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Didnt know, it hat aliasing. Same with FS700 with internal HD, which produced aliasing in the hightlights during a corporate gig. Maybe the problem which occured to him has to do with his use of the Ninja V. I got a Blackmagic VA for the F3. So I still have to test that, some time soon hopefully! Did you guys recognize nasties with external recording?

One tasty read! Thank you very much. Quality and fun stuff. Very grateful, puts a warm feeling in my heart n mind! I think Lumix cams have a great colour palette as a start for grading, that´s G6, G7, GX85 and GH5 from my experience. S1 is a bit trickier to grade, with superiour possiblities and wiggle room but also more chance of hitting the wrong note so to say. GX85 is a beauty. Too bad is starts producing mudd under lower light conditions. But lighting for 800iso and F2.8 still gives perfect results, 1600 is limit under sufficient light.

@kye, darn, these beach colors of yours are awesome. Looks like from higher end cam. i love mine with my fuji 12mm cmount but always need to grade it. maybe its, because i always dial the color temp in manually and dont do white balance. how did you do it? cheers

love it. wondering if dv cam look or at least 480p from a ccd would have worked as well. Content is queen n king in your video. Of course with DV or any old school camcorder format the highlights would have been really ugly but some HD scanlines in Post would work.:) Anyway, nicely shot and edited. Sommer, Sonne, Kaktus! 🙂

great write ups, kye. thanks! my dream lens is a zoom lens. just not sayin which one at the moment, just lemme check ebay again:) would love a 2x or 3x s16 lens for my bmmcc cuby. anyone?

Would love some more love for Canon 5d raw on this forum. Rather than topics about tech journalists. I used to enjoy Jordan and Chris. But my fascination for new cameras was the highest in the days of the gh2, gh3 and gh4, with some G6 magic inbetween. This cam tech youtube stuff is super videoish with dull images and astera lights of boredom most of the time. Kye discussed the phenomenon of microfilms and leisure time filming pleasures, personal vignettes with a personal and intimate approach. These tech channels do not inspire that. Jordan and Chris made many exiting videos for the camerastore but they were depending on the pioneering times of 5Ds, GH cameras and so on. Now its just a race for the lazy image with dynamic range overkill and pixel madness.

Darn me, and i still have not used my F3 yet. Cannot wait to try this beauty! I wanted to use it on a shortfilm but the director wanted the c300ii. I sneaked in a bit of GH5 and S1 though.:)

Like paint, exactely. Like oil paint. "Native color temperature" for the sensor is at 5600K, right? I know, that Panny hybrid cameras love Tungsten. And BM 2.5K performed awesome under HMI, which I used as a gaffer. Itś amazing how pricey the small part from smallrig are. Guess I have to pay the good money for the tiny monitor swivel. One thing comes to mind regarding focussing motors for C-mount lenses. Seems like it could be necessary to glue the MFT adapter onto the lenses wo it wont become loose from using the focussing gear. Lets make a challenge without being challenging but being engaging and inspiring. Inspiring, what an overused word it is.:) Anyway, would love to see BMMCC BMPCC OG footage from all of you, @BenEricson@kye@mercer@bjohn and anyone! cheers:)

Thanks, that´s a great recommendation. I got one with the package, also a control port breakout box, so could feed the cam with external power, if I understand it right. HDMI clamp, also from radioprotektor (Dmitry), came with it as well and the beautiful Rawlite filter. @bjohn I got my test footage withing the necessities of shooting from f8 to f2 at native iso Now, hopefully testing with overlays from camera will give my battery status and recording time. If not, questions needs to be answered by you guys:) I will upload my test footage in two weeks. Right now too much things to do. But what a beautiful camera indeed! My tests includ some improvised belly jib contstruction. Was filming some film buddies messing with cameras. What a great leisure time acitivity! Oh, @mercer, used the beautiful 12mm Fujinon for my first test shots. First time on its original Super16 crop. Finally and awesome!:)

Hey, so I received my Blackmagic Micro with the Rawlite Oplf. Dang, that beauty puts out a beautiful image! But quirky it is. So here are my questions. How do I get battery status and running time for the SD card? Both won´t show on my blackmagic video assist. By the way, when the battery is empty, the small tally blinks. So how to I get this beauty to show battery and SD card status on the monitor? This camera is easy to grade. But I think the Rawlite Oplf seems an obligation. I graded IR poluted material from the mini 4.6K. Prores 4444 material which was worse to grade than an A7s2 SLOG2 shot at night. I am not kidding! With the OPLF I shot without ND. But colors looked so overwhelmingly beautyful that I assume the OPLF with IR cut was working its wonders, even without testing it with NDs. My S1 seems hard to grade compared to the BMMCC. Though S1 is very impressive in HLG when filmed in lowlight and with lit scenes I must say.

