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Wow, Fritz, this is an awesome post of yours, again, fantastic effort. Thank you very much!

To the cheap equipment filmmakers it is great to have Panny 4K at hand. To the cinema pros their high end 2K, 4K+ Arris, Reds etc are fantastic. So for fun I uploaded a screenshot of footage shot with my G6 uprezzed from HD to UHD. Bad shooting conditions for image quality and resolution: very low light setting, had only one 500W photolamp to bounce on a golden sheet, China Speedbooster and Canon 28mm wide open at F2.8 involved, at 1600ISO, so all image quality suckers involved, plenty work in post as well:) But to me it seems appealing enough to make a 8x10 (20x30cm) print from it. So great consumer 4K is fantastic for us who go the cheap route of nice HD.

What a Bourgeouis remark:) Just kidding. That babe is rather on the pricey side. Bought a Canon FD 20mm, that was 220 USD and it´s enjoying its prestine like brand new condition rather than being used in the rough run n gun shooting style field:) How long is the focus throw on that beauty all the way round and between 9ft and infinity? cheers BTW love the footage you did with that infamous RX10ii 1 or 1.5 stops brighter, say F1.8 from 28mm to 90mm FF equivalent seems a great idea of yours.

Hey Jason, I think 4K is good for some of us who need a nice HD image with consumer equipment. For Pros great Arri 2K, for indies Digi Bolex 2K is nicer than 4K from Panny and Sony consumer cams. But that Panny and Sony and Samsung 4K ist just so nice for us to shoot it with that affordable tech. Though the Big Screen shows every single digital flaw to the image, but digital projection on 20 feet wide screens looks nice with consumer 4k downscaled HD.

oh yeah, simple as that, paying attention to the infinity symbol on the monitor!! silly me Thanks a lot, Seb!

Wow, cool. How to you put the LX100 lens on infinity, is there a menu option for it? Sorry if my question might sound silly to you:)

Hello Fritz Pierre! Thank you for your awesome post. Really great information! What do you mean by "you have to build your mount up sufficiently to clear the rear elemant"? Do you mean to adjust the distance between adapter and lens lens adequately it might take more than on filterring? cheers

Hey Fritz, would you have a link to the Schneider? There are so many Schneiders out there (un:)fortunately. cheers and thanks

0.7 seems ideal, regarding quality and wide angle effect.

Hey Lenny! Output would be 8bit. The 4K and 1080 24p codec is on the G7 is very good. One main advantage with external recording to an Atomos would be Prores- a codec which is easier on your editing system. Other than that you got a very, very nice camera in your hands. Speedbooster is giving lenses about the same field of view of Super 35mm, the main film standard, so of cameras as FS7, C100/300/500, etc. They make the field of view of a lens a little bit wider on your Panny G7 or any other M43 camera, such as GH4, GH3, GF1, E-PL1..:) These Speedboosters exist for different lens mounts, so you can adapt lenses with Pentax K-mount, M42, Nikon F-mount, Canon EF mount, etc. You can adapt these lenses with ordinary adapters as well. Speedboosters, additionally, just give you a slight boost in field of view and about 1 Fstop of light gathering/ effecitively sensitivity. Your kit lens is sharp, but colors are rather on the video side, more broadcast look than Hollywood:), hard to fix in post but possible. Manual focus is not so nice, because it´s not mechanical. So my suggestion would be: get an ordinary adapter for Canon FD on m43 mount for about 15USD/EU, plus an 28mm F2.8 in Canon FD mount from Canon (about 20 to 40 USD), Sigma or Tokina or Vivitar or Kiron (cheaper alternatives). Nice filmic combo to produce fantastic results! Plus Canon FD 50mm 1.8 for 15 to 30 USD. There are so many lens tips on this forum from Andy Lee and other guys. But for a start my suggestions would be fine. Avoid the GAS, Gear acquistion syndrome and keep it simple for the beginning.:) 24mm option would be about 40 to 100 EUR: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIGMA-SUPER-WIDE-II-24mm-f-2-8-CANON-FD-MOUNT-LENS-W-HOOD-/322114601538?hash=item4aff86c242:g:-80AAOSwOVpXWDpq cheers

Awesome footage, Seb! Always enjoy the fact how much you get out of the actual motifs by skillful approach of filming, and not so much fixing it in post. Nice color and color profile coming from your hands! So how does the focussing work, you need to put the lens on infinity and then focus with the SLR Finder? cheers

Tupp, nice suggestion. Thanks! Topic closed:)

