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We're going to try and make P4K footage have the same "look" of the OG Pocket camera, so that should tell you something about how well regarded the images from it are. I was seriously considering buying one, but I wanted something small and it seems that the P2K works best when you can rig it up with external power and audio. Weren't you going to stick with Fuji as a C-camera? Or is this for a different setup?
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Back from the dead? 8 reasons why I am warming to the tiny Canon EOS RP
kye replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Or we don't want to be limited to minuscule and rather bland selection of Canon-compatible IS lenses. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of different aesthetics available from the different lens designs, materials, coatings, and manufacturers throughout the history of photography. I personally think that the ability of mirrorless to adapt every SLR lens ever made is potentially the biggest advantage of taking out the mirror. The fact that IBIS gives IS to every lens ever made is a real game changer for those who don't (or can't) always shoot on tripods or larger rigs. -
Brandon Li is a famous travel film-maker who has made a number of viral travel films, with all of the special effects we associate with the genre. His latest project went beyond that and included actors, a storyline, dramatic tension, as well as being a travel film. Tom Antos interviewed him for a BTS look, and he talks about process, equipment, logistics, editing, the balance of control vs improvisation (there wasn't a script), and other interesting things, as well as showing some BTS footage. I think it's an interesting crossover between fully planned shoots and completely unplanned travel films. Here is the final film, and the BTS interview:
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Back from the dead? 8 reasons why I am warming to the tiny Canon EOS RP
kye replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Actually, no chance of being disappointed. Since buying my GH5 I haven't been genuinely interested in any of the newer releases. At least for my particular needs, nothing out there really comes close, and there isn't a lot with the GH5 where you think "gee, I really wish that it could..." -
Man, I read that whole thread thinking AA was an Anti-Aliasing filter, which even made sense in the context that it's in the filter stack!! Too many acronyms! ???
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Back from the dead? 8 reasons why I am warming to the tiny Canon EOS RP
kye replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Interesting. I was just going to say that if it had 4K with only APSC crop, Canon colours, and 10-bit C-Log then it might be the first camera since the GH5 to tempt me.... but then realised it probably wouldn't have IBIS. For non-handheld shooters though, and depending on the final specs, it might be an offering to attract jaded Canon shooters back into the fold. -
Worth watching. It's partly an ad for his course, but there's also lots of useful stuff in here.
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It looks nice to me To give any criticism I'd have to know what you were trying to accomplish.
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Wonderful videos! I know my GH5 is so much better than I am 41K.. screw 8K! Wow!! ???
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Thanks, just got time to watch that. I like how he starts by saying something like "let's get through this as quickly as possible" but it then takes 45 minutes I found the Contax Zeiss Survival Guide on Reduser and was heartened when the guy distinguished between "Vintage" and "Organic". I'd noticed that when people were talking about the lenses they were talking about how that more organic look could be had from certain lenses, and that those same lenses might also be super sharp, whereas Vintage seems to indicate a softness that is at the expense of sharpness. To my eye there is something that some lenses do that is similar to the effect of shooting in RAW, or even shooting 10-bit colour instead of 8-bit. I think whatever that thing is, it's the thing that nasty kit zooms tend to have the opposite of, which is why they don't get a lot of love, despite often being sharp and optically quite good performers. You mean, you're doing it the right way around? ???
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Take twice as many batteries as ... just kidding! Have a checklist of some kind so you don't forget things. It can be written, it can be filling each pocket of your bag, whatever, but have a system. Have a process when you get back to base (your room, your office, whatever) and be sure to include: Putting everything back on charge Downloading and backing up media Cleaning things After getting back to base take 5 minutes to think about what worked, what didn't work, and what you might change.
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And for people that run it as a studio camera, they could even just plug it into a large cheap HDD, assuming that it could handle the bitrate. That would make the setup cheaper again. All new cameras should have a USB port as a media option
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Never underestimate the potential for people to take online comments the wrong way, or just emotional insecurity and immaturity. One of my favourite things to say to people is that most people don't grow up or become adults, they just get older. It gets a few laughs normally, often enthusiastic agreement, but it's kind of the opposite of a joke because it's mostly true, and I only say it when the subject of someone being a total !@#%^ comes up in conversation. I'd rather have a different saying on repeat, but alas..
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Works for me.. but if it's a bug and they're doing their software development right then they'll have it fixed in a very short time.
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..and if you're an amateur like me, you're budget limited and partly overwhelmed when shooting but have hours and hours to fiddle in post. If you're able to spare the extra render time, you can create a nice set of preset looks that you can just apply to each project, so post work doesn't have to take a lot of time.
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GH5 quality settings for music videos, weddings etc.
kye replied to @yan_berthemy_photography's topic in Cameras
Yeah, IBIS seems to be like IS but can handle more movement. Having IBIS to stabilise fully manual lenses gives you the best of both worlds. I've just registered over at reduser to hopefully be able to see image attachments when they talk about lenses, as they seem to share my taste in lenses: manual, fast, and expensive! ??? -
GH5 quality settings for music videos, weddings etc.
