...and then blending modes.

Zarban wins. DiF has peaked. Shut it down.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I LOL'D. Yes they are, somehow, very cute girls despite being my daughters.
Also, to slightly add something more relevant to the topic at hand, I like my mother-in-law's canon camera for its fast shutter speed. Working with kids, being able to take several photos at once is a must. They don't like to hold still for long
Also, good infor regarding file types. I am the typical layman who thought that mp3 and jpeg were a good way to go. So, it is nice to hear about compression and other file types that will make it easier to do photo and audio work
Also:

dear god!  exporting an image sequence of an 8 min. 50 sec. video ends up being just a little over 90 GB!  DUDE!  that's like a 100 times larger than the PRORES quicktime!

In a few years everyone will be working at higher resolutions and the PNG's will be even larger. It's a repeating cycle 

Everything was so easy on mini-dv you shot on tape and captured in one format and worked in that format and exported in that format... I don't know why I ever stopped!

I'm about a week or so away from finally being able to get the first bit of my camera gear. I'll be grabbing a panasonic GH2. And so long as I did my math right, I should have enough left over to get some toys.

So I'm thinking of getting this mic kit: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/7 … phone.html

This head: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/6 … _Head.html

These legs: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/6 … ripod.html

and this case: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/6 … d_Bag.html

Any thoughts on the choices would be appreciated

I figure this should be enough to get me going until I can get together enough to sink into some pro lights and lighting gear.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-04-08 04:02:03)

http://instagram.com/p/X09vwJzXMl/

Wow that's awesome. I am jealous of you.

And also Dorkman. Congrats on your BMPCC preorder. Sounds like you'll have yourself a nice 31st birthday present!

A bit more of a higher thinking question this time. I've been doing a lot of reading and looking about lenses lately, since that's one area that I'm still very very new to.

And I was just wondering what the shooters here think.

Right now I'll be working with a GH2, which is a micro 4/3rds lens mount. But obviously I'll be moving up to something bigger and better eventually, something that will most likely not have a m4/3rds mount. If I'm building my glass kit, should I buy for the m4/3rds and then use an adapter later, or do I get something else that's a great piece of glass and adapt it down to the m4/3rds?

Mostly I'm just getting confused because I hear all these shooters talking about this and this lens being something that you'll use for the rest of your life, but the lens mount is the mount and that changes just from camera to camera let alone over time.

Or maybe I'm just thinking about this entirely wrong and should just go back to reading.

EDIT: Obviously most of this is completely hypothetical at this point. I won't be getting any lenses of my own for a long time. But I'm just trying to understand the logic of it all. Just thought I'd clarify that.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-04-09 04:27:53)

I don't know every bit of technical jargon but I understand it well enough, so I hope I can explain it well enough too.

If you get a camera with a different mount (e.g. Canon EF Mount) in the future, you won't be able to adapt M4/3 lenses to it. For one thing, the sensor will probably be larger than a M4/3 sensor and those lenses wouldn't cover the whole thing, and you'd get some serious vignetting.

The main reason though is the flange distance (distance between mount and sensor) of the M4/3 system. I don't know what cameras this diagram depicts but let's call the top one a 7D and the bottom one a GH2. That's basically how the distances compare, because M4/3 cameras don't have a mirror taking up so much space between the lens and the sensor.

A lens made for a certain mount is designed for the particular flange distance of that mount. If the lens is set at the wrong distance from the sensor, the focal distance will be out of whack. If you hold a M4/3 lens up to a Canon 7D, since the lens is positioned too far out you probably won't be able to focus further than a few inches. It's like using a macro extension tube.

So, if you're planning on holding on to your lenses after switching to a camera with a different mount, don't buy M4/3 lenses. The thing is though, if you're gonna invest in a different lens system, you're gonna have to know which mount your future camera will have. That's the tricky part of this mess.

In my opinion, Canon hasn't shown a lot of promise lately in terms of consumer/prosumer video quality, but their EF Mount is also the most widely used in the video world. So since everybody already has EF lenses, companies that want to make a camera but don't have their own lens systems are likely to use EF if their sensor is bigger than M4/3 (case in point, Blackmagic). Plus you can also adapt EF lenses to Sony E Mount cameras. So that's why Canon is a solid choice. But hey, Nikon also seem to be stepping up their game too, though they still don't even make a dedicated video camera (yet). Sony are trying with their Alpha mount, but I think they know E-Mount is their future, which is out of the question for a M4/3 camera owner since that flange distance is even shorter, and there aren't a lot of E-mount lenses out there yet anyway.

But hey, you could always just sell your lenses when you want to upgrade... Or just commit to using M4/3 cameras forever because you light like a champ and shallow DoF is for hipsters!

Wow. I am sorry if you read all that nonsense. Quite the ramble.

TL;DR - No. Sure.

Last edited by Sam F (2013-04-09 07:43:21)