Cambridge Folk Festival gets the full 8 bits

[Tim Sewell]

I mentioned here some time ago that I was planning to make a mini-doc at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival - the UK's leading such event that this year celebrated its 60th anniversary.

Well it didn't work out quite how I wanted. I took my 15yr old with me and had expected that he would go off independently in search of the things 15 year old boys hope they will find, but no. He wanted to stick to me like glue, as long as he could also stick to his camping chair and his phone all day every day, so I didn't get to do the vox pops and the storytelling I had planned (I still have 200 cards I had printed with the details of how to see the film once finished, to hand to interviewees). Ah well. I've booked to go again next year. Alone!

Here is what I did manage to get. Shot 4k on the A6600 - an underrated camera in my opinion and I don't think it scrubs up badly at all. This was exclusively with my now-doughty 18-105 f4 and subjected to pretty much the same grading process as the last clip I posted here (

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Anyway. Hope you all like it. Edited to add: Select 4K and turn the volume right up!

 

[kye]

15 hours ago, Tim Sewell said:

I mentioned here some time ago that I was planning to make a mini-doc at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival - the UK's leading such event that this year celebrated its 60th anniversary.

Well it didn't work out quite how I wanted. I took my 15yr old with me and had expected that he would go off independently in search of the things 15 year old boys hope they will find, but no. He wanted to stick to me like glue, as long as he could also stick to his camping chair and his phone all day every day, so I didn't get to do the vox pops and the storytelling I had planned (I still have 200 cards I had printed with the details of how to see the film once finished, to hand to interviewees). Ah well. I've booked to go again next year. Alone!

Here is what I did manage to get. Shot 4k on the A6600 - an underrated camera in my opinion and I don't think it scrubs up badly at all. This was exclusively with my now-doughty 18-105 f4 and subjected to pretty much the same grading process as the last clip I posted here (

)

Anyway. Hope you all like it. Edited to add: Select 4K and turn the volume right up!

 

Great stuff!  Lots of little interesting stuff to notice in there, like you making sure people are clapping in time to your soundtrack, etc.  Some fun characters too - there's nothing like a grumpy person staring down the barrel of the camera lens!

Those Sony 6000 series cameras can make some great images.  I was considering the A6300 at one point, but an IBIS bug put me off at the time.  I think the major issue for those cameras was that getting good colour out of them required more skill than people had at the time.  Now there's more support for folks in terms of tools like colour management, the film emulation plugins, and more knowledge of colour grading techniques, so it's much easier to make the most of the files.

Amusing about your son - kids are funny sometimes.  Just as I thought I'd figured mine out (even just partially) they'd change and go through a new stage and I'd go back to being completely confused again!