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This started out as a favour for a friend & while on the day it was a complete nightmare, the results weren't as bad as i thought. This was almost entirely shot handheld (1 tripod wide shot), due to there not being enough room to swing a cat or should that be mouse!!? Anyways, stage was like a tiny bouncy castle & space was really tight - so no rig either! For the majority of shots I used the Helios 44-2+Iscorama 54+Voigtlander Focar A&B (+1/+2 diopters). There are a few shots were i used the Helios 40-2 & the shit wide shot was with the Mir-1b. This will be one of the last things I'll shoot on the 60D with H264, as i now have the Pocket in my hands...

Took my BMPC for a spin in the Salton Sea, CA.   https://vimeo.com/77268468    

Last week I finished a short film that we shot on the GH3 with the Speed Booster. I thought it's maybe interesting for you guys to hear and see how it holds up in the field. At first I received a faulty Speed Booster, but the 2nd one worked great. It feels solid and well designed, although there is a little 'play' on the camera mount side. Nothing to worry about though. It makes my lenses wider and better. There is some purple fringing though at low light shots when pointing at a light source, but this is only at very large apertures. The lenses are perfectly usable at high apertures in 'normal' situations with the Speed Booster. It didn't hold me back while I was shooting with it, so that's great. I see no increase or decrease in sharpness without pixel peeping. Simply to say, it's ignorable and you can shoot safely :) To answer a previous question. The Speed Booster works great with the Samyang 16mm f2.0. It acts as an 11mm FOV and there is no vignetting! (well I do have some vignetting, but that's because I use a variable ND filter with a smaller filter thread that the one of my lens) I'm a real fan of the Samyang primes. I have the 16mm f2.0 / 35mm f1.4 / 85mm f1.4. They feel and look solid and professional. Image quality is great. Usuable wide open, but really good stopped down 1 - 2 stops. Thanks to the Speed Booster I love my GH3 even more now. With a crop factor of around 1.4x, it's comparible to a S35 sensor. So I now have the 6 most used focal lenghts (with normal adapter / speed booster), an effective s35 sensor when I need it and all the good stuff and quality that I'm used to from the GH3. Maybe you guys are interested in the short film. It's a short comedy film (5 min) and is, with a few exceptions, shot with the Speed Booster. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdTVhlhzm8&hd=1 Would love to hear your opinions about it :) Hope I could help and thanks for watching.

I personally don´t think you can shoot RAW with either of these cameras on most of the shootings you are doing. Maybe some stock footage, but nothing "daily", maybe the one or another establisher or landscape shot. But the huge difference between the pocket and the 5D is with the canon you gotta use a hack and shoot raw to get a picture quality that is comparable to the pocket. But with the pocket you can just shoot prores and in 98% of your shootings this will be sufficient and its far far superior to any of the h264 crap of current dslrs. And it will be 100times better to manage than any raw as soon as you pull your card out of your camera.

I just ordered a BMPCC a couple of hours ago. BH has a special where you get Vegas 12 Pro for free. Wow! Like you Axel, I'm a bit nervous. However, a 5D3 is $2,300 more AND as far as I know you need expensive CF cards AND glass, etc. AND it's big. In photography I'd say bigger sensor wins every time. Yes, the 5D3 footage looks really nice. However, I don't see anything I don't like about the BMPCC. I've looked at tons of videos from all RAW cameras. The color and the dynamic range is simply beautiful. Totally unexpected, I think I finally went for it after seeing Andrew's photos from RAW. Not bad! When I want to take a photo maybe I'll take a few seconds and choose the best frame. I just looked at this BMPCC footage night. Not my kind of thing (I like people), but the detail in the shadows! https://vimeo.com/79478553 No H.264 camera comes close, not by a country mile. Finally, I don't trust ML, sorry. I'm going to keep working with it, but as Bioshop said, shooting ProRes out of the box will get me to the fun part again, shooting, editing and posting!

Well, i got my pocket last night & quite frankly if you want 1 reason then ProRes HQ as its bog standard recording codec is that reason. If not, then its size is an advantage & you really don't need expensive "IS" glass to keep things steady - just a few points of stable contact & some practice or a TRIPOD! The screen isn't really that bad if you're coming from a DSLR & Peaking is excellent, no really its excellent. Crop factor takes a bit of getting used to, but with an anamorphic its definitely better - speedbooster will be perfect. Battery life isn't that bad, considering what is going on under the hood - about 1 Hour (if you're indoors then plug it in). Sound is actually good, but only if you use the "Line In" mode from say a Field Mixer or Digital Recorder - a mic on its own ain't great. I've not experienced any HotPixels or anything unusual/distressing. And no, its not complicated to use - well, unless you've never used a proper camera before & that is what this is. I'm with you on the "Test Shots" of RAW, but I think that is down to users/posters & not the camera - I'll have to wait for a new SD card to see.

You'd include the GH3 in the "innovative" column? From what I've read, it's already being eclipsed as old news. And, it seems the RX10 would be THE "easiest choice" of the whole lot. Just haven't seen anything from it that even came close to an organic cinematic look... yet. Andrew, I get where your general interests are and appear to be headed. Don't blame you... the are some incredibly interesting things being done with anamorphic, raw, prores, magic lantern, etc. if you've got the patience and budget to keep buying expensive add-ons, rigs, storage, faster computers, etc. But can you or anyone else here recommend a site/forum that takes an intelligent look at the "easier" choices? I get the attraction to cutting edge innovation, but some of us simply want to get out there and rely on creativity rather than get lost in tiring/expensive workflows that could ultimately be obsolete in a year. When I saw what Brandon Li was doing with his little RX100 & d5200, it was clear that one need not get lost on the bleeding edge of "innovation" in order to make fine creative work.

The D5300's image is very similar to the 5D Mark III's standard video mode, but APS-C and with option for 1080/60p.   I agree for the money it's very good. Sorry for the lack of focus on it. It's just that it's a very small evolution from the D5200 and there's a cyclone of more innovative stuff going on around it... Speed Booster, Magic Lantern, raw, Blackmagic, GH3, anamorphic, Resolve, Sigma 18-35mm F1.8, Sony A7R, RX10, list goes on...   Do consider the options before going for the easy choice.

Really? The G6 certainly seems better in the shadows, has more features and doesn't require a hack (smaller file sizes, reliable, no rude russian). Is the hacked GH2 better with fine detail or something? I'm going to keep an open mind about the D5300 for now. I think there's a chance its low light performance could turn out to be a bit special. The banding is a genuine problem with the 5200. The high-ISO 60p combo is also very appealing.

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