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To be fair to people who use the alexa. There is a reason. Skintone, highlight handling, and noise is unparalleled. Your image will literally hold up better with less lighting. But yes, it's heavier - well the mini weighs as much as the ursa mini pro. but if you can use it with still lenses and pull your own focus - you can cut out about 7-10 pounds of weight - which makes a huge difference. But sometimes shot ideas work better with smaller cameras. That's why I bring both my big ass sony f65 and my little ursa mini pro and the a7s to gigs - to find places for each tool

1. Trust your own opinions. Don't follow what someone likes, even if they are a big shot DP. Do tests. Use your eyes. 2. Don't be lazy. Being lazy is the worst. Get low on the floor. Move that light higher or try something different. 3. Be prepared. Be organized and think before the shoot as much as you can. Make diagrams and lists. 4. Do not overlight. Trust yourself in the moment. Step away from the monitor then come back. 5. Bounce the light. Try that first, then direct. 6. Use a capture device like the odyssey 7q and then take screengrabs and you can compare your lighting and blocking. 7. Communicate as much as you can with your crew ahead of time of how you work.

I fully agree Andrew. The FS5 looks like an ass-pancake. I've been shooting pro since 2008 - and my work hasn't really gotten that much better with the more expensive cameras and lights. It's actually suffered. I am rethinking everything about how I light and frame. But with that said, the one thing that is nice : no rolling shutter, built in nds. everything else - smaller cameras let you move and be more creative in many ways. the alexa's image is good, but you shoot on it after shooting on the gh2 - and your work isn't going to look $50,000 better. It's just got a nice sensor, but that's about it. Big deal. Shoot small and fast and find nice angles and experiment.

Wow that looks amazing - what a trip!!

looks great The micro has more dynamic range and can go to 800 ASA easily. the digital bolex has at least one or two stops less in the highlights and really can't go past 400 ISO without looking super noisy. but it has nice colors. also I don't own those cameras. Already had a micro camera.

that looks great- yup used a canon 550d 77mm diopter for macro stuff - close focus is 5' which kind of sucks - but you get that long zoom range and low t stop as a tradeoff! Yes only covers 4:3 so I do zoom in post about 20%. I softened the image so much even after that it doesn't matter to me. It vignettes more at the wider end. Overall the lens has less vingnetting at usable wider focal lengths than the 9.5-55mm angenieux zoom that's more popular. But the tradeoff is the f stop and the close focus isn't as good. that looks gorgeous man - love the natural skintones on the micro and pocket cameras. Really nice lens. I am really looking forward to the next version of the micro - praying for internal 5-axis stabilization. That's the only thing that's really missing from it for me that I would find more useful. 4k would probably lower the amount of usuable dynamic range

I agree, the film look is lovely. But it's not magic. It's resolution and motion, and color handling and skintones. It's how it nails the natural red in people's faces. I started to get more into older glass to help. That with making highlights blue and and shadows blue helps too. A little grain, and you get somewhere. But yes, each film stock and telecine technique help give a unique look. But I still think a certain natural sharpness mixed with softness helps very much. Here's my latest piece with the old angenieux 12-120mm 16mm film lens that helps make it feel more organic. I also softened it in post as well - that helps too a lot.

Thank you guys! Kisses from me and Ebrahim!

Shot with the Blackmagic MIcro Cinema Camera with the Angeniuex 12-120mm 16mm lens, a cameflex mount modified to micro 4/3rds. For color, I brought into Da Vinci resolve and used Filmconvert with a Fuji Eterna film stock and softened it even more to Super16mm softness. Added a tiny bit of grain and that gave me a great starting point to harken back to a more organic look. I zoomed in digitally mostly around 20% - and it still was too sharp of an image. Why not shoot it anamorphic instead? Well, I am in love with documentaries of the 60s and 70s like Grey Gardens, etc. And they used this lens I think, and it has a certain feel to it that’s pretty beautiful. Let me know what you guys think of this.

