New 101 film! The AF101 in Oxford by Sparky
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Jesse Brauning
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A friend of mine spent some time at Oxford. It looks just as awesome as she made it sound. Putting two rack focuses back to back distracted me a little, but I realize it's just a sampling of shots and not a cohesive story or anything. Sharp and beautiful. The colors are so good.
Oh and the music at the beginning made me think of Six from BSG.
Lenses?
Oh and the music at the beginning made me think of Six from BSG.
Lenses?
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Sparky874
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Thanks Jesse. It is actually the soundtrack for the popular UK series, 'Inspector Morse', a muder TV series that was set in Oxford. The lenses are Tokina 11-16, Nikon AIS 50mm and 85mm (using Nikon adaptor for all). Sparky
dustylense
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He used the tokina 11-16 and nikkor 50 and 85
Sparky874
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I just picked up a Nikon AIS 50mm 1.4 from Ebay UK at £150 (approx $220 us dollars). My other Nikon lenses are similar. To me the pictures look pretty good. However I would love to my images to the same footage shot with a really expensive lens? Is there a big difference in the images quality say between my Nikon primes and a Carl Z lens? I mean a big step up? Perhaps I would need to rent one to see for myself. I saw a great AF101 video in Vimeo where the majority of it was shot with a Lumix 14-144mm - the video looked amazing. . I was about to sell my as I only use primes - but are many of you using this lens? Cheers, Sparky
Sparky874
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I had it on Cine D. I just went out yesterday to shoot some more stuff for fun, with new new settings based around B-Press and I was really happy with the results. I attached the camera to a 42'' Panasonic plasma for the first time and was really suprised how great it looked. i also own a Sony PDW-700 xdcam hd camera - all kitted up costing AROUND £40,000 - and I thought the AF101 looked just as nice! Can't say more than that!
groveChuck
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So the AF is now attending Oxford? My, what a higher level of cinematographic education! :grin:
I love the textures of the stone buildings! I guess it's the Cine D.
Do you remember any of the other settings? Matrix, Ped, Detail?
Does Sparky Hitchcock make a cameo at Oxford? :happy:
I love the textures of the stone buildings! I guess it's the Cine D.
Do you remember any of the other settings? Matrix, Ped, Detail?
Does Sparky Hitchcock make a cameo at Oxford? :happy:
Sparky874
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No, not this time! Thanks for the feedback guys, I used Editman's 5D setting for the shoot. I am just finding that when you have to open up the lens to get the detail of the buildings in this case against a bright sky, it is very difficult not to blow it out using the Cine D setting - that's why I think B-Press may be a better option. The more I am using this camera, the more I am loving it!
Strange I find exactly the opposite. I find shooting in sunlight Cine D has by far the best latitude. Cine V is too contrasty for me, and B Press is also a bit too contrasty and blows out more, highlight handling looks much better to me in Cine D. Only problem with cine D is it needs a touch more contrast and the toe is pulled up a bit too much, so it's a little noisy, so I've being using -4 ped to bring it down a bit and reduce noise a little.
Sparky874
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ASG, that's interesting. After reading Barry's book, I thought that both Cine D and V offered no KNEE protection and brights are rendered smothly and cleanly until they get overexposure and blow out? I don't think this can happen with B Press? I shot some boat footage to try out B Press with mid knee and was really happy with the results - with the sky on a bright day always looking fine.