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Novo Digital Camera have created a custom housing for GoPro 3 that lets you fit C-Mount lenses and even disable auto exposure using a custom CPU!   Pretty cool huh?   Apparently it's pretty complex (and thus we can assume expensive to make) so it won't be a product to buy, but they will be hiring them out.    Just goes to show how far you can go with a mod if you have the expertise...   More info here: http://www.viewfactor.net/blog/?p=331

Maybe he should change the name to The Dog's Bolex :P    

I have decided to start developing a series of taking lenses for users of anamorphic lenses, in particular they add a rawness to footage shot with the sometimes 'over clinical' Iscorama, Schneider 35mm Projection lenses, and the high performance Kowas. I have always wanted the sharpness from this type of anamorphot, but wanted the feel of an 8mm anamorphot which seems to add a certain raw and natural quality (see Seb Farges 'Baby Hypergonar' stuff for examples of what I mean). The little lenses might struggle in low light, and sometimes dont match the big boys for sharpness, but they add a real lovely overall aesthetic which I think is lost when you upgrade to an Iscorama. Anyway, I have been compiling some sample footage of flare characteristics and will be adding more as i go. I am currently shooting samples with a 8mm anamorphot and a century 16:9 converter. For now please see the footage shot with Iscorama 36, and in non anamorphic too. Iscorama 36= http://www.vimeo.com/60022405 Iscorama 36 Flares= http://www.vimeo.com/59961537 Century 1.33x Flares= http://www.vimeo.com/60036048 Cinevision 8mm 1.5x Flares= http://www.vimeo.com/60038931 The second link has some information about the lenses. I will be selling these to people who want them. And can customise the characteristics to suit your particular style. I'll probably sell them via ebay. Feel free to make suggestions as to what you might want to see... :) Century and 8MM 1.5x anamorphot flare samples coming up!

So I received the new Ac7 and did a quick review on it. let me know what you guys think. Long time lurker, now a member   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRyM9ksZjc

Hi! The band I made this video for finally released it and I'm very happy, so I wanted to share it with you guys.   It was a lot of work and it's not without its flaws, but considering the crew (three people including me apart from the make-up artist) and the time we had it came out quite decent.   Please tell me what you think!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhqTsAmPYYs   By the way, I shot it with the Driftwood Apocalypse Now! 6GOP Nebula patch, and the lenses I used were:   · Rokinon 28mm f2.8 · Minolta MD 50mm f1.7 · Minolta MD 135mm f2.8   If you have any questions just ask!

I don't even understand why the question is so difficult to answer. If the 'capture format' is known that defines the outer limit of the color space, 4:4:4 being 100% uncompressed. Minute that you apply compression you can bet that color compression is going to be one of the losses, thus 4:2:2, 4:2:0 etc. Unless your dealing with fully uncompressed color space there's not much point in talking about Chroma Key. Let's focus on the overall look to the eye and the vectorscopes for grading in post. Based on the side-by-side with the GH3 the D5200 footage looked visibly better in most shots with less obvious macroblocking in the deepest values. We've been through this exact discussion before, when the Nikon D800 was first released. Bottom line is we're looking for RAW out of HDMI.

Hi everone!   Can some one tell me is this normal?   https://vimeo.com/59845705 please watch in HD   this is straight out of camera, lens nikkor 24-70, no filter I can see circular gradient :/ dont know where problem is..   here you can download original file 46mb where you can see this even more.   http://www.mediafire.com/?c5uer12hw63xsuc    

"A lot of people make the mistake of thinking low ISO means low noise. Low ISO means the noise starts showing up further into the shadows, but if your image is darker because you are using a too low an ISO, it will still have more noise. In most cases with cameras with hardware gain like the FS700, for example if you use 1stop higher ISO, your whole signal will be boosted by one stop and your noise might start showing up half a stop higher in the shadows, but that means you may have brought 1/2 a stop of your shadows out of the noise. This is a bit of a simplistic description, but you get the idea. The actual tradeoff will depend on the design of the sensor, but for hardware gain (up to a certain point, and some other cameras use software gain past that point) increasing ISO will usually give you less noise for the same scene, right up to the point when its too high an exposure and you have to stop increasing ISO to save your highlights. Really high ISOs are noisier because they are used to shoot scenes with very low lighting. Noise is worst when you have too little light or when you underexpose your images, but those are not the same thing, since you can have too little light, but you will only make the situation worse by shooting at a very low exposure by setting too low of an ISO value. This is why we have ISO/gain..."   ----   I saw that posting on a board and it raised some questions....   Let's say I'm shooting on a cloudy day (exteriors only) and I put my ISO from 500 up lets say 1000, and I put the ND filters down, will I have less noise than if I shoot with the 500 ISO? Thoughts?

Re. your company's name, did you know there is an audio electronics company named Schiit? :)

  Sounds like a rehearsal or practice room. I think, no matter how diminutive that room is, just one LED torch will not get you to make it look interesting. You can as well make it look like a makeshift 'studio' by blatantly putting some lights into the room, in full sight of the camera. Let blacks be blacks, let light sources flare into the lens. Work with reflectors.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfDbEQAfOY (three lights, one of them a cheap fluorescent light, and a big reflector)   I don't say, do it this way. It's just done quite often and often works well. You can't 'paint' too much with just one LED, that's right.

just found a great shootout on frank glencairns blog   http://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-cheap-video-led-light-shootout/

Can't you use Canon to Nikon adapters on Nikon cameras? I have all Bower and Rokinon lenses with canon mount. I use an adapter to mount them to my gh2. Is this possible with Nikon? I've never used Nikon before, but I'm liking the specs of this camera and I hope lenses do not become an obstacle.

How does the Blackmagic Cinema Camera compare to an established film industry standard, the Red Epic? Along with ReWo at MBF Film Technik in Berlin we decided to find out.

Bruno, thanks for this advice. My main gripe with the RX100 is trying to do 24p with the NTSC version.  Neither 30p nor 60p cleanly converts to 24p (at regular speed, not slow-mo).  It always has that weird, skipped-frame look.     I've used Optical Flow rate conforming in FCP X to some success, but it's never been perfect.   I understand you're in a PAL region and are shooting 25p, but if anyone has any advice on getting non-jerky 24p out of this cam I'd appreciate the help.

3D BD numbers are likely misleading too.  I have neither a 3D capable BD player or TV but I have at least one or two 3D BD movies simply because that's what was there, or there was some extra (besides the 3D) that was offered on that version of the release and not the regular BD.  Packaging other extras is, if you want to look at disc marketing in a cynical way, a means to manipulate the up-sell and pad the numbers so that they look more statistically relevant than they might actually be.   I've never seen a 3D BD in action anywhere but a retail outlet and can't name a single person that I know with a 3D BD setup in their home.      edit: also, the sales figures they're keeping track of aren't sales to individuals but sales to the distribution channels.  So, for instance, Sony knows how many of a title they've sold to resellers, which means they count discs that are still un-sold to customers, sitting on shelves, which might one day end up in the $6 clearance bin with twenty other copies at a single store.  These will still be considered "sold".