More AF100 footage...

Would like to know lenses used. I would like to see attempts to tweak contrast and sharpness settings to achieve a bit more softness.
 
Nice piece, though i'm still not too into the the way the image "feel"
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We'll have to tweak the settings and get the pro's consensus on recommendations once it's released.
 
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Now we're there. Highlights handled much better than the Japan footage.

Does anyone know the camera settings?

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
Definitely looks like a pretty flat gamma curve, maybe cine-D.

My guess is because the hilight roll off is still non existant, but a beautiful couple of very well exposed shots, especially at .39 like previously stated.

Nice.
 
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Highlights are nice! Would love to know more about settings and lenses, et al.

Sharpness is still video-ish.
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I wonder if he used the lenses that go on and off the camera at the end of the video, at 1:35?

This is the guy who did the Spanish market test which was shot at 50i, this may have been also.

But it's some gorgeous stuff!
 
Beautiful images here.

Mike McNeese said:
Sharpness is still video-ish.
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Agreed, but there's an upside to that. Agree or disagree: are modern audiences coming to see this "video-ish" look as "real?" Consider Herzog's The White Diamond: back in the days of the DVX, he used video to distinguish the realist segments of getting an airship off the ground with the breathtaking, practically surreal 16mm footage taken from the air.

Jump forward a bit: "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has an authentic, you're-actually-there feel; shot on the DVX, according to Wikipedia. Look at District 9, the slight video texture of the Red made it feel like a live news broadcast....

Then consider Genesis footage, like "United States of Tara" or "Zombieland," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," etc. They don't look like film, but they don't look like video, either--they look like really good TV camera footage to me. Good, but somehow fake. I'm not sure I would want that kind of too-perfect texture in the AF-100. I feel like in 20 or 30 years everything shot on our current digital dream cameras--F35, Alexa, Genesis etc--will look a little dated. Film's final replacement will make the texture of the image as archaic as 70s film stock or 80s special effects (oh god, no!).

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but forced to choose the cheaper, not-so-good-looking alternative, I think the bright side is that our level of cameras look "real" to current audiences (based on the TV, reality, documentary, and documentary-style footage shot with them) whereas the $50,000+ cameras look like the magic of Hollywood...without the magic of film.

I like this footage precisely because it has a bit of video nature with just enough "humanity" in all its sharpness: the wrinkles in this guy's skin feel vivid and human, not ruined by the "video texture," but it all feels very raw and "on location, as it happens" at the same time. Maybe the goal isn't to desperately emulate film, but to take what we can and accept some of the "real"-ness of video?

Thoughts?
 
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OK, it's not 50i, though the Spanish Market was.

I asked him why 50i for the market, he replied:
Porque era una prueba con una cámara de pre-producción. Simplemente quería probar la lente Lumix 14-140, para ver cómo se podía jugar con la profundidad de campo. El próximo vídeo lo haremos a 24p
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Because it was a test with a pre-production camera. Just wanted to test the Lumix lens 14-140, to see how you could play with depth of field. The next video we will do 24p.

Next question, which lenses? Could it all be the 14-140 in that warehouse?
Looks like he added some tungsten light at the end.
 
If this was all with the Lumix, that would be impressive. Since I would regard that lens as the go-to lens for video-type ENG assignments, and not film look requirements. btw - Quicktime says that new video is 25 fps. I really want to know what lens he used. I wish it wasn't so difficult getting information about this stuff people are shooting and posting.
 
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