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thats pretty handy to know thanks for sharing your insight. I have two of the t5's however they dont get used nearly enough 🙄 however if one  does die, i now know what  to do.

bit like the bundaberg rum ad out here.. pants are optional at home... 🤪 

More honesty... i went back and watched it again. Mostly because i thought it was an odd screen size for anamorphic, however the second time i noticed the bars top and bottom. Probably because i run the laptop with night settings ( its easier on the eyes for me at least ) and the start is quite dark they blended together pretty well To give me a bit of an optical illusion. 

Not sure a dark night fight lends itself to displaying anamorphic imperfections so well. I kinda feel there needs to be some added lights to let us wallow in the anamorphic experience.  Be it garden lights or tea candles in a suitable container, not jj abrams star trek level of anamorphic, but rather something that lets us go, ooh ah, thats nice 🙂

Another thing struck me. If your about to be attacked at night there may not be time to take a stance, remove the hoodie and fight on. Sneaky buggers are well, going to sneak up on you. It may flow better if the he's attacked, fends off the first attack with mystic light. After that, then you have time to remove the hoodie and take a stance. Which sort of suggests, all right you  sneaky buggers lets have at this.   But again thats probably just me.

your stuff scares me, heck even your avatar scares me...

personally i thought the start was a bit dark, and to be honest i found myself wondering if that dude had any pants on. Which is a bit bizarre for a grown man to be thinking about.

I liked the added effects, thats pretty cool. Not entirely sure how you did it, but i'd like to see them swirl about him a bit more and mimic his actions abit closer. They could then grow in intensity till their released and that may not be so easy to do.  But im nitpicking.

23 hours ago, kye said:

Great post.

Before I got into video I did some street photography and two of the "rules" I used to use were:

1) if the person you're shooting sees you then make eye contact, smile, and say "thank you"

2) If the person asks you to delete the shot then smile and say "sure" and just do it

There's lots of talk online about the first one and the general theory (which fits my experience) is that people don't know what to think when they see someone out shooting photos and so they look to you to determine how to react and what to think about it, so by smiling you're indicating that you're a calm and well-intentioned person (rather than a threat) and by saying thanks it makes them feel good because you're indicating they've done you a favour (which they have) and doing things for other people who seem nice gives people a nice feeling.
If you're asking people for permission beforehand (which some people prefer) then a compliment is often a great icebreaker like "I love your hat/shirt/look/smile - would you mind if I took a quick photo?", as once again, people see that you're a calm person, its flattering (presumably they also like the hat they're wearing, or whatever you mentioned), and it explains why you might want to take a photo of them.
I remember that people are often calmed if you give them a business card too, as it's "proof" that you're legit and not up to no good.

Remaining calm and having an answer ready goes a long way it seems.  Still, confrontation isn't something that I'm particularly fond of, so I tend to avoid it where I can.

In terms of flying drones, I think it seems like a reasonable income stream if you're willing to go through all the hoops to get registered etc, and then do enough flying to justify getting certified etc.  For me, I'd spend about 3 hours flying per country I'd be visiting - the absolute worst type of bureaucracy-to-flying ratio imaginable!

Yeah, I skipped through the video looking for him to get arrested - had he not mislabeled it I might have relaxed and watched it more thoroughly.  Still, clickbait works - just ask the people who have written headlines for tabloid newspapers and pamphlets for the last, say, 300 years!

i'd say the first 290 odd years were ok, just the  last ten years' have been a roller coaster  down a steep ski slope. 

i'd swear tv commercials are actually getting dumber, which is rather ironic considering just how many people are continuing to further their education at uni or tafe.

So much clickbait on youtube !   I actually dont bother watching you tube any more. What i do is find something i'm interested in and then use idm (internet download manager) to download it, i can then watch it at my leisure, advertisement free.  Which pretty handy because i bought a  mig, tig stick welder last week . 😀

On drones don't take your drone into the nt (northern territory ) there is pretty  much bugger all, where you can fly it legally. Apparently it might wake up the ancestors or something...🙄  There are signs just about everywhere you pull up. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but not by much.

