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Haha, I know. But he screwed me pretty bad too in a way, like many others, getting me good deals to spend my money on and making me spending and spending... Today I found two LX15, one without a battery, but both for so little money, it´s not even funny! If it is not a scam, that would mean two 4K s16sensor cameras for the price of a used GH2, lol! 🙂 Leica branded zoom lens with 1.4 fstop on the wide end included. Just sayin to get the referrence to the topic of this thread. These Tevidons are hard to mount. You need the Tevidon to C-mount adapter, for which you first unscrew the original mount and exchange it with the adapter. Then you need a c-mount to mft fi. which needs to be deep enough to get the lens to infinity. So basically two adapters, which I got but the mft-cmount one not beeing deep enough. Only thing I got mounted was the 35mm on my Lumix S1. Well.. I´m thinking, who knows who you bought some tasty treats from for little money. I bet you will might have a big smile on your face right now. 🙂 @webrunner5

I have not been impressed by the online footage. With BM cameras it is easy to finde awesome footage for every of their cameras. This one looks pretty good colour wise. That HD 12bit Raw looking pretty sweet. More "thick" colours. Starting to love it. Not a good sign financially. 🙂 excerpt from the DP: *The last three shots were shot in 1080p, which I felt has the most “organic” movement. The last two shots were shot in s35 mode, I left the original aspect(around 3.55:1), no resize to fit the 2.39:1 anamorphic aspect. *Grain added in post. All shot handheld with no rig, just camera and huge 2kg lens. -The dynamic range of the Sigma FP is huge, but you have to prioritize the highlights while exposing; shadows can be recovered easily thanks to the 12Bit Raw. -Dynamic range in 12Bit feels quite similar to Sony FS7MII(just a feeling, no scientific tests). -At ISO 2000, the camera seems to have a better balanced dynamic range, compared to ISO 100 which has no range on the highlights but lots of info down to the shadows. -10bit and 8bit are almost useless, creating artifacts once you start moving any setting.

Best lens deal of the whole thread. Though i got a set of Tevidons, 10, 16, 25, 35, 50 and 15-150 zoom for about 150USD. All like new from the factory. I call that the second best deal of this thread. 🙂

As a friend put it: "I am not willing to invest more than 250EUR into a short" (my remark: when I´m a DP for a shortfilm without guaranteed distribution and festival run.) 🙂 But that kid was kicking ass for his 250 or 350EUR!

Hehe, 6.16min all through 6.25min he mixed Mbytes per second up with Mbit per second, f.i. it should be 372 MB per second vs. 150 Mbit per second. 150 MB per second is wrong. 1 byte = 8 bits. So if the enthusiastic youtube presenter and cinematographer would know about that fact, he would be even more exited about "his" massive raw datarate compared to video codecs.🙂 @kye

Darn, you should do a regular education on sound, David @IronFilm. Lowbudget mics, recorders up to midrange price level highly appreciated. I remember you kinda approved the Zoom F8 if I recall it right. What Mics for booming which don´t cost a fortune like an Sennheiser and the likes. Always great to know for cam people who are also into one or the other corporate job as one man band.

I indeed received my second BMMCC, no batteries, no anything. Had it sent to my parents house, cuz Berlin and packages, you know. I turned it on and recorded a few dropped frames of DNG due to average SDs at my parents house, so it does work, looks good from outside. Need to test it at home with monitor and adequate SD. Anyway, got it for 267 EUR including fee and shipping. Barebone body. But made me think, rigging it without a cage just a 3 inch monitor and set. 400EU 60p raw setup. That could become my cinemacube to go. No rigging, cage, nor acessoiries as with my first BMMCC, which has a RAWlite filter by the way.:) My smart way for a main cinemacam to go, without having to deal with phonecalls ringing in my camera. 🙂 Funky skintones on that fella, had to stop watching after few seconds.:) @webrunner5 But I get your point that a potential device still to come with lack of artificial sharpness could do many tricks.

hell of a battery run time. 🙂 @Emanuel Heck of an akward looking highlight roll off. Motion looks awesome though and there is a thickness to the image.

I have seen dozen examples of footage posts within threads leading to fuitful discussions. I myself posted couple times screenshots and videos with great communicaiton following. Points of discussion also depend on questions asked by the posters of footage. How you like it, what do you like in the lighting, let me tell you about the diy tricks, etc.

Hehe, a few mistakes in the bitrate presentation, MB/s is not Mbit/s.:) Former is about 8times higher that Mbit per second, 1MBs equaling about 8Mbps. 6.15min making me smile in humble silence. 🙂

And it´s alway amazing to see what´s done with funky 8bit hd photocams. It´s also an important decision between monochromatic and black and white. Unfortunately sometimes people I worked with don´t recognize that and go for bw right away. Even on no budget projects cinematographers and their know how and especially ART is not recognized by the directors. Anyway, here is an example of beautiful 8bit cinematopgraphy and 420 glory in monchromatisitc awesomeness.

the reason for footage not to be seen is that it is in a section. I have been pointing that out several times for a good reason. Footage on the main board has been widly discussed and learned from, regarding many aesthetic, dramaturgy related, lens nerdy, lighting aspects and anything you can think about. Wild, lifely, fun discussions. So, put the footage in the main board in a way that it referrs to technical and aesthetical points of cinematography and cinema in general. Unfortunately we dont have much footage from ourselves there, nor projects, we can discuss. The footage section has always been dried out. The footage on the main board has always been discussed lifely and with lotta enjoyment. It´s not apparent. I seems apparent to you. If it was, I think I would have chosen a different approach. Something like, it is not easy to take criticism within colloborations when it is ones own passion project. Further I think, nothing would be doomed just by lack of criticism. It is necessary on getting the project forward on a general scale rather then shifting too much time towards online communication. I think Andrews project is challenging. It is all in his hands and the team. Directing and doing cinematography as one person has plus and costs. Doing proof of concept is always cool. Doing testing is great fun and helpful, lighting, lenses, movements, locations... Finding the right crew, the right size as many people means also higher costs and communicational workload... Also, making the project attractive for collaborators, and the communication around it, is an important part of the project. Enjoy and lemme know if I can contribute @Andrew Reid cheers, Marty