Same for me, G6 with sharpness on -2 had my favorite HD image. GH5 has pixel perfect HD. G7 has even better HD than G6. I own both of the G7 cameras and have filmed a lot with the GH5, so coming from my own experience. I love my GX85. With lit scenes I love Natural a picture profile, also when grading will be considered. For outside and out of the box for every day use I prefer Vivid. I dial saturation and contrast to +3, sharpness and noise reduction all the way down to -5. GX85 with G6 or G7 HD quality with 100mbit would be fantastic enough for all my private filming.

@HockeyFan12 I feel you. It is not that easy to get great color out of the S1 under all conditions. I felt it was best with lit sets. Might sound akward, since the sensor is exellent in low light. It responds much better under tungsten than under HMI. GH5 in my experience was much easier to grade. Could be to the larger color space of the S1 vs GH5. GH5 offering Rec709 even in V-Log L, S1 offering V Gammut. I bought a BMMCC and I like the colour palette for daylight very much. But that thing is indeed a tricky beast, not even giving my battery status on my BMVA monitor.:) So, pick your apple juice, I guess.. @austinchimp The right camera on the screenshot whispers: It's me, your beautiful Lumix S1.:)

I love my GX85. The colours are great once graded. Love the palette and grading is pretty easy for this little beauty. It is very tactile and ergonomic body, great pleasure to use with many great features, such as 4K photo for 4to3 and 1to1 ration filming with 4Kish resolution. 2xDigizoom even giving good results, despite obvious aliasing. Shot some awesome photos with it with two C-mount beauties, Fujinon 12mm and Angie 75mm both super16 lenses. I would love this body with GH5(2) features.:) Would be my to go camera forever.

Would love too see your findings and images. I love the tweaking and nerdy pleasures. That's what Eoshd is all about for me, much more than spec list after spec list. Very fond of the famous Oly jpeg color engine. An HD 100mbit 420 8bit codec without noise reduction from the mft 16 or 20MP sensor is all I would need. Instead I had to go with a Lumix S1 for my portable video needs. My GX85 is still with me most of the time.

BMMCC @kye I have not found footage from the Sigma yet that i can i say i liked. I coupled my Lumix S1 with a 10mm Tevidon in Hd pixel mode. That could be my Bmpcc. Just need the right adapter without wiggling. Got a Bmmcc coming its way, proving gas is dumb and never ending.:) Back to topic.:) A fully rigged Amira is a heavy beast already despite the fact that they call it a perfectly balanced shoulder camera. Alexa is not bargain on your shoulder for sure.

Still, i just won an auction for a tasty bmmcc with a oplf/ir-cut filter, cage, npf battery adapter and hdmi support. Guess it will be raw camera porn, which means me lookin at this beauty rather than having the camera look at @webrunner5 The people from slashcam already tested prores via filmic app. It still has all the sharpening and processing, a bit more resolution due to using a hair more of the sensor. So the same image like the ifon12.

Hey Marcio, could have been Andrews own 88mbit hack. I can still download it here from Andrews site: https://www.eoshd.com/gh2-patch-vault/

I shot some BTS photos, while on set as a DIT. Used my GX85, which has become my favorite digital camera body ever since, though GF1 shooting experience is still dear to my heart. Shot with Fuji 12.5 and Angie 75mm both s16 lenses. That Angie has F2.5 but an estimated TStopf of 4 or 4.5. That dirt is giving it some lovely magic and is swallowing a whole lot of light. I was replicating parts of my 135 film days (36x24mm film:) and not checking images all time after a I pressed the shutter. I also shot some portraits with a tungsten theater spot bounced on a dirty Styro. Lovely as heck these on light sources with a neat falloff. There would be a lot of stories to be told about the places and people we shoot films with or we photograph. A lot of things to be shared and cherished other than these dull spec lists and AF admiration videos. I hope to share some photos soon and I will insist that the GX85 with a C-mount lens is a perfect friend for 35mm film fans. Right now I am busy and exhausted with obligations that take up a lot of time. cheers and take care for now, Marty

Dear Andrew, this site has been very dear to me and still is to this day. Thank you for realising such a great project. I second @Marcio Kabke Pinheiro s statement, the joy of creating and the joy of learning techniques are exiting to experience. When I started reading around 2012 and became a member 2015, this site was full of energy and optimism. Maybe so, because you were too, Andrew. Pretty sure. It is an achievement of large scale what you have achieved. I think, people are a bit busy right now with hardships of life. But why not give this exiting blog and forum the time to recreate and rest. No need to close doors. Let us all just regain powers and then get involved into discussion again, exchange and support for one and another. I would have loved to post more the last months. I am just too exhausted with life right now and I know I´m not alone. The last two years have been a rough time to many of us. Just need a bit of rest to contribute more. I have plenty cool stuff to share. Sony F3 will be used for a shorty this November, also some cool behind the scene photos from a horror short film, for which I was DIT this summer. Fun stories and happy lensing with @mercers 12.5mm Fujinon lens legend and an Angenieux 75mm S16 lens. We all might need a bit of rest I think. No generic spec list posts of Canon R3 or Sony will change that. A bit of a nap and a bit of a real life happy chat will bring us all back on track, after a while. That´s an alliteration just for you, dear Andrew and forum readers.:) I would love EOSHD to maintain. My gratitude, to you, dear Andrew. Best wishes and a digital hug, Marty

