
Clark Nikolai
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Photography, Cinematography
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Olympus Pen EE, Digital Bolex D16, Lumix GF3, BMPCC (original), Sony PJ650, Panasonic HDC-SD9, Victor Cine Camera Model 4.
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eatstoomuchjam reacted to a post in a topic: Le Faux Bolex
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I got in touch with the person who's doing this project and we've been emailing back and forth about it. There's now a YouTube channel and a sample video (with more to come).
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I had a better look and they're not going directly from the sensor, they're going from an already made machine vision camera. https://machinevisionstore.com/Catalog/Details/992 https://machinevisionstore.com/content/downloads/basler/AviatorDatasheet.pdf These are used on assembly lines and such. It connects with Camera Link (which is an industrial standard for these kinds of cameras.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_Link Maybe this thing isn't "faux" after all.
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andrgl reacted to a post in a topic: Le Faux Bolex
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eatstoomuchjam reacted to a post in a topic: Le Faux Bolex
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I stumbled on this GitHub project. Not sure what to think about it (and suspect it might not be real). They're using the same sensor as the Digital Bolex and 3D printing a similar shaped body. No mention of an A to D board, just the chip going in to a Raspberry Pi. I remember the original Digital Bolex team took a few years to get the sensor's quadrants aligned and to get the colour science sorted out and these guys' sample images look great after only a short time. Maybe all this stuff is just faster to figure out nowadays. https://github.com/lafauxbolex What do others think? If real this would be great! They're changing some things from the original: A M4/3 mount, a big monitor and compressed DNG files.
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FHDcrew reacted to a post in a topic: The YouTubers are fighting!
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Recently I showed something I did some years ago, shot on HDV with a Canon HV20. Some people were impressed that way back then I had such good equipment then shocked when I told them it was on a consumer HDV camera. (I did have a wide angle attachment and shot it in a log type mode then colour corrected it.) Cameras have been more than good enough for a long time.
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The Return of Magic Lantern -- New Developer Team
Clark Nikolai replied to FHDcrew's topic in Cameras
I dunno. I think people have a good sense of when some art just doesn't have any soul. Many won't care but a lot will, enough to cause a reaction and a different direction. Look at other art movements in history, most of them were a reaction to a status quo establishment that was no longer interesting. -
kye reacted to a post in a topic: New travel film-making setup and pipeline - I feel like the tech has finally come of age
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PannySVHS reacted to a post in a topic: New travel film-making setup and pipeline - I feel like the tech has finally come of age
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On an unrelated note, aren't banana trees some of the prettiest trees there are? The shape of the leaves and the way they move in the wind is just an attractive thing. I have a friend who once sailed the South Pacific. He said when they would be at sea for days and would approach an island with banana groves that it was such a beautiful sight. I'm in the only place in Canada warm enough to grow them ( and just barely too) so people plant them as decoration a lot.
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Camera prices – Have the Japanese taken leave of their senses?
Clark Nikolai replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Right. The physical wheel should be for commonly used features like EV adjustment, not for rarely used things like picture profiles. I have a pocket camera with one and every time I put it away in my pocket, the fabric moves the dial to some other position and I have put it back before shooting. Slows me down. -
Surprisingly good and afordable external HDMI EVF
Clark Nikolai replied to stephen's topic in Cameras
Yeah, just some minor changes (different mount, HDMI port instead of cable, zebras, false colour and focus peaking in firmware) would make this a nice little EVF. -
Camera prices – Have the Japanese taken leave of their senses?
Clark Nikolai replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
I suspect they don't know for sure but are seeing "the kids" buy used early digital cameras and having fun shooting with them so they're making a camera for them. Also the half-frame thing is bizarre. Half frame doesn't apply with digital. You're not saving on film or processing. Maybe the holding-horizontal-but-shooting-vertical thing is what they're going for. So, the fun of shooting. For me it's too much money for what I might play with for a month at most. Maybe super rich people will buy them as stocking stuffers for their nieces (who already have a hundred gadgets)... -
To add to this, another thing you can do is shift the image up giving more room on the bottom for subtitles. Another thing you can do is put the black bar at the top for surtitles.
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The camera was designed to be hand held with a pistol grip but I find that it's just so heavy that I can't hold it up for a long time (It's over 2 Kg) so I tend to use shoulder mount or tripod. My latest film I'm interested in camera movements because my last one was almost entirely on a tripod so it's a nice change for me to have movement. Vancouver is such a film town (and film school town) that you see people with shoulder rigs and gimbals often. There's always somebody shooting their student film or low budget indie or skateboard film (plus the big productions with their film trucks). It's not a big deal to see here. (Sometimes you wonder if there's anyone left in Vancouver who's not making a film.)
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maxJ4380 reacted to a post in a topic: new camera purchase
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I'm using an Ulanzi & Coman Zero Y tripod with a Leofoto BV-5 video fluid head. For shoulder mount I have a two-rod shoulder rig that has no brand name. I got it on Craigslist for $40. It's been good. I added a bracket to hold a monitor. I've never used a gimbal but a few years ago I was thinking of one. Now I'm more interested in "imperfect" camera movements. I use the stabilizing in Final Cut for tripod shots where there was some movement (from wind or whatever), I don't tend to stabilize the shoulder mount footage. I just use it as it is and just not use anything that's very shaky. Like tends to happen in all types of art, when "perfection" is easily attainable then imperfection becomes desirable.
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Surprisingly good and afordable external HDMI EVF
Clark Nikolai replied to stephen's topic in Cameras
Interesting. This is the kind of thing I was looking for last year. See this thread: I ended up getting a Kinotehnik LCDVFe. It's really nice overall and does the job very well. (There are only two things I don't like about it. One is that you can't have zebras and focus assist on at the same time. The other is that it takes 4 AA batteries. Wish it could also take a Sony NP-F battery as well. (I'm powering it from the camera and that's good but drains the camera battery. (I also wish it was a bit smaller in size.) For this V780H EVF, it seems pretty good for the price.