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Man you guys are a tougher audience than reddit. Wow. Also I thought Tiny Furniture was whiney, boring, and petty bourgeois issues. Just like my little film, "The Quiet Escape." I think Kung Fury is touching, sweet, creative, and memorizing much like the first Matrix and had a sense of humor. But hey, I guess we all have opinions.

​Coppola also said (I think in the same feature) nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. What is a pretentious movie? For us ambitious filmmakers? All people are losers in one way or other. That's a fact. No one measures up to everybody's expectations. Some just manage better to pretend they do. The wiser I become, the more I learn to distinguish between right and wrong goals. If I try to impress others, if I try to prove something, I'm on the wrong path already. Interesting films, good films, can deal with serious subjects or just be big fun. Bad films are a waste of life-time, for the makers a well as for the audience. Nobody really cares if they were executed with expert skills or if they had slider-shots or the like. But once I really love a story (narrative) or I'm really intrigued by something I encounter in reality (doc), I will try to depict it in the best way possible. Never the other way around. Life is too short to pretend. People are worth to be met with (even blunt) honesty, passion and bravery.

​The Sport Mode not dropping DR is great news.

Kung Fury is most creative and fun film I've seen since Napoleon Dynamite. Here's the link - a Swedish film funded by Kickstarter - here's a link to the full film. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg Basically it came out of nowhere - made by David Sandberg for no money just with his friends and raised on Kickstarter up to $600k for a 30 minute film that beats pretty much every Hollywood action comedy I've seen in the past 20 years. And all in 30 minutes. It's just a pure idea that's hilarious and so well made and thought out. He took his skills from music videos and created something more creative and brilliant than made by a much larger budget like Mad Max: Fury Road. With a more realized world, better script, and more interesting characters. Here's a behind the scenes look at the film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYHl8SPVfM It doesn't look like much to make it - just guys on a greenscreen - and it oozes personality and character. You don't need hundreds of people and studios behind you to be creative - just a little idea. That fat girl is David Sandberg. He circumvented the whole world of Hollywood and made a better Hollywood movie than Hollywood could make. You don't need hundreds of screenwriters and rewrites and famous actors and egos - just one vision - one idea - and a bunch of friends, and a little bit of money. The internet allows this to happen. The Internet allows anyone a fighting chance. It is decentralized. Gabe Newel, the CEO of Value talks about this - if you have a good idea, it will get out. Word of mouth. It just gets out. So next time you make something, anything - just make it good. Put all your money into making it good and the Internet will take care of the rest. The film is a trojan horse - it seems silly but the message is simple - "Hollywood - with all your focus testing and test screenings and computers you can't overcome something simple - film is about storytelling and mood and following the vision of a director or small-knit group of friends. You have become lost and distant to what is possible in the modern era." With more films like Kung Fury becoming successful, I now have renewed hope in the future of filmmaking. Boring and unremarkable films like Ex Machina and Chappie and the Avengers 2 of the Hollywood machine can go far, far away and real passionate auteurs can make their films from anywhere just with going straight to the people, who are much more intelligent than Hollywood gives the world credit for.

They probably are using xray sensors like this one http://aphotoeditor.com/2011/08/23/mitchell-feinbergs-8x10-digital-capture-back/ I'm intrigued.

Yeah.. lets convert to WMV.. great idea. Did the topic turn into a dump for spammers to plug their random videoconverters, or am I being paranoid?

Movie was great and much better than most will accomplish in their life. Nothing is for everyone, but no one can deny the creative art and hard work put into the digital film, anyone who says otherwise is basically a reflection of themselves "Hater"...........

I wanted to share on the diopter thread and with the EOSHD community of my first shots with my Baby Berthiot Hypergonar paired with 2 Tokina +0.4 Achromatic diopters and a Marumi DHG +3 diopter for the close up shots. I just ordered a Polaroid 500D Close Up Camera Lens for getting even closer. Good price on those. I shot this over three days in May 2015 in North Carolina. I filmed in Chimney Rock Park, Fairview Buncombe County, and outside of Burnsville. Cut to the music of Dances With Wolves by John Barry. I shot on a GH4 in 4k with the scenery setting. I used the Baby Hypergonar 1.75x anamorphic lens with a Schneider-Kreuznach 50mm f/1.9 Xenon and a Olympus Zuiko Pen F 38mm F1.8 as my taking lens. Custom Redstan housing for the baby! I just lowered the mids on a few shots with Colorista 11 in color correction. I love the look and feel of this lens so much! I hope you enjoy it Special Thanks: to Seb Farges "Baby Hypergonar oracle" vimeo.com/sebfarges To Alan Doyle at Redstan redstan.com/ To all the contributing filmmakers on EOSHD for there invaluable input. Also to Francisco Rios for his work with the Baby and Davide Marino for helping get lens!

