jgharding

Beautiful ! I love One MX, not so easy to handle, but I kinda prefer the look to Epic (don't tell anyone) ;)

More good news, my only issue with M4/3 was not being used to thinking in that sensor size. Well, that's gone! What a jolly good time to be shooting!

Pretty much everything on my vimeo has judicious amounts of various grain and the like. Just check user jgharding. I think it's ace.

It can trick the H264 encoder into using more data, by removing uniform patches of colour. It can also tackle banding in a similar way.   You can ramp up the grain a bit if you want it to show in the downscale/encode.   I dunno, I like it.   the BBC had to drop a lot of their old rules.   A few years back it was all Avid and scoffing at 5Ds. Now it's all Premiere and there's all kinds of footage being signed off.   Personally, I like grain. Crumplepop Grain 35 and FilmConvert are lovely. Be subtle, and you can add a lovely 3D feel to your footage.

Hahaha sometimes it gets upgraded to a barrel

I think those who are uninterested in this are primarily careerist secret spokesmen. Some more secret than others. This is a good site because it's run by someone who speaks their mind and has their heart in independent film. Bloggers giving "masterclasses" can suck a bag of dicks. Not one of them can get off moaning at the rest of us for testing to get good quality for cheap, most of them make films that flat out suck and only get watched because they're "the first film with X new Canon" and so on, so the hypocrisy among some of the glorified bloggers out there moaning about people testing and sharing info is startling. At least the people here share info, help each other out and take constructive criticism like grown ups, I can think of two very well known film bloggers who behave like pathetic brats whenever they're criticised or even questioned and expect everyone on their forum to personal worship every frame. They start with this "how dare you moan I give you this or free" crap Well yes, so does all of YouTube and Vimeo, what makes these guys special? I recently had a load of Vimeo comments deleted for suggesting that the title of a tutorial film by a well-known DSLR "tutor" didn't match the content (which was more like an advert). I wasn't rude, I simply suggested that the defensive attitude was counter productive, and that after four comments relating to it from different people, renaming should be considered. The result: a childish rant in the description and deletion of every comment except worshipful praise. No grown-up style "yes that's a good idea, I'll consider it" or "I can see why you'd think that, but I prefer to stick with this". Nope, it was back to the playground. It's sad really. These people are pretty much bitter also rans. I don't mind also rans, it's what most of us become, but the bitter ones? They can leave...

All I keep thinking is "it's still easier than film" and "at least I don't have to use a Z1 anymore". That way I'm constantly happy! Just good news on good at the moment...

I like RedCode! Smaller files, great looking footage, really wish Black Magic had an equivalent.

Looks beautiful! I want this with no recording limit. If it happens, I'll be quite torn between this and my 4K BMD preorder. The expenses mount up with the BMD... this could do everything in a way that's familiar to me

Currently using this daily and it's great, it means if I suddenly need Acrobat, I just DL and install. Them remove it. Everything stays up to date.   The only issue is for pirates, a lot of them are kids who are learning the ropes, and can't afford it. Piracy is an amazing learning tool, and in that form only has a positive impact on sales. when they grow up they buy it, if they don't use it anymore they don't, no lost sale. They'll have to make sure educational pricing stays reasonable!

ah yeah it'd be interesting to see what kinda rate we can get at 720p. Also, can you use a compact flash to SSD converter, and just trick the door sensor into thinking it's closed by taping something in there? Then you get huge write speeds and capacity with a 480GB SSD.

I don't think it's a hardware limitation at all, so it shouldn't be too hard, it's a tax thing and card format thing innit, so they just gotta span...

The other day i put down a preorder on a Mexican wrap at a food stand in Soho. If enough people put down a preorder I might get the wrap next year, so everyone do it! I had my preorder on the one with the sour cream but then they announced sourcream and chilli so I changed my order. All this time I've not been eating because I've been chasing sauces. I think I might just go and buy a sandwich and actually have lunch, at least then I can spend my time enjoying food not worrying about a potential wrap.

RX100, tiny thing with great quality for the size and price, the go to travel camera.

