Yeah anyway. Ill just keep updating this as I go.
Day 1 - sick
Day 2 - sick
Day 3 - The usual rubbish. Open box, slap face been to out of it to read manual. Charge up the batteries (got additional 970g).
Read manual for five minutes, plug in power and am away. Wonder why the cam wont let me access recording menus (slaps face - lock engaged on tape bay, the lock basically powers the camera down but retains all current in cam settings. Guess its useful if you need to take five from a setup or test shoot and your only half done - otherwise you can save in your preset anyway. Lock retains all focus, zoom settings also).
3 hour power session of manual and camera.
1 hour set up of m2 (had to shim the adapter itself to fit with my cavision set up). Ill do more on that on m2 forum tomorrow. Got the cam aligned and working correctly with the adapter).
For those coming from a DVX this cam is heavier. But read the specs for that. To me doesnt feel as sturdy as a DVX or HVX.
This cat has a feast of manual controls that will not leave you short in just about any situation apart from variable frame rates other than 24, 30 and 60. Anything you can imagine is adjustable including individualised controls for Red, Blue and Green gain control. Ill go into some more detail on some tomorrow - but as you know the fine control of -50 to a plus 50 setting is a great feature. The image you get out of it without any CC at all is excellent. I therefor envisage using CTB or CTO to get your colours close to final on the day will hold you in good stead to working with the codec.
20x zoom what can I say, very nice indeed. Coupled with the focus metering. I did a test shot with no monitor using just the focusing tools the cam has. Then i focused up with the monitor. Trecked down to the second floor to the plasma and ran them back. The cam alone focused better by about 5cms. Original shot distance was actually 4 meters in length. I then tested the cams distance metering recommendation with a tape measure. Right on the money.
Anyone that says the Canon 24f is not true progressive, get a life have a read and get some hands on experience. Looks beautiful. The colour rendition is also beautiful.
Enough of the words. Tomorrow I will be shooting for about 5 hours all for this thread. Cam alone, with m2, both with and without lighting. Lowlight, brightlight.... you get the picture - as much as is possible. Keeping in mind my recovering body is still pretty tired.
DAY 4 - has started, couple of things to do before I get going - send DVD to client etc. But realised I missed something yesterday I found as a pretty neat feature that I wasnt aware of at all.
The cam via the DISPLAY SETUP menu has an aspect guide. You can choose: 4:3 , 13:9, 14:9, 1.66:1, 1.75:1, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1. Once selected a white border will appear on your screen. Perfect for framing. Now the cool thing is as its only a GUIDE for framing. If you do get it slightly off you can then reframe in post just like you would when shooting the DVX at 4:3 and framing for a 16:9 crop.
Cont.......
Today was a comedy of errors. Started when I woke up. Set up cam, changed some of the presets including gain. I altered the 3 preset gains, leaving one at +12, forgot, ended up shooting daylight shots (polariser on and ND engaged) with +12 gain. Disaster 1.
CLIP1
Anyway heres the lovely gain clip.
Camera settings were: Black - Press, Detail -3 only settings I used today. More tomorrow.
Shutter speed and fstop were altered as I went but I tried to retain f5.6 for everything (yes with +12 gain). Very annoying as +12 gain in this situation really does mess up your shot, was so pissed at this one. First shot was actually of a crappy brown tinted phone booth door using a polariser to turn reflection way up then to nothing in shot. Pidgeons were shot at shutter speed 1/8000th. I took a screencap of one to show the clarity in each frame.... even with the crappy (yes I am saying it again) +12 gain. all shoulder mounted stuff, so not very smooth
Link Removed - see latest
CLIP2
Went into a lowlit forest and shot underexposed, people wanted to see how the grain was so here you are( No.1 request actually). Keep in mind that this in parts is woefully underexposed for a reason. again all shoulder mounted stuff, so not very smooth. Just some messing around with focus etc. Gain was set at -3 for everything from here in on all day 4 shots. There is a moment you will see the brightness go way up... thats -3 to +12 gain adjustment - thought someone could use that example.
Link Removed - see latest
CLIP3
3 point lighting setup. I used a 600 arri as a key (bounced of a board) and used the spill for fill plus a kicker. Bad me, tripods are in the car again too lazy (tired) to drag them up (we do live in a three story house so it is a distance). Anyway as the cam was not secured theres a little bounce in the clip - sorry for that but you have to understand where I am coming from the last 4 days. Did take a screencap not fullsize as it was a tad large for most to view I thought. I did attempt this shot with the M2, but quickly realised the m2 needs a spacer to work with the A1 so will pick one up tomorrow(ACTUALLY NO SPACER IS NEEDED - JUST MY POOR EYESIGHT ON THE DAY - SORRY FOR THE MISNOMER). FYI pooh and Elmo give a **** interview. I did attempt to slim pooh down but living in that wood eating honey (sugar) all day and sleeping the fat lazy git, hard job.
