kye

4 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

The BMCC go for more especially the MFT mounts. I wanted one though the internal battery was a turn off for me as well as the black sun issue(did it ever get resolved??).

No idea about resolved in firmware, but IIRC Resolve has it as a tick-box option to fix it.

2 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I think Black Magic should pull a Canon and release a Pocket v2 with the old sensor but with Braw, full size hdmi, and a brighter tilt screen at like a $650 price point. Well that would probably still be cooler than Canon. I'd probably get it.

Interesting idea.  I suppose the difference might be that Canon could do it because they presumably have their own production facilities and so old moulds and machinery tooling would either still be in use or would still be in a warehouse somewhere.  With BM making things in such small numbers who knows if the tooling is still around.  Also, who knows if they still have stock of the sensors etc, Canon probably buys them in such huge quantities that they have sheds of then sitting around waiting to be used in every new camera announced for years, whereas BM might have only bought enough of that sensor to do a run and might not have any more in their stock piles.

37 minutes ago, kaylee said:

so let me put a fine point on this: do i need a mic inside the mask?

If you're going to ADR this actor and not going to use the on-set audio then the only things you need from on-set audio is for it to help with ADR, so as long as you can hear the actor then I wouldn't worry about it myself, unless I'm missing something..  @IronFilm ?

I've done ADR done a couple of different ways:

• where the mouth of the actor is visible and the aim is to get clean audio that looks natural
• where the character is not a normal human and you can't see it's mouth

In the first instance the ADR took a long time to record to get a result that didn't seem separate to the visuals, and the actor just copying the line over and over again to get the timings down was really helped by being able to hear the original audio.  In this instance we ADR'd because the location was noisy.

In the second instance the character was a delusion (IIRC it was a human actor wearing a huge Easter Island head that fit over their head, shoulders and partly down their chest).  They didn't record on-set audio for this character (someone read the lines from off-screen) because the character stood perfectly still in frame.  The voice-over was a deep male voice and we recorded the lines without trying to match them to the footage because there was no timing to match.  We got a guy with a deep voice and recorded it through my 1" condenser mic and a valve pre-amp to make it sound as fat as possible.  Basically we did a bunch of takes for some variety and they just chose the take in editing that suited the edit best.

Your project seems like it is somewhere between these two extremes, so you've got some flexibility.

12 hours ago, DBounce said:

When Panasonic or Fuji finally release the organic sensor that they have been promising for the last few years. That sensor is supposed to have per pixel gain adjustment meaning NDs are no longer needed and HDR is real hdr instead of simulated or calculated HDR like on a smartphone. 

But who knows if/ when that will be released?

Why would NDs not be needed if we had per-pixel gain?

Currently the lowest ISO combined with desirable aperture and SS during the day results in many more stops of light than the sensor can handle, so unless the per-pixel gain adjustment was able to have ISOs much much lower than 100 then you'd still need NDs.

I get that it would give us increased DR, but only by taking dark pixels and brightening them.

If you record sound on set then it'll be easier to sync ADR.

One consideration is that if you're going to have an actor talking through a bunch of effects, there might be certain things that the actor can do to make the processed dialogue more understandable or sound more menacing or whatever.  Ideally you would have the effects applied to the actors voice in real-time so they could hear themselves through it all and act appropriately, however real-time audio is tricky unless you're setup to do that.

More likely is that you get the actor in to do ADR, you record a take, apply the effects, listen to it, hear what works and what doesn't work, and re-record / apply effects / listen again, etc until the actor has learned how to speak so the end result is good.  

Of course you can just record normal ADR and then only apply the effects that work with that way of talking, and that will be more straight-forward, but it will be creatively more limiting.

1 hour ago, KnightsFan said:

A lot of skills will overlap between software, so even if you switch later it wont all be wasted time. 

I should mention that i was referring to standalone fusion. I would not recommebd using the fusion tab in resolve for serious composites. I have had a lot of crashes and terrible performance compared to standalone Fusion 9. I am sure it will improve, but at the moment i see it as more a beta feature than a solid tool.

