email from Ami Vitale

Zim

Zim

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Ok I got tired of all the internet people claiming to have D300s. Or doing test without one. So I emailed Ami Vitale who did the Nikon film using the D300s. Here is what she said about using the D300s and the film for those of you who might have missed it.

"Hi Bob,
I used a variety of lenses but the perspective lenses were what gave it that film like quality. I also used the 10-24 a lot. Love the camera and shot a lot of it handheld and it looked good--the jello days are gone. We did not do post processing to correct any problems. It really is exceptional quality, especially for the price. Best, Ami"

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/microsite/d300s/special/en/index.html#/Movie_ami
 
That was cool of her to email back.

As far as I have seen, all of the d300s video samples are indeed real. The japanese link and the techradar youtube link that I posted was confirmed by the guy who shot the d300s vimeo page, since he did the review for techradar.

People are given the camera in advance to try out, just like most other cameras,etc.
 
Nice that she replied but given her relationship with the company it's unlikely she'd criticize the product, particularly in an email that can be shared across the world.

In the Bosch film on the same web page as the OP linked to, is that some jello in the rotor blades of the helicopter?

Nevertheless, it's still pretty good quality stuff coming from a DSLR.
 
She said that about the jello, but her in her piece she rarely pans and if there is any movement it's very limited. So does anyone else know whether or not the jello is much reduced?

By Perspective lenses, she must mean shift/tilt lenses which I can see she used on that shot with the camels. Tilt/shift allows very precise control over focal planes and DOF, similar to 4x5 view camera use. That's what I figure she means...
 
If she did mean tilt/shift lenses.. I'm a bit surprised. It's the large sensor which allows for the shallow DOF and the latitude that gives it the film look. I'm not sure there are a lot of motion pictures out there using tilt/shift lenses. Anyhow.. regardless, I still really really enjoy the film she made for Nikon and she's exceptionally talented!!

d.
 
she did say a lot handheld. I'll email her back and ask if she panned

dadoboy said:
She said that about the jello, but her in her piece she rarely pans and if there is any movement it's very limited. So does anyone else know whether or not the jello is much reduced?

By Perspective lenses, she must mean shift/tilt lenses which I can see she used on that shot with the camels. Tilt/shift allows very precise control over focal planes and DOF, similar to 4x5 view camera use. That's what I figure she means...
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I kind of like the way the rotor blades looked.

Bobonli said:
Nice that she replied but given her relationship with the company it's unlikely she'd criticize the product, particularly in an email that can be shared across the world.

In the Bosch film on the same web page as the OP linked to, is that some jello in the rotor blades of the helicopter?

Nevertheless, it's still pretty good quality stuff coming from a DSLR.
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rotor blades move fast enough to cause skew even from the extremely fast movement of a physical shutter, and even an electronic shutter fast enough to show no visible jello would do this. btw what does the codec have to to with anything?
 
mattsand said:
rotor blades move fast enough to cause skew even from the extremely fast movement of a physical shutter, and even an electronic shutter fast enough to show no visible jello would do this. btw what does the codec have to to with anything?
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I was being (overly) broad about nits people pick when analyzing footage: rolling shutter, jello, codec. Wasn't intended to be specific to this particular clip
 
Mhood: yes, I think you're right on this re: perspective. This makes much more sense. Her choice of words caused a bit of confusion.

d.
 
What is so confusing about her choice of words. Here read it again: "I used a variety of lenses but the perspective lenses were what gave it that film like quality. I also used the 10-24 a lot."

She said she used a "variety of lenses" "perspective lenses"
Come on guys. Look she is a big time photographer and either has the lenses or Nikon let her use some.


Davidonabus said:
Mhood: yes, I think you're right on this re: perspective. This makes much more sense. Her choice of words caused a bit of confusion.

d.
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Zim: Sorry, but I don't really get it.

All lenses offer "perspective". And while the term "Perspective Lens" is apparently somewhat interchangeable with "tilt-shift lens" she mentioned that it's the perspective lenses that gave it the film-like quality. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because any fast lens capable of a shallow DOF, along with the d90's film-like latitude and 24p is what gives the d90 the film-like quality.. not a lenses tilft-shift capabilities.

Anyway.. this is perhaps just a semantics issue. So, no point in arguing over it. I'm over it ;)

d.
 
She's talking about the 24, 45 and 85mm PC-E lenses. PC = Perspective Control. These lenses give you a lot more control over the plane of focus, which can be used creatively to either enhance the depth of field or reduce it to a selective area.

Here's a tutorial on how to use the shift and tilt functionalities that these lenses offer.
 
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