kye replied to @yan_berthemy_photography's topic in Cameras
I agree completely. IBIS is something that people who don't need it don't understand the value in. That's like everything in a sense, we don't appreciate what we don't use or don't need. For me, IBIS provides a nice level of camera movement. If you hand-hold a camera it's ok for action scenes, but too jerky for anything else and just screams "8mm home video". Something like a shoulder rig gives a nice level of motion, the extra size eliminates the hand-shake but keeps the human movement, especially when paired with IS in a lens. More stable than that are the glide cams which are very smooth, but @KnightsFan is right in saying they're still intuitive and can still have that human movement. Gimbals are very difficult to control to let that human movement through, but I think part of the difficulty with them is that they let basically no changes to where the camera is pointing but still let through all of the changes in where the camera is positioned, and the combination looks odd. You're absolutely right that it allows something new. We used to have glide cams or shoulder-rigs to give that level of movement, we also used to have rigs that were very fast to setup and use which allowed spontaneity and life to blossom in front of the camera easily, and we also used to have small setups that you could take into places that don't allow professional filming. IBIS brings these three together in a way that we never had before, and for me that's what creates new creative possibilities. You can use the size and speed to allow filming in situations where there wouldn't have been time, or to allow more movement that would have been very difficult before. Shooting calligraphy is a beautiful way of saying it, another might be to have a dance between the subject and the camera. I am attempting to make videos of my family (who don't re-do things and I'm not going to ask them to) in places where there is no professional shooting allowed and I'm carrying around the camera all day, and I want the end results to be as beautiful as I can make them, which hand-shake completely destroys IMHO. IBIS is what allows me to shoot in places and not get told off or asked to leave. I suspect they will get better, and may incorporate additional features that make this easier in the future. For example, if there was a little camera looking at you scanning your face and you could steer the direction of the camera by angling your head, like those separate controllers do when you tilt or rotate them now. This would be very intuitive because I know that when I'm watching something and I want the camera to look somewhere else at something off-screen I move my head by instinct as if trying to get the camera to move. -
Screw what is over-used or under-used or what the cool kids are wearing, if it fits the story then use it It's like that saying about continuity "if someone notices continuity issues, then your film is crap". Shoot the whole film in slow-motion in golden hour and into the sun with flares all over the place and it will be fine as long as all that stuff fits the story. It's when it doesn't fit that people start complaining. I used to think that the 3D thing was just a DOF thing, but I'm beginning to understand. Last night I did a bunch of reading and found this comparison: https://www.thephotoforum.com/threads/warning-lrg-lens-shootout-contax-zeiss-planar-50mm-f-1-4-t-vs-pentax-smc-takumar-55mm-f-1-8.394768/ Tell me that the 5mm difference in focal length (and therefore aperture) is responsible for the differences in those shots. I suspect it's the contrast, which likely comes from the coatings. I would have expected the Takumar to be sharper than the CZ, but not so. Maybe I just let my mind wander with Takumar sounding like Tak, as in "tack sharp"
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@heart0less I'm assuming you're laughing at the last part of my post? I wish it were a joke, but sadly not. We've all heard jokes about how we have to apologise to our wives if we do something mean to them in one of their dreams, but it happens to all of us despite not wanting to admit it. I remember reading about a debut album that was meant to be spectacular and I went and listened to it at the shop but it didn't do anything for me. Months later a friend had it with him and asked if I'd heard it and said I'd really like it. I said I had and that I didn't, and he told me I was crazy and made me listen to it again on his Discman. What followed was an hour of the best music I have ever heard. That album is spectacular, received wide critical acclaim, and is still one of my favourite albums 20+ years later. I thought long and hard about why it didn't strike me on my first listen and the only explanation I can find is that maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it at the time. Photography is such a subtle art that it's hard to get past all the noise to be able to really see properly. Even great photographers deliberately sit with their work and only over time do they decide if they like an image or not. If I can work out what to look for in an image then my brain can cut through some of that noise and I'll at least get in the ballpark of which lens characteristics I like or don't fuss me.
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Their comments were about the reaction emojis, not your posts. People do get touchy about those emojis.. I figured you'd done it by accident, I know I've done that before! I gather you shot that video as a test shoot to see what the camera/lens combo was capable of? I'm a big fan of camera tests being made into a nice end product (like you did with this) so that they serve artistic value as well as just technical usefulness. I'm particularly fond of the idea of shooting a test video of your family or friends, as it makes a nice family momento as well as serving as a real-world test, although privacy comes into it a bit and so shooting in public can be a good alternative.
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Jeez, you say one nice thing and there goes your whole reputation!!???
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I've heard that too, and seen it a bit in some lens comparisons but it was pretty subtle, at least to my eyes. OMG keep quiet!! If you say things like that people will realise that 4K isn't 4X better than 1080! and then people would stop buying things, manufacturers would go under, and we'd be left with only one or two companies left.... and knowing our luck Canon would be one of them. So keep quiet.. even if not for yourself, think of the children!!
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Does anyone have any good links to articles or whatever talking about the artistic aspects of lenses? Like, how to look at images and understand the visual aspects that the lenses contribute.. I'm not talking about lenses 101 with the "the background blur is caused by aperture" or anything, I'm talking like if I sat down with a Hollywood cinematographer and asked them to explain what makes a great lens great and what to pay attention to and how you can tell when looking at the images. I know I prefer a Zeiss or Angenieux to my kit lens, even when on the same settings, but if someone asked me what differences there really are I don't think I could say much beyond "it looks nicer". If I can work out what I'm looking at and responding to then I can figure out what works for me and use my brain to evaluate options, instead of just using emotional reactions and having my impression of a lens also being influenced by how recently I ate, exercised, or if the kids are behaving nicely or not.
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This isn't you, this is ML. It took me quite a while to figure it out, and I have a degree in computer science, so don't feel bad! People talk about the Sony menus being difficult to use, but ML is on a whole other level... and in a parallel dimension! It's almost like they don't want anyone to be able to use it.