I haven't used the Fusion tab yet, but I'd agree about BM and bugs.  The next versions are likely to fix a lot of them though.  Resolve 12.5 used to crash on me about every 20 minutes of use, but since V14 it basically never crashes, that is using the Edit and Colour tabs mostly and not Fusion or Fairlight.

2 hours ago, popalock said:

So, I've never used any proper video editing software but want to start in a big way.  Given that I'm starting from fresh does it make more sense to go straight to Blackmagic software given it's free and apparently industry leading instead of the classic Adobe combo?  Adobe CC is pricey and I don't want to use any of the other creative apps.

I have PC laptop with

 - 16gb of ram,

 - i7 8th gen processor, 4 core

 - 256gb SSD, 

 - Graphics:  NVIDIA GeForce MX150 with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM 

 

There are a few in depth training videos for Fusion on Udemy so I think I can get hold of all the training I need for either combo.  My understanding is that the Blackmagic software is quicker (eg in rendering) but looks kinda weird with the "node" based approach in Fusion.

Let me know!

thanks!

 

Resolve is the way to go.  Check out this thread where I've tried to pull together all the good resources I've found:

Enjoy, if you find anything good then please add it to that thread, and feel free to ask questions

5 hours ago, IronFilm said:

The cost for spamming is very very very very VERY low, likely it is getting posted by the thousands by bots across many many forums. Thus you only need an extremely small % to click the link, and an even smaller percentage to buy the items, to make the spamming profitable. 

Yes, and considering how rich the west is in comparison to other parts of the world, even a tiny bit of money might make a huge difference.  The definition of extreme poverty is a dollar a day, and there are millions of people living in these kinds of situations.

I read an article about one of the first major computer viruses/worms (I can't remember which one it was) that took down Wall St and other major facilities across the world.  It was written by a Russian programmer.  The interesting thing was that the guy had no concept of what effect it would have until many years later.  

The short version of the story was that the USSR was a pretty harsh place to live but the focused on education and gave technology scholarships and trained thousands of Russian students in computer science and programming, but when they graduated there were no jobs (because this was communist Russia) and so you had a bunch of skilled and highly angry young men.  The thing about the USSR at that time was the the Iron Curtain was still in full force, they had no idea that the west was using computers for real things and in Russia the only people who had computers were rich people.  So, the pissed off programmers amused themselves by writing viruses to mess up the rich people's toys.  It wasn't until a journalist managed to track this person down over a period of years and communicate with him that he found out that the west used computers for real work, that his virus/worm had escaped the USSR, and had caused huge damage to companies the world over.  He basically had no idea.  After that he dropped out of that scene and history seems to have forgotten him.

The world is a funny place sometimes.

38 minutes ago, leslie said:

define spam link please. i must be particularly slow this morning  as i'm thinking a valid link to an ebay item is in its self kinda harmless, out of the possibilities that exist. if it was some sort of scam surely ebay would have done something to close or block accounts by now ?  i have yet to see something in the for sale section that interests me, so by my definition  i could say its all spam if i was being belligerent. tompeter seems to post a couple ads a week, not sure what his short, middle or long game is. but it doesn't bother me much, its not my storage, data or bandwith that's being consumed if i suddenly saw ten or more ads a day from tompeter then i'd be sending a private message to mr reid  about doing some (house cleaning) other than that i am kinda of indifferent to it all, like the rest of us i guess 

Who knows.  If they hack an ebay account, inject malicious code into the ad, then get spammers to direct people to look at that auction then that's a mechanism.  Remember that computer security is basically a software arms race, and it's been going for decades now, so the bleeding edge isn't the obvious stuff anymore.  Plus considering how hard people in poorer countries are willing to work combined with the sheer number of them in that situation, there are bound to be thousands of people way smarter than both of us who would work non-stop for a tiny income to feed their families, feed their egos, or whatever else might motivate them.

If you're unaware of what the complexities are in this arms race, check out the Stuxnet virus.  It is spectacular and kind of terrifying too.

10 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

Sounds like a headache. not enough quality control when it comes to precision alignment In certain manufacturers have kept me from buying certain lenses. 

