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Here's something I'd like to get feedback for from all you creative types. What methods do you use when coming up with ideas for your craft? Do you find yourself too distracted by the noise of things like instagram, twitter, Facebook, etc? How do you stay focused and make your work a reality?

A trailer for an upcoming feature film I wrote and co-directed. We shot the movie on a C300 using the 16/32/1.5x Bolex Moller anamorphic adapter lens. Many thanks to the people on this forum for helping me figure out the logistics of this during pre-production! YouTube Link

Texas Media Systems posted this pricing page and has begun to take preorders. It appears buying the YAGGAMAWAG with the GH4 lands you a $400 discount.

When you can buy a 4K cell phone, but not a 4K DSLR, something is seriously wrong. The camera market tanked in 2013. It's really simple. The camera companies are not innovating. You can't keep selling the same old thing year after year, and expect people to buy it. Michael

The 180 degree shutter/frame rate thing is a rule of thumb, not a requirement. You can shoot a high speed shutter on motion picture footage and remove motion blur. I seem to recall a little film that E.T. director guy made about the Normandy Invasion... kinda popular, used high speed shutter.

i wouldn't recommend this method because if you dip it in hot water and you're not delicately handling the focus gear, you will most likelly lose the structural consistency of the focus gear where it will distort and bend. sean sent me two sizes, both differing in a fraction of a milimeter difference in diameter. the smaller one (he referred to it as #219) was a bit too difficult to wedge in, but the second one (#220) was easier to wedge it and out) the only issue was that #220 would slip when focusing, so instead of dipping #219 in hot water, i put some strip of gaf tape (you can use paint tape too) in the inner wall of the focus gear and it snugged perfectly. its tight enough where it grips the barrel of the lens and doesn't slip at all when focusing but conveniently easy to take it off if you need to. no messing around with hot water;just perfect.

The industry is definitely at the brink of figuring itself out. We're buying cameras with grips suited for photography, but to shoot video. These companies don't necessarily want to overshadow their dedicated video line of products, which usually turn out to be less capable, but more expensive (at least when looking at the value/dollar). People are not sold on dedicated video form factors like the 4K cameras that Canon just rolled out. But people are comfortable buying a SLR-type cameras that shoot good video. Even though Canon seems to think the logical upgrade is a dedicated video camera, I don't think a dedicated video camera will ever be the next logical upgrade for a lot of users who plan to shoot a lot of video for the foreseeable future. There is something great with being able to take video with a SLR form factor. The compactness, the discreetness, and the familiarity of working with the type of gear and lenses we already own. There are rogue companies like Black Magic that's playing to exactly the needs what people like me are looking for, but they lack the decades long experience with things like firmware, UI, human-device-interface interaction. The lenses available always seem to come with a compromise. The future....Black Magic cameras can only become better, and the price seems right for the market that I find myself in (The prosumer market). They can build the perfect camera as their products mature. Canon on the other hand is in a position to offer this functionality at a flip of a switch it seems. But they refuse to do it because they want to sell different lines of cameras on their own agenda at a price suited for a different market that I'm in. I don't plan on getting hired to shoot a episode for a major TV network or a film for a major company, so I will never have the budget to spend $10k on a camera. Canon has all the tech and systems in place to produce the perfect camera, which would be all the specs and price of a Black Magic camera, except with full electronic compatibility with their lenses, better focus system, better battery life, and better UI and controls. In a few short years I think this camera will definitely be here. Whether it's by Black Magic Design continuing to improve, Panasonic by cranking out the most specs that can be had with consumer components inside the camera, or Canon just simply just choosing to assemble the camera and not put in old parts as in ways of controlling the hack-ability of their firmware. Black Magic Design appears to be young and brash. Panasonic seems to be eager to please. Canon, they just look greedy and condescending. It sends the message that they are trying to milk us, think they know what's better for us, don't think we're smart enough to see the handicapping they are doing to their own products, or just don't care enough about the this niche market. These are exciting and frustrating times...

"We need to respond to calls for DSLR video quality increase" To be pedantic, nowhere in that statement do I hear an affirmation that they WILL increase IQ.

LED work lights are small cheap and filcker free http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROLSON-72-LED-PORTABLE-MAGNETIC-WORKLIGHT-TORCH-CAMPING-LIGHT-/131131567723?pt=UK_SportsLeisure_Camping_LightsLanternsTorches&hash=item1e880cee6b I have a whole bunch of them I cover them with LEE difuser and then use gels on them to alter the colour temp. also these LED tube strips are superb ( as used on Only God Forgives film) Ive just started using these this past 6 months to replace my Kinoflo lights as these are smaller lighter cheaper and flicker free they come in 3200k or 6000k colour temp the 9w version is very very bright , I have built these into banks of 4 like Kinoflo http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/T5-9W-84-LED-3014-SMD-Warm-White-Fluorescent-Light-Lamp-Tube-Bar-AC90-240V-60-CM-/400588726101?pt=UK_Light_Bulbs&hash=item5d44f2df55 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/T5-4W-30cm-SMD-2835-20-White-LED-Tube-Light-Lamp-Bar-320LM-Office-Market-/111251225393?pt=UK_Light_Bulbs&hash=item19e716fb31

Really hoping they can actually follow through with any of this. The next couple months are going to be a huge deciding factor for me as to whether I decide to stick with Canon or jump ship and start swimming toward mft island. Of course I'd love to be able to embrace the benefits of both, but when it comes down to it, I just can't afford that. I'm sure many others feel the same way.

According to interviews etc. they do understand. They also say that it is hard to get full sensor readout for such a big sensor, so aliasing is to be expected. Basically since this is just a mild facelift/update they only can do so much to the video functionality, and pray that people will still buy it while they work on the next generation camera which will hopefully be much more competitive. Meanwhile enjoy the D5300 and soon (?) the D7200.