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sounds like a good idea! we are all in the middle of a massive Digital Film making revoltion right now - film is dying - it's almost gone for good (Christoper Nolan will have to start hording film stock soon!!) - the Alexa has now made such in an inroad in mainstream Hollywood films this past 3 years that its accepted as the main camera now. The thing that has not changed is glass! and getting the right focal lengths for the right shot in your film is still exactly the same for Digital or Film. What has changed is that Indie film making on Canon and Panasonic cameras it is now possible to make a finished product that is almost 95% as good as the big boys in Hollywood - the difference is not that great if you know what you are doing and if you learn to exploit the 'pros' of what ever camera you are using and mask the 'cons '. The right lenses help you get the 'movie look' and it is all very acheivable very cheaply if you look around for lenses that have a certain 'look' similar to expensive movie lenses.

My first week with the LX100: http://www.mirrorlessjourney.com/blog/2014/11/my-first-week-with-the-panasonic-dmc-lx100-1 :D

its all basic cinematography stuff I learnt while shooting film all those years ago - I worked with some great DP's like Tony Coldwell who I learnt alot from when I first started Directing - all those lens focal length choises carry forward onto digital cameras - its all still very releveant in todays world for keeping that filmic look we all are used to from when we used to shoot film stock .

Yeah that's why I'm still filming on mini-dv. No point to upgrade if something better is just going to be released eventually.

It was well shot, but the original was so pretentious and narcissistic, many thought it was a parody. This parody though, manages to parody it:

I've just returned from hospital after having my eyeballs fixed after they were cut from the sharp images from mine.

you know you got a lens that is sharp when you try and align it with the fpcus on the taking lens in a dual focus style and realise you can keep tweeking and keep tweeking and it just keeps getting sharper and sharper.

Check out the Pretzval. Not the most practical lens for everyday shooting. Used it on a commercial for interviews and the client went nuts over it. Truly a different look. http://shop.lomography.com/us/lenses?gclid=CNPSkNqJ-MECFW8A7AodhCYAMQ Another favorite of mine are Super Baltars. But they've become quite pricey. The thumbnail is grab of an interview we shot on the Pretzval

I'm always amazed how many people have gone for this modification. It's a huge amount of money for what equates to about 5hrs work and around £150 worth of machined aluminium. I've worked on 5 iscorama's this year. Making some which were unusable lumps of ruined glass or non moving focus helicoids back to full working order and have probably charged less than what he charges for a single job! Granted I'm not rehousing them, but some have been close focus modded which is a couple of hours of very careful work. He must be absolutely raking it in from Iscorama mods alone. Personally I'd not invest this much money on adding weight to the iscorama unless it provided non rotating front upgrade as the group buy offered. Scary amounts of money being thrown for a rather basic job IMO

A little bit of light, placed in the right place, can make a really big difference!!! ;-D

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that. I remember seeing the original when it was first uploaded and curling up in the corner of my room as I died of embarrassment. I am in fact now officially dead and have been for the past few months. Could somebody please report the suspicious nature of my demise to the relevant authorities? That man should be locked up ...

Apple sure like to suck the cash straight out your wallet, how else could they afford such an ugly Yacht.

Hardly. 35mm 8-perf (film runs through gate horizontally, not vertically, the frame size equals full frame 36mm x 24 mm) could have had perhaps 5k, but never a theater print (4-perf, with considerable widescreen-crop), and definitely not when projected, because all those little analog tolerances added, and what was left was way under 1k. Digital projection in 2k meant an immediate improvement, though not a very spectacular one. And that 4k means four times the resolution of 2k doesn't mean that the images now look four times as good. It's rather that you recognize limitations of resolution caused by too big images later. 4k images can be projected bigger, that's all there is to it. Take 640p as an example: If you watch a Youtube clip in this original size - according to the pixels of your display - it looks the same as the HD-version. Only if you toggle it full screen you will see the shortcoming of the smaller resolution. But take the appropriate resolution as a given.

4k is another marketing strategy to increase price, it won't bring anything to the movie experience. With motion blur, 99% of the time you won't see any difference, if it is even possib to see. What it will do is show all the flaw of set, props etc.

It was too much. However, all this seems* to be a matter of taste and of portioning. When Coppola said (in the doc on Apocalypse Now), that there was nothing more terrible than a pretentious film, he obviously wasn't talking about image films (as they are called in german, maybe one of the many german anglicisms, can you confirm this? In german Image always means personal appearance, Imagefilme are made to polish the reputation or prestige of companies, professions or political parties). A cinematographer - the name derives from the filmmaker, not just the photographer, the Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) - must indeed tell himself, that he creates the world, that he is the master of light and shadow. To paraphrase Faithless: God Is A DoP! *No, it isn't just bad taste. Working in this business has a nimbus. Film (audiovisual communication) produces images, role models, opinions, conscience. It's despicable, it attracts pretenders (therefore the pretentious clip). You have to stay aware of how many impostors call themselves cinematographers, actors, editors, directors. You have to dissociate yourself from these assholes, you should never try to impress them!

Thank you!! Until now I just worked as operator with professional lights that a DP puts on the set and when I work alone the only lights I have at my disposal are 1 little LED lamp and 2 work lights :)

Some companies are going to bring out some cameras next year that are going to be better than previous cameras and one companies' camera will be better than another companies' camera but only in this way not that way and anyway some people will prefer the other companies' camera nevertheless and anyway everybody will complain about everything except of course the latest thing but only for five minutes and then it will be crap again like all the others except the ones that are your favourite not mine and then it will all start again every five f*cking minutes and nobody will have enough time to make a decent or interesting f*cking film because by the time the film is half made you will be devastated by how "last-month" your camera is and none of the twelve other cameras you have in your back pocket will cut it either but you don't want to give Canikonysonic your money because they are responsible for all the troubles of the world so you just start juggling with all seventeen of your outmoded cameras hoping to collect spare change from passers-by to pay for the perfect camera while you wait patiently for THE ONE to descend from the arse of the Great Camera God in the Sky and lord help him if it's not the right price or it has too many goblins in the shadows or isn't as sharp as the razor blade you will massacre innocents with if anyone says "content is king" again or is in some other aspect different to another current quite good camera or a camera in the imagination of one or two video forum users. Amen.

A few shots from Abu Dhabi. I really like the way this camera handles nighttime and sunset shots, but I'm having trouble getting satisfying colors in daylight. Would appreciate any feedback: Graded in FCP X with native CC tool, Pixel Studios ProHDR, and Impulz LUTs