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    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K

    In: Cameras

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    So is this camera gonna be Netflix approved?

    2 hours ago, Mako Sports said:

    So 1 of my close shooter friends has already purchased/pre order it. I think im gonna make a kit to see how much it would cost me in total ?

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    Great! I'm surprised it's already on pre-order. Keep us posted :)

    Panasonic GH5 - all is revealed!

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    On 7/11/2019 at 10:34 PM, dbp said:

    Anyone know if the 35-100 Mk II still has micro jitter issues with the GH5? Looking at grabbing this soon, but it's been tough to get a straight answer online. 

    I dont have micro jitters on mine. Will shoot some with my 35-100 when not too busy

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    I think Blackmagic Design is now going to move developer and engineer resources now to the new 6k, which means slower updates for the 4k. They will still support the 4k but the 6k will be the focus. So now I'm eyeing the OG Pocket just because I think that's BMD's most polished product. It still has a nice look and software has come a long way to just upres / upconvert footages.

    GH5 to Alexa Conversion

    In: Cameras

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    On 7/20/2019 at 9:09 AM, Adam Kuźniar said:

    Look who's using GHAlexa too
     

     

    Nice. Would have gotten rid of my Inferno if Ninja V didnt have heat and noise problems (based from the reports that I saw). Also, nice tripod 

    Lenses

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    On 7/19/2019 at 1:22 AM, Geoff CB said:

    I don't think I have posted this before, mainly because I look terrible in it. Several years ago I used the Tokina 28-70 and a SLR Magic anamorphot together and on a super35 sensor (Samsung NX1) and it worked. It gave a very pleasant look as well. I'm wondering if using the new SLR magic adapter would enable it's use on full frame. If so that would be a full frame anamorphic zoom for ~$2000.
     

     

    Love the colors and the lighting. Do you still need a single focus like a Rapido if you use an SLR Magic anamorphot?

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

    In: Cameras

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    2 hours ago, drm said:

    I used the P4Ks all day yesterday at a shoot where I was regularly going from outside in direct sunlight, to shady areas, then to indoor areas with varying light. If you plan to use the P4K in a quickly moving shoot, I **strongly** encourage you to mount an external daylight-viewable monitor to your P4K.

    The screen on the P4K works great, unless you are in direct sunlight. In direct sunlight, it is basically unusable. I mounted my SmallHD 5" monitor on top to help, but even that wasn't really bright enough. I could have used one of my 7" Ninja Infernos, but they are kinda big when going handheld. I prefer a 5" monitor unless I am on a tripod. I think that I am going to buy the 2200nit Feelworld monitor and try it, just for kicks (it is a 7", but it is light). I could pick up the Atomos Shinobi, but I need HDMI in and out.

    So, for all of you planning to use the P4K in sunlight, you will have to find shade regularly to review your shots, or pick up a bright external monitor. Happy shooting!

    So are you gonna part with your Ninja Inferno? I had mine for quite some time and been thinking of selling it since I'm using it less and less ever since I switched to music vids / events / run  & gun type of video coverage

    Lenses

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    On 7/4/2019 at 8:36 PM, kye said:

    My Canon FD 70-210 F4 lens, Canon FD 2x teleconverter and Fotga FD to MFT adapter have all arrived now, and first impressions are wow..  this is a really nice lens.

    Test pics from it to come.

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    Wow really interesting to see what you shoot with that. Isn't it too bulky to carry outdoors?

    GH5 to Alexa Conversion

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    On 6/16/2019 at 11:50 AM, Sage said:

    Working towards it, day by day. The exciting news this week is that I wrote the engine to be multi threaded on Thursday. Now a refinement pass takes a quarter of the time, which is a substantial savings when doing many successively. It will scale linearly to the Amd 12 core coming out next month. When the website changes in a very noticeable way, in about a month or so, it will mean the S is imminent.

    Do you also learn C++ as you go, or were you a C++ dev before creating the LUTs?

    On 7/5/2019 at 6:48 PM, Rinad Amir said:

    Am waiting for GH5s release lut 

    Seen reviews i must try . 

    You can actually use it already with your GH5s shots just needs some tweaking for your personal taste

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, mercer said:

    I have Blackmagic Cinema Camera as a saved search on my eBay page just in case a Micro or Pocket pops up really cheap and I’ve noticed a significant increase of P4Ks being listed.

    So preorders must be filling up pretty quickly now. I guess some people are going to get stuck with 10 P4Ks they won’t be able to sell for a steep profit... lol. 

    Yes, still a wiser choice to wait on that preorder

    My New Pocket4K Android App

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    As a fellow mobile developer, I congratulate you @BTM_Pix  :). I had experience working with bit shifting in mobile before with BLE and I had a hard time just getting the correct data from a bluetooth device lol. I' impressed and I'm kinda curious how you managed to get correct values :)

    GH5 to Alexa Conversion

    In: Cameras

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    15 hours ago, Sage said:

    FCPX coverage coming up (I have it now). This is what I've learned thus far:

    In FCPX you will want to use the Custom Lut utility built in, rather than a plug-in to apply GHa (beware mLut). Also, for correcting WB, use the temp/tint controls in the Color Wheels in conjunction with the Vectorscope. Avoid the Basic WB eyedropper (more than just WB). The same basic principles and order of operation in Resolve and Premiere apply to FCPX.

