Clark Nikolai

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)...

Um... you do realize what the nickname for this might be.

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.

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.)

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.

Apple has done the same with Final Cut Pro, if you bought it ten years ago you still get free updates.

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.

In Canada, at one time, electronics from Asia (mostly Japan in those days), had Canadian tariffs applied (to protect Canadian electronics manufacturing, yes we once had that). This meant many people travelled to the US to buy electronics. Shopping malls opened up close to the Canadian border to sell to them. At some point in the 1980s that changed and then the price was about the same.

I wonder that too but so far it seems to be over ten years without having needed to pay again. Apple makes their money off hardware so the software helps sell the hardware. (You could say too that about BM in a way.) The iOS version of Final Cut is a subscription. I don't know how that's doing. There are so many other NLEs for iOS out there that are a one time payment kind of thing that it's competing against, (including their own iMovie for iOS).

Yeah, I've been watching this for a long time, since at least the 1980s. That anyone who is educated is wrong and just observing things from your immediate surroundings is enough to know the whole world. I remember in the '80s visiting some farmer friends here in Canada, they were setting up a barn and had the walls in backwards which would cause it to collapse later. When this was pointed out by their son (who had travelled the world) one of them went on a rant about "the left wing professors who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground." In 2016, when Trump was campaigning, here in Vancouver there were three Americans from California on a visit. One was originally from Texas whose grandparents were Mexican. He was pro-Trump and went on about how dumb and dirty the Mexicans are and how we're lucky in Canada how we don't put up with any of that (He wasn't aware that Canada is full of Mexicans but anyway...). One other was also pro-Trump and was proud that he only had a Grade 3 education so was a real person and not brainwashed by the leftist whoevers in the education system. Somehow that made him smarter than someone with a degree. The third person was suspicious of Trump and didn't know what to think of his two friends cult-like admiration of him and the MAGA movement. It seems to be a thing with right wing parties now. A technique where when campaigning they promise a better life but when in power they do things so that systemic problems are not solved. If you think about it, when times are good people vote liberal, when times are bad people vote conservative. This means that it would go against their own longevity for conservative parties to improve things.