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Yeah, that's very similar to the one I have. The downside is obviously you have to focus each lens and make sure it's on straight etc.

No, those should work with a step up ring.

Try just renting an adapter from Vid-Atlantic. That's the cheapest/easiest/quickest way I can think of: http://www.vid-atlantic.com/anamorphic/ I currently have their 1.9x adapter. Works well on the GH4 and Nikkor Ai-s lenses.

With FilmConvert I think it all depends on the camera/profile. I shoot with a RED but I use Canon 5D Mark III - Prolost because it's the only profile that actually looks good to me. I also don't think FIlmConvert looks good when it's the only tool used. I add multiple LUTs first and then FilmConvert so it's not doing much of the lifting...just the finishing touches. Also, regarding your own LUTs, I think it's just trial and error. What do you use to create them?

LPP Tetrachrome when I use them but I don't find myself using them much. Just not...fitting to my style I guess. I like creating my own LUTs for 75% of the look, then I will maybe use Impulz for the Film Print Emulation version of a stock and set it to 50% opacity. I find myself using FilmConvert a lot more lately. Way more control.

Listen, I chose to put the matter to bed in a PM and then he brought the whole fucking thing up again and USED my PM to further his closed minded point. It upset me a bit and I didn't feel like giving him the satisfaction. I wanted the last word, sue me. All in all, it's as childish as him I suppose, so I guess mods should close this one too. Ed, this is my final comment to you. "Handshake rescinded". (holds up middle finger)

​LOL...probably true. Either way, I couldn't let that crazy sanctimonious shit have the last word. Especially when it was as easy to prove him wrong as re posting my PM... PS. I'm stealing that pic.

Not really calling him anything, just showing exactly what was said and how (when seeing what he says in his post) he spun that to drive home HIS point. :)

Well, when he locks the thread that fabricates reality to make his point I feel the need to say SOMETHING...I know, it is annoying though. I'm annoyed by my own post

I just saw a post from this fellow that basically said I was one of the three biggest defenders of Philip Bloom (he knows that this isn't the case...unless he chose to read only the parts that made him feel better). For the sake of clarity, I wanted to post my PM. If nothing else, to show that I am not defending PB, but choosing to use rational thinking, impartiality, and most of all...common sense. Something Ed seems to be incapable of. Since his thread is closed I will just post this here: "Just wanted to let you know I take your side (OK...general vicinity) with the PB thing. When I first heard about it, the devil inside of me giggled a bit (which...in and of itself is pathetic of me). I REALLY cannot stand the guy though. He basically ruined an anniversary trip to Hawaii for my wife and I. I had a "minor" meltdown and basically deleted all of my social media pages and re focused my work to different areas (than the whole...social media/DSLR circus. I fucking hate it. Never gone to NAB...never will. I was born in the country, home schooled for a lot of my life, and have never been comfortable with the current way of things online.) The only reason I feel sympathy for his side is because I have personally been there in my life. I have messed up...so many times. I'd like to think I have it figured out now but...you never know. My point is, I know how it feels to know you fucked up and to feel like your life is crumbling around you. It sucks, it really does. If there is, even the smallest chance, that it could all be false...I think he deserves to be treated accordingly. If it turns out that it is true...it will take care of itself. He will never work again. Like I said...it happens. There are CRAZY people online that really need help. Remember how I told you about that guy that duped us into that 4K hoax? He's STILL at it. Crazy as hell. Look at his page if you get a chance. Ridiculous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMliaImidbE The evidence is clearly not in his favor. It's probably "reasonable" to assume he's guilty. However, there are too many scenarios where this could be, at the very least, in the details. What constitutes abuse? If a woman calls a man a "worthless bastard" and he responds with "you cunt"...is that abuse? No. They are both demeaning each other, disrespecting each other, and really just provoking one another. One word is not more hurtful than the other. It's a two way street with equality and too often, in our society today, we OVER step the line. Yes we should be paying more attention to domestic abuse, no we should not be accepting every womans claim as fact and at face value. It simply would never work that way. It ultimately just comes down to seeing someone have his name trashed a bit while he isn't around to defend himself. I can't allow that...no matter the circumstances. You stand up for what you believe in and I do as well. Anyways, this has all been discussed to death and don't have anything else to say. Just wanted to let you know that people are probably more on your side than you think...it's just not the way most think it should be handled. Good day sir, have a good one" It's clear that Ed is mostly just concerned with being "right" and will even fabricate reality to make it seem as though he's the only person online that has a conscience. The only person that chooses to "stand up" in the face of domestic violence. He is delusional. I will NOT be sending a PM to apologize for this, Ed.

Hope the Anamorphic mode now stretches across their entire line.

As a Dragon owner...I think I will stay put OR downgrade to BlackMagic. Really loving the new URSA...especially the upgradable sensor thing. The whole upgrade path doesn't make much sense until I can see some images from it. I'm willing to pay a few extra thousand dollars to wait until the thing is actually IN STOCK. For now, 6K/15 stops of dynamic range/120 fps in 4K is good for me. It's actually too much. Hello BMCC Ursa 4.6k

I really hope this new line of BM camera is where they conquer a lot of the nagging issues. FPN, poor low light performance etc. I feel like it will be. If this new URSA cam hits enough marks I'm all in on moving to them full time. Sorry RED. I love ya but my bank account does not.

​This really deters from the topic at hand. Tone it down a bit dude.