So my advice is, IF you do fly your drone, pull up well short and fly the drone the last bit, you can then honestly say you didn't see any signs. At 400 feet everything is so damn small. 😎

Cameras are fine take as many photos as you want.  The cynical side of me thinks there is some sort of ploy to encourage either the appropriation of permits or some other  form of lubricant perhaps.  

The airforce fly one of those large turboprop planes  around the other side of a hill about 500 metres from my house every 6 weeks or so. i'm pretty sure they fly as low as their allowed because i lose sight of it once it goes behind the hill. One day i promise i'll catch them on camera i swear... 

If  you can find one talented persons work, which you like, then i would suggest in the background,, is a lot of blood, sweat and tears over a number of years to get to that look.

Canons do have nice colour. A lot of people like canon colours, then there are others who like sony, and the other brands. My point being is personally, i don't think you can go wrong with any of the latest makes of camera.  Its more about the finessing that you need to apply after the image / footage is taken to get a result you like.

Lots of people out there are happy to throw on a lut and call it a day.  If your not happy with colours sooc Then you, my friend have definitely fallen down a rabbits warren. 

There is no one perfect camera that does everything spectacularly.  If there was then there would only be one camera brand. You do your research  and pick the camera that does most of what you need it to do and then compromise in other areas.

 I would suggest before you throw any money around get the free version of resolve.

 With resolve and some free luts and whatever log files, canon has on your camera. Start exploring, learn resolve and throw all sorts of footage at it from your camera while your learning. exhaust every option you can pursue in finding a look you like before spending too much money.  It will be time well spent and helps to define the look your after.

There is a chance your look may even come back to a lens choice or filter perhaps. 

There's a bit of a learning curve to resolve, but that can be said of everything.  There are truckloads of tutorials available on  youtube for resolve. There are probably more than a few ways to skin a cat in resolve ( metaphorically speaking of course ). Like kye said there are basic steps to follow.

Once your comfortable you can probably tailor your workflow to suit your look for a minimum of effort. However you first need to expend some effort to realize the look your after.

Bit of an update, the glue i used on my modified letus has let go. next thing to do will be clean it up and i'm thinking of throwing it under the mill again shave a bit more depth of the back of it as there's quite a vignette with the anamorphic attached to the gopro 9. 

Its not so bad if i use linear or narrow field of view however its cuts into the photo quite severely on wide or  superwide 

I  think i'll take a few photos, now and after for posterity.

I do have a canadian maple which has coloured up nicely this autumn. Camera of choice was the iphone 13 pro. Jpg straight from camera with a tiny amount of tweaking. Not bad for a phone.

are these the isco's that need an allen key on the front of the lens for adjustment ? because thats a total pita. 

i vaguely remember looking at one, years ago and thinking as desperate as i was for an anamorphic, i could wait for something better to come along.  

23 hours ago, kye said:

BM have an entire ecosystem of video hardware that is designed for broadcast.  I suspect you could probably run a small TV station almost completely on equipment they make.

A setup consisting of a camera and a PC for editing and colour grading is a very small part of such an enterprise - we just don't talk about the hardware side of the industry that much on here.  

Saying a hardware device that plays/records media should also be a software controller because it has a knob and some buttons is like saying that a cinema camera should also be a dash camera because they both have sensors and write to a media card 🙂 

Buy a smartphone and be amazed then... the days of tech only doing one thing even if it does that one thing well, are going the way of the dinosaur. Sad that  most camera manufactures are still stuck with such a narrow mindset.

When i throw my money around it has to on something that is able to do more than one trick. Been a lot of talk on this forum weighing up the pros and cons of various cameras. Consensus seems to be buy one with the most features you can use. Should be no different for hardware. 

A $495 media player isnt that practical for me. If it had a usb interface and could of worked with resolve, it would of been more useful. Maybe a bunch of vloggers will buy this  to have as a showpony on their desk, who knows ?  

