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XF100 and XF200 are 8bit 422 in stead of 420. What I meant about the beefier codec was more related to the literal compression. The XF200 I'm testing out is waaaay noisier than the C100, but the noise doesn't appear to exhibit macro-blocking in the shadows, and light/shadow doesn't seem to show...

Yes! I recently purchased an XF200 and that feeling immediately returned. It cannot be overstated how great it is when things just work how you want them to right out of the box.

The last film I made that had significant(for me) festival screenings was shot on the VHS camera I bought in 1998. Shooting it was so much fun. The camera was a JVC GR-SZ9. A Super VHS-C camcorder with manual exposure, mic jack, built in video FX...all the bells and whistles. I was kind of...

I love that there is an Eclair NPR in this list randomly.

I've used FC for years, but haven't ever updated to the Nitrate version. Not sure what's different between it an Dehancer. 10 years ago FC was sort of the default Film Emulation plug-in, but now all I see people talking about is Dehancer.

Have you used Film Convert at all? If so, how would you compare the two?

Along with the c100 I also picked up an XF200. I’ve never used one before but feature-wise it seemed like it would be a good fit for use on my other doc project because of it’s customizable automatic options and IS. Today I shot the same exposure tests that I’ve been doing with the c100 just...

What’s crazy to me is how much 16mm cameras have inflated in value. When the BMCC/BMPCC came out you could get a Bolex H16 for a few hundred dollars. Now they are thousands! I mean, film is neat, but…

I think you can attach them, and they will communicate with the camera, but the AF will not function.

Great examples. I have an original Bmpcc that kind of fell by the wayside when my external batteries went bad. I recently pulled out some of the original tests I shot with it in the same spaces I filmed my C100 tests just to compare...and the difference is wild. I'd forgotten how creamy and...

Thanks, I hope that is the case. I have two projects that I am working on at the moment. The C100mk2 is intended for the “outdoors” one, which is a short bio piece about a cemetery caretaker I know who looks after this old pioneer cemetery that they let return to prairie every year. Sort of a...

I’ve been wondering that too. Who doesn’t want to deal with 60gb per hour of footage;) The MK2 ticks all the boxes, and looks great to boot. I like the file size of the c100 but it appears that this is also what’s causing my headache. The camera is great to use though. I don’t think I can ever...

Same boat here. The older models are pretty reasonable, and feature rich. I’ve watched a lot of those tutorials, and they have been helpful. I’m just trying to see where things break in case I find myself in a situation where I can’t control the light. I’d like to have an idea of how to avoid...

I have been doing ABB each time, but I haven’t done a side by side to see what difference it makes. The main things I’m looking at are how the image holds up under low contrast conditions and uncontrolled lighting…just trying to get a mental map of where the bottom edge limit is when I find...

Continued testing this morning and surprised myself. Previously I thought that 850iso was too noisy as a baseline, so this time I started at 320 in a torture test scenario of just my basement windows as a light source, looking to see if the reduced iso plus the adjustments I’d made to the custom...

Nice! This feels like it wants to be in Black and White with a mono soundtrack of Capitol Production Music's "Hi-Q" library tunes.

I just have Premiere, but I didn't see any NR in the effect menus. In the custom profile I created I dialed up the NR a little bit(2), but could probably go a little higher(5?). I also might try lowering the sharpness all the way instead of just half. Background shadow artifacts I'll to try to...

Yeah, the noise is kind of a puzzler. My previous experiences with using a similar camera(AF100) and my DSLR are not lining up with this. The AF100 was atrocious at night when we were filming a community festival but the daytime stuff looks beautifully clean and relatively crisp. Even the stuff...

Wild. My actual use case will be mostly daylight outdoors, and controlled lighting, so I'm hoping it works well with a standard interview set-up. I don't want to be lighting like it's a Hammer Film though. Where I am seeing the most problems is in the transition from light to dark. Subject...