​A childish retort to some pretty honest questions Ed.

You yourself said life is not black and white. This is true. Taking a side without proper evidence or first hand knowledge of the situation is a black and white approach. You need to realize your stance is as harmful to the situation as the idiots that criticized the two women. If life, truly, isn't black and white. The correct response is closer to the median. Distance yourself from Bloom while not assuming guilt on his part. Pretty simple stuff. She put this out on social media. The damage is done. Regardless of what ends up happening or what other facts come along. The damage has been done, why pile on by assuming guilt when you honestly have nothing more than a "gut feeling" to go on? Life isn't black and white Ed.

"If I witness this, I will say something." Exactly. Why do you think I am confronting you about your posts? You're attacking someone that isn't here to defend himself based on a Facebook post. You know NOTHING of the situation yet you are here bad mouthing the guy. Kicking him while he is down. Putting him in the same category as Bill Cosby. Shame on you, Ed. Have some self awareness. You'd think, as a filmmaker, you would at least be able to see the other side of this. Why would so many other like minded people be opposing you here? We are all sheep? We all choose to stand idly in the face of abuse? You're the only person around here with a conscience? Shame.

"I wish more people judged others" I just...wow. Have fun with the onslaught of bad karma that will come your way if you truly believe this AND practice it. Nothing else to say here. I'm out.

LOL...the 5 minute Vimeo short video auteur calling people camera nerds while he trolls a camera forum. The irony is too much. When's the sequel Eddie?

I think this thread should be closed. It's not fucking right to run someone through the mud based on claims made over the internet. Years ago, I had some punks contact me saying they had hacked the Canon T2i to shoot 4K. I talked to them ON THE PHONE for an hour. They lied straight to me, for a couple weeks. I said I wanted to try it out and release a test video etc. They had me put up a little teaser giving a release date for the test video and all of this stuff. I remember several people that I looked up to in the industry (Mr. Bloom included) emailed me looking for details and encouraging me to make a good video because "the entire film making world is watching". The day of the release, they upload a Rick Ross video. The whole thing was a prank. People opened up threads LIKE THIS one saying that I was in on it, "just fishing for views" etc etc. I was livid, the whole thing took a really depressing turn and there was NOTHING I could do to prove my side of things. I felt like anything I did made us look more guilty. It was just...humiliating. I contacted the guys and I was pissed off (justified). He said that he was just trying to get our channel a lot of views because he was "such a big fan". Wow. I couldn't believe it. The sheer stupidity of that statement. He continued to comment on my videos using different YT profiles for a long time. I'm sure he still lurks the comments section in some form. I'm sure that incident still affects my reputation and peoples perception of me to this day. Could have cost me paid gigs, could have cost us any number of opportunities and it ultimately was not fair. No matter how it looked on the outside, we got fucked and that's all there was to it. MY POINT. There are fucking lunatics on this planet and they get even crazier online. Without personal knowledge of the situation or a more detailed account you really have no clue what actually went on. Pretending you do is silly and is probably damaging someones career. It's not right and it needs to stop.

I agree JCS. My main gripe is when people go against that and say "this isn't right because you broke rule a and rule b".

​I don't hate film schools, some people simply learn differently. Personally, I was really bad in school and film school would have just been a continuation of that. Learning "by the books" doesn't work for me, the only way I learn something is via trial and error. Some people do learn more through traditional education though so in some cases film school is probably the right choice! Just comes down to knowing yourself and how you work. I agree, variety is good and there are certain instances where a technician is preferred over a free wheeling auteur. In fact, I would prefer most crew members that I work with have formal training in their job somewhere along the line. That is starting to go away with digital though, we all know this to be true. Technology is democratizing everything. Film School isn't immune to that. My point is aimed more at an idea or a mindset than film school or any type of person. Fitting your work within a set of rules or parameters can take your personality out of it. In my opinion, whatever choice the creative people in charge make is the right choice. I don't argue it, I don't offer constructive criticism, I don't even VIEW media that way. I ingest it, I watch what they give me, I keep an open mind, and I don't sit there and try to critique minute details and make myself feel better by saying I could have done it better. I couldn't have, no one could have. It's their art and that's why you could never do it better. If Ed doesn't know anything about lenses or ratios or quadrants but he still wants to make a film...do it! I, for one, won't pick up on any of those insignificant details if your heart is in it.

Really enjoyed that Ed, well done! Totally agree with Andrew (and Ed's post) as well. The idea that film making should be confined to a certain set of rules is crazy. It's creative expression. "Expression" meaning, you're expressing who YOU are through film. Anything other than that is commercial and/or fake (I'm guilty of it at times..we all are). That said... I love hiking, love it, and a lot of my "work" is stuff captured in locations that took a long time/a lot of work to get into. People that appreciate nature/hiking will recognize that as something beautiful. Someone that went to film school and studies film theory all day in LA will say "The images lacked direction, the composition didn't follow the rule of thirds and my eyes couldn't decide where to look". To me, it's incredibly insulting that people even think that way. How could a form of creative expression have any sort of rules? That mindset is comedically ironic. I would much rather watch a short film made by a child from a village in Sudan that has NEVER touched a camera than some film snob that just graduated NYFA.

Hey Andrew, I doubt you've had time to test but what would you compare DR to? A7s levels?

Not sure I saw too much ghosting.  Do you mean with HDR?