"Free Press" using CF1le, CF3Le

Dennis Wood

Dennis Wood

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I've been promising footage of CF1le, and CF3le used in the same production ofr quite a while now. A few months ago we approached Piotr Skowronski, (our first local customer) to put together some footage showcasing the Brevis, with CF1Le, and CF3Le used, as well as field trialling some of our dolly changes. Piotr went way, way beyond the call of duty coming up with a script, organizing a crew of 13, lights etc. etc. and making sure it all got done in one day, albeit a long one at 14 hours. The HVX was used, and all shots were done with Canon FD lenses, f2.8 28mm, f1.4 50mm, f1.8 85mm, and f2.8 135mm. Cf1le and CF3le were field swapped on the kitchen table, but CF1le was used primarily for it's light efficiency properties. The apartment was typical of old ones with respect to wiring...so adding a whole lot of light was an issue.

We had the cast/crew over last night at the Cinevate digs for a great screening party, and of course encoded a version for your viewing pleasure. Many thanks to the entire crew!

Note that one shot is there twice...done once with CF1Le, and then with CF3Le so you could see the difference. At 0:32, CF3Le is used, and at 3:08, CF1le. All the kitchen shots were done with CF3Le, including the tea stirring frames.

This is a 106mb quicktime file at 720p. We'll encode a higher res version later this week.
 
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Thanks for sharing with us dennis, must have been a tough call to shoot all of that in a single day! Here are the sharpest stills I could grab comparing the CF1Le and CF3Le though some post CC and different framing or lens make the comparison a little tricky.

CF1Le face
CF3Le face
CF1Le hands
CF3Le hands

Any opinions?
 
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I've asked Piotr to do another encode (around 200MB) and a smaller one at about 50MB. The grabs look good but output from his Mac laptop direct to our 42" 1080P panel was outstanding. Come to think of it, I'll ask him to replicate these grabs from the timeline, and let you tweak those. Your CC treatment looks great.

I take no credit at all for the schedule. Piotr, and Dave Clement were the guys basically running the show. Both have worked primarily with film, and this was Dave's first time with the adapter. Dave had two words after reviewing the CF3Le footage: "That's film!" It was such a great experience for all concerned that we've committed to doing it on a regular basis. Certainly this session resulted in concrete changes to our dolly system, and working in the field with these guys was an invaluable experience from my perspective.

That said, we can do better still. We're about to embark on a rather ambitious testing program using the DSC labs Ambi2 rear illuminated chart system...and doing it all in small video clips posted online. Should be a hoot :-)
 
Dennis,
Thank you for posting a short film and not a random clip that's rack focusing on random things in the world with your adapter. Even though my family of equips do not fall into the Cinevate category, I like you to know that I have much respect for you and your team. Keep up the good work.
 
Aram, Lenny, that's a great idea...and completely doable. One of the great benefits of the Cinevate project is the chance to meet in person or "virtually" some truly gifted souls. I spent the afternoon in the stillmotion.ca crew's new studio in Toronto and was blown away by all the great work they've been doing during a late evening screening. In Thunder Bay's very small film/video scene we're doing our best to give guys like Piotre Skowronski and Dave Clement a reason to stick around. The lead in this piece is Nicholas Palinka, who on top of being a fine arts graduate, and current film student...also works for us :-) Stephen, my bad. Piotre definitely spent some time on the CC side of things.

Willis, those were the most encouraging 3 sentences I've read in quite a while. Thank you!
 
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