I'm slightly interested to see if anyone on the forum buys one of these and how they use it, however for me its a bit off a miss,  i'll be saving my money for something else. 

Seems like a lost opportunity then. If it cant double up and tie into resolve its about as useful as tits on a bull. Expensive media player even if it does have the option to record. But thats just my 2 cents worth.  🙄

hey @kye how do you reckon this  new video player compares to your bm control panel you already have ?

oh by the way iphone 13 fanboy here 😉

not too fussed on extra lenses, i would like to add the moment anamorphic that adds the golden flares and a case.

I think you need the case anyway for the moment anamorphic. Other than that a case does add extra protection and its alot of money tied up in that little box. I'm already on my second set of gorilla glass protectors or whatever their called.🙄

their up to 13 although i have seen some talk  / pr stuff about the 14. Not that it really interests me. 

being a pc windows fellow, apple seems to make you jump through a few more steps or its damn near impossible to get at those raw photos or videos on the iphone. Its pretty annoying however it doesn't frustrate me enough to get a apple laptop. There is software that will connect the pc  an iphone and lets you see those files. i downloaded the free 30 day version but have yet to pony up for the paid version.

Ok since i joined the 4k fan club with a 4k tv and associated 4k dvd player not to mention the 4k cinema camera i have, ( that doesn't get as much use i as i thought, well not so far anyway ) and the shift in forum focus. I was wondering if its worthwhile having a thread cataloging the better  "cinematic" movies out there. That would be worth having in a collection. 

Where i live its pointless trying to watch a full length mover over the internet. Some of you may get excellent connection speeds where you live and thats great, but for me its easier to wait for it to come on dvd and then purchase it.  Which brings us to another issue the price,  a new release 4k or uhd is $ 40  australian where i am, bluray is $29 and plain old dvd is $20 usually. I could add, we probably get gouged here but there's not alot of options.

Ideally i'd like to filter out the dross and save a few dollars which is where you fine people come in. Feel Free to add to the list and advance any movie that you feel adds a worthwhile cinematic contribution. Lets keep the spoilers to a minimum, However a paragraph explaining your thoughts would be beneficial 

 First off i'd like to start of with Dune or the 2022 take on it anyway.  I'd describe it as "epic", worthy of that description in every sense of the word.

Next i feel the need to add would be blade runner and blade runner 2049 both visually extraordinary  and worthy of addition. 

The last i'll add is a bit of an oddity as its a collection of timelapses. Tom lowe was the 2010 astronomy photographer of the year. His  timescapes  dvd is visually extraordinary and worthy of addition.

12 hours ago, MrSMW said:

You mean like the time I sent my old one out across a bay to film a lighthouse and coming back there was a headwind and even in sport mode it was barely moving? 😜

I was stood on the clifftop wall of a sea fort arm outstretched to try and catch it because the app had been beeping like crazy for minutes and was showing 1%.

The updraught from the cliff was also pushing it up along with the headwind pushing it away.

Caught it and it died literally 5 seconds later.

But for those 5 seconds, it would have been on the rocks in a gazillion pieces 100 ft below.

I immediately stepped off the wall, sat against it and said "fuck" about 100 times until my breathing calmed down.

It wasn't the drone I was bothered about, - that's insured. It was the material I had captured for the wedding I was at.

 

my mate did something very similar except of the gold coast seaway. He's braver than me.  We both had our drones out getting some footage of the sun setting one afternoon.

He sent it a long way out in a tailwind to catch some surfers, then realized coming back in was a lot slower and we were watching the battery level dropping  and then the beeping started, was a close thing soon as he had it over the beach he dropped it onto the sand. Never seen him sweat before. lol  

they are a great bit of kit. I'd be very surprised if your air 2 couldn't handle a bit of wind. Although you'll probably hear the motors working to compensate, they are surprisingly good. The trick is not to send them too far down wind otherwise you might have a bit of an unplanned walk in front of you.   

i think the best drone is the one i already have... i cant really justify the expense of new equipment  every year. 

