Recent content by bill totolo

Shipped mine in Nov last year ('24) and now 9 months later I'm already receiving the "battery low" warning. Swapped it out myself this time around, and the same message immediately popped up. Guessing there's a short somewhere. Besides time and date, am I losing any other functionality that I...

I've owned this set of lenses for about three years. While it's a little painful to see the price drop, it doesn't change how much I enjoy using them. Cameras like the C300MKIII and the S35 ARRI will keep this format relevant for years to come. The fact is most production still requires S-35...

Same with my 7lb Chihuahua mix with 'radar' ears. Charlie hear's things way before the Ring Doorbell chimes in. I guess it doesn't hurt that he's always set to "alert" status : )

I had the Laowa OOOM lens for about a week before NAB. Full disclosure: I worked their booth for the show, but I don't work for Venus Optics or Laowa (I do however, think they have some great optics like the 12mm VistaVision 0 distortion lens). Here's a screen grab from the OOOM on my Amira...

Sorry for all the questions, sounds like the hive have documented this behavior. I had to grade this particular frame a little aggressively but it corrected out.

ChilledCow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ

Good question Eric, I own the CN-E light weight zooms, I like them very much, but that can be a polarizing topic here in LA. I've met DP's who swear by them and a couple who really don't like them. I know Dave Klein converted "Homeland" over to Canon zooms from Angenieux. Physically the Canons...

Hey puredrifting, The waveform looked as you might expect it, very flat near 5 IRE. I'm re-training my eye to expose to what I see on a calibrated monitor with the Amira and not get anxious about what I see in False Color or my WFM (unless we're talking about clipping, of course). I did not...

Selling my Canon C300 (Mark 1). In the two years I've owned it I shot a feature doc. and a lot of promo videos for the studios with it. It's my personal camera so I maintain it myself or have it professionally maintained by the Canon Professional Technology & Support Center in Burbank...

"Lost Hymn" shot and edited over two days, adapted from a monologue written for the actress. Lens is the P+S Technik Technovision 1.5x making a 2.65:1 aspect ratio. PW: hymn This was just me and the actress working together on one last project before she moves across country. Since I had no...

Been shooting some fairly large live events this year, I run camera dept and coordinate with the sat truck team. It's fairly high stress on the sat/tricaster guys. If anything goes down during the shoot it's considered a "catastrophic failure" as we lose viewership rapidly while they scramble...

I'm a bit late to the conversation. I was going to offer this spot I recently shot as a sample: I went with the opposite approach. I wanted a chiaroscuro effect of light to dark, light to dark and super shallow DOF with close focus diopters.

My employment has been based on 0% social media, 0% marketing, 01% reach out. 99% relationships and personal contacts... so far. Don't get me wrong, I've tried social media, marketing, and reaching out. Just hasn't worked for me yet. Wish I had the answers.

Quasar Science has filament LED's. I've only used the warm version, but would explore the 'cool' version for your needs: https://www.quasarscience.com/collections/filament-led/products/medium-base-filament-led-bulbs?variant=3583012483...