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man this thread is disgusting, getting enjoyment from someone being scammed and a long time respected member either behind it or worse being publicly shamed and accused while they themselves might be victims as well. So all of you can enjoy this, savor the misfortune of others and continue to concoct your wild theories. If someone hacks my account is this what is in store for me too? How about all of you? I would remind you that this isn't a movie, there are real lives involved and non of us know what really happened.

Based on your guys highly valuable comments, here is another series. This time i compared STD -5/-5/-5/-5 with STD -5/-5/-5/0 to see how the image looks like with a "neutral" saturation. Lets start with the OOC shots (4K 25p): STD -5/-5/-5/-5 STD -5/-5/-5/0 And here is my grade: STD -5/-5/-5/-5 STD -5/-5/-5/0 My conclusions: I had to lower the saturation by 25% for STD -5/-5/-5/0 to avoid turning my skin orange. After that, both shots look pretty similar. The -5/-5/-5/-5 is a tad darker and the -5/-5/-5/0 offers more detail in the shadows, yet has a bit more noise (although not unpleasing). If wanted i can supply the video files as well.

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Did you have any problems sending the money? Best Regards, Hakuna Matata

Most likely Senior doesn't exist. There is no 1DC (S/N with 11 digits!), Saadawi Media, Nuclear Radiology Center... Jr - he only has 1100D, Zoom H1, 50mm, 18-55 and SLR Magic RF: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=29545 - Instagram: no pics of his grandfather holding a camera, filming, editing, Saadawi Media, at work in a Rad. Center https://www.instagram.com/ebrahimsaadawi/ - 'famous' view from his balcony (No.4, DR): http://www.desktop-documentaries.com/10-elements-of-a-high-quality-image.html and Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/137917028

Is this the thread for finding pokemon?

Here are some screen grabs from my shoot here in Mexico. All 1dc at 4K with my CONTAX Zeiss glass. Graded with color finale and shot in Canon Log

Unfortunately, it seems so. I guess it is only a sad story of a teenager who's asking for a severe reprimand. The trouble here is the user himself says in his own signature he is 19 years old already. I would have bought it from him too. I'd urge the young fellow with his face spread all over internet sites such as Vimeo, Instagram, etc to refund the buyers immediately, before the things may become even worse.

So you know about firmware updates but not about your password?

I made a grade for the 5550 version In DaVinci and next applied the same grade to the 5555 version. All I did to make up for the difference was adding an extra node to the left of the grade with saturation set to 75. Everything looks slightly more blue to me, as in hardly noticeable. The 5550 version without saturation adjustment. The 5550 version with saturation adjustment (from 50 to 35)

Hi Pavel, do it yourself you can not do it. it's complicated. You have to cut crystals and build the adapter body with precision machinery. The Canon Fd has the "distance of the flanges" minor compared to Nikon, this will surely result in smaller distance between the sensor and speed booster lens. The lenses with Nikon mounts are economically more advantageous than those with Canon EF mount, the Nikon mount also offer the manual iris control advantage. Nikon, Sigma, Tamron, Samyang offer a wide variety of lenses with Nikon mount. This is undoubtedly a big plus, and a great start.

http://nofilmschool.com/u/ebrahimsaadawi Did a reverse google image search of it, nothing showed up unfortunately. I had always assumed Senior was so old he might be semi retired, and thus had plenty of spare time, and Junior was at school and thus also had a fair amount of time on his hands to post to forums. People have pulled off selling RED cameras with much smaller forum profile than they had, so I think if the intent had been to pull off a grand scam to bank big on, I'm sure it could've been done instead and long ago. So it doesn't make any sense to put in all that effort over years and years purely just to make a couple of thousand.

Where is Mr Ebrahims video response? Show us what Ebrahim Sawaadi productions is made of.. apart from shockingly stolen footage, that is

Michaels video blog is the only good thing that has come out of this. This is like a real life sherlock holmes adventure

This second post is just as weird... It's pretty likely someone very close to you is the culprit (if it's really you typing Snr), as they have access to and knowledge about your gear, they also have your password (or worked it out), so surely there aren't that many possible suspects. I highly doubt many people would be able to put all those things together well and also know the finer details about an obscure piece of equipment such as the SLR RF and know it was actually worth something (it just looks like a cheap filter to any normal person). Also a common thief would just steal this product, not try and scam people online... Suspects are fairly limited I would say, unless you have an army of people working for you? Also this stuff has gone missing only recently, which should make it pretty easy to narrow down.

