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Hey! Thank you for your reply. This would be the next great step for my kind of grading mankind, calibration and stuff:) What I am worrying and worried about right now is my VGA port. Could it be that it blends harsh steps from hue to hue together, so artefacts, banding and such are not recognizable, whereas digital ports give a much more realistic impression of the harsh digital artefacts? It´s like oldschool videogames look good on old interlaced crt tv, colors well blent into one another, whereas on computerscreens it really shows their limited number of 32 onscreen colors.

Hallo, I´m not a grading expert but enjoy doing it, because it´s great to control the look of the images from shooting to post. Got some nice results but mixed bags too. The problem is that my monitor does´nt seem show the 8bit obscurities well enough to be recognizable for me, banding, pixelisation, stuff like that. My monitor has only a VGA connector and seems to hide the grading errors and digital artefacts very well. Is that a "feature" of the analogue connection due to blending the nastiness of grading errors into a beautiful and smooth image? Asking so, because on TVs with HDMI, I could see the failed parts of the image, whereas on my monitor it looked fine. This is with grades of the more extreme kind. Other less problematic footage looks like a well representation of the image and nice on a variety of output devices such as beamer, DVI or HDMI connected displays and TVs. Thanks for your advices. cheers, Martin

Yeah, those laid back and charmingly goofy reviews by Philip Bloom were really something. I remember downloading one, so I wouldnt have to be bothered by internet buffer. Then back with a big cup of hot chocolate and a pile of cake and apples I relaxed with this warmhearted, amusing and charming presentation, and outside it was winter in Berlin. Your reviews and videos are awesome, masterful vignettes. Your digital Bolex footage and GH4 review are my most remembered pieces from you, your Tokyo Storm and FS100 anamorphic my EOSHD starters. Your blog plus forum is a dictionary of love for the craft, technical knowhow, treasures and rare gems of knowledge, hey- rare gems of people too! Keep it up, Andrew, this is awesome, you´re awesome!

24mm F2.8 sounds nice enough to be boosted to f2:) so far the 28 has been a favorite of mine, so light and nice to handle, a pretty one for very low money these days.

the ikonoskop is ccd, isn´t it. beautiful footage from it anyway. anybody had the chance to work with it? it´s a rare beast and not in production anymore, afaik.

Hey Andrew! I sent you a pm. Don´t wanna brag about it, but there is a place in Berlin where people do just that, using all their time the dayjob leaves them and do films and more. What can I say, it´s a pretty nifty (did i get that word right, lemme check on dict.cc:) place. Think I got the word right:) You and some awesome people here inspired me to apply for that school and it´s been as nice as it can be, besides the burden of a non filmic day job. Here is a screenshot from a 24h hour film challenge me and a collegue student did on the semilegendary G6, no filmschooltech allowed, just practicals, a photolamp bounced, boosted 28mm FD and way too high iso 1600:) Shoot, now I spoiled the camera for my planned guess the camera challenge:) cheers Andrew and friends of this awesome place EOSHD! Marty

Hey Aaron! Awesome! Thats the thread I was looking for, your "writing promps" one! Thanks so much, buddy!!:)

Thanks a lot guys! Very helpful! Now I need some lenses. Good thing Andy and Andrew started this awesome lenses thread!

Thanks a lot, sounds good enough for the purpose. Thanks for the advice about battery life!

Hello everybody, was wondering, if it was any good to use a tablet as an external monitor via Wifi and Panasonic Image App. Would it be good enough for a director to see, if the shot is framed to his liking and if lighting and acting would be captured well enough? Asking, because G6 or G7 would be my choice to shoot a script with a director. Would like him to be able to follow the action via external monitor/tablet, so he doesnt have to stand right beside me all the time while filming. cheers and thanks

Hallo again, if anybody remembers the post or the website, please drop a line. That website seemed an awesome concept for shortfilm makers a great find for anybody interested in making a short. Some of you who posted in that thread seemed really exited about it. cheers

Hallo guys, I remember reading a post and discusstion about a website, where people post their shortfilm scripts and other people do their filmic interpretations of these. So after a period of time there are a number of different shorts produced for one and the same script. Then the forum community gets to vote the one they like the best. Does anybody remember that post, discussion or website. Would be a great thing to participate in, actively and as part of an audience as well. regards, Marty

I think this topic has been up on Eoshd right after GH4 hit the market, since it allows to either shoot in 0-255 or 16-235. Can´t go wrong with 0-255 as this video shows. I think Floris pretty much did this video just for the people of Eoshd back then.

Thanks Merce for showing that footage! Think it´s related as the small footprint with ibis would make this a very interesting camera due to the combination of size, stabilization and image quality. So my apologies. Would be nice to know, if HDMI out would work for monitoring and if processing is as nice as G7 is supposed to be. Soon we will know.

Hey Merce, great find with the Canon lens. Do you have some footage, you would like to share? Really fully covers the 4K image? cheers, Marty

I think it is great indeed. Nice cinematic energy and beautiful to watch. Great job!

Hey Eoshd fellow filmer:) What lenses are your zoom trinity?:) cheers

I think the first two sentences are very true, regarding the camera. The foliage on the ground looked really great. I really enjoy the mentality of yours, grabbing a camera and shooting stuff for our viewing pleasure. regards and thanks!

hey merce!:) great contribution. nice footage. funny thing, was thinking about a eoshd challenge: doin a little short with a FZ1000. I imagine, sensor and codec could hold a candle to a G6. Got some nice footage out of that G6 with grading. Problem is, got a short done with my two mates and four actors, but just playing around too much with Davinci. Unfortunately I got the best results with a by eye approach, so harder for me to reproduce the workflow on other projects.

Oh, I think, the gm1 has even more mojo imagewise. Martin Walgrens vimeo footage looks beautiful, so does Eoshd´s jase´s (jan s´) footage. Sensor from the GX7 with a beautiful overall image pipline. GM1 for hundred bucks then, Mattias? That would be a crazy deal then! Thinking about getting a GM5 for being my interchangeable lens photophone without the phonepart:) Oh yeah, F3, there was one on Ebay, didnt sell for 1000 Euros, second try it sold for 2300 Euros. Great chance missed, but 950 shooting hours are not to be ignored neither.

Thanks guys, the 18-105 seems very nice for run and gun documentary work. Thank you once more for putting light into the darkness of assumptions:)

Hallo, I just figured, that Auto Focus might not work well for adapted EF lenses on the FS7 and FS700. Only on A7RII with its Phase detection. Would that be the same for the non speedbooster version? Wouldnt make sense then to work with EF lenses on the two cameras, if auto focus is wanted for documentary filming? So are there good autofocus solutions for FS7/700 other than native lenses? Wouldnt make sense then to buy the Canon L 24 105 F4 for autofocus purposes? cheersInsert other media

Hallo Mattias, that are hells of deals! What stores are selling G7s for $420 or used ones for $300? I will buy a G7 there, no sense in waiting!

In Max´ video A6300 has obviously higher resolution than G7, also details in the shadows instead of mud. Regarding the shadow detail it looks like a codec issue of the G7 with noise reduction dialed up too much in the profile.

Now this is starting to become some real fun tradition!:) 1. D5300 2. G7 3. FS5 4. winner:) Exposure is longer on the second camera.