Hello. I used to have an account here but rarely used it and forgot all its info so please excuse me. I made another to post some frames of the new doc. feature I was hired onto, thinking someone might be interested in more examples of work being done on this camera.
I decided to once again shoot with the F3 in Log mode. I really like this camera for many reasons. It's far from perfect but for the budget I determined it was way beyond any alternatives I could come up with. Unfortunately this film is also being shot with lesser, compact cameras but I can not comment on that part of it other than to say my footage will likely stick out, greatly. I assume the color grade will injure the F3 shots to better match the SLR stuff. This is what happens on many projects like this where 100's of hours of footage is gathered by 3-4 different camera people that are hired onto long doc projects at different times, sometimes months or even a year+ apart. I do not like that fact and worry about my name being associated with the less experienced people hired as fill-ins but, what can you do.
This was all shot S-log to internal SD cards via an adapter. I use Extreme Sandisk cards without issue. The lens is mostly a 17-55 Nikon. I prefer to use primes or a better lens usually but this was the best we could do for a rental in this case. The camera is set up for handheld use with a Zacuto uni. plate, 16" carbon fiber rods and a quickly removable zac shoulder pad. I will try to post a pic of a rig if anyone is interested. We also rented an Alphatron VF which is ok I guess; it works but it's very bulky and heavy with the larger Sony batt.
Quickly, these are random grabs from footage gathered in different parts (some very remote) of West Va. USA. The protest shots were shot at 1600asa. All shots are natural/found light. The baby shot may have some motion blur due to it moving a lot!
These are all s-log grabs and are not color graded.
I decided to once again shoot with the F3 in Log mode. I really like this camera for many reasons. It's far from perfect but for the budget I determined it was way beyond any alternatives I could come up with. Unfortunately this film is also being shot with lesser, compact cameras but I can not comment on that part of it other than to say my footage will likely stick out, greatly. I assume the color grade will injure the F3 shots to better match the SLR stuff. This is what happens on many projects like this where 100's of hours of footage is gathered by 3-4 different camera people that are hired onto long doc projects at different times, sometimes months or even a year+ apart. I do not like that fact and worry about my name being associated with the less experienced people hired as fill-ins but, what can you do.
This was all shot S-log to internal SD cards via an adapter. I use Extreme Sandisk cards without issue. The lens is mostly a 17-55 Nikon. I prefer to use primes or a better lens usually but this was the best we could do for a rental in this case. The camera is set up for handheld use with a Zacuto uni. plate, 16" carbon fiber rods and a quickly removable zac shoulder pad. I will try to post a pic of a rig if anyone is interested. We also rented an Alphatron VF which is ok I guess; it works but it's very bulky and heavy with the larger Sony batt.
Quickly, these are random grabs from footage gathered in different parts (some very remote) of West Va. USA. The protest shots were shot at 1600asa. All shots are natural/found light. The baby shot may have some motion blur due to it moving a lot!
These are all s-log grabs and are not color graded.