Probably the best skintones I've seen on a compressed 8-bit camera.

He still has the chance for a move in behalf of fairness, peacefulness and his own scalp. As usual, it is up to us. So, It just depends on him. Facts are upon the most benevolence of a well-meaning credulity. IMHO his post has been a mere attempt to test his reputation among the other members of this community. So, there's also a role reserved for all of us.

Again not true Filmic images is a complete stupid word. What is filmic to one person is mad max fury road and to others it looks horrible The filmic look or the hollywood look we like to think of it is skintone... handling of color....dynamic range...motion...how it handles highlight s and shadows. How the motion cadence is. To me the best motion is from my sony f65. To others they like the Alexa. I dont like the alexa cause my images out of it im not happy with. But other dps work blows me away. If you were older abrahim you would know we used different film stocks based on mood and feel for the film. I am a fuji man. More than kodak. I like the green. But neither can or not be called more filmic. The best digital footage i saw was from the panavision genesis... global shutter later became f35 which i own. But i loved it cause of the colorist and dp. You cant make a blanket statement about a camera as filmic or non filmic. Thats what young dentists do. One day youll get older and see this. Canon has beautiful skintones but the c300s motion i hate. I prefer the motion on the 1dc. I dont know why.

Yessss!!! Get DB back to Kickstarter Eddie? I would be incredibly interested in either of those! A D16 with 30fps for that slight slowing, better DR and better lowlight would be a dream. Seriously, sounds like Matthias and I are signed up :P Is this the sensor you are talking about? It appears to see in the dark!

Make the camera please, I will pay with a blank check.

IIRC weren't "they" father and son too, Ed?

The classic chrome looks amazing

Some good samples here, skin tone is great. The video's A6300 sections are TERRIBLE, Jordan needs to start using LUT's with his S-log footage.

