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I was thinking of Banksy... And in terms of not existing in the real industry, if this guy is making a living by making videos then he is in the industry!

I suspect you're right. The APSC factor, combined with that the 85mm might have been the fourth prime people bought, plus it wasn't the default lens with any camera.. Damn!! I know that the Rokinon/Samyang 85/1.4 is probably the best price-performance out there but I just didn't want to spend that much for an occasional lens.

Doco! Doco! Doco! Bonus points for narrating like David Attenborough. "...and here we can see the water as it soaks up the wall, creating a frenzied bloom to millions of mould and fungus spores..."

Typically specs that are on the camera-end of the lens are more likely to show up in footage than those at the front end of the lens, but it will depend on the aperture. At wide apertures you'll be throwing the specs out of focus more than at small apertures, like f22 for example.

Yeah, or they didn't make as many of them perhaps. The fact that the Yongnuo 85mm f1.8 is over three times the price of a Yongnuo 50mm f1.8 is a sign as well. They'd have a very similar optical design I would think.

I'd start by taking all the gear and laying it out on a flat surface to see if that's possible. Obviously a case works in 3D but you'd get a sense of how to lay it out, what might be a good starting point, and if it's hopeless to begin with. I have padded inserts with velcro dividers that you can move around and face a similar battle each time I plan a holiday and have to work out how to fit everything in.

Why aren't there a bunch of cheap ~80mm lenses around the place? People talk about 50mm as the normal lens and the internet is drowning in them, even having fancy names like "nifty fifty", but 80mm is referred to as a classic portrait focal length so why aren't there nicknames for this focal length and bucket loads of vintage 85mm f1.8 lenses sitting on ebay ready to be plucked like ripened fruit? It's not like zooms were that great back in the day and the quadrillion 135mm lenses around are too long to replace an 85mm as the default portrait length.

There is a version that you buy a licence through an app store, but it's not as good as the hardware dongle version I've heard. Googling would reveal more info. In terms of using a dongle though, if you pull it out then Resolve notices it fairly quickly and politely asks for it back

Cool, what version of Resolve was that? And yeah, change is hard. Resolve has a pretty hardcore keyboard customisation engine, and they've put in presets for other NLEs but the layouts and methods and tiny features still take a long time to adjust to. One of the Adobe YT crew did a comparison of Premier and Resolve and one of the gripes she mentioned was a single button click away from fixing, but there would be dozens of those to learn in converting. It just depends on how much pain you are in... ???

The free version of Resolve has almost all the functionality of the paid version, and a one-off purchase (of $300 IIRC) potentially comes with unlimited future upgrades. They don't guarantee that, but I bought a dongle when v12 was out and it still works on v16, and people who bought at?previous versions are also around saying the same thing. If you buy a physical dongle then I think you can use it across however many computers you like, just not at the same time, and you won't be subject to the Apple store licencing restrictions. There are also threads of people petitioning BM to give it still image editing so they can also ditch LightRoom, but I'm not sure on how likely that is. Come on in, the water is fine

Here's a few shots from my 17.5mm f0.95 lens on MFT.. It's equivalent to a 35mm f1.9 lens on a FF sensor, so it's pretty fast. Not sure which of these are wide open or not, but you can definitely get shallow dof if you want to. People talk about f2.8 mft lenses like they're fast, but they're really not. You need to have things around f1 for them to start using that phrase. Also remember that the dof is related to the aperture, which is proportional to the focal length, so a 25mm f0.95 has shallower dof than my 17.5mm f0.95, so if you're using longer lenses then it's easier to get that FF look.

