Ossian - a Nelson Entertainment Production

shawneous said:
Yes :-), 12 bit R3D color grading!! You ingest the R3Ds via L&T in FCP and then send to Color. This gives you a new plugin (provided you downloaded it) to tweak Red R3D settings right there in the Primary In room!! You can adjust the camera ISO, color temp, etc :-)
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Yeah, I've been using it too. Pretty sweet.
 
Shawn,

How was your experience working with the 12-250? I just shot a bunch of test footage with one yesterday... It's such a beefy lens but I liked the look and feel. I would love to shoot something narrative with it, test footage is always a bummer...nothing dramatic to photograph :)

At T 3.9, it's difficult for interiors, especially low-budget, small lighting kits...but for exterior work, it's marvelous. Was your whole piece shot with it?
 
Geoff_R said:
Shawn,

How was your experience working with the 12-250? I just shot a bunch of test footage with one yesterday... It's such a beefy lens but I liked the look and feel. I would love to shoot something narrative with it, test footage is always a bummer...nothing dramatic to photograph :)

At T 3.9, it's difficult for interiors, especially low-budget, small lighting kits...but for exterior work, it's marvelous. Was your whole piece shot with it?
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I assume you mean the 25-250mm T3.9. 12mm would be awesome in a lens :-)

Yes, I shot the whole thing with it, I love this lens! It gives a vignette I found (when you watch my short, know that I applied no vignettes to the image as a whole).

The minimum focus of 1.7 meters was a bummer for me as I'm used to being able to get close, but that's probably because I'm not used to big zooms.

I would love to shoot something bigger with it. It has such a fun look to it.

Not to mention that you can achieve some AWESOME depth of field when you do 150mm-250mm range :-)
 
shawneous said:
I assume you mean the 25-250mm T3.9. 12mm would be awesome in a lens :-)

Yes, I shot the whole thing with it, I love this lens! It gives a vignette I found (when you watch my short, know that I applied no vignettes to the image as a whole).

The minimum focus of 1.7 meters was a bummer for me as I'm used to being able to get close, but that's probably because I'm not used to big zooms.

I would love to shoot something bigger with it. It has such a fun look to it.

Not to mention that you can achieve some AWESOME depth of field when you do 150mm-250mm range :-)
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Yep, meant the 25-250 :)

Yea, the minimum focus was the only big throwback for me as well... even at 25mm I found I had to really keep stepping back to get solid focus... I could imagine that would be a real bummer for hard core narrative work. I think it's fine for 85 and up, but anything under, there's plenty of instances where you'll need better minimum focus.

Is it your lens? Or did you rent? My buddy just bought one but got a really good deal on it and he already has a standard speed set so I think he made a wise choice. His regular set went up to 85 and so now he's covered up to 250, I think he's fully set now.

It's also wicked heavy... I couldn't imagine doing anything but stick work with it even though our test consisted of nothing but handheld since we ironically didn't have sticks on the day of :)

I'll look for the natural vignetting and I'm excited to see how your film turns out!
 
puckthemad said:
damn. I like your BTS shots. Oh well, there's always next time. How did everything go anyway?

I tried out a few "Aetus" inspired shots on "Keeper" by the way, but I got impatient (and cold) so they're not as "Aetus" as I would have liked.
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Thanks Rodney! I'm looking forward to seeing how yours goes.

The shoot went well. I shot it all in magic hour, which is a tricky thing to do!

I showed my Aetas co-producer Ken my finished cut and he's saying that "DVXusers are going to rake you over the coals for this one" lol :-D

My thoughts are for those that understand left-brain/right-brain difference...this is a right-brain movie. I'm extremely proud of it and think I'll get either very high scores or very low scores
 
Geoff_R said:
Yep, meant the 25-250 :)

Yea, the minimum focus was the only big throwback for me as well... even at 25mm I found I had to really keep stepping back to get solid focus... I could imagine that would be a real bummer for hard core narrative work. I think it's fine for 85 and up, but anything under, there's plenty of instances where you'll need better minimum focus.

Is it your lens? Or did you rent? My buddy just bought one but got a really good deal on it and he already has a standard speed set so I think he made a wise choice. His regular set went up to 85 and so now he's covered up to 250, I think he's fully set now.

It's also wicked heavy... I couldn't imagine doing anything but stick work with it even though our test consisted of nothing but handheld since we ironically didn't have sticks on the day of :)

I'll look for the natural vignetting and I'm excited to see how your film turns out!
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The only rental house in Portland that has it wants to charge $300 a day for this lens!

So I bought it on eBay a year or more ago for $900 and change :-).

It is indeed quite heavy and demands lens support. I got the Cavision lens support for it and bolt that sucker on good. Thankfully the Redrock Micro mattebox gives excellent coverage and my 4x5.65 filters work great.
 
shawneous said:
The only rental house in Portland that has it wants to charge $300 a day for this lens!

So I bought it on eBay a year or more ago for $900 and change :-).

It is indeed quite heavy and demands lens support. I got the Cavision lens support for it and bolt that sucker on good. Thankfully the Redrock Micro mattebox gives excellent coverage and my 4x5.65 filters work great.
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Wow...I'm not even going to tell him the deal you got. That's an excellent price!
 
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