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  1. I tested a "1/8 Tiffen Black Promist" but still didnt remove the moire. And even though only 1/8 it gives a certain look that I didnt want baked in, rather add blooming in post if I want that. I saw a video on Youtube where someone used a olpf from a Canon 300D, I tried it on both OG Pocket and BMMCC and works great without any colorcast and almost remove any type of moire from what I've seen so far. But the image gets softer, most noticable on wider shots, but can be sharpened in post. Here's a breakdown of installing the filter (one filter can be cut in half and then perfectly fits pocket/micro): (the material used for the "frame" around the filter is adhesive Black-wrap (aluminium tape) https://imgur.com/a/canon-300d-olpf-to-bmmcc-pocket-og-kzz16VX Altcine did olpfs that was cheaper than Rawlite, but I think he said they wont be making another batch: https://altcinecam.com/product/altcine-optical-low-pass-filter/
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  2. Gangnam. It's all glitz and glam and occasionally quite disorganised telephone pole wiring, but it's no backstreets of Yongsan, which I'd take any day of the week over this.
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  3. Hmm, ok. It hasn't happened that many times and seems to be fixed with a restart, so I guess I'll just carry on. The whole thing of shooting slowly because it's fully manual seems to align with the idea that you miss things happening, so if a shot here or there requires a bit of fiddling then it's not a big deal really. Speaking of carrying on, went for a walk in the backstreets of Yongsan last night. I had to cheat another stop by going to 360 shutter as some places were seriously dark, but in post I was able to raise up images by a stop, and if I put a bit of NR then I could go even further without issue. Of course, this requires grading the images properly - where blacks are actually black! I'm actually surprised how good the low-light is. This is only at F2.8 with a zoom and IS, and yet it's basically usable to replicate what you can see in real life, despite being S16 and almost a decade old. Images even less graded than previously: One thing I've noticed is that with the 12-35mm not being that long a zoom, and with my monitor set to show a 2.35:1 crop, I tend to compose with people smaller in the frame than with other cameras I've used. I don't know how well this is translating, as in theory this should make the 'world' larger by showing people smaller in comparison, but as I only have my laptop and not my normal monitor I'm not used to judging.
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  4. A bit serendipitous after me discovering my long stored DVX100 last week and getting all "you know what, this thing is so much more appealing to go and shoot with" before wishing there was something similar with a modern spec comes Sony launching two new camcorders. They are basically exactly the same thing but with the Z200 having 12G SDI and being able to use the MXF container at a later firmware update (albeit one that is bizarrely listed as being June 2025) and tick every modern spec box including Fully variable electronic ND AI Autofocus S-Cinetone and S-Log3 20x optical zoom 10 bit 4:2:2 4K60 Active Mode IS 4 channel audio Dual card slots At $4K and $3.2K respectively, they aren't exactly great value propositions versus rolling your own solution with a larger sensor mirrorless body and lenses (although good luck finding a par focal 20x servo zoom lens for your mirrorless) and yet... There is a huge upside in the operational value of having everything integrated when it comes to actually picking it up and going to shoot with it, particularly that variable ND and the 24-480mm zoom (which becomes a lossless 24-720mm with the clear image zoom). Yes, yes, of course you have to look past the sensor size "only" being 1" but its versatility and ease of use for past paced situations means this is an enormously powerful all round camera for making money with.
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  5. Who here too? These manufacturers we're used to praise here other than - maybe - a few if any? (for some reason Blackmagic cameras are a graceful exception with their intuitive user interface) ...are killing the pleasure of photography. This is a science and art born a way before these idiots have been born. We only need three commands to control aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity. Eventually a SINGLE menu for electronic/feature/recording modes when applicable such as AF, stabilization, etc., and that's it! Full stop. Other than that, go to hell with your bloody menus! End of story. Users need time for the craft in order to develop creative skills and create stuff, not handling electronics strictly proper of a moron or a geek in the photography world. Pick one but don't call yourself a shooter.
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  6. Hongdae. Choosing stills is different than choosing shots for an edit because the movement really makes things completely different, so I've ended up with much cleaner and more minimal stills. In reality, every street and alleyway in every direction looked like this virtually as far as the eye could see:
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  7. Yeah, you need an OLPF like @Sven said, my Tiffen 1/8 BPM filter didn't get rid of it. The people I see online get the Rawlight ones, but they're expensive and fog up over time and need replacing. I see it on an occasional shot here or there, but if it ruins the odd shot for me it's no big deal so I haven't bothered.
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  8. Someone should probably write a song about that. Think it would probably do OK.
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  9. Here's another short clip of that Cajun band from a few weeks ago, shot on the Angénieux 17.5-70 Super 16 zoom from the 1970s.
