jgharding

  Classic Sony SKU compartmentalisation! Camcorders are unpopular, they want to shift more of them, so the add a premium feature to an old-school camcorder in hope of shifting units made on a similar production line.   Meanwhile they can slowly squeeze money from compact and mirrorless so they do,  removing features in order to leak them in slowly and create demand every release.   They could put a 4K mobile phone sensor in a camcorder body if they like and flog it on the stats.   Even though I sometimes wish I had it, the video look is what made me sell the RX100. It wasn't a matter of DOF or 24/25fps, it just looked wrong, when I cut it with soft Canon EOS 600D  ML2.3 the latter looked nicer. Plus you couldn't grade RX100 much because of the compression. Same with FS700, I got where I wanted colour wise in the end, but it really was falling apart at high ISOs.   This obsession with giving awful compression, unless you buy from a line that isn't selling is arrogant and cynical. The C300 has wiped out the FS100/7000 in corporate/TV/ad hire. For the most part that's because of the bitrate and ergonomics.   So I keep saying I want to justify the RX10... but do I? Statistically it's great, but will I just be disappointed with another videoish camera that doesn't reach its full potential, so they can sell me another next year?

+1 for those clamps, more solid than the majority of "lenses" you can buy these days!

  It was meant to be light-hearted innit ;)   I really love the style, it's quite unmistakable and beautiful!

You can get great 1080p binning off the sensor though, 5D MKiii raw is proof of that, but the codec destruction second to none in terms of obliterating information and image quality!

Wes has begun the rebellion!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk

I decided to wade in over there for the craic. This will be interesting...

It's ahame you can see the AVCHD muddiness in those YouTube clips. They are compressed for YouTube sure, but it's a generational loss.   Reading a 5K stream at 60p (Red Epic without Dragon upgrade does 5K at 96p) and destroying it with 28mbps AVCHD = utter lunacy = business.   Here's a 5K Epic stream NOT destroyed by compression at the recording stage! Then below some AVCHD-mangled RX10 down-scaled 5K, recompressed for YouTube. Set these both to 480p, and imagine if they didn't squash the life out of the RX10 footage... mmmm   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnaojlfdUbs   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPu-q6N9Y0&feature=player_embedded   NOTE: Epic is a bit too sharp for me taste wise though it's great for compositing and post work, but Alexa is my favorite of the big boys, but you get the idea, Sony are obliterating a great achievement with an old codec :(

Shoot, take it home, edit, grade, ask for honest feedback and don't get defensive, then back to the top of the list. Repeat until death!   Break down you favorite works into pieces and analyse them bit by bit. Try to recreate some shots with whatever you had, this adds to your toolbox and creative lexicon. You will understand better why certain things are done.   Don't get distracted too much by kit, though of course we love it, it doesn't do anything without your idea, it just acts as an expensive dust trap.   But do earn the equipment and techniques so they become second nature, then begin to feel more expressive. When all of these techniques become part of your creative language, you no more have to think about them than having to think for ten minutes to form a sentence in English, it's on the tip of your tongue. Just as an expressive guitar solo comes when there's no distance between emotion and the movement of fingers...   Don't get bored by rules of thumb, if they're pissing you off, break them, then try again using them, then break them again. Which do you prefer? In what context are rules useful touch points and where are there not worth while?   IE: "Jello is bad". Try a shot using jello excessively. In what creative context would this add the piece? (a police chase in a gritty film?) in what context would it remove from the piece? (an emotional scene over dinner in a formal drama?). Repeat with other rules of composition, exposure, so on. Find examples of common rules broken in popular works and see why they work or otherwise. You'll end up agreeing with most rules, but more importanly you'll know when to break them.   Most important of all (I think) is to set yourself a real task with a deadline. If you just make abstract tests you won't challenged and you'll get bored. Make a short film in 3 days, then lay into it critically. Don't just ask the three Fs: friends, family and forum. Get feedback from odd places either online or real life, find people who are truthful. Do another in a couple of weeks after watching more films and reading more books and interviews with those you admire. You should improve a lot then.   That's just a few things I do/have done! I hope it helps!

Many play it safe by going slightly past infinity. That will put the very end stop of the lens out of focus as you describe. Try rolling back a bit.   It's a way they can guarantee infinity is actually there, but you lose a bit of close focus.

Nor does it look very noisy to me, but if you could enable downloads from Vimeo on that clip we could look at the original 1080p version and judge more clearly. Perhaps compression is hiding it.

I meant to post this in the other thread on 5K, blame tabs! But I'll leave it here anyhow:   It's shame you can see the AVCHD muddiness in those YouTube clips. They are compressed for YouTube sure, but it's a generational loss.   Reading a 5K stream at 60p (Red Epic without Dragon upgrade does 5K at 96p) and destroying it with 28mbps AVCHD = utter lunacy = business.   Here's a 5K Epic stream NOT destroyed by compression at the recording stage! Then below some AVCHD-mangled RX10 down-scaled 5K, recompressed for YouTube. Set these both to 480p, and imagine if they didn't squash the life out of the RX10 footage... mmmm   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnaojlfdUbs   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPu-q6N9Y0&feature=player_embedded   NOTE: Epic is a bit too sharp for me taste wise though it's great for compositing and post work, but Alexa is my favorite of the big boys, but you get the idea, Sony are obliterating a great achievement with an old codec :(

I had the HX9v and dropped it in the sea, I had RX100, but sold it in hard times. This one solves all the problems of both (the noise, the slow lens), though it's bigger...   But it's too costly :( Luckily Sony cameras drop a lot over 6 months...   Still at 24/28mbps though. It's a chronic obsession for Sony...

haha V-loks are the beasts, but my my are they expensive. :blink: I'm intersted in the cheap 50 quid one as an LED light battery as well as a lightweight 5D battery, I wonder how long it'll last?

