A Little Theory Of Mine

I think actually it's a quite sad story if you really look at it; All these great companies with many talented souls working and knowing a lot of about optical adapters and stuff, now cutting support rods and accerssory clamps for DSLR cameras... What a waste of compentence in a way... But they need to survive one way or another I guess...
 
I prefer to not judge other peoples job... If people are working thats great, they are surviving honestly. I think the job a person do reflects his/her talent, courage, force, dicipline... and so on... If you are on a job, that can be what your dreams deserves or what your behavior deserves... or what people like you to do... or what market share gives you a chance...

but a great way for 35mm adapter manufacturers would be developing lenses, low budget quality lenses for the new cameras, would this be possible? who could do a 12mm f1.4 or f2.0 for the GH2 / AF100 for about 200 usd? maybe the 35mm adapter manufacturers can do that...
 
I'm still on the fence about dumping my AF100 in favor of an adapter setup again. I've had it for 2 months and while I've gotten some good stuff I'm still not happy. I'm finding myself shooting more because of the size/weight but being happy with my footage maybe 25% of the time at best. My old A1 with Letus controlled the highlights really well outside in hard sunlight, and still gave good detail in shadows, and I think that was because the Letus suppressed the highlights (eating up the light it needed) which allowed me to iris up pretty good and keep my mids in good range and my shadows in a good range. Most of my footage on my last feature only needed a slight black drop and a small boost in the mid. The in-camera image was always very balanced, saturated, just enough contrast that it wasn't too far before post, and had a filmic mojo to it because of this plus the slight wash of grain over it. I'm finding myself in post with the AF100 trying to replicate what my old adapter gave me in-camera. I know I'm doing something wrong, because I do get good shots, but even if it is me...I have no idea what I'm doing wrong and having to change the cameras settings all the time is just a pain. I've never found a happy medium at all. My A1 I set and it and never touched the internal settings the entire shoot, and the footage was great every single time as was the exposure.

*Sigh...* Some days I feel like I'm keeping the AF, other days I just wanna dump it and go back to a beastly setup like the XF300 + Letus or Redrock M3.

Time will tell if I keep it. I probably will, LOL.
 
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