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mercer

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  1. My first attempt with slog2 and 120p... It's a little long and boring...
  2. Well, it's an aps-c sensor, so your 10 and 15mm will be like looking through a peephole, even with the 1.75x crop. You may get away with a 1" C-Mount 25mm if the flange distance even works for the XT-2 and c-mounts? Edit: after looking at some c-mount adapters for the X line of cameras, it does seem that c-mount lenses will focus to infinity with the X-T2. But you will still have sensor coverage issues. With the EOS-M, which has a 1.6x crop, a 25mm wouldn't cover enough for a 2:35 crop, but it was close. So, the Kern 26mm may work.
  3. @Cinegain "...it's not poopy." Haha! You say some funny poop sometimes.
  4. With an adapter with corrective glass you can reach infinity focus with an MD lens on a Canon EF DSLR... the problem is the glass the cheap adapter manufacturers use is so piss poor that you take an iq loss. I assume if Metabones were to use high quality glass, like they do in their speedboosters, they could make a glass adapter that is of good quality.
  5. I've also read you can stack MD lenses to an ef speedbooster and get infinity focus if you buy one of those slim md to ef adapters. Apparently on ef camera you can only use them for macro photography but when used in conjunction with an ef speed booster, you can get infinity... don't know if it's true though.
  6. mercer

    EOS M5

    Actually, it looks better than I thought, and I am kinda surprised it held up so well at ISO 6400... but I looked at that video on my phone... so... Either way, it's soft canon video with nice canon colors... it isn't worth a thousand dollars. Next year when I can get one for less than $500, I may give it a try.
  7. Yeah, honestly if I didn't get a metabones BMPCC Nikon speedbooster so cheap recently, I would have gone with the Lens Turbo ii.
  8. I just won one pretty cheap and was wondering the same thing. It should be here tomorrow, but I'm a little afraid to test it. I believe it worked with the GH4, but with the floating sensor, the entire sensor carriage may be pushed out a little further...
  9. What Cinegain said... but I will add that you could get a leitax mount to change your Contax Zeiss lenses to Nikon F Mount lenses and then they would natively mount to your Nikon speedbooster, but it would probably be easier and more cost effective to go the Mitakon Lens Turbo route as Cinegain suggested... then you will have two speedboosters that will serve all of your lenses well. At vintage lenses for video, the guy did a comparison between metabones and the lens turbo and saw zero difference in visual quality.
  10. I really liked this. The footage looks good and I like the simplistic title which shows the protagonists main character strength... probably the same thing that will save her in the end. I understand you were in charge of visuals and not the edit, but obviously the piece can only be critiqued as a whole... overall I think the edit was good. There was good tension and build, my only real critique of the edit is that we saw the protagonist react to the danger before we saw the physical danger. All in all I liked and I am really liking what you have done.
  11. mercer

    Lenses

    Looks good. Great job. The slog, g-film, settings you cooked up matched perfectly with the Ursa.
  12. I don't think mine does that. Now I need to check because I have not noticed any loud quack.
  13. mercer

    EOS M5

    I actually liked that video. I like that soft Canon look. The problem, as of now, is there isn't enough samples and the ones that do exist are not that great... especially when you do a search of other cameras... I just found this video from the LX10 which I think looks great... and it's shot on a one inch sensor.
  14. mercer

    EOS M5

    Idk, that's what I originally thought as well, but the bitrate specs are drastically different. The 80D, according to BH, shoots 96mbps in All-I, whereas the M5 only shoots 24mbps at 24p and 35mbps at 60p. I think it's a safe bet to assume the video will be somewhere between the GX7 mk ii and the 80D. It basically is an interchangeable lens compact camera with some mirrorless bells and whistles. I found this video from the GX7 mk ii and I would expect better than this... and this isn't bad at all.
  15. mercer

    EOS M5

    That first one didn't fuel my desire to get one...
  16. mercer

    EOS M5

    Thanks for finding this... it's not bad. I was interested in a point and shoot a couple months back and after watching a few videos, and reading some reviews, I was leaning towards the Canon G7X mk ii. At $700, I decided to wait for the Christmas price, but it only dropped about $20, so I decided against it, but I was pretty impressed with the video quality with that, so I am glad to see the M5 is looking better. It should be a fun little camera, obviously not for everybody and I'm unsure if I would get it if it was going to be my only camera, but as a grab and go, run and gun, vintage lens pocket cam... it can be useful.
  17. mercer

    EOS M5

    I was messing around with my M10 and Reid-Log yesterday and as I said earlier, the Canon focus peaking is just an outright joy to use. And now after reading this thread and doing some research, I think I want the M5 even more. The DPAF is just so damn appealing with the 5-Axis.
  18. mercer

    EOS M5

    Yup. Use Prolost, EOSHD-Log or one of the Vision profiles and some vintage lenses. And when you want to run and gun, the 22mm for DPAF... that touch drag af looks really promising.
  19. mercer

    EOS M5

    Sorry Bigfoot, for some reason it keeps quoting you...
  20. I would think the quick and easy fix for YouTube, royalty free providers/paid royalty providers and content creators would be a security link or code that shows the music/images are legally being used when you upload the video.
  21. mercer

    EOS M5

    I'm not knocking the Olympus or the Panasonic GX85, I really like that camera and it's IBIS, I'm just saying that the GX85's mechanical IBIS is good but it was no match for Canon's electronic IS on the XC10. Assuming the IS in the M5 is the same tech, then it should be excellent. However, I do think the M5 is overpriced, right now. This camera should be listed as body only for $799. I would have sold my GX85 and preordered the M5 had it been. Canon mirrorless has the best focus peaking I have ever used, well it's comparable to the BMPCC, but it blows away Panasonic's which can sometimes be outright bad. Since this is Canon's first real step into mirrorless, I assume they will start getting more lenses, but for now the 22mm will suffice and should work okay with the DPAF. The 28mm macro that you're planning on getting gets great reviews and has OIS, so the M5's eis will work even better. I think it starts shipping this week, so video samples should be pouring in and I look forward to seeing what you can do with it.
  22. mercer

    EOS M5

    The M5's 5-axis should be as good as the XC10's and you can walk with the XC10 and mimick steadycam shots... can that be done with the Olympus? I know the GX85's doesn't work that well.
  23. mercer

    Nikon Customers

    It looks great. Good job. I have been so tempted to hit buy on a D750, but I just want to wait and see what gets released at CES first.
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