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Finally I was able to shoot a quick test with the Bolex, not much to see here, just me terrorising my mates with a camera: I will leave a bit of a "test log" here for future reference: On the BMPCC I am able to go 22mm and I have a feeling it might work with 21mm lenses too, depending how close you can get to the front glass when attaching the Bolex. At 22mm I have no hard vignetting, that is without cropping from 2.66:1. With a 0.58x Speed Booster my Mir 1B 37mm is vignette-free, and the original 0.71x Speed Booster is good to go from 30mm. Obviously cropping to 2.40:1 would give me many more choices. The Bolex is sharp. Like very.. very sharp. Basically it all comes down to the taking lens behind it, if that looks good wide-open then it will look just as good with the Bolex screwed on the front. If the taking lens performs like a rotten cabbage then the same can be expected with the Anamorphot. Unlike others the Bolex was actually intended to be a taking lens and it can focus down to roughly 0.7m without diopters. It has a perfectly usable 62mm front thread as well. In this video I had a Tiffen Black Satin 1 + Hoya UV and IR Cut + Genustech Eclipse Variable ND on the front, these were all 77mm and caused no extra vignetting with the Mir 1B. Some of the vignetting you see here was actually added in post.

The Blackmagic Pocket & Micro writes 11bits into a 12bit cDNG "container" and I don't see any issues there. I have a feeling the Ursa Mini does the same, might be "true" 12bit though. Works very well. I agree with the rest of it. If I would need 10bit 4K 24p/60p I would get a GH5 with an external recorder and stick with ProRes. Flexible setup, all the benefits you mentioned above for 3 times less. The C200 is a Sony competitor. They even offer a trade in discount if you have an FS5 & FS7. Cheeky.

Does it have positive locking EF mount? Can't tell from the pictures but for 9 grand it's mandatory if you ask me.

I think you should have labelled up each shot saying what lens was used etc so people get a constant reminder that they are actually watching a test. Text on the black letterbox so it still doesn't ruin the pictures? Also (and now this is absolutely subjective and probably easy to suggest and harder to do..) I would have written a few events into the narrative to show the same scene/shot more than once but with different lenses. Like a character has a dejavu moment so he gets to see the same thing twice? Looks around then jumps back, rubs his eyes and sees it for the third time. This way you can make a comparision including all the lenses from the exact same POV and still have a narrative structure. Or you got 3 guys at a poker game trying to recall the same story but they remember it differently so they keep interrupting each other with corrections. Each of them is basically a lens showing the same scene but as they keep going on and on about what happened we get to see the the act in a few alternative variations. Rectilux as the handsome hunk, FM lens as the fat bastard and the Rangefinder as a hopeless barfly? Haha..

Uncompressed 120p HDMI out. Even if 8bit.

I think this is pretty handy: http://nab17.mapyourshow.com/7_0/collateral.cfm?type=Press&_ga=1.116260289.635059901.1492538665

Whatever I see from the C35 just doesn't have the oval bokeh, always looks spectral. Is it about the taking lens behind it or the Kowa itself?

May I ask what is the purpose of the survey?

If anyone feels like selling his 32/16 please let me know! I could pay a decent money for it.

I was about to say that. You can fuck that doorlock when you go out, drop the kids off to school and some nutcase slaughters the entire class with a rifle..

I have seen a perfect condition FS700 + O7Q with SSDs for £3000 which is a pretty solid price in the UK. Didn't take long till someone took that, but no tears, it can only go cheaper now.. *evil laugh*..

..early April fools'?

Your short movies & mini docs were excellent, I am looking forward to watching a full length feature you would make.

Sorry to go off a bit but Ed, are you shooting a feature now? I've been following you on vimeo for probably a year now, well actually I kept liking your videos for years only to realise much later that it's the same guy who makes them! Haha.

Now that's good to know, thanks Kisaha for sharing that. I would also use it for slow-mo mainly, and some of my full frame still lenses have that magical look that goes missing on the BMPCC so I could stick those on the Sony with a Speedbooster from time to time. I love how my Helios 58mm looks like on full frame: strikerartur.com/archives/projects/hitchhiking-to-italy I shot with it on film my whole life and I would love to have the look back in motion. The 8bit and jello on the A7 line just doesn't cut it for me.

