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I just shot my sons nativity play on my GH4 and BMPCC for the school DVD (hardest thing I've ever had to film btw!). It's the first thing I've done using major, extensive cropping in post. What's amazing is that the BMPCC in many cases was not only as good as the GH4 for cropping, but many shots actually better! The GH4 starts looking like digital, over sharpened and compressed garbage pretty quickly when you crop in. The BMPCC however looks organic and rich all the way in, and can be sharpened to quite a high level. Dont get me wrong - it doesn't have the same level of RESOLUTION as the GH4, but as we know resolution is far from the only thing that matters. Colour sampling, dynamic range, codec, bit depth, compression, processing, etc all factor in to what makes an image useable and pleasant to look at. DR, colour, grain quality all qualify as DETAIL imo. Cropped in, the BMPCC has more of these things than the GH4. The GH4 is a nice camera for 1080 delivery but I'd never crop in on it for a critical job. Canon have simply bypassed the 4K workflow inconvenience with the C100 by down sampling in camera.

That's not an appropriate way to give feedback to someone coming here posting their work. Have some manners.

I guess that's quite a bit more, but my guess is it'd be worth the difference ...

Huh. Didn't know about them. Perhaps a used Zacuto one can be bought for not much more these days though ...

I agree with every word you say actually. He's comfortable with being a businessman first and an artist/filmmaker second. I could never do that (not out of vanity or high ideals, just because I'm not wired that way). And yes basically the number one takeaway from the book is raise your prices and the rest will follow. You have to have guts to do that, but also you have to be in the right position. I'm not yet - I only started trading 6 months ago and am still working on getting found and known as a reliable filmmaker. Maybe next year at the earliest. Glad you did it and it worked. Perhaps in a year or so you will be able to double your prices again and hire enough people to take some stress away. I think the other valuable piece of advice in the book though is to define your niche - and to keep doing that until you become THE go-to person to get a certain kind of job done properly. Then you can charge substantial prices and pick and choose jobs a bit more. But yes he's an arse and not too great a filmmaker. And the book is an advert for his other services. I stayed on his email mailing list for ages because I found the emails so hilarious. I hate that kind of marketing but his was so obscene it was funny ...

Saw it yesterday on the IMAX. I used to be really into Malick, Herzog, Tarkovsky and probably any other slow, elegiac-landscape director I could find (Sokurov springs to mind) but these days I have little patience for such films. If I want to enjoy the beauty of nature and life I go outside and open my eyes. The Revenant though was something else. It really impressed me in a serious way. It was sooo beautiful to watch on that huge screen - not just the images but the camera movement as it connected to the story. I'm even considering going to see it at the IMAX again because it will never be the same for me again. Even 4K on a 60" TV or projector won't cut it I don't think. I could talk about the film for ages but suffice to say I can't remember the last time I was so hooked on the actual physical experience of being in a cinema. Truly a work of art. I can't think of a better experience in terms of just soaking up cinematography (& not just pretty images but connected to the story). Really worth traveling to an IMAX to see before it's too late IMO.

How are the 4K>1080 prores files from the GH4/VA combo? I'm planning on getting a VA for this but they aren't available in the UK yet ... Can you link to an example of a cheap eBay EVF? I didn't know they existed ...

Sounds like you need to change your display settings. Is there a Disp. Button on the XC10?

Oliver have you read Den Lennie's book business for filmmakers? TBH I think the guy is a bit of a plonker, but it sounds like you're at the right point in your business to implement the stuff he talks about. It's basically about how to move from what you are doing to having more control over your work life (and make more money). I don't get on with his approach myself, but there's no denying he knows what he's talking about and there's loads of hard won advice in it. I really recommend you read it if you haven't it may be just what you need right now...

Those stills look great Zak. What do you do for audio on the BMPCC? I still intend to post a photo of my Pocket rig btw...

I think you need to stop splitting hairs between these Nikons. They all have a very, very similar image and as nice as it is it's not one you choose because of incremental improvements - there are too many cameras out there with more impressive DR, resolution, etc. It is colour, a S35 sensor and a clean image that are the selling points of the camera, and this is the same for all of them. Enjoy!

Yeah you're right, my bad.

Hang on - if you look closely at the image aren't there two units under the sheet? The one in the foreground is PL mount, but the one behind it appears to have a different mount (EF presumably?).

IMO this announcement is just going to be as dull as "Varicam features in a smaller body". They'll make big noise about the dual ISO etc being a first for a camera of this size. Perhaps something new like an interchangeable mount. on the other hand, IBIS would be a first for a cinema camera, and would make sense for a "mobile" unit. IMO the GH5 absolutely has to have IBIS but in marketing terms they're trailing Sony with that - but this would make a big splash. Just a theory ...

Nice work Freeman! Clearly you have to be OK with the vignette but Overall I think it looked great ...

So, er, kinda off-topic but ... this exists in the world. I'm going to be singing it in my head for the next 5 days I can tell:

Ah ok this is a known thing. Maybe Grant Petty just decided to announce the switchable sensor impulsively at random one day and just said to his minions, "we'll have to invent it now! we'll just delay the camera for as long as it takes to invent the thing!"

Someone on the BM Micro thread has suggested that they're having trouble implementing global shutter (hence the delay) and pointed out that all of the beta testers are keeping very quiet about this one feature. Sounds very plausible to me. I haven't seen any footage from (or heard a single independent person talk about having used) GS on a "switchable" sensor anywhere, ever.

Older 4.6K from the same chap (Kholi - I recognise the name from Personal View or DVX I think?) More nice 4.6K stuff on his Vimeo ...

This is the nicest footage I've seen from the 4.6K so far. Noam's is great too but he's a very skilled colourist so it's hard to know what is him and what's the sensor. This seems more "off the sensor" to me. Really lovely. Like some of the others perhaps a little soft but that could be the lens, the focus or the need for a little sharpening in post. I can't believe this camera won't have a couple of Sundance nominated films under its belt in a year or two. I'm guessing a lot of this is global shutter ...

It kind of irritates me that you can't white balance on the Pocket camera. You just have to estimate (or go with the rating of your lights).

Lasted a week, then took 3 months for the camera to be delivered. Still the best £366 I ever spent though. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha hahah ahah ah. Ha. It's only funny because it's true. [What's the emoticon for "Rocking gently in a dark corner in the foetal position"?]

LX100 has an MFT sized sensor BTW. An EOS-M would match with your T3i perfectly and with adapter they could share lenses. Less than $200 on eBay (IDK how much adapters are).

Hey Zak, you have your BMPCC setup pretty similar to mine - I use an ANSSO BMPCC battery adapter (eBay) though, which screws really neatly flush onto the back of the handle. It looks and functions pretty much as if it were part of the cage design. I haven't seen many people put the battery on the handle like we do but it works great. If you're interested I'll post a photo...

I tend to put blues and magentas into skin tones and sometimes deliberately white balance a lower kelvin than perfect just to give the image a blue tint! I guess this stuff is subjective