Hehe. Andrew does an awesome interview with the Japanese head engineer and includes his masterful vignettes with the Lumix GH cameras. I then rewatch two GH1 pieces and read into the vimeo comments for his masterful "Tokyo Storm". There I read a certain comment out of all the appreciative exited voices. I go to the commenters vimeo site and I discover this, filmed with HD camcorders cameras and the quasi 720p machine that the EOSD 700D is. I zipp through the video, watch parts of it and hopefully will watch the whole film. But check out from 18 to 20min. Awesome, simple, masterful, Tokyo Storm qualities from a Tokyo Storm admirerer. Cheap cameras Black and White galore and glory. 19.50min- wow.

That deal, dear Sir John, is of the rather splendid kind. 🙂 @John Matthews I challenge that with 1080 60p RAW for under 251! Is it possible? Yes, it is. I got a second BMMCC body with..., ahem, ahem... without anything else, not even charger nor battery, for 250 EUR, if seller is not a fraud though.

I always said, EOSHD library is a treasure chest. Forum family just didnt seem to hunt for it enough. Member posts are also gems to be treasured dearly. Andrews interview with Lumix GH pieces is my favorite journalistic camera piece of 2022 so far! Had to watch the GH1 piece and GH2 anamorphic in Spreepark Berlin. Thank you very much, Andrew. Great form, taste and article! @Andrew Reid Giving back some memories with the Spreepark piece! @mercer Well said, Awesome! Great mojo of older and interesting tech is exactely the mojo and asset of this site!

After Andrews awesome interview and beautiful parade of GH series EOSHD film vignettes in his latest masterpiece blog post, I feel even more bummed about Steve Huffs 10 years old ghost youtube channel.

That´s right. And date of the video is three weeks before his info video about the camera review business. Don´t wanna post it here, cuz I kinda feel uncomfortable. "You´re bald!" The ghost sounds like he is making fun of Steve Huff big time, even kinda mimiking his voice. Some videos with 10Mio+ viewers on his channel!

Holy crap! I started loosing interest with the Sony 7R2 review, because I felt some oddity shining through his message about the cameras that "might be for me, don´t have to be for others". At first he focused his reviews on the underdog and niche cameras. With the R2 review it was all big releases after another. Gee, I never I figured he has been a ghostspotter. His otherwordly youtubechannel has been around 2012 even! Crazy! Would have never thought that. I am not into Hifi though. 😀 Started a third video of his ghost expertise. Not easy to watch at all! Puh! But he quit the camera review game. 🙂

Tripods and heads should make you some good money. @webrunner5

I always loved Steve Huffs site. Don´t remember when I started reading it but maybe around 2011 or so. Read many of his old articles, getting me hooked to a GF1. Though this camera was already inferiour back then when I bought it I had so much fun using it and it is one of my favorite digital stills bodies of all time, despite its slippy, skinny grip. Later around A7R2 times I started recognizing an odd pattern in writing and lost interest. Up until OMD EM5 days it was a great companion and every days first web read. After all he made me buy a Lumix GF1 not a Nikon D90. So that got me into mirrorless. Oh, alos got a Oly EPL1, EP2, which I bought for the 20mm 1.7 and the 45mm 1.8 coming along with them. Watching this video gives me great pleasure. Hearing the guy in his warmhearted and gentle way. His turn towards audio will hopefully mean that he will leave his archive of vintage digital photocameras online for generations to come. Let me check his GF1 review again. 🙂 Oh crap, a warm- cold shiver running down my spine.

Darrrrrn! What a brave rig this is! @webrunner5 So you have a b4 or b2 mount adapter and a doubler or 1.4 extender between mount and lens or inside the lens? ENG pros don´t know any fear! So, how does the lens perform on general terms and on terms of the BMPCC, 4K ready? 🙂 cheers and thank you for lighting up my evening with such a cool setup!

I found the Sigma video not appealng in regards to the "vintage character" of the lenses. To me it was going over the lines. I would suggest buying some affordable M42 lenses, just like Andrew and the EOSHD cats have been suggesting as a valid choice since the existence of this beautiful site and forum.

Yes, Mr. Webrunner is a true personality, sometimes making me think and laugh at the same time. A great pleasure! @Emanuel

Yes, that little RAW clip is definately an indication of great enjoyment and motivation to go outside and film. I remember when I started filming with my G6. Every opportunity was so much fun and exitement. GX85 was fun too. But with this camera it feels like in the "old days", exitement and anticipation. And investement. 😉 Need to buy a smaller monitor like the Ikan, which our friend @mercer recommended. The 5inch VA form Blackmagic feels too bulky for cinema verité. For studio or a narrative setup with AC and all that, it is fine of course. For our little shortfilmy I had it connected to a Shogun, because my mini SDI to SDI cable ripped apart. Dunno how that happened.:) Camera was on an improvised mini minijib:) on sticks, which was on pipe tracks. Anyway, a camera which invites to chat and chat about. 🙂

I definately will! Have a great day! Looking forward to seeing more from you and your craft and art! cheers 🙂