Kringle
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Pierrefonds, QC | reply to EGeezer
Re: The One, The Only...Box Shot Thread! (part three)
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Chuck22
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Canon EOS 40D
28mm 1/3rd F5.6 ISO100
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drew
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Kringle
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Pierrefonds, QC | Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's lens or body, nor his filters, nor his tripod, or anything that he photographs with.  |
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drew
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EGeezer
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PENTAX K20D
60mm 1/250th F8 ISO100
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said by Kringle  :Congratulations! May your relationship be long and enjoyable. Thanks! right now it's one of discovery as I read the manual, camera in hand, seeing all the control I didn't have before.
One thing I'm finding out is that my desktop PC is struggling to edit images the size I'm taking. It took lots longer to open and scale this than before, and after testing edits with levels, curves etc, it's really quite a load on this old Dell.
I also note that this is the first time I've taken a photo where viewing full showed up the heat wave distortion(on the house on the right center). I'll post more in the discussion forum as I progressl.
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drew
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Kringle
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Pierrefonds, QC | Look at the EXIF for his previous post. »Re: The One, The Only...Box Shot Thread! (part three) This is a MAJOR step up! |
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drew
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clubs: | I got off my lazy keister and visited hi DI gallery -- you're right, MAJOR!
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Kringle
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said by EGeezer :...and after testing edits with levels, curves etc, it's really quite a load on this old Dell... I'm not sure that you can do this in Gimp (you can do it in Paint Shop Pro) but try creating a new adjustment layer for Curves and another for Levels. I find that it takes basically no time to process at all compared to actually applying Curves and Levels directly to the image.
If you want PSP X, it's currently available FREE. See this thread: »[Free] Corel Paint Shop Pro X Free shipping/download it |
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Gemologist
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Nice lens Chuck22 !!! I am envious!
Congrats EGeezer , nice choice! Looks like you are off to a good start as well! Lots of controls in there to learn that can come in handy! Even the in camera processing/editing choices are phenomenal and do a fantastic job! Good choice on a lens as well! I love mine!
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SONY DSC-H10
13.7mm 1/50th F4 ISO400
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SONY DSC-H10
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GlobalMind
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Hollywood, FL
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I'll second that, bought two for my 20D, they're great. |
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Gramzster
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London, ON
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Canon EOS 10D
32mm 1/60th +0.5ev F3.5 ISO100
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
14mm 1/200th F7.1 ISO100
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On thursday I called the camera store in town I buy from.... none in stock. Then I called Henry's... None in stock and a 100 on backorder (yikes!). I called one more store and they had ONE left. It was a kit, however they sold me the body alone.
What a difference. I feel like I need to re-adjust to using my lenses (although I did come from 35mm film before jumping to a DSLR). My 10D won't be left behind though, I still enjoy using that camera.
That second shot is one of the first images I took, along with my 14MM lens. It's a bit out of focus, but at that time I was more focused on seeing the results, rather than setting up an image heh. |
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My Third XDCam, but First PMW-EX3
OLYMPUS E-300
26mm 1/50th F4.3 ISO100
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OLYMPUS E-300
19mm 1/40th F3.8 ISO100
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OLYMPUS E-300
25mm 1/50th F4.2 ISO100
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These cameras are being employed to shoot portions of major budget films. Public Enemies and District 9 were both shot in parts with the smaller PMW-EX1.
Now that I have a 154" Cinemascope screen and 1080P projector to view EX footage on, I feel confident in standardizing on this camera for any cinematic project. The images are just astounding!
I'm all set for concert season! |
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Locutus65
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clubs: | Very nice but Holy Cow, that thing cost almost as much as my car!
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| Compared to Panavision film cameras, it's cheap, though. Some of the earlier CineAlta line cost $103,000 - $250,000, such as the F23/F35 models.
The EX1 offers best bang for the buck, while the EX3 offers the option of interchangeable lenses, genlock and dedicated switches for many functions. The unsung strong point of these cameras is their DAT-quality audio recording capability. Plug in a pair of Neuman U87A's and you've got audiophile sound with a picture that rivals the best Blu-ray movies. No wonder some movies showing in theaters today are shot in portions on these cameras now. District 9 is the latest. A few months ago, it was Public Enemies. |
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Splitpair
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| Very nice unit and actually for a card based camera that is not a high price at all.
By the way can you up-mount aftermarket power like Anton-Bauer on it?
I would love to see some of your work with it though.
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| Sony took a tip from Panasonic's P2 system and developed the next generation based on ExpressCard vs. Panny's CardBus architecture, providing an 800mb/s read/write speed on a solid state card. I think it it's wonderful, because it opened the door to overcranking and to being able to download an hour of footage in about 8 minutes and be ready to edit immediately, even from the card directly.
We actually did use an Anton Bauer battery pack system when we did the 8-hour time lapse at the DreamRide 2009 event in Farmington last month. We put one my EX1s in a 38' scissors lift and shot 1 fps all day. Ended up with 22 minutes of video. My partner edited down to about a minute. It's up on YouTube under DreamRide 2009: Field of Bikes.
The best way to see my work is on a large projection system. It's impossible to appreciate CineAlta footage on a 50" plasma. You really have to see it on a wall-sized screen. We recently installed a 154" screen and an InFocus IN82 30-bit projector and that thing can do black like no LCD or plasma I have ever seen, and color is accurate. I authored some stuff on Blu-ray, including the New Milford Memorial Day parade, and the footage from Westover ARB last fall, the day Kent Shockley wrecked his jet powered truck, that is just incredible. It makes the blu-ray movies we rent look rather soft and grainy by comparison. The camera will do 12 f-stops of lattitude (a fact verified by a respected British cinematographer, Allistair Chapman) and is full-raster HD. Using the HD-SDI output, there is 30-bit, uncompressed HD video there, which, if you have access to a Wafian recorder system ($17K), you can record the full quality uncompressed signal for green screen compositing where quality is absolutely critical.
I've come to really respect the lens quality on that camera. It has no business being on such a low cost camera. I watch a lot of Hollywood's creations and I frankly spot chromatic aberrations and barrel distortion on a lot of films shot today and really bad distortions on films shot by Stanley Kubrick (ever notice the internal reflections in the lenses he uses in 2001?), and now I have a completely different respect for the Fujinon lenses supplied with the XDCams.
I did a concert with the Bridgeport Symphony, which, played back in our theater with multichannel sound, just blows people away with the realism. |
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Splitpair
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I've come to really respect the lens quality on that camera. It has no business being on such a low cost camera. I watch a lot of Hollywood's creations and I frankly spot chromatic aberrations and barrel distortion on a lot of films shot today and really bad distortions on films shot by Stanley Kubrick (ever notice the internal reflections in the lenses he uses in 2001?), and now I have a completely different respect for the Fujinon lenses supplied with the XDCams. When it comes to ENG lenses in my opinion Fujinon provides the best bang for the buck, however if one is getting into long zoom field lenses Canon cannot be beat for quality reliability and durability however they are a BMW lens as in Burn My Wallet.
Wayne
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