F3: 'The Hunt' (F3 still delivering the goods)

Thanks man. Also would be interested to see your opinion about how much a F3 with Element cage and plate with rgb444 upgrade is worth today ? I know you have one

Grug said:
For the F3 specifically Cristian?

If so, with the camera's built-in 3-stop (0.9) and 6-stop (1.8) NDs. The only essential densities you need are one-stop (0.3) and two-stop (0.6). Between those two filters and the F3's internal ones, you can have anywhere from 1-8 stops of ND, and 9 if you stack both external NDs in the mattebox (and 9-stops is enough to shoot wide-open in even the brightest Australian sun).

Spend the money to get a solid, new-style of ND like the Formatt-Hitech Firecrests or the Tokina Pro NDs though. They are totally colour neutral (even at high densities), which older IRND most certainly were NOT!
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Cristian Mihai said:
Thanks man. Also would be interested to see your opinion about how much a F3 with Element cage and plate with rgb444 upgrade is worth today ? I know you have one
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Not a lot I wouldn't have though. The standard cameras only seem to be fetching about $1000-$1500 USD at the moment. With the 444 upgrade and the Element Technica armour, you have the absolute best version of the F3 (one that's much more appealing than the standard camera). But I suspect $2000-$3000 USD is probably as high as you'd be likely to fetch. HD cameras just don't have a lot of appeal to people these days.

With the value so low, I'm not sure it makes a tonne of sense to sell really. It's probably more valuable as a second camera/backup (unless you really need the money).
 
Grug said:
Not a lot I wouldn't have though. The standard cameras only seem to be fetching about $1000-$1500 USD at the moment. With the 444 upgrade and the Element Technica armour, you have the absolute best version of the F3 (one that's much more appealing than the standard camera). But I suspect $2000-$3000 USD is probably as high as you'd be likely to fetch. HD cameras just don't have a lot of appeal to people these days.

With the value so low, I'm not sure it makes a tonne of sense to sell really. It's probably more valuable as a second camera/backup (unless you really need the money).
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Yes. I have one myself in the same configuration. Would be happily pay 2000-2500 on a second one. In case you want to sell it at one point give me a shout. For me full HD will be relevant years from now on and i have seen some nice upres at 2k from F3 so another few years relevant :-). I just love the camera, hate the menu, love the power consumption and hate there is no one making a element cage again.
 
Grug said:
Looks like the film made its way to Youtube in the end. You can watch it in much nicer quality than the Facebook version:

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Really nice work. Thanks for sharing. The locations are beautiful. How many days of production was that?
 
Ben_Ericson said:
Really nice work. Thanks for sharing. The locations are beautiful. How many days of production was that?
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Thanks Ben, we had three pretty hectic days of principal photography (one for the derelict factory at the start, and two for everything else), and the aerials were done separately on another day.
 
Beautiful. Really great use of natural landscapes and light. Very nice group dialogue compositions. And nice compositions generally
 
Grug said:
Looks like the film made its way to Youtube in the end. You can watch it in much nicer quality than the Facebook version:

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Nicely shot. F3 shining there too. The ironic thing is that just a few years ago this type of imagery would be criticized as too video like. But Alexa has conditioned us all at looking at digital by now. To the point that this feels pretty normal.

Off topic and nothing to do you with you, but the premise of the movie is difficult to take any seriously. I think a man creating an iron man suit or a teenager getting powers from a spider bite is more likely. I'm all for sci-fi, but it needs to have some sort of ground. Even good fantasy does.

But as I said, off topic. You did a phenomenal job and the images look very good. You were successful in minimizing the F3's short comings.
 
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