Shooting SCOPE or super widescreen on a DLSR

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GRIMWORX

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Hey guys

I really want to start experimenting shooting scope on my dslr, simply to further the cinematic look and feel.

My question is how to do this? Ive researched into it best I can but cant seem to find as much information as I want. I plan to render out the final export at 1280x720 but use black bars top and bottom. For this to work, I need to work out how much of my screen to tape off on the view finder. Unless this is totally accurate I imagine to find myself in a pretty bad situation!

Is there a better way to do this? Or am I heading down the right track. I should probably point out this work is only destined for the web/tv so doesn't actually need to conform to cinema standards in anyway.

Cheers guys!
 
The best way is to do it on a monitor like the dp6. Otherwise, move the rectangle on liveview to the top and the bottom and it gives you a general idea of where to tape it off.
 
Hey thanks for the reply. Not sure what you mean, can you be a little more specific? Are there any particular dimensions I should work to?

Is there a way I can work out how many pixels I need to use for the black bars?
 
Hey man,

You could try drawing up a frame marker on a whiteboard or something.
Measure a rectangle that's 16:9 - ie, to be brash, 160cm x 90cm (though you may not have this room; could try 80cm x 45cm) and fill your frame with that. Then measure a 2.35:1 (or 2.40:1, whichever you're going for) frame inside that frame and mark it with some tape on the whiteboard, and then go from there on your lcd and/or monitor(s).
You'll want to use more of a mid-range lens like a 50mm to get rid of any distortion and that kind of thing.

Shoot the marker so that you'll have a reference in post.

Alternatively you could photoshop up a marker, put that on your SD/CF card and load that into your camera. I'm not sure on the format that the photo will need to be in, but I'm sure you'll figure it out.
This video should clear up what I just said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7mB7w9_-g

Hope all goes well! Shooting scope is very fun and different.
 
Once you start liking the ratio, be careful if you want to start getting into shooting actual anamorphic...it gets pricy and addictive!
 
there are 2 ways, one is simply getting the aspect ratio by adding black bars. In that case anamorphic is pretty useless since there is no way to display anamorphic content on an electronic display (one exception being the 4:3 anamorphic for 16:9)
If you go that way, this is pretty your choice to put any size for black bars, since nobody will care if they are one pixel more or less high.
You can use magic lantern on canon to get the guide on screen, taping viewfinder being hardly precise enough to give you the pixel precision required.
The 2nd way is to get anamorphic, but for 2 reasons, the first being to get the "features" (could also be called the "problems") given by wide angle anamorphic (flares, color aberration, geometric distortion, haze). Some people like it, it is part from cine look.
the 2nd reason is more pragmatic, knowing that you will cut a big part of the picture, you can try to squeeze all the useful pixel on the sensor instead loosing a lot of them.
you will need to stretch the picture after editing to rescale the video to 1920*1080. The only advantage of doing that is to keep the best quality as long as possible
My opinion is shooting 2.35 with 1280*720 would left too few lines to call that hires.
 
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