Leaderboard

As usual in recent years I have been making a Christmas video for the police force where I work. This year with more sense of humor, parodying Breaking Bad. No professional, all who appear are police officers. GH5S + Sirui Anamorphic 35mm. Hope you like it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who really enjoys using kit lenses. I have a Canon EFS 18-55mm which I use all the time, both causally and professionally. I've changed camera bodies many times throughout the years, yet this lens still stays on. Kit lenses are lightweight, sharp and most importantly for me, often have image stablizations (because I don't like IBIS). Low light is an issue though, but for more serious works I'm going to light the scene anyway, and for less serious works, I can always denoise the footages in post if they are too noisy. I've found the denoising in DaVinci Resolve more than enough to clean up a moderately underexposed image. Of course, primes and fast zooms are nice to have, but they are much more expensive. The money could be more well spent on other things, such as lighting equipments and production designs.

i'm really quite jealous of all this anamorphic goodness now that i have an ipone 13 turn up. im looking at getting the sandmark or moment anamorphic. Which ever one gives me the golden flare. something a little different perhaps, but blue is a little over done i feel. Gold may give me an edge especially since i do like a good sunset. Sunrises tend to be elusive beasts, not sure why 😎

A good one of us lost his best friend (his father) and I'd appreciate we might drop a bell... how strangers, or not so much, may we all embrace his pain in solidarity with a good and talented artist. Altogether can be easier to overcome it. Insignificant but life is made of a very few contributions. I met him @Danilo Del Tufo from dvxuser a decade and half ago and we became good friends and collaborators also in real life for a decade now already -- I am producing right now a feature film from a story written by him... the time really flies! Un abbraccio amico Danilo, all thoughts and prayers with you, - EAG

In short, it works well on the E-M1 ii with the 14mm and 20mm isn't so great at CAF work, only SAF.

Thanks for posting this! It was great!!! Short and sweet! The acting was great. The woman in the beginning was excellent. She should be an action star!!! Feliz Navidad!!!

Thanks a lot! Yes, on some of the first shots I had by mistake a too cool WB and tried to fix that a bit in post, still not perfect. From the sunny shots onwards I had the correct WB. Duhhh…😁 I think that the lens was mainly the Speedmaster 25mm 0.95 although now that I think about it a few of the sunny shots where with…*drum roll*…the 12-32mm pancake!

I'm not optimistic about a Chinese company creating a Prores recorder. For a start, Prores is licensed, and secondly, the collective "wisdom" (ie, mass delusion) is that the h256 and RAW codecs are the future and that Prores is the past and is no good. Thirdly, one of the advantages of Prores was that it was a great intermediate codec for editing, but now computers are getting more powerful and so that's less of a concern for things like 4K footage, which the new Macs will eat for breakfast before they've even woken up. I also like the screen on the GX85, the tilting arrangement is the same as on the XC10, which has some of the nicest ergonomics in any camera ever made I suspect. It's great for shooting, but less good for selfies, obviously. I'm curious to hear about how these lenses pair with PDAF, although I suspect that they'll be brilliant. The focusing speed of these is some of the fastest available, and paired with a camera that can reliably direct it that should be a winning combination. Great stuff! Both the music and the visuals.. I've written electronic music on and off since 1992 and appreciate the mix. In terms of the visuals, I'd suggest watching your WB - in some shots the prevalence of green had pushed the neutral colour of the tree trunks towards magenta. However, instead of correcting that, I'd suggest actually going the other way and accentuating it. The music suggests a very "other worldly" feel, and it paired wonderfully with a couple of slightly abstract shots (I'm thinking particularly of the shots taken down low with the flowers in silhouette and the town in the background slightly overexposed). This use of overexposure and pushing the colour balance slightly off is used frequently in movies for places with harsh conditions like deserts or when the sun is too strong etc. The Chronicles of Riddick comes to mind. Also, it looks like you shifted to another more vintage lens when the light was getting lower? or you opened up the aperture, revealing more character. That also lends itself to the altered state vibe too. You could even experiment with blurring the edges of the frame slightly and creating your own slight vintage feel. Keep it up and don't be afraid to push the envelope!

I think you have to take in form factor also. You are not really going to just walk around with a C300 II.

Kensington trackballs are amazing, the wheel can be used as a jog wheel. I am so psyched about them that I have 2 big ones and a smaller one to take with me when/if edit with my laptop. That and a good mechanical keyboard are enough for me. Get well soon!