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It's getting a ton of coverage this week. That alone is enough traffic to drive sales. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but if we are to believe what they said on RED's forum - that they can't keep up with manufacturing, I just wonder why they'd expand and create longer backorder times. Unless Apple is helping with manufacturing.

Yeah but I'm sure more people view the Apple store than your site.

They're selling so fast that manufacturing cant keep up, and they expand to the Apple store? Sounds fishy.

Haven't kept up with REDs offerings lately, but why isn't the Raven available at RED's site?

I haven't used it. Seems pretty nice though.

I have 4 diopters, I really only use the +2 which will allow about 1 ft away focus. I just have one ND that I use with it. 0.9. I never needed anything stronger outside since I was at ISO 400 and 60p. Going up to T8 actually looks really good IMO.

Sigma Art 50mm pairs really well with the 18-35.

Its definitely in a different league when using it with IBIS. If you hold fairly still it works perfectly. Any movement back and forth, side to side, or walking it becomes wobbly.

Hey, thanks. I'm trying to improve on anamorphic framing. The 50mm does have some distortion but I kinda like the look. Compared to the 35 it's a lot less. That one is almost like a fish eye.

Thats the IBIS. I usually turn it off when i have the camera/lens on a shoulder rig but that day i was carrying just the GH5 body and lens.

Yeah, and all around versatile. I’ve used the 35 and it just has too much distortion for most situations. I haven’t tried the 70mm. No i dont. This is the only anamorphic lens i have for MFT. I had a vintage Singer 16D that I used w/ the Ursa Mini but I got tired of how complicated everything was to set up properly.

It's hard to tell exactly, but I would say you can cheat 13 stops out of V Log. It may be 12 on paper but with some power masks you can save certain areas that are either too hot, or too dark. I used Impulz Tetrachrome as the base LUT. Added a lot of contrast. Tweaked some of the saturations. That's about it. It was the actual 2x Prime like this one: https://www.ukdigital.co.uk/slr-magic-anamorphot-cine-50mm-t28-2x-anamorphic-lens-mft.html Sort of an all-in-one anamorphic lens.

@mercer thanks! Yeah the moire is really obvious in anamorphic mode for some reason. I rarely see any moire in regular 4K. Maybe it's 8 bit? Not sure. It could be the way I scaled it. Sometimes I'll create a ProRes file using 2x desqueeze, then render using 2x pixels instead of square pixels. In this case I just brought it into Premiere, reduced the height by 50%, then rendered using square pixels. Maybe that's the wrong way? There's enough info to make the boat not clip. I just decided to not add keyframe masks, but if I did it would look like this.

I decided to shoot a short sequel to my GH4 VLog video "Chicago." Recorded internal at 8 bit on the GH5. Handheld with IBIS. V Log L.

Ha. Well that previous shot of the guy in front of a bookshelf is for a client, and might take 2-3 weeks till its up. This one above I'm going to try and edit tomorrow.

I shot another video with the GH5 and SLR Magic 50mm 2x anamorphic prime. Calling it Chicago II. Here is one frame that is my favorite.

I think he is targeting Netflix for making a hard + fast rule of 4K camera acquisition only. It's easy to say 4K is top quality for a consumer, but that is only a fraction of the variables. It's much easier than advertising "Shot with Arri Master Prime" or "Shot with Cooke Speed Panchro but mastered in 6K so it all equals out".

We had 4 setups with this actor portraying different jobs. We went a little overboard on each. This one is a book editor.

Just shot an ad for a bank using the GH5 and SLR 2x anamorphic 50mm prime. This is pretty much my go-to combo right now outside of the Ursa + Sigma Cines.

Yes there is a way. If you use the joystick you can highlight and change the numbers.

I wonder if it's scaled properly. I have the SmallHD 502, and while it displays 2x desqueezed, it scales way smaller than it should. Black bars appear on both sides of the desqueezed image.

It's going to be displayed on a 50' projection?

Same thing. I'm returning it. The only decent 7" monitor with full 2x anamorphic desqueeze is the Atomos Inferno or Flame. SmallHD has an extreme scale down thats so small its not even worth using as a reference monitor.

Disappointed at the moment. When I feed it a 4:3 signal from the GH5 and activate 2x desqueeze it cuts off about 30% of the image on the sides. It's like it won't scale the image down enough to fit on the screen.

Nice! Thanks for that. Just testing on a couple of V Log and Ursa clips, I notice that the VLog shots end up darker compared to the UM clips, when using the same conversions from BMDFilm to Rec709. Colors looks really accurate though.