The end of 35mm adapers and hv20s....

timmytimetravel said:
The sensor in this camera is similar to the RED and is doing amazing lowlight things in all my tests. I even busted it onto a figrig (steering wheel) with a small Litepanel LED light and a 7" HD battery monitor and took it for a spin... :) Not quite like on my flyer, but sure beat handheld, and 7" via hdmi was nicer than 3" for sure for focus.
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If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing for focus control with the fig rig? I've only seen them used with two hands which leaves none for the lens, though I would love to hear any creative solution you might have come up with.

So, Essential tests? What would people like to see first?

Cheers.
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I'd like to see how it deals with strong diagonal lines without the mjpeg compression. I think its strange aliasing is due to the way it pulls data from the sensor, but if it doesn't get that via HDMI and capture is viable... well that would be really sweet.
 
Thebes said:
If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing for focus control with the fig rig? I've only seen them used with two hands which leaves none for the lens, though I would love to hear any creative solution you might have come up with.

Sure. It was a wicked looking rig!

I didn't in this case :) I did the same as I do for steadicam, I chose a greater depth of field, and kept same distance from my mark, thus keeping focus. The 7" allowed me to get the initial focus quicker than the 3" but added weight to that rig. I do have a foveas remote lens controller, and normally for steadicam work if I needed to pull focus on a shot, I'd have someone pull remotely using a wireless signal. I'd never try and pull during a shot with something perfectly balanced. Figrig, two hands, now that's another story! Maybe I should try rig my follow focus from the redrock on there, and give someone a pull from a whip :) Thats one to try....

Biggest thing to get my head around so far, is without a viewfinder, focus assist and only a 3" screen, focus could be an issue for moving shots. Does the 7" make that much difference? Wasn't too bulky in the figrig, but attached to the side somehow while still one hand on the camera and one on the lens, could be tricky. Maybe thats where the spiderbrace really has it. Does anyone know if drew was using another monitor on his d90 test?

My idea here for the D90, was see if I could counter the handheld wobble cheaply as I believe there is a good niche here for filmstudents at the very least.

I also tried a STABIL-X http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/594890014.htm supercheap stabilizer, folds out onto your shoulder. Worked pretty well, probably not as well as Drew's spiderbrace, but the advantage of this little number is size and low light. Walking in with a still camera and a stabil-x to do night documentary work vs something with lights and a large stabilizer could yield some very versitle work.

So I might try it again once I get my 50-300mm f4.5 (down the bottom of this kenrockwell d90 page) http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90.htm in later in the week. It's a large enough, heavy enough lens, that with a STABIL-X off the shoulder, and nice big focus ring, I might be able to pull handheld at wide-mid.
Probably not though :) At least quick and smooth inbetween shots.
Advantage of the stabil-x is you can still screw your tripod mount quick release into the bottom of it. So with a quick release it comes off in under a second.

So if I needed some B camera cutaways or something, someone can leave it on tripod or quickly move in off the shoulder, and if not pulling own focus during shots, then certainly between.

Having said that I have not tried to match it in post yet to other cameras... so who knows

It's almost a different thread for d90 stabilizer discussions :) But since everything d90 under the sun is on this tread still... well :)

I'd like to see how it deals with strong diagonal lines without the mjpeg compression. I think its strange aliasing is due to the way it pulls data from the sensor, but if it doesn't get that via HDMI and capture is viable... well that would be really sweet.
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Well allright then! Still? Panning? Tracking? All of the above? Have someone posted and example of the aliasing so far I can look as reference while doing it.

Cheers
 
First HDMI frame grab Nikon D90

First HDMI frame grab Nikon D90

Ok,

HDMI card didn't arrive till late, no natural light left. Will post some more useful grabs in the morning.

Interesting verdict on capabilities in the meantime.

In 720 mode in Blackmagic media express it will sync with the d90 while in liveview. In 1080 mode it does not.

With blackmagic in 720 mode and the d90 in 1080i mode you can get a liveview picture, but it records in 720. This presumably means it is either upscaling the 720? Or simply not letting you output liveview in 1080?

Now here is the interesting one. Pressing the menu button whilst liveview is on seems to bring up a menu designed for that resolution.

I cannot capture 1080 in 1080 mode. But I CAN press the menu button, and record that, and it appears to be in 1080! Hmmmm....

Anyway, couple of screencaps. I am completely new to uncompressed captures. So I'll happily take any advice (as well as of course doing some decent light shots tomorrow and the strong diagonal line test). I am presuming png is not the best way of posting these with only small filesize allowed.

Examples below in next post.

Cheers
 
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You all secretly love it, it reminds you all of a naive time, when we were all younger, we had such hope, such dreams, this was of course before the Canocaust - when a third of all frames in a second were wiped out in one of history's most shameful atrocities.
 
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