Getting back to the original topic, I have done some exhaustive research and renting of cameras, to figure out what my next move was and after careful study, I've decided to wait a little longer. It seems there are a few options in the Canon and Panasonic camp that might be relevant to what I'm looking for, and I feel like I don't want to commit to a specific camera yet, so I'm planning on renting in the meantime...but...I hopped on another discussion thread from a user that had similar question of what camera next, and I shared some of the my conclusions on there, so I thought I'd copy and paste my response to here. This will give a litte more context too my findings/assessment of the cameras we've been talking about. One note: Sorry ML users. I love the idea of going Canon ML, but just didn't have the reliability as you guys experienced, so I can't see myself going that direction. Anyway...here's my thoughts... "It's been really interesting reading through this thread. I started a similar one, after ditching my Canon 5D Mark III to pickup a dedicated video camera, since I now shoot stills mostly on Fujifilm X camera and wasn't satisfied with the quality of the 5D Mark III in comparison to other video cameras I was renting and shooting with for video projects. The 5D Mark III was brilliant in it's day and still to this day shoots amazing stills, but because I shoot a lot of street photography needed something smaller and Fuji really helped replace that function in more compact package, so my 5D sat in the closet a lot. I did consider using ML on my 5D to sort of resurrect it as my dedicated video camera, but felt like ML was way to unpredictable for my liking, contrary to the fact that it DID produce much better video and stunning footage in RAW. So that started my search for the new camera, and it really came down to either Canon or Blackmagic simply for the color science and ease of grading. I found both cameras to be the easiest to grade. Sony is an impressive package, but I find their footage to be a little too sharp and green and because there color science is a bit different in it's approach, I found that it took more time to grade, and although my results were positive, I felt there were a lot of challenges, with using the camera from color to exposure. I'm sure after some mileage one could get used to it, and make it into an amazing camera, but I felt in comparison to the Canon and Blackmagic packages, it seemed to not make sense to me. Then there's the Panasonic. Also same deal with Sony. Except the footage looked more magenta cast, then I prefer, and very sharp in a video sort of way. Where Sony is hard to expose but has good low light capabilities, I find the Panasonic can accurately expose more through it's built in tools, but is not ideal for low light. I think there cameras have gotten better and better as they progress and even there skin tones have improved from footage I've seen with their G7 and most recently the GX80/85, but again the footage is a bit more hard work to make filmic or skin tone friendly, at least to me. So then we move onto the Canon C series. In the theme of this conversation, I think the ultimate camera package that seems to do everything, from experience shooting with it, is the C300 Mark II. It has the filmic quality of an Arri Alexa, making it a more than adequate B Camera for it, for commercials, films and TV, but also with all the features needed on the exterior to make it an amazing run and gun tool for the Doc and otherwise applications. It has 4K internal recording capability, Canon Log color, 1080p60 for slow motion, built in ND filters, etc......I feel this is the most versatile camera package out there, with the most appealing image quality to match. However it exceeds the price of the cameras discussed in this thread, by a good chunk...SO...we have to look at alternatives, and this is where things get a little weird.... The Canon C100 Mark II is definitely not a C300 Mark II. But it offers a ton in it's price class. It has all the bells and whistles of the C series cameras making it a very capable all in one system, with everything you need. This is a camera that you can pickup and go. No question. The image quality is not as filmic to me, as the C300, but is a very capable and elegant look, compared to a lot of cameras out there. Personally I think this camera is a must for the professional videographer, doing a lot of doc, or commercial style shooting and I'm sure you've heard similar assessments in this and other forums. The Dual Pixel Autofocus is a revolutionary feature as well to this camera! However from a narrative film perspective, I prefer a more filmic look, which I feel this one doesn't produce inherently, lets say compared to a Blackmagic camera or C300 Mark II (or Alexa, if you want to go there). But of course, with work, can probably be accomplished with grading. The other missing feature to this camera, is 4K. I know...everyone says we don't need 4K now...and that's totally true, and if I were buying a camera for 1000-1500, I'd say don't worry about the 4K now, just get something when you need it...but when you're looking at a camera, specifically like the C100 Mark II, priced at around $4500, it becomes an investment, which means having something a little more long term, and as 4K emerges into a standard, you want to make sure that your camera at that price level is at least a little future proof. And that's where I hesitate with moving on a C100 Mark II. Then we go to the mighty Blackmagics! Now I've spent a lot of time drooling over the footage on these cameras. esthetically, these cameras produce the closest look to what I look for in this price category, but I do have to say each of them has a bit of a different look to them, so lets break that down for a sec. BMCC, BMPCC - These were the first ones. I feel these are the best ones. They seem to have the least amount of issues on the image side, from what I've experienced and seen. It's not the best at low light, compared to the Canon's but totally use-able. I even had a BMPCC for awhile, and did a natural/available and low light test with it. Here's the link if you want to check it out... It's not scientific at all, but you can see what can be done with this camera in a number of available light situations. At the time I didn't know that the native ISO was 800, so I was changing ISO settings based on the scenes I shot. But as you can see, it's filmic and the grain is organic looking enough. Depending on your tastes of course! The draw backs to these specific cameras