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/third.mov
m2T file of pooh under lights - like 5 seconds
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/light.m2t
DAY 5
Ok heres a clip first few shots on the m2, little steadicam (with a not tight enough gplatz causing a little bumping - see merlin setup thread) followed by just a couple of boring clips I was testing some settings on. Last two were same as below except second to last had colour gain turned up to 50, Last Clip had colour gain back at 0, with green gain turned up to 25. Incidently varying the red blue and green gains can give you just about any color cast you could ask for. Setting the Colour Gain to 0 = black and white.
So heres total settings I used:
Gamma - Normal
Knee - Auto
Black - Press
Pedestal - -3
Setup Level - 0
Sharpness - 0
H Detail Freq - High
DHV - 0
Coring - 0
Nr1 - 0
Nr2 - 0
Colour Matrix - Cine2
Colour Gain - 0
Red Gain - 0
Green gain - 0
Blue Gain - 0
Rest also - 0
Now time to capture output clips etc takes a bit of time. Today I shot 5 tapes full, not all captured yet - just some sections for this. So at this stage there are no raw m2t files. If there is one you want from this clip let me know and Ill post it up tomorrow. And yes, we often move a car and draw on our driveway
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/fourth.mov
DAY 6
I am working around Shinjuku tomorrow. After that - should be around 6ish? Not a long job tomorrow, will be shooting for some City shots plus some 1/3 shutter car shots off a bridge (about one whole tape) speed it up etc.
Well early out so Shinjuku was a quite a wait so went back to the homestead. Found a spot near home, then five minutes into it the wind picks up (cold wind), so having just recovered from something I conceded to the cold air and left. :S Anyway a screencap of what I did shoot.
DAY 7
Too tired and its cold.
Hit me with those requests.
November 10
Actually took these shots a few days ago when more people were asking for night shots... seems theres an abundance around now. Basically this will end uo in the stock footage library anyway so no waste.
Any mt2 request - please ask.
Link is only 7.5mb
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/GINZANIGHTSCENE.mov
Today got some footage of a nice bright day. Took the daughter for a walk in her "shaky cart" with no OIS on. Then a few oher shots I threw together. This was shot very fast on the run. Used a polariser on every shot but the last small timelapse piece.
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/SUNNY.mov
Day 1 - sick
Day 2 - sick
Day 3 - The usual rubbish. Open box, slap face been to out of it to read manual. Charge up the batteries (got additional 970g).
Read manual for five minutes, plug in power and am away. Wonder why the cam wont let me access recording menus (slaps face - lock engaged on tape bay, the lock basically powers the camera down but retains all current in cam settings. Guess its useful if you need to take five from a setup or test shoot and your only half done - otherwise you can save in your preset anyway. Lock retains all focus, zoom settings also).
3 hour power session of manual and camera.
1 hour set up of m2 (had to shim the adapter itself to fit with my cavision set up). Ill do more on that on m2 forum tomorrow. Got the cam aligned and working correctly with the adapter).
For those coming from a DVX this cam is heavier. But read the specs for that. To me doesnt feel as sturdy as a DVX or HVX.
This cat has a feast of manual controls that will not leave you short in just about any situation apart from variable frame rates other than 24, 30 and 60. Anything you can imagine is adjustable including individualised controls for Red, Blue and Green gain control. Ill go into some more detail on some tomorrow - but as you know the fine control of -50 to a plus 50 setting is a great feature. The image you get out of it without any CC at all is excellent. I therefor envisage using CTB or CTO to get your colours close to final on the day will hold you in good stead to working with the codec.
20x zoom what can I say, very nice indeed. Coupled with the focus metering. I did a test shot with no monitor using just the focusing tools the cam has. Then i focused up with the monitor. Trecked down to the second floor to the plasma and ran them back. The cam alone focused better by about 5cms. Original shot distance was actually 4 meters in length. I then tested the cams distance metering recommendation with a tape measure. Right on the money.
Anyone that says the Canon 24f is not true progressive, get a life have a read and get some hands on experience. Looks beautiful. The colour rendition is also beautiful.
Enough of the words. Tomorrow I will be shooting for about 5 hours all for this thread. Cam alone, with m2, both with and without lighting. Lowlight, brightlight.... you get the picture - as much as is possible. Keeping in mind my recovering body is still pretty tired.
DAY 4 - has started, couple of things to do before I get going - send DVD to client etc. But realised I missed something yesterday I found as a pretty neat feature that I wasnt aware of at all.
