My Redrock Micro M2 adapter has shipped!!!

[MarkHlousek]

Hi everyone!

Long time visitor and DVX non-A owner/user here just saying I'm thrilled to peaches with the news that my Redrock Micro M2 adapter is on its way to me right now!

Got an email this afternoon as follows!!!

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an International Priority Box.

This shipment is scheduled to be sent on 26AUG05.

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"M2 Adapter!"

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So I'm very excited and will be happy to report once my unit arrives - should be here soon...

Cheers!!!

P.S. they sent me a nice pic of the fully assembled adapter - how do I add a picture here?

[Sirius_Doggy]

http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=30901

[MarkHlousek]

http://www.redrockmicro.com/assets/images/redrock_m2_sm.jpg

[Anhar Miah]

hey Mark, could you kindly post some indoor "low~light" shots I would really like to see than, I know it loses light Just wondering if you can get usable footage. If you could try different settings on the DVX to get the cleanest image (noise free) images in these "low~light" test would be much aprreciated.


Anhar Hussain Miah

Oh, yes also some nice footage with lots of shallow DOF would be really nice, i've read good things about the M2 but not seen alot of footages (i.e none) from it.


Thanks in Advanced.

[seejay1031]

There is some very low light samples (stills) on www.redrockmicro.com/forum now. Look under Micro 35 Sample Footage section. The thread is called XL2/M2 footage.

[MarkHlousek]

I've got the M2 up and running and will post info later tonight (Aug 31 pm EST)

So far so good - very robust, professionally designed and assembled.

Very worth the $$$...

Worth the wait.

More later,
cheers!

[Daniel Skubal]

I've got the M2 up and running and will post info later tonight (Aug 31 pm EST)

I'm holding you to that! :beer:

[Gary_McClurg]

Mark is it possible to shoot something at night outside with lighting of course. Just a simple basic set up

I hear that they say the M2 doesn't not lose stops as the other adapter do...

Thanks Gary

[PDX_DVX]

That thing looks really robust! And it comes with rails too? Would it be possible to shoot hand held with that somehow? What lense is that mounted on there?

[Beat Takeshi]

I dont like that you have to flip the image. It says on their forum that you lose some rez doing that.

[PDX_DVX]

Yea, that would be annoying....

[Policar]

Well, it's no more resolution than you lose from color correction, etc. Just a generation of compression.

I still don't like it, though, since it makes editing a pain.

[Taylor Moore]

Mine has shipped also, so I should have it soon. Will be using it with the Sony Z1.

Pretty excited!!!!

[GenJerDan]

There should be any loss from a vertical flip. Not if the NLE was written properly. It's not a real image manipualtion, it's just a negative number.

But, maybe none of them were written properly. :)

[Barry_Green]

There is no loss from flipping. The loss comes in when recompressing (i.e., if flipping it and then re-rendering back out to DV).

[Rich Lee]

so the M2 is out? doesnt say anything about it on their webpage....maybe im not looking hard enough.

[MarkHlousek]

Hi folks..

I've got my adapter running smoothly now with my non-A DVX...

It's fab. it's as if Redrock customized the design for DVX...

the footage is impressive - very filmic looking.

Gosh, it looks like super-16 at least... my buddy swears it's more 35-ish...

I'm on the road now but will post more info tonight (sept. 1 - pm - EST)

thx

[Taylor Moore]

I'm on the road now but will post more info tonight (sept. 1 - pm - EST)

thx

Damn it boy, where's your footage!!!!

[Daniel Skubal]

Yeah, where's the goods?!

[BLUESPIDER]

you can try to host it here: www.clickshack.com

The compression is not that great but its a start...

[ChuckS]

There is no loss from flipping. The loss comes in when recompressing (i.e., if flipping it and then re-rendering back out to DV).
This is just an issue of the byte order and the position of the first pixel to 00. It would not be very difficult to develop a utility that would rearder the bits in realtime while you capture. I imagine the NLE developers have an API so that you could add a check box or a button in the capture dialog box to flip while capturing.

[MarkHlousek]

Sincerest apologies - the footage is COMING

Dudes, it's been a busy week for me - I know I know - sorry!

I've worked out a good hand-held solution using a bicycle seatpost (you may wonder but once you see the pic you'll get it - works well)

Need to mount my LCD upside down for filming run and gun.

Also, wideangle adapter on my Nikon 35-105mm zoom helps in tight compositions while preserving the filmic look.

Biggest take home message so far about the redrock? Like, there's no light loss with the adapter. So you can use "slow" zoom SLRs and still get decent results. Of course, the better your cam is in low light, the better - and sure, you'll have to light...

It's definitely not "video" anymore. You have to work like you're shooting film. Tape measures and marks and all....

Cheers!

Mark

P.S. Footage by the end of the long weekend!!!