It would be a headache, but I think that you might be missing the point.  This guy has a supremely accurate calibration device and spent hours trying to get these lenses to be as perfect as he could make them.  All manufacturers have standards that lenses must meet before they go out the door.  Of course some companies standards will be stricter than others, but all of them will measure a lens, find that it has some level of distortion that could be corrected with fine-tuning, but because it meets their tolerances, out it goes.  That's just capitalism.

2 hours ago, leslie said:

i'm not sure there's any advantage to cleaning a bunch of lenses a time.you run the risk of disassembled parts everywhere, which would lead to most of those lenses never going back together again, well thats how it would happen with me anyway ? unless your in a clean room by the time you have one lens back together you'd have to clean the others all over again. what happens if your interrupted ? and have to drop the wife off at the maternity ward, more cleaning and oh dear god where was i up too ? plus having a bunch of lenses to do at once could be a more daunting proposition than originally anticipated and its too late after you have opened a couple. i'm thinking slow and steady and eventually the tortoise will win the race.

i know this because i have a canon fd 35-70 sitting on my bench. i believe who ever had it before me did something to it before i had it as the rear cap wouldn't lock on like my other fd's i have. me being adventurous and thinking how hard can it be ? had the screws off it in no time a slight twist and something went sprooiing as it came apart. do you think that thing will go back together before this side off hell freezing over ?. i guess when i  am feeling adventurous again i'll have another look at it ? my only consolation is it was a cheap lens so im not too upset/ but i think i learned another lesson

LOL.  I meant that I'd clean them one at a time, but straight after each other.  The problem is that I don't really have a place where I can setup the various tools, towels, little containers for screws, containers for the chemicals, the measuring devices for the chemicals, etc, and still expect them to be there if I don't use them for a couple of weeks.  So my plan was to figure out what I needed, then get it all, then work out how to approach it, which lens to do first, then do the first one completely, and then work out what to change before doing the second one.

If I start now, then the setup would have to stay setup, or I'd have to go through that process a second time, when the Russian mail service decides to finally let my last package out of Eastern Europe! 

2 hours ago, leslie said:

chalk should be ok and while we are at it lets make it coloured chalk. and because the new bmp4k has better low light, lets have flares too, not anamorphic flares but real magnesium burn your eyeballs out kind of flares. you can at your discretion use an anamorphic  lens but it has to be 2x ?

Oh, I don't know...  the Zeiss article says "Nutrients (textile lint, traces of grease, varnish, dust and dirt)".  If grease and varnish are food then what do we know - chalk might be a feast!!

16 minutes ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

Will cleaning make the lenses sharper? As long as you store them in the right humidity no fungus can grow.

I don't think that cleaning will make them sharper.  It might even make them worse, if you put them back together again with worse alignment than when you took them apart.

There is some fascinating discussion on lens quality control in this thread: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?158004-Let-s-make-STAR-LENS-TESTER-to-get-best-lens-copy-easily-(Airy-disk-PSF-point-source)

In another thread he compares three vintage lenses, and to be fair (and make sure he's not comparing a good one of one lens with a poor one of another lens) he aligns the three lenses using that lens tester first.  The results are interesting, and he does say that with that machine and a lot of trial and error he was able to improve the alignment of all of the lenses, although one of them seemed to look worse in the little resolution test he also took pictures of, so it's complicated.

More lenses have been arriving..

Super-Takumar 35mm 3.5 - ebay auction specified fungus:

and some with fungus that didn't specify it in the ebay ad....  I figured there's always a chance of them having it, so it's not a problem, but buyer beware!

Minolta 135mm 2.8:

(Note that the little 9-dot pattern is from the LED torch I was using, so they're just reflections, not fungus colonies!)

The Minolta 200mm 3.5 also has some patches that look like greasy smudges on the front element, but further investigation shows they're on the inside of the front element, so I suspect fungus with that too.  I tried taking a photograph but couldn't get the angles right, it's quite faint and you need light from a certain angle etc.

My hygrometer says that my lens storage drawer sites between 65% and 40% humidity, even though we have refrigerative air conditioning on many hours a day (it's peak summer here).  