Scout and shoot days are full day rate. Travel day is half day rate. Down days u dont get paid for. Per diem on a travel gig is usually 50 to 100 dollars a day

Im loving resolve 14. The lens distortion tool seems to be super useful at emulating the bend of anamorphic lenses

nice i was just in milwaukee last week - was there twice in the past month

unrelated - but the first two pieces on your vimeo are gorgeous - is that the ursa mini? and what are you using for lenses and grading? really impressive stuff Aaron! i was just in chicago like 4 times this year - we should meet up!

i love the look of these stills. looks like the video link went away

I own the blackmagic micro now. Loving it. My ideas for a version 2: 1. in camera 5-axis stabilization - would make it more effective for gimbal work, right? and drones? 2. some better option to mount a 4-5' monitor - maybe make it swingable - like a connector on the side that you can detach - so like the LCD on the blackmagic assist (which is amazing for the price) but somehow with less internals so it doesn't record 3. carry over the new stills mode from the ursa mini pro

Jvc stole it as their last attempt to survive in the video market. Shame on you jvc.

We are all Zach. Well said. But on our bad days we are ES as well. Liars and exaggeraters. Not nessicarily thieves but not the best . I have also screwed up big on this forum. It was a testing ground for my online sense. I regret it all. But hey...life keeps moving. And i have learned my lesson and hopefully the ghosts of the forum who hate me will one day move on. This feels like a beautiful eulogy for this site. Rip eoshd! So long sweet message board about as4000000 and gh12848 cameras. Time to go home and take off my tie.

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Thanks for this. Do macbook pros now allow eGPUs? I guess with using thunderbolt 3 in the latest models. Are the newest MBPs good now? Looks like they are: https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/18/hands-on-akitio-node-egpu-tubro-charge-apple-2016-macbook-pro-thunderbolt-3-video/ But the process is intensive and it requires to also have you use an external monitor. Man, that Razer Pro V2 seems so good - if only I could figure out linux

This is really interesting with the nvidia 1080 TI development - these guys have done extensive testing on it, vs Mac Pro https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-Mac-Pro-vs-PC-Performance-904/

A lot of back and forth - between shooting raw vs log. I did a bunch of tests. And in the end, yea, say what you want how PRO RES 4444 is just as good, I just find RAW gives me better highlight information overall, especially on the Ursa Mini, and it is nice to worry about color temp after shooting on a doc, not during it, as you move quickly between locations, and light changes quickly. sharpness, all that, you can control more in post and yes, in raw, seems to have more noise in the image and log smoothes it out but, at this point, some noise is good - most digital images are too clinical, too sharp, too everything any flaws are welcome to the image so yea, that's my take on it all. So sorry Stu and Prolost cats - raw seems good for me. As well as 100% of the DP-nominated films from the oscars - all shot on Arriraw - I think - or most of them. whether its for VFX or resolution or god knows what - it just seems like all the cool kids are doing it.

v mount or anton bauer batteries are pretty lightweight and yea - last a long time. variable nds by tiffen are good and easy to throw on a lens. Yea, c300 and c500 are used a lot - but so was the hvx200 and dvx100, and not many people are shooting on them. Who cares what people use - find what you love on your own and use that. Don't listen to trends. Trust your gut.

Yes, save yourself the headaches of external recorder, etc. Go Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4.6k or Micro

The more people know about the Ursa's image quality - which blows the c300 mark ii and fs7 out of the water - and the compactness and usermenu system that is 400x easier than either - the more people will rent them. I'm blown away by the ursa mini 4.6k. Blown away.

Yea, I don't think many thieves target businesses because they know they have pretty intense security systems and cameras. And again, if you steal a set of ultra primes - you just have to steal like 5 of them and you make $50k or so. This, you have to steal like 50 of them to make that same amount. Chance of getting caught selling just one lens is probably pretty bad enough risk.