 laowa are making their own anamorphic lens. it will be dropping soon on kickstarter. Apparently may as well get the money up front like everyone else does these days. interestingly  (well for me anyway  ) is an orange flare.

its a pl mount at the moment but should be available in other mounts soonish

from the website

1.33x Rear Anamorphic Adapter

$999.00 – $1,800.00

When pairing with the OOOM, Laowa 1.33X Rear Anamorphic Adapter allows expanding your filming canvas to a  2.35:1 cinematic widescreen ratio in a 16:9 sensor while retaining its image resolution.   It adds special characters in bokeh and flares on ordinary spherical lenses to become more cinematic.

* A half stop light impact on the lens after the anamorphic adapter is applied.
* This anamorphic rear adapter doesn’t feature any oval bokeh or expanded horizontal field of view like front anamorphic lenses does.

no expanded fov seems like bit of a problem. Half of the appeal of an anamorphic is the expanded view you get, right ? 

40 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

Lets not be too hasty.

I think this idea probably warrants a ten page thread of attrition about what codec you are going to use before you put pen to paper.

vintage lens, vintage codec ? is that your thinking ?

By the way i have a suitable gritty shed, i could find some overalls and an axe to grind, shot in glorious 4k if that helps. @Andrew Reid

there's also potential for another level of drama with the obsessive /compulsive camera fondler meets single white female.

and this

I have to wonder if he's made a cameo in the latest ghostbusters maybe ?

hmm, got cut off not sure what happened there.

Anyway it may not be immediately obvious, however i have chosen to go with an orange, teal look.

I know its a bold look. Not sure its something everyone will be rushing out to try. However i'm liking it so far.  i'm using a 50 / 50 mix of linseed oil and turps  with a bit of orange oil paint mixed in for a bit of colour. Its had two coats now. 

its a flat look there's not much sheen or gloss to it. I would have liked a bit of a shine. No idea if theres any options to get a shine on it, maybe bees wax perhaps, i'll have to google it. if i cant get a shine i'll just live with how it is. 

Have  to clamp it down  after it dries a bit as theres a lot of rain about and the top is warping. Hopefully i can keep it flat enough till the table base is welded up. 

I have plans of adding a 3/4 frame to the back and sides. That will be stage two, that's where the teal colour should make an appearance. There's some slots and usb flush mount bits to be added and i have seen some other utubes with some desireable features i'd like to  copy / incorporate.  

Ok picked up the steel for a table base.  Been painting the underside off  the table. Like a gigantic test piece 

mr reid just make an app that takes a photo of the stars, do some fancy connect the dots stuff, add some ai texting and bobs your uncle or maybe you aunt these days. btm_pix could probably whip something up in an hour. although if it takes off i'll want a percentage of the profits.  

er... disregard the above post. it seems the power goes through the middle two slots. changing the power polarity and making sure the battery door is closed solved it. It helps if your wind the power cable round the lugs on the battery which allows the battery door to close.

Have hit a hurdle with the canon 60d power adapter the dummy battery fits inside the camera ok, except the power contacts are to far apart to match up with the interior of the canon

i have a photo to illustrate it. I presume i may have got the wrong dummy battery connector, perhaps it can fit another canon ? any know if any other canon battery have their contacts so far apart ? 

As yt  bloggers and the scene matures, i think they will gradually transition to control surfaces and it will become more mainstream. Depends a lot or whether its tax deductible or not. If you go the resolve route, it gets expensive pretty quick, hard to justify for mums and dads i think. While its more plug and play than it used to be, if you go down the middle road and use other surfaces like arturia or midi then thats cheaper but adds another learning curve as well. 

If your inside and have a studio setup then i would presume you wouldn't need to tweak too many knobs for a consistent look and maybe you could persevere just with a keyboard. If your outside, well life would be much easier with a control surface. It also depends on just how much time people are willing to invest into their vlogs. An enthusiasts gear will be different from a more mundane approach like mums and dads.

Again i presume a lot and i don't wish to put mums ands down. however we all have different priorities and expectations.