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  1. For his upcoming snowy western Tarantino unearthed special cameras and 1.25x anamorphic lenses at Panavision which hadn't seen the light of day since 1965. The film was shot on 65mm film and will get a 'Roadshow' release on Christmas day in amazing 70mm. Read the full article
    4 points
  2. DBounce

    Your ideal NX1 Settings

    Is not beauty in the eye of the beholder? In any case, I don't recall watching The Martian and thinking, "oh boy, I would really like to have that look in my productions". IMO, The Martian had a look reminiscent of Aliens ( I'm going by memory). It wasn't bad, but nothing I would feel compelled to achieve. And btw, lets not confuse in camera color from a $1k camera with the finished work from a $108 million dollar budget Hollywood blockbuster, with experts in cinematography, colorist, special effects, lighting, makeup, props and talent etc... In any case, I think many here would be curious to see what looks you have created with the NX1... and please share the settings. Who knows, you might have a winner? FYI: Here is a little peak inside "The Martian"
    4 points
  3. Thanks. I have no idea what I'm doing but I find this camera a lot of fun There seems to be a lot of ways to get a natural look out of the NX1. I like these settings too ... 16-50S .. Gamma DR, Contrast -5, Master Black Level +10. Sharpness was either at 0 or +5 ... can't remember but was too high either way. My wife's hair looks pretty bad as a result. Great fun experimenting anyway. Exactly same settings here but used FilmConvert over the top for a very non-natural look ... 16-50PZ ... Arri ... Alexa ... DCIP3 ... KD5207 (Andrews suggestion somewhere along the line) I'd also like to start shooting more street stuff with the 16-50PZ ... while the 16-50S seems perfect in every way, the PZ seems to have a nice less clinical look and it makes the NX1 a totally different cam to use because it's so light and nimble with nice stabilisation especially when teamed up with DIS and the cams AF abilities. I like the PZ lens
    3 points
  4. I don't know, I think the majority of this community likes the clean look you are referring to. If you like YOUR videos to look like The Martian, by all means go rent an Arri, and have at it. I, personally, like the look of vintage film and/or video with character, but I, unlike you, can respect people's individual tastes.
    2 points
  5. Why is it so popular (in EOSHD) to emulate "dirty" look of 70's and 80's movies? Wouldn't be more beneficial to emulate something like The Martian? Clean image with beautiful colors. Is it becouse it's so much harder to make image look actually good, and it's easy to make images look crap and then say it's artistic?
    2 points
  6. Is it possible that you are underfilling the entrance pupil of the 85/1.2, and hence not actually shooting at f/1.2? For example, if you were shooting with an iscorama-36 the limiting aperture would be the 36mm diameter at the rear of the anamorphic section, thus giving you a maximum aperture of f/(85/36) ~ f/2.4
    2 points
  7. Here's a example of a classic film look as used to set the time period of the story. Taken from the movie "Man From Uncle".
    1 point
  8. For those that haven't seen, this is mental cheap in the UK atm, £249! It's a cashback offer, so its £449 upfront.
    1 point
  9. Sekhar

    Your ideal NX1 Settings

    I'm sure there are folks who resort to various tricks/gimmicks like fancy emulations to make up for not knowing how to tell a story. But those who do know use looks to serve their creative intent. E.g., I'd think a science fiction like The Martian or war and desert films will want to get the gritty look with ultra sharp (and possibly low shutter angle) imagery that might not work for say a feel-good romance. So, it's not all bogus.
    1 point
  10. IMAX has a new laser projection system that should outclass all other projection technologies once it arrives. Use of laser means that blacks are true blacks (aka there is zero light hitting the screen). While there IS still a place for film projection, I don't doubt for one second that laser will be able to precisely replicate the feel of analog projection should the need arise. I just hope that some day it is available to consumers because the DR would make for an excellent color-accurate image for CC work.
    1 point
  11. First, original with Andrew's recommended settings, second graded with M31 vision6, then upped exposure (0.2) contrast (3.3) and vivid (7.3). What do you think?
    1 point
  12. you can theoretically acquire 8k from 35mm negative photographic format (with modern film, low iso, perfect optics). so theoretical acquisition resolution of 65mm negative film would be around 12k. In practice, no lens exists that will have optical resolution capabilities to full take advantage of this. neither is there any way of transfering this onto projection film or into digital format without losing some of this resolution the projection (positive) film allows even greater resolution capabilities. i agree, I'd love a speed booster with colour correction allowing the full res from high end mf lenses to be acquired with the a7rii.
    1 point
  13. Andrew Reid

    A7S II problems

    Has timecode disappeared from the menus altogether or has it just broken over HDMI? In the HDMI menu there should be an option to display the camera's info over HDMI for the monitor. Maybe the firmware reset the default settings?
    1 point
  14. I guess so, but don't say it out loud, I want to buy an iscorama 54 for cheap sometime. The second point is that basically the further away the aperture is from the optical center, the more problems you get with vignetting, even if the aperture is large enough. I also found that when I place my isco ultra star back element touching the taking lens front element, the fieldcurvature blur you get at the top and bottom of the frame suddenly vanishes and the image gets very sharp.
    1 point
  15. Dean

