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Why Do Some Cameras Create More of a Film Look?
HurtinMinorKey replied to Michael1's topic in Cameras
Then modest DOF and ~24fps and ~180 degree shutter, and >=720p resolution are pretty much necessary conditions (but not sufficient) for the standard classic "film look". So that means pretty much any camera nowadays. But the responses you see are the result of the OP being a loaded question. i.e. camera's play a small role in creating the "film look" and without other elements, it's just not going to happen, no matter what camera you have. One of the reason why we associate the "film look" with film, is because film is expensive. So there is a selection bias in the quality of what we see. Most of what we see as film has high production value, and therefore lighting, framing, camera movement, and editing are all of a standard that is well above the amateur film-making we see done by most DSLR filmmakers today. -
Why Do Some Cameras Create More of a Film Look?
HurtinMinorKey replied to Michael1's topic in Cameras
I still consider making the best use of natural or available light under the realm of "lighting". So we are not in disagreement. -
Why Do Some Cameras Create More of a Film Look?
HurtinMinorKey replied to Michael1's topic in Cameras
Of course putting numbers on everything is silly (but fun), although I still think lighting is the most important factor. A great camera and good post can make up for it (at the expense of a lot of time). But having the lighting and framing perfect is what makes a great scene. -
Why Do Some Cameras Create More of a Film Look?
HurtinMinorKey replied to Michael1's topic in Cameras
50% Lighting 20% Shooter (who may also be responsible for controlling light) 20% Camera-Lenses. 10% grading -
Long ago we heard something about a RAW video burst mode, or some other innovative video feature. If they put 4GB of ram on it, they could give it 8 seconds of rull res burst, that would be sweet.
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Blackmagic Production Camera 4K price drops to $3k and ships
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
We really won't know until the masses get their hands on them. -
Blackmagic Production Camera 4K price drops to $3k and ships
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
In their defense, the pathway to seemingly trivial firmware features is laden with a minefield of patents. The less BM has to do to data from the time it leaves the sensor to ending up in storage memory, the less BM has to worry about potential patent holdup. -
Blackmagic Production Camera 4K price drops to $3k and ships
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Probably not, but you should thank BM, because 5D3 Raw probably wouldn't exist without them. :D -
Blackmagic Production Camera 4K price drops to $3k and ships
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
I really want to see how the global sensor holds up to a ton of motion. -
But then why is BMCC 12bit raw? Do they just concatenate the extra data? The only thing I could want from BMCC is a slightly bigger sensor, and the accompanying low-light performance. @eoshd, remember, you said yourself there is no garuntee that these are the sensors going into BMCC updates. Plus, they could always up the SSD controller, and do crazy things like 16bit raw, or 12bit raw at 4K (pushing up against the write speed of the faster SSDs).
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That works out to about $1999.00 (US) so it doesn't seem that far off the mark.
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Hands-on preview of the powerful 4K shooting Panasonic GH4!
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Nice, my first chance to use my new 3200X1800 screen. Looks pretty darn good. They weren't going for cinematic, but the detail is pretty darn amazing. -
Hands-on preview of the powerful 4K shooting Panasonic GH4!
HurtinMinorKey replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Isn't the sourcce signal 14bit, and then it is compressed to 10bit 4:2:2? I think this is one of those things where we will not know how good the 10bit is until we actually see it. Maxotics, correct me if I am wrong, but i see the true 10 bit process as: take 16 MP raw image data, impute the RGB values for the output resolution (4K or 1080), throw away some chroma info (chroma sample at 4:2:2) then compress it to 10 bit. In this example, you are basically left with a 10 bits of pure pixel readouts for whatever your output resolution was. So for 1080, you would have 10 bit readouts of 1,036,800 Green, 518,400 Blue 518,400 Red. But this would be more like 500Mbps than 200Mbps, so the rest of the compression is done by the codec. BMCC ProRes is about 220Mps, so there is a chance that the GH4 image is comprable, but it won't be capable of doing it in-camera. -
Agreed, and even non fisheyes will have distortion. I notice slight distortion (enough so that I won't use unless it's a wide shot) with my Rokinon 16mm on a BMCC.
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Good and Budget Tripod and Monopod for BMPCC + SB + Sigma 18-35
HurtinMinorKey replied to Abraham Torna's topic in Cameras
Sachtler ACE. To skimp on your tripod is insane. You'll have it for 5X longer than you will your camera. Friction heads just won't cut it. -
I noticed today that scaling doesn't appear to work with VImeo when using the latest Internet Explorer. Works fine for Firefox and Safari. Anyone else have this issue? Also, is it me, or has viemo lost contrast in the past year? I seem to notice a dramtic loss of contrast compated to the screen cap when i press play. I know they have changed their player up recently and i don't recall any of these issues occurring previously. Anyone else having Vimeo quality issues?
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I'm surprised you put the 5D3 h264 above the GH3.
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Odie, Tell us which one it is or I will call party-foul.
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GH3, at 60fps? Looks like limited DR though, so probably not the Dragon. But it might be the grade. Set looks kinda expensive to be using a GH3 though...
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Blackmagic Cinema Camera VS 5D mk III RAW
HurtinMinorKey replied to Michael Van Ostade's topic in Cameras
Resolve light doesn't have everyting you'd want to practice: Here are some more plus minuses: Pro 5D3: Ergonomics (by far) Con 5D3: No audio (yet), definately no pro audio inputs though. Weird motion cadence when their is a lot of movement in the shots (maybe this has been fixed). It's almost as if the shutter angle is not being set honestly. Pro BMCC: Storage, being able to use a nice big SSD is awesome. Con BMCC: Some moire. Although if you downsample from 2.5K it's not that bad. But in the right setting, it CAN ruin a shot. -
Tried bumping the active topics, but the spam keeps flooding in. How does this still happen? Can't he put a cap on the number of topics that new members can start? And/Or maybe automatically kill posts made by a member who has been reported as spam by multiple sources.
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