    Thanks Alex! Wanted to quickly try your LUT with FCPX before but gave up when I couldnt find a way to do it without buying a plugin lol. So I just went to Premiere where it was faster.

    Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    1 hour ago, BTM_Pix said:

    Yes, it is its own little wireless drive so you can be reading from it while the camera writes to it.

    When you use the app, it copies the files to the iphone/ipad so you should only need one device as you will be likely editing one file as the next one comes in. If you use LumaFusiom to edit with on the iphone it should also be able to take care of directly transferring the files to cut out a step of using the Toshiba app.

    Yes that's exactly what I'm thinking of doing. Got a bit confused about transferring to another

    So one of my options in the workflow is:

    1) Camera + FlashAir SD Card

    2) Ipad + Toshiba app to download videos

    3) Within that Ipad App, Edit with Luma Fusion

    4) Upload to Social Media or Dropbox

    5) Apple TV to Airplay videos (optional)

    #5 is kinda tricky since the ipad can't dual display with Luma Fusion. Trek of Joy's suggestion is good but passing from Ipad to Ipad seems clunky. So I think I'm just going to dual display a laptop to a monitor and play the videos there from the uploads. Would be great to have software to tie these all together (Iphone + apps is a good suggestion) but I just like the professional feel of having a camera there taking the vids.

    Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?

    In: Cameras

    Posted

    16 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

     

    What camera are you intending to use as I think there is a relatively simple solution in this case.

    I'm intending to use a GH5s. With a GH5 and A6500 as backup / cameras for candid shots.

     

    I'll check the thread that you linked. Thanks! :)

    9 hours ago, Trek of Joy said:

    The video from Matthew Staffords wedding looks like it was shot on a Red.

    I was at an event where they did this with an iPhone taking with a simple setup of a small fluorescent key/fill/hair light. They shot stills, boomerangs and recorded goofy slow mo stuff, sending it to an iPad through an app (don't know what the app was called, but guests were able to email the video to themselves), and broadcast with an Apple tv mirroring the iPad. In good light the iPhone 120fps looks good, and its fine for social. If you didn't have the app, someone could just shoot the video on a phone and airdrop it to an iPad or MacBook for a quick edit, and then it can be emailed or airdropped to other iPhones.

    I've attached a shot of the iPad that was used for review and emailing images/videos. Wish I could help with specifics, but a combo of iphone/ipad would be my solution. A ILC presents a lot of headaches in terms of file transfer, file size, edit/render speed and so on. I have the iPhone XS and XS Max (one is supplied by a company I work for, I'm not a two phone dink by choice) and the iPad Pro. I think it would be easy to pull off what you're looking for with my little setup with two people - a shooter and a editor to make quick clips and send them to guests. Five seconds of slow-mo video of someone dancing or throwing crap in the air could easily be edited in iMovie and emailed in less than a minute.

    Everything you need including lights and stands can probably be carried in one large bag/case. The days of the DSLR based photo booth are numbered, there's no reason to lug all that around for small instant prints or social when phones and a few lights will get you virtually identical quality. And you can probably charge a lot for the service. Hmmmm...

    Chris

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    Yeah I was thinking about an Iphone and even and Android setup. Thank you for telling me about this but it looks like it's a customizable app. It's impressive how software can bridge the gap between a smartphone and a full fledged camera

    8 hours ago, kye said:

    The weak link definitely seems to be how to get things from the camera to the internet.

    It's stunning that camera makers haven't made any real attempts to fix this issue, especially considering that the fixed-slow-prime/awful-low-light/low-DR/low-MP camera on the iPhone has become the most popular camera on the planet because of convenience and constant connection to the internet, and that it overtook the DSLR despite Apple starting off as a dinky computer company at the time that the big photography companies were already ruling the world in photography.

    Yes precisely I was thinking about this. That cameras are lacking the software to immediately put the shots anywhere. Panasonic has an app where you can immediately get the pictures but compressing and sending the videos are lacking.

    2 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

    At the risk of sounding like a shill for Toshiba again, the simple solution for this (and many other things!) is to use one of their FlashAir SD cards in the camera.

    Thanks! I'll take a look at the FlashAir SD card. Can it get the footage from a GH5s while shooting and transfer it to the Iphone app? Then edit it on another Iphone app? Is that the correct workflow?

     

    After further research, I saw that it is also possible to use a capture card using an Elgato to capture the shots to a laptop. I'm also thinking about going to that route but the elgato will only record up to 60fps. Was kinda wishing to go up to 90fps at the minimum. But it's if the best solution, i'll either go FlashAir SD card or Elgato to After Effects with Twixtor

    Setup for Slow motion booth (Editing + Sharing to Social Media)?

    In: Cameras

    Posted

     

    Thinking about setting up a slow motion booth (like the video above) for my sister's wedding. Aside from the camera, I know I'm gonna need a lot of lights. But the tricky part is how can I immediately share the video to other guests? Like something they can immediately upload to their instagram account. So I think the workflow will be something like:

    1) Assistant directs the guests

    2) Camera guy takes the video

    3) ??? - how does it immediately get to the editor?

    4) ??? - how does it get uploaded to a server / cloud storage. I assume the editor does this.

    5) ??? - how does it get shared to the guests' social media account

    I have seen this: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/tips-techniques/how-to-create-a-slow-motion-photo-booth-and-what-it-can-add-to-your-business/

    But there's nothing about editing or uploading on the spot. You guys have some tips? Thanks!

     

     

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