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6 hours ago, inde said:

@Kye, how do you deal with moire? I've not seen any in the posts you've shown in this thread but I'm not very good at finding it. Do you have an OLPF? Using a weak promist style filter has some people say it helps and others have said (JB) the frequencies are not fine enough to be affected. If all it takes is a promist when someone wants to wear fine fabric or a suit and tie wouldn't that be great?

Yeah, you need an OLPF like @Sven said, my Tiffen 1/8 BPM filter didn't get rid of it.  The people I see online get the Rawlight ones, but they're expensive and fog up over time and need replacing.  I see it on an occasional shot here or there, but if it ruins the odd shot for me it's no big deal so I haven't bothered.

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EOSHD Pro Color 5 for Sony cameras EOSHD Z LOG for Nikon CamerasEOSHD C-LOG and Film Profiles for All Canon DSLRs

Hongdae.

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Choosing stills is different than choosing shots for an edit because the movement really makes things completely different, so I've ended up with much cleaner and more minimal stills.

In reality, every street and alleyway in every direction looked like this virtually as far as the eye could see:

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6 hours ago, Emanuel said:

What version @kye?

G2 or the previous one?

 

The more I use their cameras, the more I appreciate this brand.

- EAG :- )

OG BMMCC + 12-35mm F2.8 lens + IR/UV filter + vND + monitor + wrist-strap and that's it. 🙂 

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Lovely last set and compositions! @kyeWouldn't mind to have these framed on my walls. Did you film prores or raw? Looking fabulous!

Somehow I feel that I like the image from my og pocket even better than with my m2k. I filmed with the micro last week and it felt not quiet as beautiful as the footage i got with the p2k a couple weeks ago. That's related to daylight scenes though. Darn, it seems I belong to that group of 0.1% of people who see that difference. Welcome to this forum as @BTM_Pix would say!:)

My M2K has the rawlite oplf/ir cut, whereas my pocket doesn't. It didn't bother me as I didn't have to film finest patterns or akward shirts.

An og pocket with good battery, no overheating 1080p 50p would be my favorite personal camera. Go, BM Design!:)

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On 8/28/2024 at 8:00 PM, MrSMW said:

Is that level of haze/smog a regular thing in Seoul?

If so, makes it a very cinematic city to work in!

Nope, normally it's worse.

We didn't get a single Public Safety Alert talking about air quality...  in two weeks!  

Maybe because it was rainy season and humid as hell.  August gets about a third of their annual rainfall.  Maybe the Chinese farmers aren't burning off this time of year, who knows.

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On 8/28/2024 at 4:47 PM, PannySVHS said:

Lovely last set and compositions! @kyeWouldn't mind to have these framed on my walls. Did you film prores or raw? Looking fabulous!

Somehow I feel that I like the image from my og pocket even better than with my m2k. I filmed with the micro last week and it felt not quiet as beautiful as the footage i got with the p2k a couple weeks ago. That's related to daylight scenes though. Darn, it seems I belong to that group of 0.1% of people who see that difference. Welcome to this forum as @BTM_Pix would say!:)

My M2K has the rawlite oplf/ir cut, whereas my pocket doesn't. It didn't bother me as I didn't have to film finest patterns or akward shirts.

An og pocket with good battery, no overheating 1080p 50p would be my favorite personal camera. Go, BM Design!:)

Damn, I thought I replied to your post already.

This was all Prores.  I did some tests when I first got it and found grading the Prores in post was just as flexible as the RAW, but it was easier for me in some ways, so I decided not to complicate the trip by also switching to RAW as well.

I also have a vague memory that the RAW files corrupt if the camera runs out of battery while recording, but the Prores didn't, which isn't the way around you'd expect but it's what I experienced, so this sort of eliminates that too.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Here's my first cut at the "souvenir" video for the dance weekend I filmed last month on the BMMCC (with a few small bits  shot on the OG BMPCC as well). Much of this was at or over the limit of what these cameras can handle in terms of low light, and I had to do quite a bit of denoising (and still need to denoise one clip of dancers near the end). The denoising added some undesirable sharpness, which I'll fix in the next round, but overall I'm fairly happy with how this turned out, at least for the musicians and for the dancers who were in the light. The ones of dancers in the darker part of the hall were a lot less successful (I couldn't even see if I was in focus for some of those, it was very dim and focus peaking didn't even work). Mostly shot with Sigma 18-35 on a speedbooster plus a few shots with the new Laowa T1 cine 18mm lens; some of the outdoor shots were with the SLR Magic 18mm T2.1 cine.
 

 

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