are with the BMPCC, it's only HD, and with the BMCC it's 2.5K sensor not 4K. However at this price point, I don't think it's as much a show stopper. And these cameras just produce amazing filmic image quality. They also record RAW, which is another plus to these cameras. Offering a load more dynamic range. So from the image perspective, I think all the characteristics of these cameras, are a plus. These cameras have often been used as B cameras for Alexas as well. Especially the Pocket, which can be rigged in places where a camera might not normally fit. The not so great challenges of these cameras are the crop factor, especially with the EF version of the BMCC, not being able to use speedboosters which of course changes the crop factor from 2.3 to 1.5 (Super 35), because of it's mount type, which severely limits lens choices, especially in wide options. The BMCC MFT though offers more lens options, but if you own a lot of EF glass, you won't be able to control aperture since it's a passive mount. Which makes the BMPCC the most flexible option with an Active Mount, and MFT compatible, so you should be able to control aperture on EF glass as well as autofocus. Another challenge is getting all the necessary accessories to these cameras, which has been discussed thoroughly already so I don't have to get into that, but there are some ideal accessories, and there are other things, where you'll have to get more creative to kit it out, depending on your needs. But all in all it's basically a sensor, that you have to build into a camera. The last downside, I think with this camera, is no slow motion. It does a maximum of 1080p30. For folks doing more filmic work, you would think that would be a feature more of interest, but I'm guessing it's a technical limitation to the camera's hardware. BMPC4K - This camera was the next in line. I"ve been reading a lot of mixed reviews on this camera. Basically a 4K version of the BMCC. So it has all the features and issues of the above camera with two exceptions. It has 4K which is great! And it's got a Super 35 size sensor, so no crop factor issues. And it comes in EF or PL. No MFT, which is a bit of a bummer, but if you have EF or PL glass you're all set. But how's the image? From what I can tell...not as good as the 2.5K BMCC. I found the BMPC4K footage to not look as filmic, for starters, but most importantly I saw two big show stopping issues. One is that highlights were not as detailed on the BMPC4K as they are in the BMCC. They seemed to blowout as easily as a DSLR. Second issue...when I was playing around with one, I noticed that the camera only goes at 800 ISO (please correct me if this is something I'm mistaken) and the BMPCC and BMCC can do 1600 and at lowlight exhibited some pretty major fixed pattern noise. Those issues alone make this camera to me, un-usable. Ursa Mini 4K and 4.6K- Now we come to these gems. The answer to all of our gripes on the camera limitation front. Good ergonomics, same image quality, built in audio, 4K or 4.6K options, good sensor size, high frame rate options, professional lens mount capabilities, Super 35 sensor size. All we've been asking for. But here's why this camera is a no go for me, at least for now.... It seems that these cameras have a number of issues in both image quality and hardware. Things like the dreaded magenta cast, which I hear is improving with firmware upgrades, more of that fixed pattern noise from the BMPC4K! Audio noise in the audio inputs, is another issue. And many other weird issues here and there, which I hear maybe as easy as swapping the camera for another at the store as a solution, but still! It seems they rushed this camera to ship, and are now paying for it. So it seems that we need to wait for about as long as it took the BMCC and BMPCC to mature. Promising but not ready...today. BMMCC - So this camera to me is the most frustrating and exciting from the batch, because it sounds like a totally functional camera, but lacks in the user interface. It's got 1080p60 and the flexible size of the Pocket camera, and It sounds like the image quality is great, but like the other posters have mentioned, it sounds like a nightmare to operate. Even at controlled filming environments, we want to be able to access operations on the camera quickly. It sounds like the buttons and menus and overall operations of this camera are non intuitive and slow. With the same theme of the earlier cameras. It's a great naked sensor and brain that needs to be built into a camera. I don't think I would mind as much, with that factor in mind, but if the buttons are hard to hit and it's hard to access the menu options quickly, controlled shooting environments or not, this poses a real challenge, that might not be worth it. So this is sort of my take on the cameras discussed on this thread, from loads of time operating the cameras, or researching heavily on footage examples and reviews. I still haven't replaced my 5D. I felt given all the factors I laid out, I'd rather rent camera bodies for now, for specific projects, rather then invest in a specific camera since I feel like we're close to hitting all the marks, but not quite. I also want to wait because I've heard there are some new things being announced in both Canon and Panasonic camps this fall that might be worth waiting and taking a look, so I'm planning on getting something probably this fall or winter. If I had to make a choice today, given that I do mostly music videos, short films, and some commercial work. I'd probably get a C100 Mark II. It works with my existing Canon EF glass, has 1080p60, great dynamic range, low light, built in audio and ND filters. I can work with this footage, and with a combination of even more filmic glass, can make the image more filmic, if I need to. I think I would rather work harder in that avenue then have to work with hobbling a camera together with many parts and stuff to get it to a place, where it's functional. I don't even feel I have to do that with a Arri Alexa even though you have to kit that camera out, I feel like the camera itself is still intuitive and functional. I love the BM image quality, but it's really not a camera, in the sense of how Arri, RED, and Canon cameras are. If I had to get a BM camera today, I would probably go back to buying a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, and rig that up as best I can. I think the button positions are more accessible than the BMMCC, and feels more like a camera, and I don't need to put a monitor on it, to control it's functions. That's just my 2-cents."

