Ed_David

Still could be 2 years at least till it goes from this to what we have. Obviously the money lies in the smartphones. Then small cameras, then film. So let's see. But this is exciting news. Also curious to see what it looks like side by side a real camera, not their "fake" iphone video-ish camera. My samsung galaxy s4 takes better video than that. And the iphone 6s takes much better video than that with more dynamic range. Or at least in my head it does.

Yea they beat Samsung and Fujifilm/Panasonic that seem to have these tech as well. Let's see if these guys are the next Oculus Rift - out of nowhere and revolutionizing things. Teaming up with Sony is huge so it's not another digital bolex or Red One camera that has years of growing pains. Thank you Internet.

Global shutter - and seems like they are teaming up with sony to introduce this tech in a lot of cinema cameras. This seems like the future. I have always hated CMOS and finally a CCD successor that seems to have better dynamic range. Looks like a really clean image . Super excited - hope the sensor is better and it's not just the grade and using some kind of highlight diffusion to make it feel so nice! http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-to-work-with-invisage-on-new-quantum-film-stacked-sensors/

50d is pretty nice - I think maybe just trying to make it all look like the movies we see - or it feels natural to us how it handles skin overall. 500t is also pretty popular and I like to mess with the fuiji ones as well.

here's a grade I did today using Juan's guide to help me on my way The original footage is here: vimeo.com/110498281 Trying to figure out how to grade footage. How to make stuff look good and not weird like most of my other grades. Resolve. Using Impulz luts - 50d - 5203 CINEON did basic color, contrast, saturation. playing with midtone detail - that is awesome - it's on the color wheel thingy - tab 2. added sharpness Did some secondary color correction on faces and brought out lips. Had to shift white balance pretty big on shot of woman - I think for some reason color temp when they shot it was off. But hey, thanks for the free footage! Why should I complain? Final node was finishing to Juan Melera's - Kodak 2393 answer print ConstrastL It's free to get on the internet this lut. Impulz has one but his has less contrast. juanmelara.com.au/print-film-emulation-luts-for-download/ Juan is a really nice guy for sharing his knowledge to the world. Thank you Juan for caring! This was shot slog.3 sgamut3.cine I think. I like using Impulz film luts - they feel like the closest to film for me, when I watch hollywood or other stuff shot on film, I feel like they get there. Are they always one size fits all? No. This is an artform. And for colorists who say, "I don't use LUTS" - good for you colorist. There is no one way to do anything and Luts save time, I think, at least that's what the propaganda tells me from the Impulz FAQ. Using luts is KOOL. If you don't want to use them, so be it. Also it's kind of interesting to try to figure out coloring. What a crazy artform, trying to make stuff not feel digital and crappy. Please ask me questions or make fun of my work.

yes you track the skin tone masks and in resolve it is super accurate. Also watch the behind the scenes of coloring birdman - it's amazing how that guy did it These guys are unsung heroes -

for me this is one of the most useful color grading videos I have seen - the amount of work he does in each scene is remarkable. Basically he throws a lut on the end - even though it feels like it throws it on first - it's an output lut. then he makes the shot overall color, then tweaks the low, mids, and highs. he adds power windows - brings down the window - lowers exposure on stuff you don't want to see - other than where the action is - and in these shots it's the person talking. then he goes into the faces - he usually adds a power window to bring up the exposure on the face where he wants it. then he isolates the skintones, gets those to look healthy, then he does secondary correction, like making the lips more red and adding some highlights to the head. God, overall, as I say it again and again, as long as you are shooting with as much color information as you can on the camera you can get - the colorist does a ton of heavy lifting in addition to how well the DP can light the scene in the time alloted. but the difference between hollywood and small films is usually in the grading, beyond good lighting, composition, etc - this is so often forgotten. And this is why I go bonkers when I shoot something on the alexa and it comes out and looks bad. I mean, I screwed up in how I shot it and lit it - I can't free myself of blame, but many times the piece goes to a colorist and I have no way to communicate with that person on style and look and it comes out screwbally. I wish production and post worked together more. But anyway I guess this is a weird way to learn about film worked since I have hardly shot anything on film. Film hits the telecine since the 90s and is turned into a log called cineon and from there gets tweaked and then put out on an answer print - and back then they would simulate the answer print with a LUT. So I guess all this is part of how people have been shooting films for a while now.

Wow Patrick, did you see Paris, TX? I think it's a grounbreaking study of a relationship and a beautiful visual poem. Bela Tarr is great, but sometimes one can be in the mood for watching a different style. Truffaut is no worse than Godard even if Truffaut can be more relatable for more people. And the same holds true for Orson Welles and Hitchcock, filmmakers who were laughed at when they were alive. Some days I love abbas kiarostami and some days I love watching Luc Besson - open your heart.

what about Wim Wenders and Fassbinder and Werner Herzog? Thanks I'm going to watch their films. Any ones to recommend?

You didn't love Birdman? That to me captured so many incredible moments - captured the nature of acting, of family, of self-concern - just so many things and was beautifully filmed. Oh Patrick, nothing pleases you. What are your favorite films and or directors?

