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He did another video blind-testing is you could tell which camera was which and I worked out about half-way to look at the sharpening as that's what gave it away, but yeah, a couple of the shots weren't too bad. Then again, I'm shooting a GH5 with a F0.95 lens because of the low-light I regularly shoot in, and I'm upgrading my 8mm F4 to a 7.5mm F2 for better low-light for the same reason, so I'm hardly going to be an average user in that department. Gotta get those wide-angle blue hour shots... Or after the sun has completely gone....

No, I was focusing on the longer focal lengths when I bought them. IIRC I have a 35, 50, and something longer. I also kept everything m42 for simplicity. Well, all the Pentax and Russian lenses anyway.

In this video in particular he recorded with a number of different apps, and I'm wondering if it was an app with a low bitrate or bad post-processing that is to blame. There's one shot in particular (of his partner walking the dog along a trail - I think it was shot with the wide) that is absolutely terrible, but the wide shot of the waterfall wasn't nearly so bad, so I'd take the worst shots with a grain of salt. Of course, the best shots were also not that great, especially in low-light so there's that. In many ways this is the perfect architecture - super wide, medium, and tele options. The iPhone 11 just doesn't deliver that architecture that well with poor ISO performance and heavy-handed post-processing. Having something that had the same three FOV cameras, but had OIS instead of EIS, and the ability to record in some kind of low-processed 10-bit codec would be a completely different proposition. The recipe is good, they just need to upgrade the ingredients.

I can get behind that.. I have several in my "to sell when I can be bothered" pile ???

Let me get this straight... you shot a film for a film competition and didn't follow ANY of the rules? I'd keep your eyes on this thread come judging time!! ???

at least follow all the rest of the rules!!!!

Is the iPhone 11 Pro the perfect minimalist travel vlog camera? Spoiler: no. Double spoiler, some of the footage out of it looks terrible. I have a friend who lugs his 50D around the world even though he's a minimalist and hates carrying it around and all the hassle of memory cards and editing, but he's tried using his phone and however convenient it was, the only photos he likes came from the Canon. So it doesn't matter how much you like the shooting experience - if you don't like the output, what's the point?

What can I say - I value someone making something and sharing it rather than being a stickler for the rules. I finally put my 18-35/1.8 on ebay earlier today. If you were looking for a sign, this is definitely it!!

If it's a challenge to get a zoom lens long enough to see the F1 from where you live...... then I'm screwed.

I'm on the fence about them, and have already been asked via PM if they're allowed. After much googling I realised that the breakup of the USSR was a complicated matter, and that as far as I can tell East Germany was a satellite state, not part of the USSR. Wether or not this means it was or wasn't "soviet" is something my lawyers are still working on. So far they've written to request more money for research, but they assure me that they're definitely making progress and it will be any day now. In terms of this competition, considering it's a public forum and there is basically no prize, I literally can't stop you from entering East German lenses... However, the point was that we discover new lenses, and I'm fairly sure everyone has heard of Contax Zeiss and the like, whereas very few people would be familiar with the huge bargain that the Industar 50mm F3.5 lens is at US$20 with free worldwide shipping, so that's kind of more what this is about (new things, not the Industar 50/3.5 in particular!!). Then again, if you're looking for an excuse to buy an East German lens, then..... ???

Oh, I don't know... I'm sure there are lots of other exotics none of us can afford!! In other news, this might be useful to some. I really can't speak highly enough of the Takumars - if the focus ring went the right way then I'd be happily using them and scouring ebay for a set. The image has that great balance of sharpness and contrast while still looking natural and cinematic.

I shoot with fully-manual lenses, so every time I turn on the camera it asks me what the focal length is for the IBIS. Is this recorded anywhere in metadata that I can search for in my NLE (or even better - in OSX)? I'm having one of those "let's look at all the shots I made with lens X" type of moments....

I love my Voigtlander 17.5mm and am thinking about buying more, but at the end of the day it's about what your priorities are. If the zoom will help you get more shots, or capture the same moment in a better way (for example if you're not having to work around the fixed focal length) then maybe it's worth it for you to go to the PL zoom. Will the slower 1.7 aperture give you the DoF you are looking for? I personally like to shoot with primes over my 18-35 as I find the 18-35 too heavy as I hand-hold. I don't mind the total lens weight as the other lenses are in my bag and not hurting my wrists, but you are likely on sticks so don't have these issues. I'd suggest that the best way to answer is to get clear on your priorities and then see how the options stack up in light of what you're trying to achieve and how you're working. Ultimately though, if you're able to capture a better shot then that is very likely to completely eclipse the small loss of IQ you get by changing lenses. An average quality copy of a great subject is better than a high IQ copy of a boring final film!