I developed the color science and did all my tests with the camera on Windows. There's the free HFS explorer tool, or you can buy HFS drivers for Windows for 20 USD. If we were to make other cameras, I think a D35 and a D16 mk II based on EMCCDs would be my preference. The D16 mk II would hopefully be based on the KAE-02150. So 30fps, 14+ EV of DR without any of the highlight reconstruction. That's without any noise reduction in the circuitry of the sensor or in the software, so it'd keep the same mojo of the D16. The D35 is more of a dream camera for me. Nothing like it currently exists. I actually made a list a while ago and posted on our user group that Joe was actually on board with had the funding been there to pursue it. It'd basically be an EMCCD version of our sensor, but double the dimensions and resolution horizontally and increase the dimension vertically enough to achieve 16:9.

Wow. That's pretty damning. How could someone hack into his Facebook, EOSHD acct, and have a fake ID to pick up money at Western Union. PLUS have access to the gear that he was known to have. If you're logging into your Facebook, or forums frequently (which it looks like he does), you're going to see messages from 6 people inquiring about transactions. This was over a substantial amount of time too.

@AaronChicago the profile looked legit. Active and 1000+ friends. Here's a print screen I took of it some days ago. And here's another detail you all should know about. Ebrahim 'Senior' signs off with a Gmail address in his response you can reach him on. But if you type it in Gmail, guess who's profile pic pops up...

He knows. That video/reel on Vimeo is now private.

Hi Aaron I posted on page 7 about the review...SLR Magic sent him one to review...maybe one of the indications that this was'nt Ebrahim at all, as the seller claimed they paid 599 for it and were losing money selling at 250...also posted weird "will you buy me a drone and ship it to me from the US" Ebrahim post....unnoticed in the feeding frenzy, but indications to me seem to point to the fact, that this is not the same person...the language completely differs...Ebrahim's knowledge of cameras and technical aspects of filming run too deep for a scam artist to be having arguments/discussions with other members about a highly technical subject...most importantly, if you're really curious, read his drone buying request to Jonesy Jones...definately not written by Ebrahim, so whatever this is, it started a while back...

LOL LOL LOL LOL, I am loving reading these outrageously ridiculous conspiracy theories some folks are making up! Keep them coming :D

The rapid rise and fall of this threads story arc surpasses the narrative of the theft/plagiarization.

For the people that got scammed this sucks and I'm sorry for your loss. On the bright side, this has been one of the most entertaining forum threads that I've ever read In my life LOL. I know this sounds like I'm a jerk(and I probably am), but I'm just being honest. This is becoming like a reality tv show LOL. Anyways, this whole thing is weird and I'm not completely buying that Egyptian doctors story. If his story was true, and if he cares about his name so much, and if he's rich, he should have refunded these people already. If this was done, this thread would have died a long time ago. Him leaving the EOSHD forum only benefits him and adds more question marks to his story. Also, him wanting to leave the forum without wanting to give refunds doesn't make sense. This is not sounding honorable to me at all. If you're a man of honor deal with your problems with the people that have been effected. Don't write a post to say where you live and to apologize to save your reputation. That's selfish and only thinking of yourself. Just PM the victims and pay them back; that's being a man of honor.

Handheld with a zacuto EVF. I really love the small size of it especially for this run and gun type shooting.

Nice images, what's your setup like?

Aww thanks man, and I did try to contact Andy way before my video posts, to get this thread shut down.. now I am glad it stayed open! Watching your video now.. Your sideways style is a bit shit in my humble opinion I worked hard to make my whites interesting, you lazy mf Is this a forum of film makers, or camera nerd tragics? Andy Lee, Mathias - they are always posting frames and video of some great stuff. C'mon everyone, forget about this bun fight and show us your stuff! And thank you Ed David, for your crazy sideways take on this thread!

Western union , best deals guaranteed.

