Panasonic AF-100 being called the "DSLR killer". Any thoughts?

Roger Corman, still doin' his thing, still turning out the kind of product he always used to. And good ol' Eric Roberts giving it the star treatment. But man... seriously there were three daylight shots where the adapter wasn't turned on and there was this massive film of grain over the image as they panned and tilted... and they were like "reshoot? Are you kidding? Put it in there, nobody will ever notice."

"broadcast quality"? Hey, it was broadcast nationally on a major cable channel, so...
 
So the question, if I am correct, is when will a full length feature film be shot completely on DSLR's?

It's been done. I think of domestic as being North America. I tried to see where you were from Kholi but didn't see under your profile so I apologize if you are from elsewhere.


life4eva said:
Only a matter of time........
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Another benefit I was thinking for videographers of things like weddings, I've read of nightmares of cards going bad out of the blue before. Once nice thing if you wanted redundancy on things you could never shoot again is record internally AND with an external recorder.

I know this is what I would consider for safe-proofing shots.

That's the one thing we have to not use our 7D on and that is live events. We use it as a B camera and run an HVX as a master shot so we have the whole thing. We shoot 2+ hour events some times. (And some things we've had to drop to tape as well on the HVX).

There is NO solution for that with one DSLR.
 
1dog Studios said:
So the question, if I am correct, is when will a full length feature film be shot completely on DSLR's?

It's been done. I think of domestic as being North America. I tried to see where you were from Kholi but didn't see under your profile so I apologize if you are from elsewhere.


life4eva said:
Only a matter of time........
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I'm in Los Angeles. I'd love to know which Full Length feature shot completely on DSLRs was released Domestic (US) wide.
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That film is beautiful. It shows the great potential for a full length feature. And life4eva is 100% correct is Only a matter of time. Thanks for sharing the video.
 
Barry_Green said:
Roger Corman, still doin' his thing, still turning out the kind of product he always used to. And good ol' Eric Roberts giving it the star treatment. But man... seriously there were three daylight shots where the adapter wasn't turned on and there was this massive film of grain over the image as they panned and tilted... and they were like "reshoot? Are you kidding? Put it in there, nobody will ever notice."

"broadcast quality"? Hey, it was broadcast nationally on a major cable channel, so...
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Let's be honest though, grainy shots were the least of that particular "film's" and use the word lightly, problems. :engel017:
 
John Caballero said:
That film is beautiful. It shows the great potential for a full length feature. And life4eva is 100% correct is Only a matter of time. Thanks for sharing the video.
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I agree! Ya it sure does show great potential.

As far as a time frame for a DSLR shot major release, most know or should at least, the length of time it takes to take a indie through the festivals and grab enough attention to gain a major release is often 2 years... or longer. So unless my math is off, I would say we might very well see a few projects over the next couple years. Considering it would take over a year or longer to film and finish on top of the shopping stage.

To the original topic ... I for one am eagerly waiting for the AF100 to "kill" my EX1, which its going to thankfully the minute I fire it up :)
 
Max Smith said:
Let's be honest though, grainy shots were the least of that particular "film's" and use the word lightly, problems. :engel017:
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Hey, Sharktopuss was an epic masterpiece.

(but, that was the day I ate those mushrooms from the back yard and all was right with the world so I could be wrong.)
 
We're going totally off-topic here but the best/worst giant shark movie out there is "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" It is unequaled in it's sheer lack of redeeming social value. ;)
 
John Caballero said:
That film is beautiful. It shows the great potential for a full length feature. And life4eva is 100% correct is Only a matter of time. Thanks for sharing the video.
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We're not talking matter of time. We're talking results. If it has been done, please show me.

As of right now, I don't know of a single feature film released nationwide that has been shot fully DSLR. Even eighty to ninety percent DSLR.

Until then, no one is one hundred percent correct on anything, it's just more DVXuser assumptions.
 
BradM said:
I agree! Ya it sure does show great potential.

As far as a time frame for a DSLR shot major release, most know or should at least, the length of time it takes to take a indie through the festivals and grab enough attention to gain a major release is often 2 years... or longer. So unless my math is off, I would say we might very well see a few projects over the next couple years. Considering it would take over a year or longer to film and finish on top of the shopping stage.

To the original topic ... I for one am eagerly waiting for the AF100 to "kill" my EX1, which its going to thankfully the minute I fire it up :)
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It's been over a year since this stuff happened. I'm not saying it won't, the point is that this "kill" thing is really silly.

Gear doesn't have emotions nor does it have a heartbeat. People proclaiming the second coming of the apocalypse is definitely odd.

Nothing's going to kill anything, people will use whatever gear they see fit and hopefully find great results along with it.

Like I said, there IS a 35mm Adapter feature film hitting theaters this month. I'd see that as a sign of life, if inanimate objects actually have a pulse.
 
Barry_Green said:
You do have to admit, a giant shark walking around on the beach using its octopus legs... there's a certain appeal to that...
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I will admit that the executives at SyFy have mastered the art of "it's so bad it's good" Saturday night creature features. I'm not being facetious either, if they took it too seriously or poured on too much production value, they would just be bad.

Shark's with octopus tentacles, when treated with just enough faux gravitas, is exactly the kind of thing I can have a good laugh at when there's nothing else on.

But... er... back on topic...

Maybe they'll shoot Shartopus VS. Megadino on an AF100!
 
Kholi said:
Like I said, there IS a 35mm Adapter feature film hitting theaters this month. I'd see that as a sign of life, if inanimate objects actually have a pulse.
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Yeah....but how long ago was that actually shot? They probably started shooting end of 2008...finished up some time earlier this year and are just now getting the final product distributed. I betchya those fellas are now shooting on a DSLR...he he:engel017:



...ok I'll shut up now. :)
 
I have a feature planned, where unfortunately, there is a huge amount of very low light and night shooting, in super-tight spaces (think small two person tent). And it's micro-budget. You might think the af-100 would be the solution, but there are some serious problems, primarily access to very fast, very wide lenses... So right there, a 5D might be superior - smaller, better low light, more lens choices. In other words, there may be actually valid reasons to pick a 5D over the af-100, and therefore picking the DLSR is in no way a compromise, but a straight up superior option. Most likely will end up having to shoot with both - though I hate the extra expense. Regardless, all this is theoretical. I'll wait until the af-100 actually comes out and is tested against the latest DSLR before I make up my mind. I feel we may be getting overly argumentative without having all the facts at hand. Let's wait for the gear before we make up our minds.
 
OldCorpse said:
I feel we may be getting overly argumentative without having all the facts at hand. Let's wait for the gear before we make up our minds.
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This is true. :)

Although I will say that 50mm F0.95 lens for m4/3 is looking cool. Hope they do a 25mm version, I will be ALL over that!

:)
 
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