XH footy from the Brevis35

When I get my subject back, I'm going to reproduce the conditions of that shoot and do some example grabs to illustrate effects of both. In my plant test, turning off NR1 and reducing exposure fixed the blue issue, but until I reproduce the original shoot conditions (same hair too :) I won't know what combination. There are many situations when some isolated blown out areas are pretty much par for the course, and I'd like to understand for myself, what combinations will bring back the halos. I'll update here for sure.

Is NR2 the pariah that NR1 is? Reading the manual, it seems like NR2, if similar to skin softening, would not be a good thing over the whole image. It's beginning to sound like -3db is the way to go, and forget NR1 or NR2 for general use.
 
Are you in the possibility to redo the shoot Dennis? I wonder how it works if everything is adjusted right. A burning christmas tree will work too.
 
Yes you do need the achromat...

Here's some more footage minus the NR1 or 2 toggled on :) Same room, same light, same christmas tree but a much cuter subject this time. It's a clip that also shows the XH-A1 with and without the adapter attached. More info here if you like.
 
Thanks. You see her saying "painting", it's an artist! The DOF is narrow, what lens did you use?
 
I was using a LOMO 80mm designed for the Konvas 35mm film (cinema) camera. It's a T2 lens, being used at about T2.5. If I was shooting this for an actual piece, I would have used a lens/diffuser option with deeper DOF, maybe a 50mm at f4 or so with the standard diffuser installed. I'm a huge fan of the large flanged cinema mounts like the OCT19 that was holding this lens. It's definitely not a run n gun type mount (being rather huge) but it's wonderfully robust and precise way to mount a lens. The XH-A1 shows no signs of the blue halo on any of these shots, so I guess the lesson is use NR1 and NR2 with caution.

I only wish I had 10% of her creativity :)
 
Hey Dennis, what's this CINEFUSE 3 Diffuser? Are you talking about a lighting rig?

I gotta say, this footage looks fantastic. The CA is noticable but doesn't bother me at all.

EDIT: Disregard, I just found the Cinevate site. :)
 
guskersthecat said:
Yes you do need the achromat...

Here's some more footage minus the NR1 or 2 toggled on :) Same room, same light, same christmas tree but a much cuter subject this time. It's a clip that also shows the XH-A1 with and without the adapter attached. More info here if you like.
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Wow, that stuff looks so nice. I have to admit, this is some of the most promising footage I've seen with the A1 bundled with a 35mm adapter.

Now I'm completely lost as to which 35mm solution is the best. LetusXL, Brevis35, M2, etc.

Two months ago, M2 was the hip thing and now it seems like nobody is even talking about them.
 
the thing thats buggin me is that adapters are still reasonably new to the market and are still going through changes.

me wonders if its worth waiting untill the day that they all do flip, or at least more version of a flip model are available?
 
Sorry guys...missed your questions in this thread...

Este, that was just the A1 onboard mic, full auto mode, no cover.

Mirezz, thanks. Further testing is showing the Canon f 1.4 50mm to be the likely CA culprit. It's acually a bit shocking how bad it can be under some conditions. That CF3 imaging element was a rather suspect prototype. The production versions are a royal pain to produce, with less than perfect yield, but they are much better than the prototype.

Papa, no worries. Our flip unit is modular..meaning you can use the adapter with or without it. This means existing users won't be left in the cold with an obsolete unit :) Our rails system is already designed to accomodate the adapter with/without flip.
 
The HV20 is looking very promising personally as a b-cam and A1 "deck" for myself. Based on what we've seen already from the small HD cams, it will not need an achromat, will mount upside down easily on the rails system...and should intercut nicely with the A1.
 
What? You guys have a flip mode??

since when god?.... uh.... guskers?

where on your site is it?
 
Gordon, the achromat is the equivalent of a close up macro filter..except made of two diffent types of glass to reduce chromatic aberration. Shooting with the cam upside down is a cheap way to "flip" the image and works well if you need correctly oriented images for external monitoring. I shot inverted with my smaller GS400 all the time.

Pap, the flip module is not up on the site yet, but the rails are designed to accomodate already. It's next on our list of product introductions.
 
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