I'm not sure if that's acceptable, but the Zeiss page here says:

Quote

Where does fungus come from?

• Fungus spores are everywhere and germinate under suitable environmental conditions:
• Growing conditions
• Relative humidity of at least 70% (more than 3 days)
• No or little airflow
• Darkness
• Nutrients (textile lint, traces of grease, varnish, dust and dirt)
• Temperatures between 10 and 35°C

How can fungus be avoided?

• Reduce the relative humidity to less than 60% (never under 30% as it is dangerous for the instrument) by storing:
• in climate-control cabinets in which hygrometers maintain environmental conditions
• next to driers (e.g. silicagel orange packs) in the containers
• in a special cabinet whose interior is heated to 40°C (max. 50°C) using a fan heater/ incandescent lamps, thereby reducing the relative humidity
• in hermetically sealed cabinets with fungicides with high vapor pressure (fungicide depot must be replaced at regular intervals)
• in an dehydrator above driers

After the work is done, Immediately clean the instruments. If possible, you can use a fan to facilitate evaporation of surface moisture. Do not use containers made of leather, textiles or wood for storage. Short solar radiation or irradiation with UV light may also help avoiding fungus.

These seem a little contradictory, so I think more reading is needed.

Once all my lenses arrive I'll begin the cleaning process in earnest.  No point cleaning a bunch only to have another one arrive and you have to set it all up over again.

2 hours ago, Snowbro said:

My middle school teachers called me that, now I make more than them. 

I heard that Green Day named themselves that after their teacher or school principal said it would be "a green day in hell" if they ever amounted to anything.  Not sure if it's true, but it makes a good story to tell on the internet like I'm doing right now 

16 minutes ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I appreciate the input. Its good to hear other people had the same struggle. Its keeping me up at night haha, but I think a little pain is necessary to get to a higher level. I just took a position as head of lighting for a web series, its unpaid so I am not too worried. That said regardless of pay I like to perform my best. I was very honest about my experience though.

I took the plunge last year and worked for a wedding video company, was super worried they wouldn't like my work but everything turned out fine and I learned a lot.

A really senior former work colleague had spent a lot of time in the armed forces and talked a lot about "time in rank".  As far as I could tell it talked about the dangers of promoting people too quickly, and that you needed to spend "time in rank" to really learn how to do things properly.  I suspect that for some people who never rise through the ranks that's because they haven't worked out the things you need to learn at that level, so they never advance.

I take this to mean that there are key skills to learn before you can progress (and still do a good job) but that if you learn fast then you can progress steadily too.  This has been my experience.  When I was young (which saying makes me feel like I'm 80 years old!) I was frustrated about being underused and that I had so much more to offer and could do a way better job than the people running things.  In a sense that's true, but it's also like when you watch someone playing a game and you see things they don't, but what you don't take into account is that they're seeing things you're not.  Also, the easier something looks the more likely it is that the skill of that person is what is making it look easy, rather than it actually being easy.  Now when I look at younger generations and I think about them being in charge, the sheer weight of what they don't know would make me very reluctant to put them in charge of anything.

It's a balance I think, but hard work and learning as much as possible is what will distinguish you in the long run.

8 hours ago, Mako Sports said:

Whilst the DSLR video Revolution ended in 2014, some say it wasn't worth it.

But the question is where would we be today if we didn't have it?

It spawned "afforadable" mid tier Super 35 ILC video cameras like the C100, FS100, FS700. 

The cameras that sparked the beginning of the end of the revolution. (GH4, A7S, NX1, Pocket Cinema, BMC 2.5K) Would they exist?

 

https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/2862-opinion-the-end-of-the-dslr-revolution-benefits-major-manufacturers

https://www.eoshd.com/2017/06/pro-cameras-not-creatively-liberating/

We'd either be shooting on handicams or ILC video cameras like C100s.  There might actually be more action in those sectors as there would be more money.  I saw a guy vlogging in public with a little handicam and it was covered in stickers that said 4K and Stabilisation and things like that.  We might be talking about which handicams have 10-bit, and if the C50mkII would have C-Log, and if the FS3 would have internal 10-bit, and the P4K thread would probably still be talking about battery life, strange bugs, and shipping delays

12 hours ago, IronFilm said:

My first "jobs" were on student short films, or no budget web series, or similar such shoots. 

