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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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(100 replies, posted in Creations)

Yo.

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Lamer wrote:

Hoff's version is pretty cool but for me this one takes the cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khnL1ZjN-vk


Okay, that was pretty damn good too!

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I enjoyed the hell out of it. Everything is so over-the-top, you appreciate it for what it is. The one-liners gave me a good chuckle, too. I think the only thing I didn't like was "Thor's amusement of his own pecks".

Apart from that, everything from the film itself, to Hoff's music video is just plain awesome.

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

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I've still to play Ori and the Blind forest, and saying it's one of the best games ever, and the most fun platformer certainly sets the bar high.

My current favorite platformer, and best game in 2013, is by far this:

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Yeah, I've been meaning to pick that up.
I never played the first one, and the second one I played for about 30 minutes until realising it wasn't my kind of game.

Funny thing though, same happened with Dragon Age. Played the first one, wanted to like it; didn't. Never got around to the second one, so naturally didn't bother with the third one until the reviews started happening. Played it, loved it a lot, and now I'm guessing it's the same thing with Witcher 3. Reviews give it 9-10/10 across the board. I may be wrong about it.

In other news, I got myself a Playstation Vita. (I know, right)
I got it primarily to play old school Final Fantasy games again, and I'm currently plowing throught the one I never got around to finish, namely VIII. I gotta say, I am loving it. I've also got VII, IV, V and X/X-2 HD Remaster loaded onto it, as I still can't find a legitimate reason to own a Vita. There's 3 games, off the top of my head that I'd consider getting, which are Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Tearaway, and Gravity Rush. The first because I like the Uncharted series, the second one because Media Molecule seems to be great at using functionality of a console and bake it into a game, and the latter because the cover looks cool as hell. I have no idea what it's about or if it's a good game.

Apart from that, there's no real reason to get a Vita. It's got a touch screen, a touch panel at the back(which, incidentally, acts like R2 and L2 buttons in PS1/2 games, two cameras, a proprietary charger(at least the first generation) and a proprietary memory card, which is now hard to find, and really expensive.

Other than those things, it is great playing old games again, and the ability to do it in bed, on a bus, a plane, and even a hotel room is pretty neat.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityrush/images/9/9a/Gravity_rush_boxart.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120210030830

restecpa, bro.

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(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

He liked the video Mad posted, BDA.

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(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

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

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(149 replies, posted in Friends in Your Dungeon)

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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(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

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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(33 replies, posted in Creations)

Times, eh? Yuck.

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(149 replies, posted in Friends in Your Dungeon)

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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(149 replies, posted in Friends in Your Dungeon)

Oh god, this just piqued my interest.


fuck. I don't have time for this.

...guys?

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(14 replies, posted in Creations)

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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Boter wrote:

Due to a suggestion from Bertocci, backed up by Owen, I went with a track from Incomptech. The first episode of the season came out last week, and the second just now.

Color's not perfect but I am damn happy with where the production is right now.

The meal for this one, Grilled Cuban Sandwiches, was Vapes' idea, having just seen Chef a couple of weeks prior to his visit. (I, hypocritically, still haven't gotten around to it.)

Watched this.

I want one.

Also, as a techie-note, your main camera is super-soft compared to the GoPro, might want a sharper lens for that badboy?

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(33 replies, posted in Creations)

holden

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Hey guys.

As has been addressed a plethora of times, there's no such thing as a perfect camera. We should all know this by now.

There are multiple categories of cameras, brand bias and all sorts of discussions as to codecs, lens mounts, sensor sizes and whatnots.


I've been pursuing the perfect camera for years now, and I've come to realise I'll probably need 3 cameras.

To make a very long story sort of shortbut not really, in fact pretty detailed and long.:

In 2007 I got a EOS 1000D, to take stills. I already owned a shitty DV camcorder (Canon MV700EU), and I wanted to get more into photography. I didn't know much of anything about cameras, lenses or settings, but I plowed away nonetheless.
Three years later, after reading various reviews, I went out and got a Rebel T2i (Canon EOS 550D), which I then kept for a solid 3 more years.
Magic Lantern came along, and introduced various neat tools like audio metering and bracket filming and such, which was great, but then in spring 2013, they started getting serious, and added raw video to cameras like the 5D Mk III.
I was looking to upgrade anyway and read up on how well a camera like the MkII would perform within the same realm, and went with it.

It's also worth mentioning that I also took a huge amount of pictures, so a video camera was completely out of the equation, when looking for cameras, and at this point, I owned 5 lenses for the Canon system that I didn't want to just sell and then start over again.

That was until the Panasonic GH4 was announced. 4K, great codec in camera, EVF, flip-out monitor, great battery life, etc, etc.

I bought it in August 2014, and I owned it for 6 months until I sold it again. Why? While all those features are great, the MFT system didn't catch on for me, and although I could attach literally any lens out there with the myriad of adapters readily available, I was never able to take a good photo with the damn thing. Video wise? Yes, it wasn't too bad, really. Picture is sharp as hell, sure, but even though the workflow of raw video via Magic Lantern is stupidly complicated, I still missed it. It may be my own damn fault, as I never got panasonic, or MFT glass to use it as a stills camera(which is expensive, by the way), but I wound up selling at went back to canon.

In February 2015, I got a refurbished EOS 6D and some glass to go along. I was ready to get back into photography as well as shooting raw video.
Now, the 6D uses SD cards instead of high-end CF cards, so the raw capabilities aren't as beefed up as a 5D2, and not even close to a 5D3, but I could basically afford a heavily haggled 5D3, but then I wouldn't have any glass, and then what's the point, right? Right.

It's May now. And in the three months I've owned a relatively high-end DSLR and some great glass, I've taken about 20 pictures with it, and did a couple of raw video tests.

That's it.

I went back to Canon to get the best of both worlds, but I guess after the 5D, the GH4 just killed my interest in photography, and the 6D has just been taking space under my desk, tucked away in a huge Golla bag.

So what now?
I'm still looking for that perfect camera, but I want to start taking movie making seriously, and as such, I might need a new camera. Again.
But taken into consideration that I don't actually shoot pictures anymore, and that the GF owns an EOS 400D if I absolutely want to take pictures, and that two of my colleagues own high-end Nikon cameras, I can simply borrow those to do just that.

Of course, one might argue that I could get an external recorder like an Atomos, Shogun, Ninja or even the new Black Magic Video Assist, but the 6D doesn't have a clean HDMI out, so it won't actually help me at all.

As it happens, I've gotten a pretty good deal on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera package. I won't go into detail about prices, but from what I read, this might be the way to go.

Why? Let's do a pros and cons!

Pros:
-It shoots raw and ProRes 422 HQ
-It's tiny, so adding a rig to it means it'll be lightweight and still pretty compact.
-It's MFT, which really IS a good thing when it comes to video.
-13 stops of dynamic range

Cons:
-Doesn't do stills. But I may not wind up using that function anyway if I got a 5D3.
-Eats batteries. But they're like $8 a pop, so getting several isn't an issue.
-Super 16 sensor, which, compared to Full Frame is a 2.8x crop, but the package I'm looking at includes a speedbooster, so it'll be closer to an APS-C, which is just fine.
-Craptastic internal audio. I own videomics and recorders. This isn't an issue.
-no remaining space on card feature. Yet.




FFS.

tl;dr:

I don't shoot photos anymore, and want to focus on making movies. Should I ditch my EOS and go for a BMPCC?