It is much more challenging to innovate rather than taking the screw it path, I don't have an original thought so I'll just go as dumb as possible and call it as satire/ironic/parody. I don't see this as any anti-Hollywood statement, other than "more stupidity for your money"

No, all the anamorphic lens part are the same. The focus length is just for different size of screen or movie theater use.

I already know how this thread will end. People will say it sucks. Someone fires back and says "let's see what you've done better...", another person says "we can critique all we want". Then the thread closes.

With the exception of the gun being fired down the phone (stolen from Danger 5, a much better low budget retro-genre inspired work about cheesy heroes fighting Hitler, and it has dinosaur-headed people too), all the best gags in Kung Fury fit in the initial 2 minute trailer. And they worked much better in that context. Kung Fury is nothing more than a technical showpiece. The script is built on the premise that gore, swearing and pop-cultural pastiche is endlessly amusing. If you told me this was written by Seth MacFarlane, I'd have believed it. I suppose Kung Fury could be thought to have a more realised world than Fury Road if by 'more realised' you mean, 'more locations', but that's about it. The attention to detail and art direction in that film brought a believable and genuinely original vision to the screen. Kung Fury is an amalgam of the last decade of 80s parodies, thrown into an ultra ironic 'anything can happen!' universe. There's no real narrative to ground the nonsense (unlike Danger 5), and genuine wit is almost entirely absent. Better characters? What characters? There is no humanity to anyone. The characters have so few distinguishing features that they aren't even clearly defined as comic archetypes. Kung Fury is lazy, coasting by on its concept. Fury Road is one of the most brilliant pieces of fantasy filmmaking to make it to the screen in the past decade. One is seeing a brief burst of viral interest, and the other is going to be talked about for many years to come.

I emailed Kinefinity with a few questions and here are the answers for those interested: Q) Is there a way to adjust audio levels when using the XLR audio inputs? I do not remember seeing any specific audio level control on the camera at NAB. Can you adjust the audio levels on each of the channels independently and select which track the sound records to. For example, can you mix two audio sources in camera? A) Yes, there is a menu to turn up or down the gain of audio capturing, and so far tuning gain applies all channels at the same time Q) Was is the approximate dynamic range of the camera when using Sport Mode? Is there a significant drop in quality. A) Sport Mode/HiSpeed mode: Dynamic range remains same, but it brings some moire and aliasing to the images Q) When is the new expected ship date to US customers? A) 2015 July for US customers Q) Will I be able to get the camera serviced (if necessary) a the US distributor when you have one, or would I need to buy the camera from them rather than directly from Kinefinity? A) Yes, your camera will get serviced if we have US distributor. Before that, we will take care of your camera directly Q) Is there an estimated timeline for in-camera ProRes implementation? Are you able to tell me if this will include ProRes 422HQ or 444XQ? A) In this year, for in-camera ProRes. Yes, it will include 422, 444, and 444XQ. It is a hardware update, not firmware. Q) I know that the current EF mount does not support image stabilization. Is there a plan to implement this function? A) IS for EF lens, we don’t have plan in near future. But it may be in the future.

I wanted to bring up one thing that happened to me yesterday shooting with the Gh4 and the BMCC Speedbooster. I've been using this combo since the GH4 came out without issue, but yesterday I was filming an event with very challenging lighting combinations so I used Custom White Balance. This may be common knowledge to some of you, but if you have Electronic Shutter on, when you try to set a Custom White Balance, that mechanical shutter activates, you hear the click and real the vibrations and realize you have a BMCC Speedbooster attached. My SP ended up stuck on my GH4, and received a message over a white screen that read something like "Turn off the camera and turn it on again" but that did nothing and I still could not remove the SB only more clicks each time. Frustrated and bummed out, I set it down and wen to sleep. The next day I had another shoot, so I went t put my GH4 away and went for the BMPCC instead, but when I went to move the GH4, I decided to give it one last try. Speedbooster came off without hesitation. All I can say is, don't use Custom White Balance, if using a BMCC Speedbooster. If it's common knowledge, I apologize, but I didn't know this.