Thanks.. there was sound, but no music. I suggested music but it wasn't a rule I'm pleased with the colour I got because I graded in a new way and it was pretty easy to get that result, so I learned something, despite it not being the most work or best film ever made. That's kind of what this is about, trying new things and learning.

No excuses.... someone managed to get a van around the Nurburgring in under 10 minutes! https://www.topgear.com/car-news/sabines-nurburgring-van-record-has-been-broken

Ah! I didn't realise the peanut gallery was awake ??? Right - new rule... to heckle from the back rows you have to enter the competition (or make a commitment that you will)! I've already entered, so it can't be that hard ???

Makes sense. I watched a reality TV show on Netflix about some freelance ENG guys called Shot In The Dark and the pace that these guys could edit was impressive. If anyone hasn't seen that it's pretty cool to watch.

Poland sounds like it might fit within the spirit of this competition...... In other news, a package arrived for me today, and I had a quick play and it looks pretty good! New lenses are quite inspiring I think. ???

This is a great idea, but I'd suggest the more you can make real and relevant then the better it will be, and by real and relevant I mean learning by doing. I'd suggest getting very very familiar with where the professional / legal / ethical boundaries are so that you're doing as much as you can. As a parent of a 15 and 13 year old, I'd suggest that your students are likely to have made videos before, even if they're TikTok, Instgram, gone live, Boomerangs, etc and maybe haven't 'published' them but have shared them in chats or other limited audiences. Unlike media classes even a decade ago, basically every kid has access to an entire media production suite in their pocket, so you should look at traditional media education very skeptically. This means that you can either help them to learn by creating content, publishing and seeing what happens, or you can help them understand what's going on with The Algorithm. I'd suggest that the latter will only be of interest to those who have inquisitive minds or who seek stardom, which isn't likely to be the majority of your class. Think about how many people are involved in making a film and how many are on-screen - talent is by far the minority and yet on social almost everyone plays the talent. Another angle is to go away from social media completely and teach them how to film a narrative. I know this is the traditional media education I told you to abandon only a few paragraphs ago, but (to argue against myself) it's a set of skills that are used by you tubers all the time that's invisible, and yet can be so important to creating better content. Depending on how long your classes are, you could even get them to go through the brainstorming, pre-production, production, post-production and delivery / distribution stages in one class "Now students, I'm starting a timer for 7 minutes, write down 5 ideas for a film".. It would be difficult for many students to keep up with that kind of pace, but do it a few times in a row (with students who managed to finish something sharing what worked) and you might get some traction with all students. Anyway, good luck!

No actual knowledge about this, but this is the internet so I'm pretty sure outright guesswork is allowed.. Firstly, people are becoming very highly visually educated and know what they like and what the various aesthetics are. People know that blurry backgrounds look 'professional' and many of them know about composition etc. Even if they don't know about these things consciously, they know a good image when they see it. Images are everywhere, and not only that, but really good images are everywhere. With all the billboards, TV ads, TV shows, movies, and image-heavy social media accounts from brands and influencers, people are seeing high-quality images like they've never seen before in history. Almost everyone with a smart-phone can now tell that the photos of their family on facebook aren't the same as the other images they see. My point is that TV stations know this and can cater to it. Secondly, I think that TV stations are putting more money into live events like sport, over fictional material. The great boom of reality TV was partly because it's hugely cheaper to make than narrative content, and I have heard that with advancing technology (and some channels even going to 1080p60!!) the focus is on sports. For the price of renting a better camera you can get HD content on air very quickly and easily (or at least, with basically the same speed and cost of it being SD) and my dad, who still consumes free-to-air TV here in Australia, says that the vast majority of HD content broadcast is sports, so it makes sense that they'd choose to upgrade this.

Just saw this, which is very good and shows how the YT game is played, and what is at stake in playing it.... Plus, this channel is awesome (This Guy Edits) so you should all go watch his videos ???

My completely uneducated guess is that this could be any half-decent video / ENG camera. Considering the ratio of subject distance to background distance, even a comparatively slow zoom lens would still get that kind of background blur, so I don't think it's an especially fast lens.

Randomly found this YT account while searching for lens tests. There's an absolute TON of lenses tested here, and they look to be pretty high quality tests too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgV58jUJM2H7NprdO5118tQ/videos The Anamorphic test has Master, Cooke, Todd, Hawk, Elite, Angenieux, Lomo, Cineovision, Kowa, P+S, Iscorama, Panavision, Atlas, etc... The older one has Canon K-35, Cooke Speed Panchro, Kowa, Zeiss Master Prime, Zeiss Super Speeds, Leica R, Nikon AI-S....

Good luck with trying to convince the internet that there are moral absolutes. If you're looking to argue with someone over, well, pretty well anything, then there are places for that. 4chan, 8chan, and many more. Put on your flak jacket first though! and since it seems that we have to have links to justify our opinions, here's a one for you ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

I've been tempted by these in the past. What are you going to shoot with it?