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Shot with the BMMCC in Myeongdong for 2.5 hours in the (light) rain today.  It's a trooper.  Images barely graded as usual.










and a POV pic of the setup.

I might have gone a touch dark on the grade, but these were just taken from checking dailies to catch any tech or usage issues.  
I think I'm getting the hang of this.

Maturity level 1: specs are everything
Maturity level 2: specs don't matter
Maturity level 3: let's talk about specs in a nuanced way
Let's try and elevate the discussion, shall we?

Colors and textures smoke the S line cameras imho under ambient and natural light. Great stills! @kye So cool and really worth it that you brought your little cinema camera with you! I bet you are having tons of fun with your footage. I still got 4 hours of Bmpcc clips from this summer to go through. It's an honest low light camera, giving you what the eye can see btw.

Went to tea cafe / tea museum.  Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way.
Barely graded stills:







 

A few frames from yesterday..  Almost no grading done.

Went to tea cafe / tea museum.  Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way.
Barely graded stills:







 

A few frames from yesterday..  Almost no grading done.

Went to tea cafe / tea museum.  Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way.
Barely graded stills:







 

Went to tea cafe / tea museum.  Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way.
Barely graded stills:







 

Went to tea cafe / tea museum.  Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way.
Barely graded stills:







 

A few frames from yesterday..  Almost no grading done.

Very nice. I like the framing of some of these. It's great you brought it along. Good to have in your pocket.
It's too bad that BM doesn't just make it again. Doesn't need to even be 4K, just needs to be good and small.

Arrived in Seoul and recovering from flights etc.  A storm rolled in and I grabbed some shots with the BMMCC.  I'm just getting used to the low-light limits so these are test shots as much as anything.  I've done almost no grading to these at all, but they look like movie frames, I'm really impressed.


 

A few frames from yesterday..  Almost no grading done.

A few frames from yesterday..  Almost no grading done.

Arrived in Seoul and recovering from flights etc.  A storm rolled in and I grabbed some shots with the BMMCC.  I'm just getting used to the low-light limits so these are test shots as much as anything.  I've done almost no grading to these at all, but they look like movie frames, I'm really impressed.


 

GX85 or LX10, also GH5 would show mush whereas the M2K produces a believeable low light image. Nice shots. Thanks for posting. Enjoy your trip. We will enjoy your findings and footage you might share.:)  @kye

Arrived in Seoul and recovering from flights etc.  A storm rolled in and I grabbed some shots with the BMMCC.  I'm just getting used to the low-light limits so these are test shots as much as anything.  I've done almost no grading to these at all, but they look like movie frames, I'm really impressed.


 

Interesting observations.
I've mentioned my priorities elsewhere previously, but the first one is to get the shot.
What this means in reality is having a camera with you that you actually take on the trip.  Then that you take with you when you leave your accommodation.  That you take out of your bag / pocket and turn on.  That has the right lens to get the shot you want.  That can focus and expose and compose fast enough to capture the moment.
There's lots of pitfalls along that road for cameras to fall into and result in not getting that shot.
Packing a smaller MFT with a long zoom and a faster lens option for low-light is a master-of-none package that threads the needle pretty well to get the shots you want.
Do they look like a Cooke on an Alexa 35? - hell no.  But if I had one of those on a trip and pulled it out in public the only thing I would be able to film would be people looking at the bozo who was shooting a movie, that is until security stops me asking for permits.

Arrived in Seoul and recovering from flights etc.  A storm rolled in and I grabbed some shots with the BMMCC.  I'm just getting used to the low-light limits so these are test shots as much as anything.  I've done almost no grading to these at all, but they look like movie frames, I'm really impressed.


 

Yeah, the basic rule is that just because a card is recognized by the camera doesn't mean it can actually keep up with the data rate (no matter the card's stated read/write speed). On the Blackmagic cinematography forum there's this old thread where Frank Engel did 15-minute tests of a bunch of cards to see what would work:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=91479
 

Interesting observations.
I've mentioned my priorities elsewhere previously, but the first one is to get the shot.
What this means in reality is having a camera with you that you actually take on the trip.  Then that you take with you when you leave your accommodation.  That you take out of your bag / pocket and turn on.  That has the right lens to get the shot you want.  That can focus and expose and compose fast enough to capture the moment.
There's lots of pitfalls along that road for cameras to fall into and result in not getting that shot.
Packing a smaller MFT with a long zoom and a faster lens option for low-light is a master-of-none package that threads the needle pretty well to get the shots you want.
Do they look like a Cooke on an Alexa 35? - hell no.  But if I had one of those on a trip and pulled it out in public the only thing I would be able to film would be people looking at the bozo who was shooting a movie, that is until security stops me asking for permits.

Interesting observations.
I've mentioned my priorities elsewhere previously, but the first one is to get the shot.
What this means in reality is having a camera with you that you actually take on the trip.  Then that you take with you when you leave your accommodation.  That you take out of your bag / pocket and turn on.  That has the right lens to get the shot you want.  That can focus and expose and compose fast enough to capture the moment.
There's lots of pitfalls along that road for cameras to fall into and result in not getting that shot.
Packing a smaller MFT with a long zoom and a faster lens option for low-light is a master-of-none package that threads the needle pretty well to get the shots you want.
Do they look like a Cooke on an Alexa 35? - hell no.  But if I had one of those on a trip and pulled it out in public the only thing I would be able to film would be people looking at the bozo who was shooting a movie, that is until security stops me asking for permits.

If it were to only take videos, I could make do with the camcorder and a phone. However, I find the phone too limiting and ergonomically a black hole of no return. Like you say, "thread the needle" is the name of the game on holiday and travel. Don't want to get too noticed by family or others. There are a couple of lenses that can make the MFT system unique for this purpose:
Olympus 75-300mm, at only 423g, it covers a lot; Panasonic 12-32 kit lens, at 70g, why wouldn't to take it?; A favorite fast prime; there are many- just pick and choose your favorite(s). There are lots of options and I often find myself in the weeds.

Interesting observations.
I've mentioned my priorities elsewhere previously, but the first one is to get the shot.
What this means in reality is having a camera with you that you actually take on the trip.  Then that you take with you when you leave your accommodation.  That you take out of your bag / pocket and turn on.  That has the right lens to get the shot you want.  That can focus and expose and compose fast enough to capture the moment.
There's lots of pitfalls along that road for cameras to fall into and result in not getting that shot.
Packing a smaller MFT with a long zoom and a faster lens option for low-light is a master-of-none package that threads the needle pretty well to get the shots you want.
Do they look like a Cooke on an Alexa 35? - hell no.  But if I had one of those on a trip and pulled it out in public the only thing I would be able to film would be people looking at the bozo who was shooting a movie, that is until security stops me asking for permits.