    Your ideal NX1 Settings

    This is a great thread. Looks like everyone's using the vivid profile. Will have to try it and some of the other settings mentioned here. I like these settings I posted previously in another thread for a nearly SOOC natural look. Has some room to manoeuvre in the darks but very natural colours IMO. Standard (Normal Gamma) ... Green = 95%, Saturation = -2, Sharpness = -10, Contrast = 0, MBL +10.
    1 point
  16. If I can cut the onion a tiny bit slimmer -- I'm not loving much of the cinematography in the clips on that thread, but the image quality itself (i.e. skin-tones, dynamic range, rolling shutter, etc.) looks pretty good. It's like, playing on a Fender won't make the average guitarist into Jimi Hendrix.
    1 point
  17. Caleb Genheimer

    Looking for a lens

    Get a Rectilux and you're set. The Sankor is decent quality. Rectilux plus a projection anamorphic is the cheapest single-focus setup. Anything cheaper is a gimmick or is junk quality.
    1 point
  18. This wasnt final grading, I totally agree with you ! Will post some improvements over these, and other shots. Gotta try those vivid settings though, might look great, anyone tried them at night ?
    1 point
  19. No, they have OSX for their laptops and iOS for their mobile devices. If you want a tablet, you have to buy an iPad which doesn't let you run any full featured apps like Photoshop, FCP, Premiere, etc. If you do want to use those programs though, you also have to buy either a MacBook, or a desktop machine. That's two devices, and to transfer app data from the tablet to computer can normally only be done via iTunes, which can be an extremely painful experience. With a Surface Pro, or even a '2 in 1' like Lenovo's Yoga range, you get one machine that's a tablet and can still run the full featured apps. That's the advantage. And if you have one of their phones, it will be the same one OS again. A laptop won't fit in your pocket. Seriously, think of your average consumer doesn't do any high end video editing, photography, music or whatever. They just browse facebook, Instagram, do a bit of book keeping or whatever. These kind of people will now no longer even need a computer. They could do everything on the phone while they're out. Then when they're home, all they need to do is hook the phone into a monitor or their tv, grab a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and with Continuum on the phone running the full desktop versions of their browser and office apps, their user experience would be exactly the same as if they were on a desktop or laptop. And that's huge. Less environmental waste if people are only using phones, and much less confusion for older people like my in laws, trying to familiarise themselves with multiple devices. Why are Apple not doing this with the iPhone? If they're putting desktop performance A9 chips on their iPhones, why not let people connect them to monitor and run OSX? Possibly because they don't want to lose sales of their iPads and Macs? That's like Canon limiting the video features in their DSLR's so that people will still buy their C300 etc. I'm running iOS9 on my iPad, and apart from the different font they're using, the user interface is still the same as a 2007 iPhone. There's no way of putting a big slideshow gallery of my favourite photos on there like I can do with my Lumia, I can't put a big tile on there with a photo of my wife, or a Fitbit tile showing me how far I've walked and the number of steps, I can't put a big tile on there showing the latest posts in my blog reader app, such a new EOSHD post, or even a Flickr tile showing new photos my contacts have posted, and so on. You can't do any of this with iOS. All you get are boring icons, which if you're lucky, might have a number on them. Even Android users can do a lot more with widgets and whatever else they have.
    1 point
  20. What's ironic here is that Apple are now the company with the monopoly in many markets who are no longer innovating. Look at what Microsoft are doing. They have one streamlined OS that works across all devices from phones, tablets to desktops. They've just released new phones (Lumia 950 & 950 XL) that you can connect a mouse, keyboard & monitor to, and use as a full functioning computer with desktop apps. Their Surface range also continues to get better and better. Of course, they also have that Hololens technology that looks quite impressive from the demos I've seen. And what do Apple release? A big iPad with what is essentially the same OS as what the original iphone was running back when it was first released.
    1 point
  21. Thanks Don nice post. Meanwhile on a Mac I recommend to simply use EditReady, transcode to ProRes 422 LT and you will be able to playback full quality full res 4K on a laptop. There's no quality loss from XAVC-S. The only way you can lose quality from XAVC-S is to go backwards significantly from H.264 100Mbit/s and that is quite hard to do
    1 point
  22. Hey guys! Finally I am getting close to making my first anamorphic set up. BMPCC, set of russian lens that I'm still working on, Isco Animex 2x. As some of those items are awaiting for shipment I decided to start looking for SLR Magic Rangefinder, and currently I have two offers. One is brand new with focus marks, $600 with shipping. Second one is with no focus marks, used for $250. I would get one without marks, but I can't seem to find any place that actually sells them, so I can't figure out where did the seller get it. Also, he specifies that it can focus from close range to 'almost' infinity. Is there any info that those adapters without marks would not be able to focus as good as those with marks? Thanks guys, appreciate your input.
    1 point
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