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This whole story smells fishy. If it is soo horrible, then don't work there. They aren't slaves. The part that made me question them is the stacks of pallets bit... An electronics pallet is probably 5 feet tall, so 3 high sounds like normal practice to me. And then they speak of not being trained... It sounds like union rhetoric. As if B&H, one of the largest camera stores in America is going to allow untrained fork lift drivers barreling around millions of dollars of fragile merchandise.

I just recently started using the waveform in Color Finale and it seems great, but I am yet to truly utilize all it's functions. For instance I thought lift gamma and gain did control my highs mids and lows, but from you explanation, it seems there is more to it than just that? Back to tutorials.

@Sekhar do you use waveforms or other scopes when you adjust your highs and lows, and do you use curves or wheels?

Honestly, I'm not here to dissect how your mind works. I wish you good luck with this lens, and that whole college thing, and maybe there was a good lesson learned. Life isn't about the mistakes you make, it's about how you react towards your mistakes.

The contest was for a Gin company, the moral of this tale is that Gin brings people together and can cure the last man on earth of his loneliness. The short was shot well, the story was told well. What's not to like? Sure, maybe it can be a little tighter in spots, but all in all it is a successful piece.

Nope. It was sad when he didn't know any better and the seller led him to believe it would work on his t2i. From that point on he received well informed advice, but he still wanted to give it a shot... Okay youth and all. It was then sad again when he received the lens and it didn't work. At that point, he should have just returned the lens... eBay has such a liberal return policy. But not sad anymore when he decided to take a screw driver to the thing, and other lenses, and attempt to create a Frankenlens. If he was paying attention earlier, he would have known that the mount had nothing to do with it not working. And then, assuming he was able to reassemble the lens, he went and told the seller he disassembled it... He probably wrote it in an email as well. I'm sure when he talked to him, the guy was grinning ear to ear, and ended the call quickly. So, what's the next best bet... he seeks out an optical engineer... I don't mean to be hard on the kid... I really don't, but this is getting ridiculous. And if he would show a little humility when he converses with people and an open mind, he wouldn't be in this predicament and he could be sitting pretty with a brand new BMPCC.

Cinematographers are the worse... Optical engineering is where it's at. So he's going to add a teleconverter to it and charge you another grand... Have you ever heard the phrase... A fool and his money will soon be parted? Don't be a fool. You don't need an optical engineer... You need a camera that will utilize that useless chunk of glass you just spent a small fortune on.

Very well done. Whimsical and weird, but good hearted. My only real critique is you should have held on the close up of the warning on GinGer's back a little longer. Any question about background is irrelevant to this story. Who cares why he is the last man on earth. Who cares why there's another girl and another gin robot... Now they can double date... The end credits may play well with a bunch of Polaroid snapshots of the them painting the town. Have the robots together. Have the new couple together. Kinda like the ending to Vacation. Good luck with it!!!

I do, I think, but they're all good in different ways. Hmm. I need to do a more controlled test to know for sure, but so far, the results are intriguing. Was that vague enough for you?

I don't know much about Hitfilm, but I would imagine they have some color plug ins, or something. And, I was able to use davinci lite 11 on a MacBook Air without any issues, so you may have more than enough power with your pc. Btw, yeah the c-mounts are a blast. I am in the middle of editing a comparison video between the nx500, the a5100 and the eos-m with ML. The results are actually surprising me.

I think Ryan Connoly has some tutorials on Hitfilm, so you may want to check it out. Are you on a PC or a Mac?

A chance for what?

Obviously, he won't take it back now. Good news is... You have less options now. Your best bet is probably a t3i, or an eos-m. But I'm not sure if there is a BNCR to eos-m adapter... So you may have to go with a t3i.

Return it. And whatever you do... Don't tell him you disassembled it!!! That is all.

Zach, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but the mount has nothing to do with the lens not working, it doesn't work because the lens was designed for a 2/3rds inch camera. That lens will only project an image of that size. Your only options are to return the lens and get your money back, crop the image in post, or change cameras that have a crop mode... The t3i, the eos-m with ML, the G7 in crop, etc... For that money you spent, you really should just return it and get a BMPCC. That camera has everything you want out of the box. You then will have plenty of money to pick up some vintage c-mount lenses, or the SLR Magic, to give you the look you're after.

I'm a horrible colorist, but I would like to see if you could utilize that bluish tint and go day for night with it. I'm sure it's not your intent, but I just love day for night. Funny thing is, I just loaded ML onto my eos-m so I can mess with the 3x Crop and my vintage c-mount lenses... Loads of fun and fairly decent results.

I wouldn't abandon the idea of the fz1000 so quickly. Think about pairing it with the G7. You can practically get the G7 and the FZ1000 for the price of the NX1.

What lenses would you use with the NX1? Regardless, I would pair an NX500 with the NX1. If you really like the FZ1000, which I can't blame you because it's a great camera, then I would choose either the GH4 or G7 to go along with it.

I have been googling the crop factor for use with c-mount lenses but I haven't been able to find much. Have you tested any c-mounts in the G7... I am interested in how wide you can go before it vignettes. I bought a c to nx adapter for my nx500 for some macro shots and they look great in 4K.

What's the 4K crop on the G7?

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. I put ML onto my eos-m today and it has the 3X crop like the t3i. I am able to use 6mm c-mount lenses with it. Maybe that could be an option for you.

Are the Zeiss Tevidon C-Mount lenses any good?

I have the MD 24-35 and the 35-70. And both are excellent lenses. They're like having a set of primes in a zoom. I js In fact because those zooms are so good, I ended up buying the MD 28mm f2 and the 50mm f2... Which is an underrated lens in my opinion.

Very Nice!!!

I think it could be the Eye of Horus... Or the Eye of the Tiger.