FilmMan
-
Posts
1,086 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Articles
Posts posted by FilmMan
-
-
Cool concept.
I recently had a computer system built for about $2000 (i7, geforce lightning 680, 32GB ram, 4 3TB harddrives ($89 each), windows 8 (which I'm kind of regretting), and so on.
-
I hope everyone has/had a Merry Christmas. All the best in the New Year too!
Cheers
-
Notice the shadows and the highlights. Finally a test done with expertise and clearly thought out. :rolleyes:
-
Agreeing with Film Man I reckon. my lens love order goes Leica, then Zeiss, then bizarre simple old bits from Russia etc. Canon is my last resort, I just don't really like how they look, it's kinda dead... though that dirt cheap plastic 50mm actually looks nice, even though it's horrible to use!
My findings too. Cheers.
-
Just yapping.
Found this on the net.
hthttp://seekinglight.net/1442/the-new-leica-m-type-240/tp://seekinglight.net/blog/
On the page there are a series of photo jpg's. Note it is web compressed.
The new Leica M will have a video component - Mjpeg compression. Will the video come out close to these jpegs? Worse? Better? Download the jpegs then color grade. ;)
-
Aside from being cleaner at high ISOs and having less moire & aliasing, the video quality of the 5D Mark III isn't any different to the 5D Mark II and we waited over 3 years for it. Do you guys really think that is progress?
The 5D Mark II and the 5D before it blazed a trail. The first affordable full frame camera, then the first full frame video mode.
So I was expecting innovation again. We didn't get it.
720p HDMI output, and not clean. They said the hardware couldn't do it. We now know this isn't true. No articulated screen. They said it would compromise weather proofing. Also not true, since the OM-D and GH3 are weather proof and have articulated screens. No 1080/60p. New codec, but it isn't much of an improvement over the old one. Still a lot of compression noise in the mids and lows, banding, 4:2:0 colour sampling, 8 bit very hard to go back to after you use the Blackmagic. Then there was the price at launch - a good deal higher than the Nikon D800 for less image quality.
All the criticism is justified.
The argument over whether it is capable of lovely images or not is a different thing. Every camera is capable of that in the right hands.If it wasn't for the Canon lens mount I'd be a D800 user by now.
Yep. Sums it up very well! Cheers.
-
-
And some more C500 footage:
-
-
So the F5($16490) and the F55 ($28990) are priced cheaper now. It'll be interesting to see if Sony knocks some more off before the release date? Here's another Sony F55 video (on how they produced the Seven Colors).
-
Here's some info from Driftwood from the ML site with respect to 5D3 and GH3.
Ok Here's a look at the h264 encoder found inside the MKIII in-depth. Thanks to hjfilmspeed for supplying the test files.
First and foremost the encoder uses only 4x4 transform (along with the standard 16x16) and employs High Profile Level 5.1 for All-I and High Profile Level 4.1 for IPB. Everything is encoded using CAVLC (All-I and IPB) and NO scaling matrices are found to be used if my analysis using Elecard is correct.
Contrary to the Canon 5DMKiii encoder, the new Panasonic GH3 encoder uses Adaptive 8x8 and 4x4 transform and is thus 12% more efficient. It's All-I rec modes chooses High Profile lvl 5.0 CAVLC to encode - IPB employs CABAC High Profile level 4.1. All the GH3 modes use the same scaling matrix algorithms. So you can see there are marked differences between the GH3 and the 5DMK3.
I will attach graphs and sequence parameter sets for each of the Canon 5DMKIII modes shortly.
The dropbox link to the folder/files is;-
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqayfoniqo1s6dz/GO9zr30AMb -
Here's the score:
Shane used a light meter to keep the exposure consistent through every Iso. Keeping the shutter angle the same, but dialing down the lighting, and T-stop on the lens to compensate for the increased sensitivity in the higher Iso’s.
It was a good test in my books. Cheers.
-
I'm not sure if this was posted. Check it out.
http://www.cinematography.net/Alexa-BMCC-C500-December-2012.html
-
Lower price for the Sony F55,
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/898428-REG/Sony_PMW_F55_CineAlta_4K_Digital.html
And the F5,
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/898427-REG/Sony_PMW_F5_CineAlta_Digital_Cinema.html
Still over a month away. Will pricing come down further? With Red's Dragon Chip coming soon, will things heat up even more? Will Red work some more pricing magic? Will another company announce a 4K product? Will Canon lower pricing or beef up specs or both? And so on.
-
Yeah I'm not a big fan of motion capture. Again realism is no good, where is the creative leeway? Suspension of disbelief? I don't want to watch a man in a leotard prance about a virtual environment.
Too funny. How true.
-
Scroll to the bottom of the article for the Hobbit.
http://intentious.com/2012/12/11/the-soap-opera-effect-why-movies-look-bad-in-hd-smart-lcd-tvs/
-
More on the "soap opera effect" on tv's.
There is a feature on some Samsung tv's called Auto Motion Plus (AMP). This is what is causing this weird motion you are describing. Luckily, you can turn this feature OFF in the picture menu.
Goto the picture menu and select the AMP feature. Turn the AMP to off or low.
If the tv is a different brand, then you need to find the feature that affects motion and disable it. On LG tv's, it's called Truemotion. On Sony tv's, it's called Motionflow. -
There seems to be a huge failure in the technology industry to appreciate beauty. Give me the fine grain in a raw file over noise reduction in a JPEG any day. Another example is excess digital processing on TVs. We all know what the dreaded 200hz smoothing mode looks like. These engineers think they are being clever with their crusade against motion blur, grain, noise and softness. They won't stop until everything looks plastic and shit. Well I am voting with my feet. I am only going to buy the cameras which offer me minimal electric tricks and maximum organic image quality, and clinical modern lenses can remain on the shelves as far as I'm concerned.
-
-
The video isn't linking so try this: copy into your browser: vimeo.com/55472434 then place in front https://
I went on my laptop this morning and the video does link thru vimeo and this site. I was using my other system yesterday, which has Windows 8, and it must have been blocking the link? Hmmm.
-
The video isn't linking so try this: copy into your browser: vimeo.com/55472434 then place in front https://
-
Impressive ISO cranking with the 1DC.
-
Here's an excellent article on testing your camera's emulsion.
-
Buying a Television. Here's a good read. Lot's of misinformation out there. This is why we should be objective when reviewing a camera too.
[url="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57557833-221/five-lies-your-tv-salesperson-will-tell-you/"]http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57557833-221/five-lies-your-tv-salesperson-will-tell-you/[/url]
check out the HP Z1's! perfect for Adobe's CS6 Master Collection
In: Cameras
Posted
The HP concept stealth design is amazing.
I had a pc station built(not one of these HP workstations).
A computer shop in my neck of the woods, Memory Express, had exceptional pricing on "Black Friday". They also match competitor pricing and beat it by 25% of the difference. I was able to get some cheap pricing. I use a solid state for my operating system and for my programming. Amazing speed. The GTX 680 lightning is an amazing video card. It rocks.
Not sure if you ever saw this site. Some good info.
http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm