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thunderspanks posted:So the company that I work for has a Sachtler ENG 2 CF tripod who's legs have got all gummed up after spending 3 weeks in Trinidad- so they no longer fall properly under their own weight. I have the honor of being tasked with fixing it despite having no experience doing that sort of thing. There's surprisingly little information I've been able to find on what the best approach it and I sure as hell don't want to blindly start taking it apart- does anyone happen to have experience cleaning/maintaining this sort of thing? Did you try calling Sachtler and asking? I don't mean that in a rude way, I'm just saying that's what I would do.
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If its anything like the 4588 Speed Lock 75 Carbon Fiber Tripod, http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/766931-REG/Sachtler_0355_System_Cine_DSLR_SL.html, There is a hex bolt behind the locking bars that can be unscrewed. a pin and the bar can be removed. There is a box looking thing near the end of the 2nd level legs near the feet. The 4588 has a box with 4 screws. With that removed the tension bar can be taken off. Yours looks like it has 6 locking knobs, 2 on each leg. If thats the case there should be screws behind each. Remove them and the bolt. After that you should just be able to pull the CF sections apart. If you are unsure, obviously take it to a rental house and have them take a look.
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Ya'll are probably getting sick of me posting about Seduced and Abandoned but the actual trailer has finally been released so a theatrical release is not far off. It should give you a nice idea of what the movie is about and how it looks. Hope you like it :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfzrA5seD3c
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I worked with Diane Kruger on a promo for The Bridge. She is a sweetheart!
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Steadiman posted:Ya'll are probably getting sick of me posting about Seduced and Abandoned but the actual trailer has finally been released so a theatrical release is not far off. It should give you a nice idea of what the movie is about and how it looks. Hope you like it :-) Looks great, and I'm assuming at least one theater in Seattle will be playing it so I'll check it out. 
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First day at Steiner was a trip. Within 10 minutes of getting there I was asked to drop some gear off at the stage where they are shooting Ninja Turtles and then later in the day put together an electric package for The Following and checked in some gear returned from Boardwalk Empire As somebody who previously only ever worked on indie/student location shoots, its pretty mind blowing to be walking around gigantic sets and delivering gear to shows I watch. Then walking out of the lot I got to see a gang of Foot Soldiers getting ready to shoot a scene. I'm sure in a few months Ill be jaded like everyone else in this industry, but right now I'm giddy.
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AccountSupervisor posted:First day at Steiner was a trip. Within 10 minutes of getting there I was asked to drop some gear off at the stage where they are shooting Ninja Turtles and then later in the day put together an electric package for The Following and checked in some gear returned from Boardwalk Empire The worst people to work with are those that have become, or pretend to be, jaded, cynical, and bored with the job. They just go through the motions while looking at the clock and lose all passion. This is an industry that requires passion, it's just too drat hard to do this without. I always want to surround myself with people who love what they do, they are the people that go above and beyond, have opinions, think outside the proverbial box, etc. This job is unique, you get to witness insane things, go to amazing places, and meet wonderful people and if that stops inspiring you then you need to get out and become an accountant or something. Stay excited!! Slim Pickens posted:Looks great, and I'm assuming at least one theater in Seattle will be playing it so I'll check it out. EnsGDT posted:I worked with Diane Kruger on a promo for The Bridge. She is a sweetheart! Steadiman fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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The 2.5k EF and MFT mount Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras just got a price drop to $2,000. Still lacking in a few serious ways, but their great price point just got better.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:The 2.5k EF and MFT mount Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras just got a price drop to $2,000. Still lacking in a few serious ways, but their great price point just got better. I saw that. Does that still include a full copy of resolve as well?
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chimheil posted:I saw that. Does that still include a full copy of resolve as well? Yes.
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Those are great prices and I wonder if it's in any way related to the addition of raw recording on Magic Lantern-capable Canon bodies. I mean the total cost on a BMC was still lower due to the low cost of SSD's vs. the ridiculous costs of CF cards, but now they're seriously competing on price.
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The magic lantern RAW is too cumbersome to be useful. I doubt that's why.
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I have no willpower. Guess it's time to keep an eye out for SSDs on sale.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:I have no willpower. Guess it's time to keep an eye out for SSDs on sale. Do yourself a favor and stick to the sandisk 240 or 480 ssds. Here's a wedding I shot on the bmcc in prores last week. Graded with filmconvert. https://vimeo.com/m/70792793
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Yeah you don't want to go cheap on those, and the Sandisks are pretty reasonably priced + never gently caress up.
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I didn't want to drop into this thread asking "what camera should I buy on a $2000 budget" but that Blackmagic camera looks awfully appealing. I'm pretty much just starting out on my first job and this lines up with my budget. Unfortunately I don't have a ton of camera or lens knowledge yet due to limited resources. Should I go for the Blackmagic or is there better options for the price? If the Blackmagic is worthwhile, which should I get, EF or MFT? While on that topic, what would be an appropriate decent lens that doesn't cost a lot?Jalumibnkrayal posted:...Still lacking in a few serious ways... Where is the camera lacking? Again, I'm new to actually looking for cameras that aren't some $200-300 thing you can buy at Wal-mart, so I have no idea.
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dashKADE posted:I didn't want to drop into this thread asking "what camera should I buy on a $2000 budget" but that Blackmagic camera looks awfully appealing. I'm pretty much just starting out on my first job and this lines up with my budget. Unfortunately I don't have a ton of camera or lens knowledge yet due to limited resources. Should I go for the Blackmagic or is there better options for the price? If the Blackmagic is worthwhile, which should I get, EF or MFT? While on that topic, what would be an appropriate decent lens that doesn't cost a lot? If you're new to the game the BMCC is an unforgiving camera, and the $2000 price does not scratch the surface of what it takes to really get it up and running and usable. I would budget at least 4000-5000 if you want it. Probably the BMCC Pocket would be better for you, with this lens and some decent sound gear: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/865111-REG/Panasonic_H_HS12035_Lumix_G_X_Vario.html
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Can any of you tell me how the Kino BarFly 400 stacks up to the Diva-Lite 401? We're looking to add to our lighting kit and the BarFly's intrigued me, but there is no where local where I can take a look at one. It'll mainly be for mobile talking head interview type shoots, lots of small offices and conference rooms.
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BeavisNuke posted:If you're new to the game the BMCC is an unforgiving camera, and the $2000 price does not scratch the surface of what it takes to really get it up and running and usable. I would budget at least 4000-5000 if you want it. Probably the BMCC Pocket would be better for you, with this lens and some decent sound gear: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/865111-REG/Panasonic_H_HS12035_Lumix_G_X_Vario.html This is why I ask questions, so I avoid making very costly mistakes. Thank you very much, I didn't even bother looking into the Pocket. I'm sure my employer will be unimpressed but happy to be saving money. Although I had no clue a lens could cost so much. I had no doubt that Ultra Deluxe Diamond Encrusted Hollywood lenses would cost obscene amounts but I figured I was looking at maybe a few hundred for an appropriate lens. Thanks to the Pocket I'd be spending less as a whole though, and I'm certain I'd be more than happy with the lens. Once again, thank you very much. If anyone else has some opinions on Blackmagic cameras, please do share. Lens recommendations too. Oh, and one more thing! How would the Pocket do in low-light conditions? I don't have any reason to believe the project I am purchasing a new camera for will need good low-light performance but since I get to keep the camera as part of my payment, I might use it under those conditions later. I've had to shoot two student films with a refurbished $200 camcorder in the dead of night with only a few shop lamps that were set up 30 feet away at the director's insistence.
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dashKADE posted:If anyone else has some opinions on Blackmagic cameras, please do share. Lens recommendations too. What will your camera be used for? Sporting/concerts, interviews, narrative work, run+gun documentaries? These are all different scenarios and Blackmagic cameras would be great for some and horrible for others. The reason the narrative folks like me are jizzing over the Blackmagic cameras is because they record in formats that let us manipulate the colors very well. So if I shoot a scene and I want to brighten it or darken it or make it more blue, I can do that to a better extent that previously attainable in this budget range. But if you were using the camera to take videos of houses for insurance purposes or something, this wouldn't be the best camera to use. No one can recommend a camera until we know what it will be used for.
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I recommend the GH3 and 12-35 2.8 BevisNuke recommended as I'm selling a set in the buy/sell thread. It's clearly the best camera for your purposes. From the test footage I've seen it looks like the pocket cinema camera does pretty OK in low light. It also has an active mount so you could use that Vario X lens's image stabilization. Really, it'd help to know what it's gonna be for.
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Short Answer: Interviews and following the interviewees around. Long Answer: Interviewing recovering drug addicts, their families, doctors, etc. Lighting would be anything from however people have their rooms set up (and whether they want a bunch of lights crammed in) to a nice bright doctor's office. Other than sitting in a chair and talking, there would of course be footage of them going about their business, I would presume primarily in the day, unless the producer wants to try filming them at night. However, following this project, I will be going back to making short narrative films until the next job comes by, and that could be another documentary style project or a narrative. powderific posted:I recommend the GH3 and 12-35 2.8 BevisNuke recommended as I'm selling a set in the buy/sell thread. It's clearly the best camera for your purposes. Looks nice to me, I'll do a bit of research and bring up the options to my producer. Right now no work has begun and I won't get funds until he finalizes a bunch of things. Based on what he's previously said, it would be about two or three weeks until I get the money and filming will actually begin.
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dashKADE posted:Although I had no clue a lens could cost so much. I had no doubt that Ultra Deluxe Diamond Encrusted Hollywood lenses would cost obscene amounts but I figured I was looking at maybe a few hundred for an appropriate lens. This lens,  Costs over $22,000 And you need five or six of them in various focal lengths to make a usable set. and this,  Costs over $70,000 But it zooms from 24mm - 290mm and maintains an f/2.8 the whole way through (and weighs 25 lbs.). Not that you'll need any of that.
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http://business.panasonic.co.uk/professional-camera/camera-recorder/ag-hpx371 We just bought this. It's wonderful and I don't really have anything else to add other than the fact that holy poo poo is that one finicky focus range. If you sneeze on the ring the shot goes soft. We've tried playing with the back focus as well as it's still out sometimes when it looks ok to the naked eye. Looking at the shot on a proper monitor really shows off how finicky it is. Anybody else using one of these? We previously had HPX 191s so that's why we got this one, same recording media and workflow etc.
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We have the US version, the 370. It is finicky as hell with focus, the one bit of advice I have is it works better if you keep it open, if you've got too much light just up the ND filter. Anything past f/5.6 or so and it starts to get really soft.
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SquareDog posted:
Love the 12-1, more or less becoming the new standard for the stuff I do, that or the Alura 18-80 if we need wider/bit faster. Big improvement over the old Angenieux HR 25-250 that was the old standard, although thats a lot easier to handle.
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We're building a 360 rig for a projection installation we're doing and we're currently spec'ing cameras. We're trying to keep our budgets down and that's difficult as we need 7 cameras. We've been experimenting a bit with our d800 and if we were to go full frame with a 24mm lens it would work out pretty well. Doing the rig with d600's would be about $15000 grand which is a stretch. Gopros would have too much distortion. That leads us to something like the GH3, or pocket cinema, or...anyone have some good suggestions? We're built around nikon and panasonic gear so that's why we're leaning to the nikon glass
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Walnut Crunch posted:Gopros would have too much distortion. For what its worth you can shoot them in medium and narrow modes. Those might just be sensor crops though.
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Walnut Crunch posted:We're building a 360 rig for a projection installation we're doing and we're currently spec'ing cameras. We're trying to keep our budgets down and that's difficult as we need 7 cameras. What about D3200 or D5200? Maybe with a Tokina 11-16 or Rokinon 14mm. GH3 or G6 wouldn't be a bad choice either but wide lenses are less available. You could use the Olympus 12mm f2 but they're $750.
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Seems the 5500's and any nikon crop body lacks aperture control in video mode. That's kind of surprising. What's amazing is with our 800 and just rotating it, the stitches work incredibly well. It's not the way we'd go, but I just find it surprising that for hacking around, we can get good results.
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Is there a good resource for finding LA based steadicam ops? What's the typical day rate run?
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Walnut Crunch posted:Seems the 5500's and any nikon crop body lacks aperture control in video mode. That's kind of surprising. D600 doesn't have it either. It's stupid. You have to turn off live view, adjust aperture, and then go back into live view.
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dashKADE posted:Short Answer: Interviews and following the interviewees around. For documentary, handheld interview etc. in the ~$1000 price range I recommend the Canon XA10. Killer stabilization, 2x XLR ins, remarkably noise-free even at high gain. I wouldn't shoot a ~film~ on it but those are always going to be pretty different cams. They just came out with the XA20 which shoots uncompressed video, I haven't used one personally but they're a little over 2k and might be a solid upgrade.
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I dunno, if I knew I was going to be doing a lot of available light indoor stuff I think I'd want something more along the lines of a DSLR. I have an XF300 and it's a great camera, but it's very noticeably more noisy than my DSLR's in even low-ish light situations.
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Now that the Blackmagic Cinema camera had a price drop, I'm seriously starting to consider getting it. It seems pretty much perfect for me as I'd use it mostly on indie filmmaking. Someone here mentioned you'd essentially need more like 4000-5000 bucks to actually get it up and running, but I'm guessing that includes lenses etc. I'm thinking of replacing my 550D with an EF mount BMCC, since I have about 20 EF lenses with filters etc, covering focal lenghts from 10mm to 400mm and all the shoulder mounts, tripods, gliders etc. I need. What are the essentials I'd need to pick up along with the camera body in my case? I'd wager at least a couple of SSD:s and an external battery, anything else? Ninja edit: Originally I was torn between getting BMCC or 5D3, but after using the latter I'm really not at all fond of the images it produces. The compression is awful.
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A smug sociopath posted:Now that the Blackmagic Cinema camera had a price drop, I'm seriously starting to consider getting it. It seems pretty much perfect for me as I'd use it mostly on indie filmmaking. Someone here mentioned you'd essentially need more like 4000-5000 bucks to actually get it up and running, but I'm guessing that includes lenses etc. I'm thinking of replacing my 550D with an EF mount BMCC, since I have about 20 EF lenses with filters etc, covering focal lenghts from 10mm to 400mm and all the shoulder mounts, tripods, gliders etc. I need. What are the essentials I'd need to pick up along with the camera body in my case? I'd wager at least a couple of SSD:s and an external battery, anything else? If you have tons of lenses you should be good there. I would recommend to start with 2 Sandisk 240gb SSDs and one or two of these batteries: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/887730-REG/switronix_powerbase_70_battery_pack.html or http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/922934-REG/bescor_bcs_bmepic_bm_epic_battery_charger.html if you do live event type shooting Keep in mind the BMCC is way heavier than your 550, so tripods and shoulder mounts you like now may not work that well with it.
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Thanks! I actually bought all of my tripod/rig equipment with a bit of a weight overkill for my 550D so that when I'd upgrade they'd be still usable. Though of course I'll need to get more weights for my jib set up and such, I doubt I'll need to completely overhaul anything.
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A smug sociopath posted:Now that the Blackmagic Cinema camera had a price drop, I'm seriously starting to consider getting it. It seems pretty much perfect for me as I'd use it mostly on indie filmmaking. Someone here mentioned you'd essentially need more like 4000-5000 bucks to actually get it up and running, but I'm guessing that includes lenses etc. I'm thinking of replacing my 550D with an EF mount BMCC, since I have about 20 EF lenses with filters etc, covering focal lenghts from 10mm to 400mm and all the shoulder mounts, tripods, gliders etc. I need. What are the essentials I'd need to pick up along with the camera body in my case? I'd wager at least a couple of SSD:s and an external battery, anything else? Hey T2i -> BMCC bro. If you plan on shooting in RAW, I'd pick up 4x240GB Sandisk SSDs. I'm kinda paranoid about drive failure so I'm going this route instead of 2x480GB. Either way will give you about 2 hours of shooting capacity. That necessitates some kind of DIT setup if you're shooting all day, so a laptop and either a thunderbolt or USB3 SSD dock (and a few terrabytes of space either on the laptop or via external harddrive). A Macbook Air/Pro would have the added utility of letting you use Ultrascope if you wanted to. Then you need to consider longer term data storage. I'm leaning towards building a 4 bay Raid 5 system with 9TB of space. I've priced it out on Amazon to a little under $700. External battery solution would be good, but I'm waiting for something a little more polished than what I've seen out there.
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