  What a shame, my cynical side was right:     It's mushy time! Ah well... I suppose their target audience must want to record 6 hours of footage on a card or something...   In the captured vide the guy says (I paraphrase) "60p for really smooth motion, and 24p if you're a traditionalist and you want that video look."   Now hands up what's wrong with that sentence?   Yes there's an uncompressed HDMI out, time will tell if it will helps. Many HDMI outs just don't give you huge gains in real terms, just huge files.   (NOTE: the above B&H video comes with an extreme fake laughter warning. It's very odd...)

Nice, it addresses the slow lens aperture of the RX100, one that camera's main flaws. Though it's much bigger, and the codec is still 24/28mbps AVCHD I want this, but cannot justify it at the moment.... ;) especially considering the fact that it's too expensive.

Probably not! The Canons are rated for 7.2v from normal little batteries, but if you use the official adapter with 6AAs that's 9V, and they do fine. I'm totally buying one of these, very cheap and useful for many things, not just cameras!

I might suggest the Sony RX100 compact. It's very geurilla, stabilised and easy.

Ghost In The Shell is ace! This is a great combo for this camera, and to top it off it's modern and can be bought now, you don't have to scour eBay for odd rare little lenses!

There are for sure, but still, this is a bit of an oversight if so black and white...

For me it's about discipline! It's tempting to start colouring straight away because it's fun, but first the story/edit/pace needs to be right so colour and sound actually serve a purpose. Otherwise I'm putting colour first, literally, and it's simply not the most important. Also, sticking music and colour there can trick you into thinking something is working when it isn't, I feel using those tricks to muddle through is a last resort really, but a piece should at least hang together without them as an edit,with the exceptions being 'signature' bits of sound and so on, like jumps in horror films. I think so many shorts I see at festivals have had a huge focus on technology and aesthetic, worry about lenses, shooting on exotic cameras and grading in expensive aspirational Linux-based suites, but the pacing is dire so no-one actually cares. A lot of that is the edit. I fear falling into that trap So I start with the edit and don't colour til it's finished. It's a reward for me too ;)

I've not found any yet.

Sony are struggling in cameras, corporate video, high end, on every front they're being attacked in the pro field.   They just have a habit of coming up with proprietary stuff and if people have got a job to do they hate it!   My cynical side says yet more 28mbps AVCHD at double rates, and 24mbps at normal rates, but I hope not, as it could be great.   You'd think after shooting themselves in the foot this many times they wouldn't be standing. Ah well, fingers crossed again.

Impressive!   A 36 megapixel mirrorless full frame?! Man that'll be great for portraits...   Kiss goodbye to old-fashioned mirrors...   The RX menu system is great, so that's a plus too...   No five-axis stabiliser though, it's a shame...   The APSC mode will great if it works in video too.   Fingers crossed no 24/28mbps AVCHD bollocks!   Yes good pancakes would be very hard with so little flange distance...   Yes to FD glass! :)

This battery is even cheaper:   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lanparte-V-mount-battery-pinch-HDMI-splitter-Power-Supply-8800mAh-130Wh-Battery-/370847778783?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item56584007df

  I feel your pain, Sod's law is the one thing you can't account for!   Best of luck with the feature! I've yet to commit to one myself, though I'm sure I will. I'm interested to learnt the highs and lows, keep us updated!   Yes if you simply can't afford the alternative in question then regardless of all other consideration you'll have to go with something you can afford.   Budget is always the first question, and lower than 5D MKiii the only choice would be BMD. Bargains can be had with 5Ds, I found one for 1500 which is the same price as BMD, but that was probably lucky. But then raw is indeed alpha, so if you're shooting now, and can get a BMD now for that price, it seems like the best option yes. I also had to send back the KB cards for being below spec, so that didn't impress me at all.   Though of course you'll need to take the external battery, monitor and storage issue into account in that total costing of BMD.   The storage is slightly cheaper on BMD in real-terms because you don't have to f**k around with Komputer Bay cards to make cost realistic, but the batteries are expensive and bulky (unless there's a solution I haven't found yet), as you'll likely be going V-lock so about £300 minimum, for example:   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lanparte-DSLR-15mm-Shoulder-Pad-V-Mount-Baterry-Power-Supply-With-130Wh-Battery-/271259091128?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f284d40b8   The BMD monitor is pretty much invisible in proper daylight so you'll need something to cover it or an external one, this is the same for 5D, though that screen is brighter.   Lenses are another issue. You could hire for either at good rates. If you own a certain kind of glass and are using that, then that makes a large part of the decision for you.   * * *    As an aside, since we're mainly talking about our own passion projects here, after that meeting I think I'm swapping to Epic for the advert. The established workflow beats the F55 global shutter, all things considered. It's funny how often that's the case when you're spending someone else's cash!