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I have a few 135mm lenses, you've inspired me to compare them. There's a saying "there's no such thing as a bad 135mm lens" and I'll be putting that to the test by comparing my $4 Petri with the Super-Takumar. My initial impressions were that the Petri was a pretty good contender Yeah, most of the differences between cine lenses and stills lenses aren't attractive to me. The only exception is click-less aperture, which is helpful to have while shooting as it means you can adjust it during the shot without shaking the whole camera and ruining the shot. Even the focus breathing isn't a big deal for me TBH.

I agree with @JordanWright to start with the ones included in Resolve. Specifically the Film Look LUTs. Or design your own in Resolve - Juan Melara consistently shows that it's capable of enormously sophisticated adjustments:

Congrats! I think cartoons and animation are a very interesting media because they're the only visual forms where creating a world that works very differently to ours isn't harder than just having something realistic. With film it used to be impossible but now with VFX so accessible building a convincing alternate world has gone from being impossible to impossibly expensive! It's interesting to see the differences between the worlds that exist in japanese anime with the worlds that Hollywood creates with VFX. In a sense these mediums allow unrestricted creativity and Hollywoods creations are reflective of their very recent ability to start thinking in these terms, whereas the worlds created in anime are obviously the product of a much more mature environment where highly creative thinkers have been bouncing off each-other creatively for a long time. I played computer games and the game Myst was a fascinating game because it took place in a world that really did not function the same way that ours did, and it was really evident when playing the game that you couldn't really predict what effects doing something would have.

It looks that way to me too.

This is the mount for my 18-35... Not sure if that helps...

Ah, crap - looks like I had confused myself. I just did a quick exposure test and here's what I found. Konica Hexanon 40mm at f1.8: Helios 58mm on 0.7X SB using aperture to match DOF: Helios 58mm on 0.7X SB at F2: So, it looks like the the 58+SB combination is actually slightly darker when set to match the DOF, but would be brighter and have less DOF at a similar aperture value. I had to move the 58mm back slightly to match the FOV, but that's what you would do anyway if you were using the lens in the field, so it's not a technically pure test. We learn something every day!

Lol, neither is mine.. I checked the link before I posted and again on my phone. I failed both tests! ???

Interesting technique, and it goes to show that curves can be tremendously powerful. Therefore, I officially announce the... Curves-only Grading Challenge! It's totally optional, of course, but it's a fun challenge, and learning the fundamentals can be very helpful. Rules: You can only use curves to adjust the image The only exception is that you can use a Colour Space Transform plugin to change colour space and gamma You have unlimited nodes, and combined with keys, layer modes, etc you can do many different things I'll definitely be trying it

Absolutely. I've bought fast lenses for my GH5 to improve it's low-light just as much as for shallower DOF, but there's limits to the practicality of shallow DOF. I'm attracted to adapting FF or MF lenses because I can get a brighter image for the same DOF, which would make focussing easier for the same levels of noise.

LOL, yeah, we might get regular great announcements for some time.. In a world where technology depreciates quickly and there is always a chance that next month will be replaced you have to just make a decision with what is around and when you need it just buy the current best contender. So buy when you need to, but if you don't, then wait. If you buy a tool that does the job then a better one won't make yours worse, after all.

Absolutely. I think it also depends on style and taste. Some people are more sensitive to some aspects rather than others, so two people of equal "pickiness" might also have different preferences too.

Just for reference, there's a little symbol in the top right of each post (two lines and three dots) that is a link to that specific post

One shot no edit... one shot no edit!! Do it! Do it!

Pros who run recording studios experiment heavily with microphone placement in relation to the person's mouth and the sweet spot is normally to one side and with some vertical adjustment too, definitely not on-axis! They say that the different elements of the persons voice are projected differently and so by moving the mic around your finding the optimum blend of enhancing the pleasant tones and minimising the others. They say that it makes so much difference that if you don't do it then there's no point being picky about microphone choice either. And if you have the mic off-axis then you may not need a pop filter. I recorded the VO for my 3-hour short film challenge with the iPhone headset and no filter and it was fine. Also, the closer you get to the persons mouth the less the room ambience will be audible because you're lowering the gain to compensate.

This joins the rifle grip as a good way to excite the local security contingent wherever you go..

I think this conversation should be had when looking at the exported finished film. Depending on what the delivery mechanism is the differences between uncompressed raw and braw are likely to be completely obliterated unless there is a heavy grade or a very high quality master file.

Apple are either absolutely cutting edge or are late adopters. They go very early with the tech they want to push their user experience into (removing ports for example) but for the rest they let android market test other features and if they work in the market then they catch up (third party keyboards). I'm more surprised they ever had 10-bit video rather than them not having it now.

4K 56Mbps isn't promising unfortunately, even if the sensor and lens are much improved from other models

I think there are a few ways to tackle this challenge: A bit of planning, a bit of shooting, a bit of editing, a bit of grading (probably popular) A bit of planning, a bit of shooting, a bit of editing, shoot in standard profile and no grading Very little planning, a lot of fast shooting, a lot of editing Lots of planning, much less shooting, much less editing Huge amounts of planning, one shot, no edit I'm kind of waiting for someone to do the last one.... I did say planning can be done ahead of time, and there's no limit to cast/crew so you could make one of those one-shot pieces nicely for this. That's the one where the BTS would be really great to see

The GH5 is a proven workhorse. I'm not sure about the XT3 but knowing Fuji it's likely it's also a well-built product like that.

In a way yes. Although there's a great phrase that keeps coming to mind "as much as the market can bear". I know when I've come upon yet another example when Apple or Microsoft or someone else deliberately do something in their interests and against mine sometimes it really gets me agitated and I contemplate switching to a different brand, and the question really is "how much of this sh*t can I bear before I'll be motivated enough to switch companies". Normally the thought that follows is that it's so much work and so I'll stick with them, and then the next thought is that they are absolute geniuses at knowing just how much we will bear. There's an entire type of product strategy where you develop a product that does 17 new things and you work out what the minimum number of new features would get people to upgrade, and then you cripple all the other features you could have given the customer and sell that. Same next year. You can get half-a-dozen models out of the same hardware just by trickling out the improvements, and sell up to 6 times the number of cameras that you would have sold if you just released the features all at once.

I wouldn't apologise.. more info is sometimes useful, and in a world dominated by people that can't even be bothered to include all the letters in each word, someone that speaks in sequences of sentences should be applauded rather than criticised. If it's too long for anyone, they don't have to read it

Looks like a spam bot, except that it has nothing to say... it is funny though. I'm hanging around in here waiting for random memes to begin!

Listening to customer feedback and giving people what they want is a very promising product strategy! Awesome

Everyone knows it takes less time editing to make a longer film.. same in writing