How confident was I? Very. 

As I'd been "DoP" or AC on numerous such shoots like those already, and I felt confident I could perform better than the average soundie I'd usually see on such levels of shoots!

Same for me in my day job.  If I come across potential work and I think "wow, that seems like it might be beyond my skill level" I stop and think about the alternative, which is someone else doing it.  That usually 'inspires' enough confidence to jump in and do it

18 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

How confident were you when you took your first job?

My advice if you're contemplating taking on jobs you're not sure if you're up for is this:

• Get as much experience as you can in your own time
• When talking to potential clients, highlight your strengths and previous experience, but be honest and don't promise anything you can't be 100% sure you can deliver
• If the client takes you on, work your ass off to make them as happy as you possibly can (both by how you conduct yourself as well as the quality of the work) - even if you don't care about the work or the client this is the strategy to learn the most from the job
• Leverage that successful work to 'level-up' and get better work next time (if you deliver a $2K result on a $500 job you will have an example of $2000 work and can use it to book $2K jobs, etc etc)

Opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

I've had a lot of growth in my career because I took on jobs that stretched my abilities.  I didn't get those jobs because I'm great at selling (I'm not) - I got them because they were awful jobs that the more experienced people didn't want.  I took jobs where everyone else would suck air into their mouths when they heard about them, I took a job where I was the fourth person to do it and the previous person quit after the first day.  I've gotten lots of experience because of this and learned a ton on basically every job.

By being humble, asking for input from others (when appropriate), and focusing on the work instead of yourself, you can build trust with people.  I've been on jobs where everything went sideways because that was just how the situation was going to go, and the people around me saw that I was making the best of the situation and didn't blame me, in fact they had a higher opinion of me for keeping calm and keeping focussed on the work.  People will re-hire those people that they like to work with because they have the right attitude, so that's the best long-term strategy.

It turns your Canon camera into an iPhone with Portrait Mode!!

(just kidding.. ?)

10 hours ago, Phil A said:

I keep looking for the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera all the time because it's clearly a bit better than the BMPCC for my needs but I have never seen it below 750€ used here in Germany and that's just not what I'm looking to part with.

Also, and this probably sounds dumb, I am not sure I could ever go to a camera without IBIS again after the GH5. The fact that you can handhold static shots so well massively changed how much I actually use a tripod for casual stuff. That's also the single one grain of salt making me hesitant about the BMPCC4k.

Yeah, I keep telling people that there are two types of cameras, those with IBIS and everything else.  If you can't work with tripods or "professional rigs" then your choices are IBIS, the 1% of lenses that have IS, or making every video with the aesthetic of a 60s 8mm home video.

If it wasn't for IBIS I'd be in the P4K thread hanging out and complaining about how I haven't received my P4K yet with everyone else ?

6 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I'll probably end up using prores unless I really need the highlight headroom or am doing something crazy to the color in post. Churches can sometimes be a high dynamic range situation with large windows so RAW could come in handy for that. I kind of forgot about the moire issues though can't complain for $300. For whatever reason magic lantern makes me feel uneasy for paid work, I mean if I am leaving the camera unattended to record for an hour. I use slow motion a lot for weddings but for personal work, though I actually love slo mo, I rarely use it.

IIRC it does Prores HQ, which is 10-bit.  Is that supported by P2K?  10-bit would allow a lot more DR than 8-bit, so maybe the DR is ok in Prores?

6 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

I love the BMPCC. I still have mine, though I don't really use it anymore. Once I got the GH5 it just became too much of a hassle to rig it up with an external battery and monitor. But the image and colors, they are wonderful. And it also looks very good upscaled to 2K, maybe even 4K. We used mine as a b-cam for a friend's BMCC and he was able to mix them together perfectly. 

I dunno about using it on weddings though! It's not great for low light and while there are no recording limits it gets warm real quick. 

You could even rig it up with a tiny fan - for a wide shot for a wedding you don't need sound, and this isn't the camera for recording sound anyway!