I've seen that kit too, jaw dropping, for 22k.. give it a few years and you might be able to pick that up for F35 prices. Great times. I am eyeballing the FS700, killer prices bundled up with an Odyssey 7Q. The Ursa Mini 4.6k is good but the lurking magenta corners with FPN makes me want to forget it, I don't want to gamble at that price. The Pro has NDs now and a set of control knobs which is cool but the FS700 still has that super useful 240fps scaled down from the whole sensor & 4K/120 burst vs the cropped 120fps on the Mini, built in NDs are also there. Some say colours are tricky but if I want an easy ride I could just pick up my BMPCC. Again, great times, so many choices.

Hm, does the latest incarnation of Premiere support more than 4 cores yet? I have a config based around an overclocked i7-4770K running at 4400Mhz/core, would be nice to know how does that compare to the cheapest 8 core RYZEN. Edit: This looks informative - https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-AMD-Ryzen-7-1700X-1800X-Performance-909/#RenderPreviews-StandardFootage Unless I am working with RED raw going 8 core would be pointless, ProRes does almost the same render previews on all CPUs. That's where I would need a performance increase the most. Pff, warp stabilizer is more than 50% faster on 4 cores. "...in a number of lightly threaded applications like Photoshop and Lightroom we found that Ryzen is quite a bit slower than the Core i7 7700K. So the choice is to pay 20-30% more for 5-10% faster export and preview generation times, but much lower performance for warp stabilize and in other applications like Photoshop." Yep, I will just stick with what I have for now.

Many people have a good point here and I really couldn't see the Mini Pro coming, but I reckon they positioned it to became their flagship halfblood cam, emptied the whole fridge into the pan to make it jack of all trades now and I doubt it would jeopardize their lower end line. The Pocket complemented the big URSA, the Micro did the same with the URSA Mini and I doupt their latest top of the range shoulder blaster will stay without a cute melee weapon for too long. Also they still sell every piece of gear they made so far, even their first cinema camera is still available to buy brand new. They are patching every hole in the market with almost a half grand precision.

I was expecting this and I think it is a major mistake to release the GH5 without the 400Mbps update. First impressions mean a lot and everyone is eager to read the early reviews. Once people see "10bit GH5 worth nothing" a few times it will be hard to make them forget it half a year later even if the new firmware brings a completely new experience. Think of the Ursa Mini 4.6K and how bad the first batch was. Rental houses even state it's not suitable for professional work even today..

6 grand IS a massive money for a lens that usually goes for half of that. There is a tendency though, some sellers keep listing it for 8k and now here you are at 6, doubt that is what you bought it for, anyway who am I to speculate on your dealings, so good luck with the sale.

There's no confusion here. You bought a 54 thinking you can make a massive money on it so you had to post it everywhere. You do this all the time man, kept double posting everything you had now you do triples. Nice going, but please skip the "I am an anamorphic loonie like you" pick up line, it sounds slimy.

Man, 3 topics for the same lens? You had a 54 now you got another and hm well why not put 3 grand on the top and dump it on EOSHD? Makes sense, one thread for each thousand in profit.

Enough of the false modesty, raw emotions and shit, I wanna cruise in a purple Lamborghini Diablo after preaching about global warming. Oscars suck? Maybe but I'll have to get one, my Mum would be so proud.

Ehh, what Sony forgets to mention in the headline grabbing campaign is that the card is still V30 meaning the minimum sequential write speed can easily drop to 30MB/s. Even the upcoming GH5 400Mbps firmware will need V60 at least and that's far from raw. At the moment only Delkin makes V90 cards, offering a 90MB/s minimum speed.

Sounds strange but it's ain't like I couldn't imagine a scenario like that. If Premiere get's unresponsive on me, it is usually caused by a 3rd party plugin. I have an old version of Neat Video for example that loves to cause chaos. That being said my Photoshop is acting weird nowadays, throws image artifacts when I am editing in 16bit. Google says I should play with cache sizes.. But again, this is a behavior I don't see in 5.1 only CC and upwards so I assume that's a software glitch again. My 3 years old Win 7 setup still runs flawlessly in general. I remember playing with a Hackintosh many years ago, it's Linux based and I couldn't wrap my head around those kext drivers and got a boot-loop whenever I wanted to change something. Friends complaining about poor compatibility with USB hardwares, you couldn't use certain ports etc. but they still insisted how awesome it is to finally get OS X on PC. I suppose if you build a specific hardware for it from a recommended part list, things go smoother but I think it's that sense of "Mac reliability" that get's lost with hack builds. It's a gamble.