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  10. Shot with the BMMCC in Myeongdong for 2.5 hours in the (light) rain today. It's a trooper. Images barely graded as usual. and a POV pic of the setup. I might have gone a touch dark on the grade, but these were just taken from checking dailies to catch any tech or usage issues. I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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  11. Will be using mine tomorrow, not my p2k but the micro again. It has been a year or so since the last time. I'm charging batteries and cleaning lenses right now, a bit late to the party, silly me.😊 Exited to see more from you and to read about your adventures! @kye What lens did you use at the tea museum, the 12-35? I am wondering if @mercer has rebought a m2k again. Does @TomTheDPplay around with one or is the Alexa his only dual gain baby? What I absolutely love about the og pocket and the micro are textures, motion and highlight rolloff. Just sayin.😊
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  12. Colors and textures smoke the S line cameras imho under ambient and natural light. Great stills! @kye So cool and really worth it that you brought your little cinema camera with you! I bet you are having tons of fun with your footage. I still got 4 hours of Bmpcc clips from this summer to go through. It's an honest low light camera, giving you what the eye can see btw.
    1 point
  13. Very nice. I like the framing of some of these. It's great you brought it along. Good to have in your pocket. It's too bad that BM doesn't just make it again. Doesn't need to even be 4K, just needs to be good and small.
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  14. Went to tea cafe / tea museum. Very formal in a handmade sort of traditional way. Barely graded stills:
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  15. A few frames from yesterday.. Almost no grading done.
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  16. ntblowz

    Canon R7 User Experience

    Last year I was trying out Sony after being laid off hence selling most of my Canon gears, this year finally found a fulltime job and they use Canon, so I m back to full Canon again. It's funny given how popular Sony are but all the fulltime ones I went they all use Canon for video. And to most people they wouldn't able to tell supersampled 4k or normal 4k.. they only care about how their face/skin look on cam.
    1 point
  17. I don't know... I think all of these YouTube personalities are full of shit, on some level. And that's fine. It's a niche market in and of itself and if they have found a way to feed their families, then it's no worse than many other professions. As long as you know where they're coming from, then I don't care one way or the other. They all follow trends amongst themselves, chasing each other's angles. The new angle seems to be... why YouTube content creating is soul draining and why I am getting out. A month or two ago, one of my favorite YT shillebrities posted a video with that topic and then he broke in the middle for a word from his sponsor... HAHAHAHA!!!!
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  18. I always took that as tongue-in-cheek and as a device to add a bit of humor to what would otherwise be relatively dry videos of somebody showing him a bunch of lights on lightstands, etc.
    1 point
  19. I'm not really sure what criticisms you're making. When I watch a Gerald video, the things I'm seeing are things like: What is the DR that he measured What features aren't available in which modes (ie, what the manufacturer won't tell you) What else did he notice about it, like if it overheated, or took 20s to turn on, or got corrupted clips, etc He's mentioned before that he has a standard checklist of things to test and does that for all his reviews, so assuming that's true then it's a semi-rounded take on the camera Maybe I'm missing all the times when he made comments that were outside his knowledge and experience? If he did then I don't remember him making them. The territory that gets tricky is when a reviewer is commenting on how good a camera it is overall (because that's subjective and not objective), or when things are outside their experience. I can read whatever I want about an Alexa 35 but I'd be talking out my backside if I told you that it was a good camera for a cinematographer to shoot a feature film on, because I have no experience of that. Perhaps the biggest criticism of that Gerald that I am aware of is omission of relevant facts. Is there some gotcha about the camera that wasn't in one of his reviews? Probably in every one of them. Are they deliberately withheld, and if so then why? or did he just not find them? Who knows, but it's worth noting that Gerald takes the most time to menu dive out of all the YT reviewers, and is obviously much more systematic in his approach, so whatever extent he's guilty of it then everyone else is guilty of it 10X or 50X more. Most YT 'reviewers' seem to just read out the marketing brochure, turn the camera on and wave it around enough to film a video long enough for a sponsor segment, and if they find a weakness then might mention it and might not... then proceed to tell you that it's a good fit for doing a bunch of things that they have no experience with at all. We can throw shade at Gerald, and no-one is perfect of course, but if we're going to get specific then perhaps we should refocus our attention to the worst offenders. Lots of reviewers making only positive reviews about a brand and then a "why I'm switching to X" video which mentions a dozen or so criticisms of their previous brand that somehow never made it into the original videos but would have been obvious from day one. Of course, if we're going to re-direct our attention, then maybe we should focus on those who actively oppose any genuine criticism of a brand, like the R5 incident which was easily verifiable by anyone who had one or had access to someone who did... Not being a critical reviewer is one thing, but voluntarily participating in a cover up is something else entirely.
    1 point
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