6 minutes ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I like that plug. If I just left it secured into the camera with the cage all the time it would probably last forever.

Yeah, and even if you broke it you just replace the cable and the camera is still fine.  It's great to have options like this.

6 hours ago, Django said:

EOS R isn't presented by Canon as a DSLR substitute but rather an addition. That said quite a few 5D/6D series users are switching over. 1DX2 users no way, B-cam at best.

ProAV on YT did an interesting video showing the EOS-R as a B-cam to a C200 and it looked like a reasonable option.  The crop was even a feature as it means you can get a bit of extension on a shorter lens for a tighter portrait shot.

4 hours ago, currensheldon said:

The only big negative upon further review is the battery. Bummer to see a battery that has just over half the capacity of a Canon LP-E6 on a full frame camera that shoots 4K. I'm guessing you won't get much more than 45-minutes shooting on a battery that size. As someone who owns a lot of Canon LP-E6s and has battery life pretty high up on the priority list, that is a bummer.

I'm waiting for the pro model anyway, but love the RP's size and price. If it had that bigger battery it may have made a good B-Cam to the EOS R on smaller, one-man band shoots - or as a camera to always have on a gimbal for quick shots. 

If the P4K thread is any indication, let's reserve the next 80 pages of this thread to BATTERY RAGE!!

8 minutes ago, mercer said:

I do wish it had some kind of Log... even if they had a Flat Profile like Nikon has or a Log-Lite. But all in all, I’d have to say that for the price, Canon delivered here and this could be a purchase for me. 

I don’t really understand why anyone would try and compare the a6xx Sony series to a Canon FF Camera? Even with a 4K crop, it’s still a FF camera for photos and 1080p.

As a consolation the contrast / saturation controls might have some decent leeway in them?

With 8-bit it might be preferable to allocate more of those bits to the middle parts of the exposure range.  I did really like the Normal profile on the XC10 which provided the same DR as C-Log, it just had a knee at a higher point so it was only compressing the highlights.

(From the XC10 EBU Test Paper - Normal = Look1, C-Log = Look 5)

As far as I know the XC10 is the only camera that had this feature - the rest just clipped highlights.  For an 8-bit codec this would be a spectacular gamma curve, and it wasn't something that Canon or anyone else seemed to make a big deal out of, so although I'm not optimistic for the RP, we won't know until someone tests it.

@leslie Wow!

I bet that would have been a pretty nerve wracking few days!

10 minutes ago, leslie said:

that is pretty hard core !!  i usually wait till the camera is well out of warranty and others have trod the path before me  . i pulled my nikon 950 apart to a similar degree to remove the hot mirror.  got it all back together had one tiny little screw left over  ? . been considering doing the same thing to my gopro to replace the lens with a less wide angle. still considering the swap, that and other lens acquisitions keep getting in the way.

I used to be an IT technician for a small organisation with a modest IT budget, so we used to try and solve problems ourselves.  We'd often clean keyboards, printers, and other hardware when they went a bit funny because often a good clean can get something back to working well.

What was quite common was when me and the boss would pull apart a laser printer or something, there were almost always parts left over.  Sometimes they were parts where both of us would look at them and think "I've never seen that thing before in my life!".  Funnily enough we never pulled something apart and had it not work again because we stuffed it up - everything always came good.  

I think they just put spare parts in there so that there will always be parts left over and you'll be less likely to try and service things yourself next time

Hi A1ex!!

Keep up the great work..  we appreciate it!  ???

(https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=22770.msg211977#msg211977)

I have had a recurring thought that ML would make a spectacular project for someone who wants to work in PR to get real-world experience and actually make some kind of difference by making ML much more accessible to people who don't want to trawl though threads about registers to understand how to turn on crop-mode or similar things like that.
The information is around, and even just collating it and providing some instructions would make a huge difference.

I think one of the main issues is that people want to record in some combination of RAW, 4K, and >30fps so the challenge isn't installing ML, it's installing the right build, installing the SD-Card hack, working out the menu system (that keeps changing faster than the blog posts can keep up) to enable the right modules, the button combinations for preview modes, and potentially other bits and pieces as well.

