Tim Sewell

I'm certainly loving my FX30. So easy to use and get good results from.

I mentioned here some time ago that I was planning to make a mini-doc at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival - the UK's leading such event that this year celebrated its 60th anniversary. Well it didn't work out quite how I wanted. I took my 15yr old with me and had expected that he would go off independently in search of the things 15 year old boys hope they will find, but no. He wanted to stick to me like glue, as long as he could also stick to his camping chair and his phone all day every day, so I didn't get to do the vox pops and the storytelling I had planned (I still have 200 cards I had printed with the details of how to see the film once finished, to hand to interviewees). Ah well. I've booked to go again next year. Alone! Here is what I did manage to get. Shot 4k on the A6600 - an underrated camera in my opinion and I don't think it scrubs up badly at all. This was exclusively with my now-doughty 18-105 f4 and subjected to pretty much the same grading process as the last clip I posted here ( ) Anyway. Hope you all like it. Edited to add: Select 4K and turn the volume right up!

Not really the car shots and so on that I'm thinking about - I quite like them to be a bit jumpy. It's the huge number of really impressive buildings I saw in the city that just cry out for long, considered, pans/tilts/combinations that you can really only achieve with a tripod and a good head.

Thanks. IBIS and AS in camera, then some stabilisation in post. Like I say, I'm taking a tripod next time!

Being lazy, my Sony 18-105 f4 (love the power zoom!).

As far as the FX30 goes - well it's an excellent little camera. Very easy to use, produces a nice image and with the latest update even has shutter angle! A few of the lower light shots needed some NR adding in Resolve, but nothing outrageous. For the video above I didn't use Cineprint. CST, NR, Balance, Contrast, A dab of Film Look Creator then out through the DVR Kodak 2383 D55 LUT, via a CST to Cineon.

Went to Manchester for the firs time (at 60!) and it's very photogenic - I will definitely be returning (with a tripod).

Over the last couple of weeks there have been several AI-generated videos on YouTube giving full descriptions of the Sony FX3 Mk 2, a camera which hasn't even been announced. They all feature the same old footage of people shooting with FX3s, with an AI voiceover confidently listing the specs of this new camera. It's just slop, but it gets views.

To be fair to Bloom, he didn't want to do that but has had to pretty much retire from pro work due to his back injury.

All I'll say is that I was doing weddings when the first digicam wave came along, coinciding with an economic downturn and the market turned to shit. Then it picked up because it turns out a load of pissed people with digicams couldn't provide the 'once-in-a-lifetime' quality of photography couples wanted to keep - perhaps for the rest of their lives. Smartphone camera revolution - same thing and then another quality-biased correction. At the moment everyone across Europe is feeling broke. I think it's in part PTSD from the pandemic. I would still, if advising a young person wanting to make a living from photography, tell them to get a solid little wedding business going and build from that, because it's cyclical and it will come back.

Watching this again. Great cinematography, great acting, completely fucing nuts. (good antidote to the current unfortunateness with which Joaquin is currently associated).

The BBC has made its sound effects archive openly available online: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk

Wouldn't a colour space transform be the better approach? LUTs (unless really well made technical ones) tend to reduce dynamic range.

"Where do you sell/buy gear in Europe?" I dangle it in front of @Andrew Reid!

Try MPB? You won't get as much as in a private sale, but you'll definitely get it! https://www.mpb.com/en-uk