Oooooowwwww

Still nothing...zero things come up in arabic for ebrahim on all of google nor his media company الجامعة إبراهيم السعداوي I think the person is real....but its some insane catfish game

But seriously. I'm afraid at this point, for a lot of people on this forum, the truth is irrelevant. I almost believe the entire story is made up. No disrespect intended to Tim but I don't really know anybody here, and there are really only two truths we know... Tim fell for an African Western Union scam and Ebrahim, if that's his real name, used the same words (names) for both his login and password and then told everybody on the forum. And someone close to him, all fingers point to his grandson, has stolen people's clips and used them in his own reel, but was smart enough to never actually say they were his. If any of this is true I wish everyone the best because it sucks. I get why Tim would take Ebrahim's word for it considering he is a well respected member of this forum. And this is so strange that I even can believe that this is actually Ebrahim conversing on the forum now and he has zero knowledge of any of this. This whole debacle seems like a case for Peter Sellers. Also, has anyone noticed that Zach Goodwin has been eerily silent lately... Just sayin.

He doesn't respond at all when sending him a message about the refund.

Ed David... Never knew a cause with half-baked facts he didn't like since 1981.

Don't know about you. But if I'd be going through this, having a mob of people going wild with speculations... doing a skype call with such a mob wouldn't really be in my interest. Notice how calm the thread starter (and victim of a scam) has been throughout this thread? I think it would be great if Ebrahim Sr and Timotheus would have a calm one-on-one call by themselves to try to figure and possibly sort things out. No need to make this into a reality show. If everything said by Timotheus and Ebrahim Sr is true, they're probably both going through some shitty times.

Hey, there is an idea, Mr Sawaadi, I will interview you on Skype, and we can clear this up. We are video experts after all, right?

I made a test comparing ISO from 400 - 6400 with the GX85 and GH4, and GX85 is (as we already know) really good. Wonder if the GH5 will go all the way up to 12800, as seems it could be usable with a little noise reduction applied.

This post reads like bullshit to me.. why not refund the money right now, since you are so well off? Why would you be banned for trying to get on here and sort it out? And why would you say that you have no obligation to refund the money, when you admit it was someone very close to you? Does this not sound like the tone of the young punk and his message on facebook? Is there an Ebrahim Sr, or has it just been a scam all along? If there are 6 people admitted as being scammed, are there really more? Has someone been standing too close to a nuclear radiology machine? Did we really go to the moon? Will a hero solve the mystery, get the girl, and ride off into the sunset? Time may tell:)

I agree - this shouldn't be a lynch mob. You are right - I'm getting too into it. I apologize. Ebhahim should refund the money if he wants to do the right thing, and hopefully have his son or whomever shares his name or created a fake ID or whatever weird scenario exists where the person knows his password and the keys to his closet reemburse him And this is a hard lesson learned - do not use western union. It was a scam. And we are now aware of this. I hope Senior figures out who did this, maybe with the help of Junior! And then all is resolved.

I think the op needs to now reach him again and point him to this thread. He has 7 days to reply before I go medieval on him. And that wont be fun.

That f'd up. Not only scamming but gloating that you've been scammed.

here's details on him - the younger one at least - goes to the Faculty of Dentistry Lives in Mansoura, Egypt His dad seems to be a radiologist (physician) Makes sense, the younger one couldn't cut it in med school, so goes to dentist school. I think using this info and geotagging facial recognition software with all his photos you can find his friends and then find him. He doesn't work professionally in film, so he has no reputation to keep there. So all you can do is embarass him at his school and his dental practice if he has one and then shame him with his father and his business and probably find the whole family. I'm probably guessing his dad doesn't know this is giong on, so reach out to the dad on nofilmschool and find other ways to contact the dad. Unless there is an explanation. But anyway, you can ruin his reputation and really embarass the shit out of him with his dad. Who will probably give him a good spanking. https://vimeo.com/ebrahimsaadawi - young one https://www.youtube.com/user/EbrahimSaadawii - young one http://nofilmschool.com/u/ebrahimsaadawi - older one - Physician (Radiologist) the dad is a radiologist - i think you can find him https://www.instagram.com/ebrahimsaadawi/ - or a dentist he says - maybe the younger one is a lawyer? Attends Faculty of Dentistry Lives in Mansoura, Egypt https://plus.google.com/+EbrahimSaadawi/posts https://www.flickr.com/photos/132171910@N05/ http://www.desktop-documentaries.com/10-elements-of-a-high-quality-image.html http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?339494-Optical-invention-Eliminates-breathing-amp-gives-ANY-lens-a-geared-240%B0-cine-ring!