I always wondered why they cannot build a "full frame" digi with lens, which is as narrow as a compact film photocamera. Olympus Twin, two lens in on, 35mm and 70mm, narrow, though with a stop or two in light loss between the two focal lengths.

Tasty thread. Will have to read it once I got a bit more time. For now, a bit of a recommendation. I have a few interesting photocams and I love my Olympus 35 RC, my favorite filmcamera I think. Also, I enjoy the Ricoh 500G, which has a cool feature of double exposure. Both are rangefinder cameras with fixed lenses. The Olympus is a gem to hold and touch, a minimalistic design masterpiece. The Ricoh is a joy because of its price, which it's worth many dozen times. Both with F2.8 and fun handling. Both are a bit blocky in hand but somehow feel so right. I had the Oly 35SP, which is supposed to have a lengendary lens. Unfortunately I never enjoyed it much. Ricoh and Oly are both full manual operation. My other dear favorite is the Yashica Elektro 35CC, with a fantastic 35mm 1.8 lens. What a beauty! With film these gems are a pleasure, which is hard to beat. Scanner, well Pakons used to be dirt cheap on the bay. Now they go for astronomic prices. Super fast and robust handling of negatives. I love my Kodak RFS 2035 film scanner. CCD magic but only 2000dpi for a 135 (35x24mm) negative, which makes 6MPix. Using the cameras. In Berlin I have lost my enjoyment in analogue photography due to the Hipster Consumer attitude attached to this beautiful activity. Good thing, I started my passion about it in Berlin as well years. It depends on the people and the surroundings one is attached or accompanied by. So, happy company and shutter therapy! One more, there many great web1.0 with awesome and fun reads, not the clickbait copycat articles but labour of writing love and photo passion. Unfortunately Flickr is plagued with dull ads now, interrupting browsing and watching pleasure.

Thanks, mate. Really, sometimes it´s hard to see the obvious! I thought of the F5 as a substitute for my F3 and FS700, for both of their purposes, corporate and "cinematic" projects as well. I find it surprising that until now I have never read about the highlight aliasing of the FS700 in internal HD. I was surprised to see such a strong case of it in my footage. It´s strong like from a Canon 7D in 720 50p mode. The web does not show much info or videos on it, except a very few posts on dvxuser. Indeed surprising. F3 has clean internal HD from my tiny practical experience with it. So I will use the F3 barebones for corporate and for the cinematic projects with the BMVA. Just sayin where I was coming from. So thanks for helping me out on getting my thougths into perspective. So that means, F55 and F5 do 444 in 4K? Tempting 🙂

600, wow! With RGB update? Pix E5 incluede? That would be insane! Mine has the update, which not only gives it 444 in 24p with 444 recorders but also full HD up to 60p in 10bit 422 over one 3G SDI connection to the Blackmagic VA. Thanks to Dave aka Ironfilm I went the BMVA route. Bought the camera a year ago but still have not filmed anything other than a minute outside of my kitchen. But I have had an obsession with it due to the images I saw on the web. @IronFilm I have the FS700 as well but the highlight aliasing made me unpleased about an otherwise really cool and practical camera. No matter what others say. Shooting sufficient internal HD would have been really cool for low end corporate stuff. Bringing the Shogun along for low end projects does not seem to me really adequate, rather overkill for little money and single operator jobs. Question: would you recommend a Sony F5 with the 4K update for 3000 with shoulderrig, handle and EVF? Or just be happy with the F3 internal for small corporate and rent bigger for other stuff? I think I answered my question already: get started with the F3 🙂 This week I asked a production if they want a big camera or if they just care about great image quality. They said the latter. So this weekend it's S1 only in the wild. F3 gotta be the came for personal projects I guess.

No F3s on German Ebay at the moment. They get rare. Was thinkin of selling mine. But maybe I would regret. Have not filmed anything with it yet. I realize it´s one of the few affordable high quality HD cameras. FS700 is not due to the highlight aliasing in HD, which I had to experience during a commercial shoot a few weeks ago. With internal recording I consider it to be the better and cheaper C300 MK1.

Above must be my favorite post of the year @kye Super effective in showing colour response and metric and relation of pleasing palette and response to exposure in comparison to "objective" colours such as of GH5. Thanks a lot!