Thank you Patrick for sharing.

Everyone is welcome here. That's why I like this place (after I got banned from two sites recently)

The coal mines were part of the reason in the US we have worker's rights. One evil doesn't justify the other - all I'm saying is to ask people not to support companies that abuse their workers.

Ich kann verstehen, Deutsch mit Google Translate . Gutes Papier . Danke!

And I don't read German newspapers but I read British ones like the Guardian and International Herald Tribune and the Figaro - French and watch the BBC. Does Germany have any good news reporting besides the Spiegal? Yes it is a big deal B&H is abusing its workers, because a lot of people buy from them.

Yes Wash Post didn't cover Amazon.com's worker conditions or feud with book publishers - http://www.mhpbooks.com/20-things-the-washington-post-has-covered-instead-of-the-amazonhachette-dispute/ But how do you explain the NYTimes covering B&H photo's workers story when we know they are owned by a Jewish family for over 100 years and have repeatedly be accused of Jewish bias? Or hyperallegeric which is known to have a "hipster bias?" Here's the latest updates on the worker conditions, including being threatened by B&H management to be fired for protesting. http://hyperallergic.com/245925/workers-fighting-to-unionize-claim-bh-photo-threatened-termination-en-masse/

I think the The Revenant - Innaurtu not Cuaron. Also Mad Max labor conditions were poor. The answer is that regulation of worker safety conditions are challenging but there is some progress as seen here in Bangladesh - https://www.thenation.com/article/how-you-make-garment-factories-safer/ Obviously it is a challenge to have corporations have decent workers standards and still turn a profit. How do companies compete again H&M when their shirts cost $5 USD? But in the case of gear equipment - several people have already pointed out stores in the US that have better working conditions than B&H. Barn door outfitters. Newegg which is featured here in an article - http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/105827-cracking-the-shell-inside-neweggs-east-coast-distribution-center Basically type in a company name and "class action lawsuit" and you'll see that only really B&H comes up. Adorama didn't. About the anti-Islam comments on Al-Jeezera - wouldn't you be suprised if you knew that twitter is partially owned by a Saudi comglamerate, as are a lot of other companies globally. Also BP, the gas company is owned by Saudi money http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/revealed-saudi-royals-secret-1bn-us-empire-7817936.html And the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. So how is the Washington Post biased in its coverage of Amazon? And why was the NYTimes the paper to show horrible working conditions at Amazon, and not the Washington Post?

I just did. Here is what Charlie Chicken thinks, "Thank you for asking me. I think Germany as a country is setting a good example to the rest of Europe by welcoming in immigrants. However it could also be to recover for their treatment of Greece, with an austerity plan that has been disasterous for that country. I think maybe it's time for the EU to end. It was an interesting experiment but ultimately the bond between countries is not where it should be and unlike the USA where each state ultimately tries to help the others, as there seems to be years of hostility built up, also perhaps echoing the paranoia of World War II, especially that of Germany's history in the way, teaming up with Italy and occupying France and bombing the UK. I don't know if what happened less than one hundred years ago is not still part of the struggle between your countries, especially with Germany as the "banking" leaders of the EU. Of course the US had the Civil War and this still affects us, in differences between the North and the South - but I think overall we worked through these differences especially since the North is just as racist as the South. "The underlying tension between nations in Europe combined with the incredibly high unemployment of its people, especially young people, in many European countries may in fact be affecting the moods of its citizens younger people. While I don't know much about you personally Patrick B. Rau, it is possible some of your "online" use of a "swear" word is a result of situational stress and emotion caused by economic unshakiness. But maybe not - who knows - online, we are all just reflections and projections of whom we really are. Woof."

I thought you Germans welcomed immigrants with open hearts? Oh well.

Update from Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective - "Recent update from a friend of mine working with LWC: "Updates coming soon from LWC but B&H warehouse workers showed incredible strength and solidarity today in the face of employer intimidation. Forced management to do a complete 180 and claim workers were never fired and are all welcome back to work tomorrow. POWER." #BHExposed"

I am curious if someone could make a VR rig out of this thing. 7 of them maybe

A video about this

I don't know Mercer, there has been a lot of abuse of working class and lower middle class workers these days. Check out NYTimes articles on Nail Salons and Amazon Warehouses. What is different now is more people are willing to take a risk to expose it, post-Snowden era. I always go on the side of the worker. They are risking a lot by speaking out. Especially nowadays in America where there aren't many factory jobs left. Also re: Walmart - I don't think raising the pay of their workers has much to do with their losses - I think its the change in how people buy stuff - more online than brick and mortars. Not many brick and mortar stores are doing well. Best Buy I think turned it around. But that's purely "creative" reporting. USAToday has the same analysis - http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/10/14/walmart-amazon-dislocation-stock/73925812/

I just bought one used based on your review - thanks Andrew! Going to use it as a crash cam and underwater camera.

I do. And so do you. It's not perfect but making a conscious effort as a consumer is voting with your money. That's quite powerful. And my equipment budget is for my company, not for me. 10k is not that much. Pro Cameras cost about 60k.