Recent content by Jason R. Johnston

See the focus markings? Facing the lens markings you would rotate the ring up to focus closer, or down to focus to infinity. If you are at the operator’s position (on the smart side of the body) you will be facing down the lens, which is going away from the body. Looking down the lens from the...

Video shot on DVX200 in vlogl and graded with FilmConvert. Audio via Rodelink and shotgun (used once) direct into camera. Photos with EOS 6D. Cut and delivered with FCPX. Whacha think?

Yeah, that's a new one. NR Control is Noise Reduction Control. V3.01E of the DVX200 Book covers firmware 1.81, so it's in there...bottom of page 15. But, for convenience, I'll tell you that you need fw updated to 1.81 and then you'll find it in the Menu located on the last page of Scene File...

I do like the images. For clarification, I'm talking about the SLR Magic APO Hyperprine 25/50/85mm T2.1 lenses. Both photos taken with my EOS 6D. 85mil on the bottom, I believe that the first is the 25mil. Both are most likely at T2.8 since T2.1 is a bit soft. These images have been...

1. I hate those sticks. Those are photography sticks and suck for video. What you need to move quickly is expensive, though. You need no more than one widget to pull for each leg that'll loosen each riser on each stick simultaneously. And mid-level spreaders are better than floor spreaders or...

Yeah...and I COMPLETELY recommend investing in an arm and vest system. DO NOT buy knockoffs. You don't need your $6000 camera on a $200 sled which suddenly snaps and your camera goes and smashes onto the floor. It's an expensive hobby, but it's support gear intended to enhance and protect the...

Yup, used DCI 4K at 24p, knowing it would be cropped for 2.40:1, I used the appropriate guides on the monitor. The director did the color grading, but it was shot log, and the grade was just adjusting the color and image parameters in FCPX, no plugins or LUTs. That's usually how I do it, too...

You sorta have to know what you're going to be shooting first, because they're different tools for different jobs and have their own personalities. First, let's divide this up properly. You have the motorized gimbals (Ronin) which may be outfitted with something like an EZ Rig, and you have the...

Just for grins: SHOT A (Scene File 1) SHOT B (V-log L) SHOT B + V-log to V709 LUT Gee, I wonder if my DVX200 is broken. :| Why do they look different? Because using V-log is not a flat gamma version of any Scene File. It is it's own thing and so Scene File 1 and V-Log L can't be judged...

This weekend I participated in a film race where teams had 24 hours to conceptualize, write, shoot, edit, and deliver, a 5 minute short film. The competition was from noon Saturday to noon Sunday. Judging commenced soon after. This coming Saturday, May 27, 2017, the sponsor film festival will...

Ok, so I found that zoom doesn't work and pressing the rec trigger does nothing. However, switching the controller from Lock to Standby triggered rec start/stop.

I am pretty much certain the answer is "no", but I wonder if anyone knows for a fact a start/stop controller using the LANC protocol will or will not work on a Panasonic camcorder; ie, DVX200. Thanks. More info: I am looking into a handgrip for my DVX200. It'd be nice if I could control start...

Look like Mitch is writing fortune cookies now, too. :D

I own a cheap Fotga DP500IIS follow focus unit that works surprisingly well for anything but maco product shots (slight bit of play you can feel on short pulls). For giggles I hooked up a 15mm LWS rails system to the DVX200 at one point, with the mattebox and a bunch of other stuff (before I got...

You're talking about one of these, right? Lens cap: Lens cap inside petal lens hood: If so, all you need is a lens cap, like the ones pictured, with a diameter of 72mm as that is the diameter of DVX200's lens' filter receptacle. Photographic lens caps are designed to fit onto the filter...