Tim Sewell

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

Nice colours there, @ac6000cw! I wonder how a run through Topaz upscaling would look.

Potato Jet just about managed to get it in his cargo pants pocket. It looks like fun, but the image and camera control is meh. Very much a consumer item. Although I think a larger version with the sam - frankly rather amazing - autonomous capabilities could be very interesting for one-man docos etc.

I found it unusably soft - sent it back to MPB actually.

100% (but don't tell MrsSMW I said that).

Happy Days Are Here Again!

Yeah, but even if it only sells for the opening bid, I'll have made my money back on it!

Hi, UK-based EOSHDers. I have a bunch of stuff up on eBay (with more, especially LED lights coming next week). https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=145941180961&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=ti_sewel

I just got a FX30 last week and I'm finding the AF almost magical! Of course, this is the first camera I've had with anything close to state-of-the-art AF, but it's really revelatory how well it works.

This is the Kodak Vision3 500T variant, by the way.

Thanks. Lens was just the Sony 18-105 f4. I wasn't expecting to shoot any video that day, but the fog made it mandatory to do so!

I was bored so I put together some A6600 S-Log-3 footage I had hanging around from earlier this year and graded it with the help of Tom Bolles's new CinePrint 35 powergrade. I'm definitely liking the colours and he's simplified the node tree somewhat, making it a lot easier to tweak.

I'm off to the Cambridge folk festival next week with my 15 yr old and I'm going to be shooting a mini-doc focusing on why people love this nearly 50yr old festival so much, ie I won't be risking trouble by filming the big acts etc - more aiming for lots of vox pops and street-style imagery. After a lot of thought I'm just taking my A6600, a couple of my Super Taks - probably the 20mm and the 55mm, together with a straight adapter and a focal length reducer. To go with it and allow me to have some control I'll be adding a 12 inch tube light and a magnetic little RBG, a 14 inch collapsible 5-in-1 reflector/diffuser, 2 little wireless lavs and a VideoMic. All needs to fit comfortably in my mid-size messenger bag. I may take my knock-off cinesaddle as it can double as a pillow in my tent and something to sit on while watching bands!

Last band video I did the engineer did this for me but unfortunately for some reason there was a 3 second jump in the track. I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out what was going on, thinking something had gone wrong with my camera. After I'd covered it up and published the vid one of the band members congratulated me and told me there was a similar gap in every track.

Good points - thanks! If recording from the desk I'd expect to record an ambient mix as well as you want a bit of crowd noise anyway to keep the live feel. I think you're right in tems of a 32 bit solution for this.

This was A6600 on the wides and FS7 on the CUs. Sound was from a wireless shotgun into the FS7 - as you can hear - it clips at the loudest moments and as I was concentrating on operating I didn't have the bandwidth to ride the levels - so any suggestions from the hive mond?