19 minutes ago, Django said:

@leslie They are actively working on it. EOS R firmware update gave some hope but A1ex from ML posted this yesterday:

"The firmware update... unfortunately wasn't helpful. None of my previous tricks worked with it. I'm still wondering why some of my previous test FIRs resulted in green screen, but I'm now 100% sure we did not execute any code on the camera. The green screen was likely a bug in Canon's FIR loading routine, or something like that.

The good news -kitor identified two UART ports: one at 3.3V, used by the MPU (outputs the log from above) and another at 1.8V, likely used by the main CPU (same voltage level on DIGIC 6). The latter needs some level shifting, but - at least on previous models - it has everything we need to enable the boot flag and explore around.

Worst case - ML on EOS R may require some hardware hacking in order to install it (like in the above picture). No big deal, right? I mean, you need a lot more knowledge to be able to use it "

Magic Lantern Forum - EOS R

He actually linked to a post here by @kye ? 

OMG - that brought tears to my eyes!!  How funny!

Let's hope A1ex has seen the other nice things I say about ML!! ???

21 hours ago, leslie said:

been my experience a couple of times at least. someone from the forum posts a heads up about suspect posts, which i have to thank those people for having such a neighborly watch like attitude. perhaps if everyone in the forum pursues an active approach to announce spammer posts when come across we would deny them or greatly reduce the clicks or whatever their evil machinations are.  most people on here don't seem to have much trouble calling a spade a spade or other names at times so i reckon if someone who's pretty regular in the forum calls out a spammer alert i would tend to side with them  and not click on links until proven otherwise. most if not all the links i click on are video links that lead to youtube or vimeo   camera reviews or the shorts that people make. i don't tend to click on txt links. just my two cents worth.

i have seen alot of tompeter adds in the sale section. it seems unnatural to me, one person to sell so much stuff unless he had a shop.since nothing is stated about a shop or being a wheeler and dealer, on principal i have avoided those adds like the plague.

I agree..  However, in my experience it's sometimes hard to see who is a spammer and who might be a newcomer who is potentially from the instant-messaging generation, or doesn't have English as their first language, or both.  Film-making is a pretty complicated topic and it's pretty easy to ask a genuine question that seems inflammatory or non-sensical, so apart from posting links, it can be hard to tell.

4 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

Just got this camera, waiting on it to come. Interested if anyone here still uses one. Would enjoy seeing work done on it or hearing experiences. 

My reasoning was:

1. no record limits (needed for C cam for weddings)
2. really cheap (350 bucks used)
3.  RAW 12 bit
4. dynamic range seems pretty remarkable 

We're going to try and make P4K footage have the same "look" of the OG Pocket camera, so that should tell you something about how well regarded the images from it are.  I was seriously considering buying one, but I wanted something small and it seems that the P2K works best when you can rig it up with external power and audio.

Weren't you going to stick with Fuji as a C-camera?  Or is this for a different setup?

58 minutes ago, Yurolov said:

People complaining about no ibis clearly have not used canons for video. Lens IS and digital IS work better than ibis from Sony. 

Or we don't want to be limited to minuscule and rather bland selection of Canon-compatible IS lenses.

There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of different aesthetics available from the different lens designs, materials, coatings, and manufacturers throughout the history of photography.  I personally think that the ability of mirrorless to adapt every SLR lens ever made is potentially the biggest advantage of taking out the mirror.  The fact that IBIS gives IS to every lens ever made is a real game changer for those who don't (or can't) always shoot on tripods or larger rigs.

Brandon Li is a famous travel film-maker who has made a number of viral travel films, with all of the special effects we associate with the genre.

His latest project went beyond that and included actors, a storyline, dramatic tension, as well as being a travel film.

Tom Antos interviewed him for a BTS look, and he talks about process, equipment, logistics, editing, the balance of control vs improvisation (there wasn't a script), and other interesting things, as well as showing some BTS footage.  I think it's an interesting crossover between fully planned shoots and completely unplanned travel films.

Here is the final film, and the BTS interview: