fight club videoclub - testing with guerilla35

That is both neat and exciting.

um. How come when you do camera tests you get a dancing girl and when I do them I get a.. uh.. me...?

Maybe I need an fx1. Hm.
 
benscottproduction said:
How come when you do camera tests you get a dancing girl and when I do them I get a.. uh.. me...?
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Didn't you know? Sony is offering a free dancing girl with every new FX-1 purchase.
 
damn, that looked hot? And I don't mean the girl. Well, she was nice but the footage was HOT.

This is straight 1080i HDV? Or did you do any post-processing?

Please post some more. :)
 
I will be performing tests with HDV and dvx cameras soon.

No CC except for the bradcast to computer screen level adjust.

I need for light in the set. THe guerilla35 eats around 1 stop, which i thinks is good. Unfortunately the HDV is not very good at low light.

Today i will instal 10 more fluorescent lights.

Bye!
 
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Definately interesting footage. And that model is some drama queen.

It looks to me like some sort of follow focus rig is a must for this hardware. Otherwise, you have to do lock-down shots and make sure the actors really hit their marks exactly. But the cinematic-ness of the footage is worth the trouble, for sure.
 
She is HOT! I love her I love her I love her.

And that is some awesome footage. What are you planning to do in the near future?
 
What causes the vignetting and how do you get rid of it?
Does it "increase" with slower lenses (f/1.8, f/2.8, etc)?
Does it require f/1.4 lenses to minimize it?

Thanks-
Brian Wells
 
thisiswells said:
What causes the vignetting and how do you get rid of it?
Does it "increase" with slower lenses (f/1.8, f/2.8, etc)?
Does it require f/1.4 lenses to minimize it?

Thanks-
Brian Wells
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The vignetting you are seeing is not caused because of a "hot spot" if that is what you are referring to. It has to do with limitations of using a thread-mounted system. Our pre production units will vignette if you are not zoomed in far enough as you are seeing the edge of our optical elements. The production design has fixed this. No, stopping down does not change anything other than, well the f-stop. Also, it varies from camera manufacturer.
 
more light

more light

Hahaha! It appears that some people really want to be in front of a camera, and some people... do not.

You are already experiencing some image softening with this adapter, so if it were me, I'd look for any possible way to avoid gain.

Obviously, you have to add more ambient light to room. You can do this cheaply by hanging a white bedsheet in front of a bank of 75 watt bulbs. Evenly space them, or better yet, make a matrix of them. The more, the better. For this size of room, if you can gang 6 naked lamps in a 3 x 2 matrix at chest height, you might bring up the light level of the room half a stop. Obviously, more lights are better. The bedsheet will soften and spread the light around to an amazing degree. Make sure your lamps are far enough away from the bedsheet so as not to constitute a fire hazard!!! If you make this light rig portable, you can move it around the room and keep it just out of camera range for great effect.

For more localized lighting, use a chinese lantern on a boom pole, or broom handle if you haven't got the more expensivo equipment. A fixed chinese lantern of even 60 watts, hanging just above the camera, does wonders for closeups and mid shots.

Using regular 75 watt bulbs will give a warm yellow color to your room, and unfortunately those flourescent lights you are putting in give off a green tint which some people find unpleasant. I would recommend avoiding the flourescents if you can, unless you are going for an eerie, unhealthy feeling. Or maybe you simply need more light, and have no choice.

Good luck with your project, and thanks for the comparision test, very informative.
 
macgregor,
would it be possible to post a picture of your FX-1 setup?

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who wants to see what kind of pimped out FX-1 rig you are working with.

As well, are you de-interlacing your footage or shooting in Cineframe mode? Seeing as how the FX-1 is a strictly 1080i cam, I find it odd that your footage doesn't look interlaced to me. It looks very very nice.
 
Since it's a PAL camera, deinterlaced down-rez'd 1080i/50fps should downscale perfectly to SD 25p with a 1/50th of a second shutter, which is so close to 24p it's virtually impossible to tell the difference. And, yeah, it looks amazing. Just wow.
 
Hello.
I use cineframe always except when i want to do a slow-motion in post. I find it best, since the image compression is done after the deinterlace process. (yes, it recordas at 25 frames at 1/50th).

I haven´t test too much the colorgamma yet but for now it is turned off because color is something we can easily done in post with much more control.

I think my server went down with all the downloads. Sorry if you cannot see anymore the footage.
 
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