The cam via the DISPLAY SETUP menu has an aspect guide. You can choose: 4:3 , 13:9, 14:9, 1.66:1, 1.75:1, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1. Once selected a white border will appear on your screen. Perfect for framing. Now the cool thing is as its only a GUIDE for framing. If you do get it slightly off you can then reframe in post just like you would when shooting the DVX at 4:3 and framing for a 16:9 crop.
Cont.......
Today was a comedy of errors. Started when I woke up. Set up cam, changed some of the presets including gain. I altered the 3 preset gains, leaving one at +12, forgot, ended up shooting daylight shots (polariser on and ND engaged) with +12 gain. Disaster 1.
CLIP1
Anyway heres the lovely gain clip.
Camera settings were: Black - Press, Detail -3 only settings I used today. More tomorrow.
Shutter speed and fstop were altered as I went but I tried to retain f5.6 for everything (yes with +12 gain). Very annoying as +12 gain in this situation really does mess up your shot, was so pissed at this one. First shot was actually of a crappy brown tinted phone booth door using a polariser to turn reflection way up then to nothing in shot. Pidgeons were shot at shutter speed 1/8000th. I took a screencap of one to show the clarity in each frame.... even with the crappy (yes I am saying it again) +12 gain. all shoulder mounted stuff, so not very smooth
Link Removed - see latest
CLIP2
Went into a lowlit forest and shot underexposed, people wanted to see how the grain was so here you are( No.1 request actually). Keep in mind that this in parts is woefully underexposed for a reason. again all shoulder mounted stuff, so not very smooth. Just some messing around with focus etc. Gain was set at -3 for everything from here in on all day 4 shots. There is a moment you will see the brightness go way up... thats -3 to +12 gain adjustment - thought someone could use that example.
Link Removed - see latest
CLIP3
3 point lighting setup. I used a 600 arri as a key (bounced of a board) and used the spill for fill plus a kicker. Bad me, tripods are in the car again too lazy (tired) to drag them up (we do live in a three story house so it is a distance). Anyway as the cam was not secured theres a little bounce in the clip - sorry for that but you have to understand where I am coming from the last 4 days. Did take a screencap not fullsize as it was a tad large for most to view I thought. I did attempt this shot with the M2, but quickly realised the m2 needs a spacer to work with the A1 so will pick one up tomorrow(ACTUALLY NO SPACER IS NEEDED - JUST MY POOR EYESIGHT ON THE DAY - SORRY FOR THE MISNOMER). FYI pooh and Elmo give a **** interview. I did attempt to slim pooh down but living in that wood eating honey (sugar) all day and sleeping the fat lazy git, hard job.
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/third.mov
m2T file of pooh under lights - like 5 seconds
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/light.m2t
DAY 5
Ok heres a clip first few shots on the m2, little steadicam (with a not tight enough gplatz causing a little bumping - see merlin setup thread) followed by just a couple of boring clips I was testing some settings on. Last two were same as below except second to last had colour gain turned up to 50, Last Clip had colour gain back at 0, with green gain turned up to 25. Incidently varying the red blue and green gains can give you just about any color cast you could ask for. Setting the Colour Gain to 0 = black and white.
So heres total settings I used:
Gamma - Normal
Knee - Auto
Black - Press
Pedestal - -3
Setup Level - 0
Sharpness - 0
H Detail Freq - High
DHV - 0
Coring - 0
Nr1 - 0
Nr2 - 0
Colour Matrix - Cine2
Colour Gain - 0
Red Gain - 0
Green gain - 0
Blue Gain - 0
Rest also - 0
Now time to capture output clips etc takes a bit of time. Today I shot 5 tapes full, not all captured yet - just some sections for this. So at this stage there are no raw m2t files. If there is one you want from this clip let me know and Ill post it up tomorrow. And yes, we often move a car and draw on our driveway
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/fourth.mov
DAY 6
I am working around Shinjuku tomorrow. After that - should be around 6ish? Not a long job tomorrow, will be shooting for some City shots plus some 1/3 shutter car shots off a bridge (about one whole tape) speed it up etc.
Well early out so Shinjuku was a quite a wait so went back to the homestead. Found a spot near home, then five minutes into it the wind picks up (cold wind), so having just recovered from something I conceded to the cold air and left. :S Anyway a screencap of what I did shoot.
DAY 7
Too tired and its cold.
Hit me with those requests.November 10
Actually took these shots a few days ago when more people were asking for night shots... seems theres an abundance around now. Basically this will end uo in the stock footage library anyway so no waste.
Any mt2 request - please ask.
Link is only 7.5mb
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/GINZANIGHTSCENE.mov
Today got some footage of a nice bright day. Took the daughter for a walk in her "shaky cart" with no OIS on. Then a few oher shots I threw together. This was shot very fast on the run. Used a polariser on every shot but the last small timelapse piece.
http://www.scarlet-films.com/A1/SUNNY.mov
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