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I fell in love with the Panasonic GH3 and Adobe CS6. Check out my latest music video, all editing/fx done with Premiere and After FX; all footage shot with the Panasonic GH3. http://bit.ly/18KguPv

wanted to share a short narrative scene i made with iscorama 36, tokina diopter, blackmagic pocket camera, and voigtlander 25mm f0.95.    https://vimeo.com/78510126   it's the rebadged 36, not the 1968, so i noticed the flares off the taxi's brake light was pretty subdued.  the voigtlander probably subdued it more.  and it was a weak brake light anyway.  and on top of that probably doesn't work to have flares in this particular scene anyway.   for some reason the bokeh i was getting on the CU's with the diopter honestly looked a little spherical to me.  any thoughts on that?   any other critique that could probably help me shoot better anamorphic? thanks erik  

Glad to say that there is no vignetting like before on the GHx series when adapted with this lens and Anamorphic    here is what it looks like                    

This is a quick test I did at the locations where we're shooting a feature in 2 weeks. The Iscorama was a little off center, but it's ok for a first test. Natural lighting only. Quick grade.  https://vimeo.com/78537686  

cool thanks everyone, much appreciated, i haven't posted much work up here so really good to hear the feedback/tips.  i knew sensor size had an effect on bokeh size, but not on shape.    the tightest closeups i used the one tokina, on the medium shot was just the close focus mod.  i'm pretty sure i shot at 2.0, bc the voigtlander is really soft wide open.  i might've cheated to 1.4.   julian - here's the pic of the rig [attachment=715:bmpc isco36rig.JPG]   it's rehoused.  i sent it to van diemen in april and just got it back.  even though the turnaround time was a bit dramatic, i think they did a good job.  the only problem with it is that i wish the front element didn't rotate cause there isn't an elegant way to put a mattebox on this thing, since the focus throw telescopes the lens enough that you either hit your filters or pull out of your donut.  but hey you gotta deal with what nature gave you you know?

No way?! I used to read that section all the time! I always desperately hoped they would continue to create content as I could never quite get enough out of it, and the folks over at the gearsluts forums weren't too knowledgeable when it came to cameras.    May seem like a small thing but just wanted to say thank you - those articles where very helpful to me when I first picked up a camera about 2 years ago. 

On the spec you choose for Resolve at least 3GB VRAM on the GTX770, for the money a Zotac 4GB would be good, 5 yr warranty too. RAM I'd watch those jerk off heat sinks possibly clashing with your CPU cooling if you were to choose a fan rather than water cooled. CAS is high and only dual channel? If 2x 8GB? Maybe consider some low CAS, low voltage Kingston HyperX or similar. 16GB is entry level for any RAM cache, play blast. Does your mobo support dual 16x PCI-e 3.0 if you add a second GPU, if you're going for Resolve 10b with dual monitors then think about adding a second GPU for just GUI, as 10b supports multi GPU and prefably on a mobo supporting dual 16x not 16x then 8x and 8x. Blackmagic recommend the Asus P9X79 Pro for that, socket 2011 Ivy Bridge, 4 channel RAM etc, have you done a cost comparison with socket 2011 and a quad core? For PSU I'd suggest the 850W to cover things like second GPU and a small disk RAID. RAID 0 for that just as workspace, RAID 1 for backup to a Synology NAS and a eSATA dock for bare drives for off site. No RAID 5 or 6 unless using enterprise standard drives.

The Zoom H4N was awful & the Tascam DR100 was a little better (did have quite a low recording volume). I eventually went for the Marantz PMD661 - it was a little overboard, as i had a proper mic & a field mixer, but as a back up its excellent. The problem is that al lot of these recorders just don't have great onboard mics etc.., so they're noisy crap.   However, if you get a secondhand mic & plug that in, then they can turn an H4N or DR100 into a butterfly! XLR inputs essential, as is Phantom Power, on a recorder.   Sennheiser K3-U/ME-80 - an old, low budget film mic, which sometimes comes with all 3 mic extensions (ME-80, ME-40 & ME20) & can run off a battery or phantom - under £100.   This was the best review site i found when i was looking for a recorder: http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable-recorder-reviews.html   But as with all things you can go really nuts or just slowly build up.   If you're budget minded - you can pick up a small used 2 channel mixer, an old mic & plug it all into a small recorder - will all fit into a small bag which you have over your shoulder & the mic can be shotgun handheld or fixed to your camera. The quality will be sooo much better than onboard mics. All said & done £500 or less - if you're careful/patient looking for a bargin.

  Awesome! :D Here's the section i ran (now sadly dead) http://www.soundonsound.com/videomedia   It's a great mag, though I'm not so much into studio production now, so only read occasionally, but I'm still in touch with all those there, they're a fountain of knowledge   I also wrote two opinion pieces that apply to video as well, one about gear lust, and one about whether things are better than one another or just different...   http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul11/articles/sounding-off-0711.htm   http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb12/articles/sounding-off-0212.htm

BLOW OUT     https://vimeo.com/76478462     here an artsy farsty one   htotps://vimeo.com/groups/33332/videos/24358873       more study here   http://nofilmschool.com/2013/10/deep-focus-use-of-split-diopters-in-film/