  Do you use the LUT or are you yanking curves around yourself? It's supposed to be used with LUT. Prolost Nuetral was a joke of Stu's, it's just the settings people were already using before Cinestyle existed.   Almost every other flat profile is a poor thing made by playing with the packaged editor. some of them are horribly inverted and have no LUT to correct to a good starting point for post.   Neat Video solves the problem yes, which is why we use it. Any picture profile is 8-bit and will have banding, so I also solve it in post with Neat Video, it's smart to use the best tool for a job!   The only exceptions I've found are VisionColor, they're nice and have LUT built into FilmConvert. Technicolor spent about a year or so working with Canon to make Cinestyle according the PR, I'm not willing to laugh that off for these oddly named experiments.   I am willing to shrug it off for Magic Lantern Raw though. ;)

5D MKii: "Here, BMD 2.5K cam, I hand you... YOUR ASS!" (BMD cam falls to floor, battery depleted) BMD CAM: "Forgive me, sensei MKiii! (his moire-riddled high-school beard glitters in the hanami sunset) I foolishly thought I had outgrown you, but now I know there is always another fleshy trick in your festering loincloth.." 5D MKiii: (takes a step forward and throws open his gi) "AHHAHAHA! I always win because..." (crash zoom) "You can actually buy me in a shop"

Certainly not, it's just for the sensor size... I love the way the Epic lets you crop in more and go up in speed as you do. It's such a time saver! I'd like that option oin an SLR: get maximum use of may favorite lenses by making crops! ;)

Indeed, though there is some cinema glass that is vignetted a little on APSC because it was for slightly smaller circle, rare case , but sometime it'd be nice to get a marginally smaller crop... being greedy really Perhaps a Micro Four Thirds option would be better as it's more current and gives the same benefits?

Yes +1 to that. Menu structure would be -> Sensor area (135 Full Frame, Super 35, Standard 35, Super 16, 16mm, Super 8, 8mm Then within each of those the available resolutions. Also it looks like it's currently quite buried, it should have the settings in menus, but the START RAW RECORDING button should be assignable to either the body, or top level of menu. It's a huge selling point for the Magic Lantern hack, and as such should be easy to get at when using the camera, and should be the focus of development. No doubt it is already the latter!

I had a Cokin setup, but yes the fake plastic filters are soft, so don't go that way unless you wanna buy the good glass.   I bought the cheap Polaroid Fader ND. It's gets cooler one way, and warmer the other. There's always colour shift but I don't find it a huge issue.    It doesn't change polarisation or refelctions as far as i can see.   Cheap and cheerful: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-82mm-Fader-Variable-Filter/dp/B004GZ0U9G/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1368531306&sr=8-7&keywords=polaroid+variable+nd+filter   I use it for video and for shooting 3200ASA black and white film in daylight.

I got a 72mm one... then got an 82mm front lens... So get the biggest one and step ups   I have a 72 or 77 (can't remeber) and don't seem to get cross artefacts.

So it's basically safety: if you get it really wrong with an even higher dynamic range sensor and have to push four stops, the Nikon is better. I suppose it's best not to get it four stops wrong!

If this could be made fully reliable it'd make the 5D iii a great camera: you have standard mode for all your events and quick turnaround stuff, and RAW for your big projects. Ace! There does seem to be a lot of odd artifacts at the moment (those vertical lines in out of focus and distant areas, some very jagged edged and square noise) but I'm sure it can be sorted, they've done so much work already. I've used Magic Lantern a ton, donated way back in the day and have been spreading it like wildfire, I'm glad they just don't stop! One request would be: APSC/S35 crop mode. I have some old cinema glass that wasn't designed for 135 frame. Is this possible?

Has anyone seen these yet?   lowly internal   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7CANqYdhx_U   AWESOME RAW   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Jd6WaqYovA   This looks great, though it's over sharpened a tad in low-frequency areas or excessive HDR processed around the dog (halo)   Here's the place I found it from: http://nofilmschool.com/2013/05/raw-video-canon-5d-mark-iii-24fps/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Indeed, it's just getting a bit boring watching Canon. They're sitting on some prickly laurels!