I thing that learning about ourselves as filmmakers is the ultimate challenge, as no amount of fancy/big/small/lightweight/Hollywood equipment will make shooting an easier process if we don't know who we are, what we're shooting and why we're doing it in the first place. I'm not sure about you, but a good amount of my indecision comes from my curiosity about all the new and shiny things that are around... we have 70+ years of cinematic history to explore, and even if the vintage stuff doesn't peak our interest, we have manufacturers in a perpetual deathmatch trying to create new equipment that will give Hollywood results for pocket-change budgets, and there are many hidden gems to be explored. Of course, this curiosity for equipment is really curiosity to learn about ourselves, and the people who are top of their game will have their go-to setup that they've worked out suits their own methods and goals and are pushing forward on other creative pursuits rather than technical ones, but the battle for perfection in creativity is a journey with no end

So, if it's a 1.33x adapter on a 24mm equiv FOV then would it have the same horizontal FOV as an 18mm then? That's pretty freaking wide, which (IMHO) is pretty awesome. My 16mm equiv wide angle gives great perspective when the subject calls for it...

Here's a general question that will show my ignorance of anamorphics... if the lens on an iPhone has a particular FOV, what happens when you put the anamorphic lens onto it? Does it the horizontal angle of view get wider? Does the vertical get less? Both? Making the default lens wider would be worth something - I much prefer a 16mm FOV over a 24 or 28mm FOV.

A little late to this conversation, but firstly congrats on buying the Micro!! ??? We've spoken about this before and I know how cool this is and what it means for your projects! I was reading through your posts and kept thinking C-mount (or even D-mount) would be the way to go considering your fondness for a wide prime and the crop factor, and then boom....! My advice would be to start with this bad-boy and only replace it if you've found it lacking from real use. When you say that it's not that sharp wide-open I'd encourage you to think about it the way I think of my fast primes - as two lenses. A soft and emotive lens wide open, and a sharper more vanilla lens when stopped down a bit. Almost like the aperture dial is a defocus control. Rig it up, take it out, shoot the shit out of it. Make lots of videos like people are making in the $200 camera challenge - kind of little test-shot montages. The Micro sensor won't be that sharp anyway (1080 RAW), so you might find that the lens makes less difference than it would on a 4K h264 camera. Also, you might be able to make that sharpness back with slightly more Midtone Detail on those shots than on the other ones. Alternatively, you could apply a small blur to the sharper shots and just go for 100% vibes over straight-out resolution. I'll say more on this later, but blurring footage can work magic if done right Man, a tiny Micro + C-mount setup is almost making me jealous!

@mercer Cool shots! I like the colour as well as the B&W versions. One of the things that makes the colour shots nice is the contrast of warm/cool tones, a kind of orange/teal grade but done in real life rather than in post (which is 1000% better than doing it in post IMHO). One thing lacking from the "shot-by-shot" decision making that photographers have is that its typical to have the whole film graded in the same look, so we're making one decision for all of our shots in the design phase instead of in post. Making the decision in production design gives an advantage as we can shoot for colour or shoot for B&W, giving us the chance to get things better in-camera. I think ML has a B&W preview mode doesn't it? That might be useful as you'll get a better sense of what the finished product will be like.

Maybe that's what prompted the discussion about exposure.. We all make mistakes, it's about learning from them that is what is important

This is EOSHD. We tangent pretty hard around here.

If this doesn't say "film-making is about marketing, reputation, customer service more than it is about the end result" then I don't know what will! Good luck to him, the Hunter S Thompson lifestyle isn't for everyone

Just paste the URL into the message window, hit enter/return and after a few seconds it should expand out to embed the video

I'm happy for it to get extended a couple of days.. It would be nice to see a few more entries

Yeah, gimbal work is a different thing altogether. Unless you have a follow-focus with wireless monitoring, then it's pretty much AF-only.

Nice work! I'm also ready for round two.. this was fun, and I still have an outstanding experiment I wanted to try ???

@Michi Very nice!! and a great idea too

Very nice! Absolutely! @Jonesy Jones you should actually consider that! Moment is a lens company that makes clip-on lenses for smartphones and the like. They make some anamorphic lenses that you should be able to use with your iPad. They're not free, but they're probably under 10% of what it costs (in time and money) to get the next cheapest anamorphic setup