamorphic at T4 (~$40,000) Dog Schidt (rehoused Helios 44 with coatings removed for reduced contrast and cool flares) at T4 (~$50-100) Be sure to zoom into the images and especially compare the Helios at T4. For a lens that is 0.1% of the cost, it's sure punching above its weight.

Ethics and morals are all over YT for all to see. Just because they're not your ethics or morals doesn't mean they're not someone else's.....

YouTube is capitalism at its finest. It has: the promise that everyone has the potential to participate and succeed rules that give success to the successful, essentially separating the 'rich' from the 'poor' no limits on what can be done, except for a set of 'rules' which are very badly managed, unevenly applied, and with "too big to fail" dynamics sensitivities to human behaviour where there is success to be found in trickery, meaningless amusement, as well as high art a system where value is in the eye of the consumer, so things like cat videos can become unexplainably popular visibility from outside it so that people can analyse and communicate about the market This is an online equivalent of a marketplace where value is determined by the customer, price is due to supply and demand, there is tinkering in the form of subsidies and sanctions, and perfect communication is claimed but never realised, etc.. YT is pretty close to a meritocracy, it's just that the merit other people recognise and reward doesn't make sense to you. I will reiterate this again - people are more different to each other than we tend to think, and therefore we get all excited when we don't agree with or understand what other people do and say.

Your math looks right, so 120 FF equivalent. I think you're right about getting a dumb adapter. the only challenge is lenses that don't have fully manual control - eg, some lenses have a focus ring (and a zoom ring) but won't have an aperture ring, so just make sure it's FULLY manual.

This might be useful to some:

Like every other camera release - we have to wait for a heavy hitter to release some videos then we can see what it can do. There was talk about this camera being on the radar of big budget productions (as a B or C cam) so if we're lucky we might get someone with deep experience doing a camera test.

Start at the end goal and work backwards, seeking evidence. For example, if the end goal is to get a job, call employers and ask to speak to their hiring manager and ask them if it's something they care about when hiring. If you want to learn to think differently, find who your lecturers would be and call them, asking them if their classes will teach you to think differently from the other classes on offer. You will quickly understand if they're full of shit or not. One way that is guaranteed to teach you to think differently is to find some film people you like (producers, directors, cinematographers, etc) who produce radically different work, call all of their offices begging for an internship where you work for free and get to shadow these people. Spend a few months with each, trying to figure out what they do and why and helping them. Not only will that give you access to people you know think differently to each other, but if you're any good you'll probably get offered jobs with people you gelled with. Be clear on your goals and work backwards.

No, but it's an understandable mistake!

@IronFilm raises an important and fundamental issue - that if you're stretching time in any way you will get out of sync. My method stayed in sync because it skipped past lots of content. There is an element of time-stretching effect to what you're talking about, and there are algorithms that do such things, however fundamentally it means that the time it takes to listen to the output is different to the time it took to capture the input. Have a think about how you're going to solve that and then we can talk about the details of implementing it

Here's a thought - every second you take the first 1/5th of a second and slow it down to 20% speed and watch that for the full second, then at the start of the next second you skip forward the other 80% of the second to get to the start of the next second and the cycle starts again. It would be semi-realtime, being that people would see and hear themselves in slow-motion with only a second delay. Considering you haven't specified what you're trying to accomplish, I'm not sure how this suits, but if you're looking at an art installation or something then that would work

Yes, Multicam would sure bump that ratio up.. and combined with @KnightsFans comments below about rolling through multiple takes you sure could keep a DIT (or three) busy on set! In terms of working forwards or working backwards, I've seen some conflicting approaches: One approach is to make a pass through all your source footage making selects and adding them to the timeline, then you duplicate the timeline and cull the duplicates and lesser shots, then rinse and repeat until you have a final edit. The advantage of that is that once you've eliminated a piece of footage you never have to watch it again, so it's efficient in that sense. The other approach is to review all your source footage and flag the truly great clips, then start with only the great clips on a timeline and then only pull in whatever else you need to make a final edit. This approach has the advantage that you're not watching and re-watching clips that haven't yet been culled. In narrative it's a little different as you've got an idea about what you're aiming for (a script) but in unplanned / uncontrolled documentary-style shots (like weddings, docos, events, etc) it's hard to know where you're aiming in terms of which shots will make the final edit. I've mostly tried the first approach, culling and gradually fine-tuning, and it works but it's pretty laborious. I suspect that the second approach works much better if you're able to efficiently remember what clips you have and are able to find them quickly. Some people are able to watch lots of footage and then remember it pretty well, but I guess that would depend on how much footage there was and the level of control - ie, it's probably easier to remember that there were three takes of that scene that worked rather than there were three reaction shots that might have made a great insert into a dramatic scene that you haven't even edited together yet. I once edited a video of a race where one camera was an in-camera shot looking forwards and seeing the dash and out the windscreen. It was a huge long file of multiple sections and the stuff in-between, and I was having trouble working out how to tell which bits were stages and which weren't. That is, until I noticed that during the stage the RPM gauge was fully maxing out and between times the car was basically idling.. problem solved! I would imagine that once you've worked out what to look for (like lots of crew on set) you could easily make selects. It would also make it easier as you only have to sync the footage once then you can cut it up easily.

I'm confused.. I would want a de-clicked aperture, but the nice rubber grips on the original photo series. I would imagine the follow-focus teeth would be pretty uncomfortable to use?

De-clicked aperture as I often have to grab quick shots and start recording before I've adjusted the aperture then focus then adjust aperture. With clicked apertures it shakes the camera around and ruins that part of the shot, whereas de-clicked just makes the exposure a little off (while the auto-SS in the camera follows the adjustment). I'm evaluating the idea of replacing the 40mm Hexanon with a Rokinon 85mm and simply zooming into the footage taken with my 17.5mm in post to bridge the gap. I just did a quick test then of taking a bunch of shots and cropping into some of them and not others and comparing the video quality (with sharpening added to the zoomed ones) and the results are a bit meh once you're scaling to more than about 150%, but I'll upload to YT and see if that crunches the differences. In terms of mount, not sure - I can can adapt basically anything, so it would be whatever was cheapest!