Mattias, you sound compellingly convincing, beautiful patina..:) I don´t wanna let it go because of one convincing argument just yet:) Are there ways with follow focussing and the ruthless focus pullers to go easy on the paint and housing in general? Also, I got the very heavy Tokina F4 zoom, it bends my mount. Any good ideas for rigging that bad boy up, being easy on the mount? cheers

I´d say, Sony RX10ii

Hey people! silly thing: I bought a Canon FD 20mm for 220 EU, condition is as spanking new! So that puts me in trouble. I don´t want to scratch it. I mean, I don´t want to scratch the housing, because it looks so beautiful. So any tips how I can keep this baby in stellar condition but also do some footage with follow focus and other people pulling focus, (free time friends:) focus pullers. cheers

Hey, it´s even a much smaller sensor, 1/1.7" size. Same model as Panasonic LX7. Nice footage from the guy.

Hey Michael, thanks for checking out! Bought a 20mm 2.8 from Canon two days ago. Gonna see how that one works out.

Hey Fritz, I think, Andy Lee was talking about a 0.8 by century optics. Question is, if it fits fullframe lenses and there are so my converters by century out there. So which one exactely? Maybe 0.7 is the limit anyway for a compromise of effect and quality. By the way, bidding on one Andys many and great lens recommendation very soon. Who hasn´t though?:) Well, with the EVF of the G6 focussing on distances from 5m (15ft) on with wideangles can be tricky, since it´s hard to see. Doesn´t help that punch in focussing magnification doesn´t seem to work when filming.

Thumbs up! Great love for the old school gaming. I think the color contrast of the pixelart always looks fantastic, moody, involving, whereas the photorealism of PS3 and 4 generation games often looks ordinary. Have you played Commodore Amiga games? Some great games on it, best to be played on VGA monitors or TVs!:) Though I must say, I really enjoy to see the original GFX and artwork and colours without the analogue Tv pimping:)

Hey! With compacts such as LX100 it´s tricky with manual focus, since it´s fly by wire. I myself handled the LX100 in a store. From that though limited experience I must say, I didnt like the fly by wire focus, neither the ergonomy, neither the EVF for videoshooting or updating from my cheap G6. Jase has quiet some experience shooting with it so maybe he can say more about handling and focussing. For professional filming with little time I think GH4 is just great. Battery life, large EVF. Don´t sell it unless GH5 comes up:) Maybe you like the handling and stabilization of the GX80. But still GH4 with Hdmi out, long battery life, mic input, things the GX80 doesn´t have. cheers

Hey guys! Thanks replying! Thing is, was interested in the phenomenon itself, as my monitor has been used by hobbyists for CC. I figured, VGA blends colors into one and another. This is to similar effect like CRT interlaced TVs do. Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo games look great on TVs but on computer displays with their limited colors and resolution well represented. The TVs scanlines helped to smooth the 16bit consoles gfx. Oh, the 16bit didnt stand for color:) Thank you for the advices. Gonna get another display most definately. Great tips, thanks! Yeah, man, gonna get another monitor most definately!:) cheers

Hey, great! Which one of the Vivitars is the rebranded super wide II? Unfortunately on the Sigma Focus throw between 3m and infinity is also ultra short, Hey Liam, not wordy at all, great points! Hey Justin, how much is the focus throw, half turn, 360, 270, how much in inches between 3m(9ft) and infinity? On the nFD 28mm it´s only half an inch between 3 and infinity. Hey, pricey, pricey:) The Elmarit seems to have a short throw between 3 and infiity as well, might be stell difficuilt to do focussing changes while recording video within that distance range.

Hallo, the Canon FD 28mm is a nice nice lens. Beautiful look and a nice price. One thing it is lacking is a convinient focus throw betweem 3m (9ft) and infinity. It´s less than half an inch or 1cm. Are there recommendations for nice price adaptable lenses with manual focus and longer, managable focus throw between the range for 3m to infinity? Also, my question, if 0.5 wide angle adapter are acceptable in comibination with a 28mm regarding focussing and ok optical performance, are there a few acceptable ones available? cheers

Freaking great color! 20mm- beautiful FOV, if one knows how to use it! What Fstop did you shoot this with, 3.5? won an auction for the Canon 20mm nFD for 220 USD. Kinda worried now, because manual focus on the 28mm FD is very tricky from 3m to infinity, focus throw tinely short between these two marks, so focus can easily to be off.

Hey Geoff, so is VGA vs HDMI/DVI kind of comparable with: 64 video game colors appearing like 1024(fi) on an old CRT interlaced television VS looking like the exact number of 64 on a progressive computer monitor? Means, VGA blends harsh steps between hues into another, appearing like smooth transitions? Whereas digital ports work well to make artefacts and broken transitions visible on dislplays? cheers