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Update:
I sold all my schtuff.
I'm now the proud owner of a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a Metabones SpeedBooster EF and a Rokinon/Samyang/Bower VDSLR 35mm T/1.5.

I haven't received the SD cards I need to make this baby roar (which is a whopping 95MB/s 64GB), but from what I can see on the monitor, and using a z-finder, this is really right up my alley. the raw image and film range is flat as fuck. I love it.

As for shooting with it, I'll be doing some tests with grading next week, and creating a short the week after that.

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I thought the dragon looked fine.

But that burning scene is by far the worst they've done.

As in, I don't mind the show following the books, on the contrary, I enjoy it, but Stannis Baratheon should have a long and painful death. That scene made my stomach turn and drew tears from my eyes, a feat no other digital medium has done.

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Yo.

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Don't mind him, he's a snob tongue

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restecpa, bro.

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He liked the video Mad posted, BDA.

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Laws still apply.
But yeah, that's just silly.

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Back in '03-'06 when I played regularly, we did in-character voices in English, with fitting accents. Helped us distinguish between what's in-character and what wasn't.

But yeah, I'm all game.

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Fun fact, Norway isn't IN the EU wink

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Well, that doesn't make much sense, but neither does "European tax law", as Europe is 50 individual countries, with 50 individual set of laws.

But that does actually ring a bell.


In other news, I may have decided to just go for the BMPCC, and get a Rebel series camera to take pictures if need be.

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Canons max out at 12 minutes, because of Fat32.

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Doesn't overheat, but stops recording at 30 minutes. It has a function to start recording at that instant, but I'd recommend not using it at a wedding, as that missed second can be quite crucial.

EDIT:

I'm also planning to make a more elaborate thread about cameras in here, to help more people figure out their perfect configuration, and to get insight from all of you, so stay tuned. It's also going to work as reseach for another article tongue

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Times, eh? Yuck.

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That's completely doable, as A) Most of the fighting sessions take too long to just roll and work out, and B) I can do some interesting voices and accents. If you're doing that kind of thing with your characters, anways.

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Oh god, this just piqued my interest.


fuck. I don't have time for this.

...guys?

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Well, Sushi isn't raw fish, per se. Sushi is vinegar-cooked rice combined with other ingredients, in most cases raw fish. You could do bacon-wrapped sushi, as you'd basically just bacon-wrap vinegar-cooked rice.


Boter: For your line of work, maybe you'd want to look into getting a GH4? Downscale the 4K footage, and it looks crisp as hell. If you're worried about light, get a camera that's better performing in low light, and as you're a damned sony-lover, get an A7s smile

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If I'm adding an atomos, I'll be just as well with a 5D2, to be fair.

Again, I've already owned and sold a GH4. Not going to back to Panasonic unless I get a proper video camera, like the HVX200 used to be.

Shooting on a Red Epic would certainly be fun, but having seen a Red One in the flesh, I don't see that ever becoming a reality. Not because the cameras Red make aren't great, but they're simply too big. The way I usually go about things is a tiny crew and a shoestring budget. If I get a proper budget and crew, I'll probably have more than one guy on the camera, and then maybe, maybe using a larger camera like that would be an option.

As of now though, small but good is the way to go.

Sam: Battery life is not an issue. I usually bring a dozen to the set anyway, just in case, along with two chargers. No problems there, really. The slow motion isn't that big of a deal either. As I said, I owned a GH4. Didn't even touch the 96FPS. I'd just as well use an iPhone 6, and shoot 240fps for that one shot I'd need it for.

bullet: I actually didn't like the menu interface of the GH4. I found it confusing and not logically built up. I remember looking for frame rates, and then I had to go back and change the hertz of the damn thing, and to enable stuff like that, I also had to set it to NTS or PAL or whatever. It's not a bad camera, by all means, it just didn't work for me. Major setback, money-wise, but no cigar. I waited for a potential ProRes or raw feature, but whilst I was doing that, the camera just gathered dust.

I know I'm probably sounding like a jerk, looking for advice when I'm already settled, but the truth is; I'm not. I'm on the fence, sure, but I still think I might do stills some times, and that's when I'd need to have my own camera instead of borrowing.

Which is why I pretty much need 3 cameras.

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As stated, I did own a GH4.
4K is nothing more than resolution, but the lack of moire is a good pro for that camera.
The footage is 8-bit, though, which doesn't appeal more to me than a 6D. Same compression, different name.

Sam: I'll agree that Canon isn't where it's at in the prosumer price range. With the addition of Magic Lantern, yes, but then it really needs to be a 5D3 in order to get 1080p. The Traveler part 2 was shot using a combination of 5D/6D footage, using raw, but it wasn't shot in 1080p. In order to get continuous shots, we had to use a weird resolution(1728x786, with a 2.2:1 ratio). The reason for this is the pure amount of data that needs to go to the memory card. For instance, the 5D mk 2 maxes out the memory bus speed at 75 mb/s, whereas the 6D uses slower cards in general(SD), and the same resolution is possible, but only for limited bursts, which is why it was B camera when we filmed the short.

The 5D mk3, however, maxes out at about 140 mb/s, so shooting raw isn't a problem at all.
But it's an expensive piece of equipment, especially when you need glass for it as well. You don't get a $3000 camera and then attach $100 glass to it. You just don't.

The BMPCC deal I'm looking at will get me the camera, 4 batteries, a metabones speed booster, a voigtländer 40mm f/2 and a cage. It's going for about $1500, which is a REALLY good price.

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holden

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