Tim Tyler

Hi, Adam, Sustaining members have 24 hours to go back and edit a post. Basic members have a few minutes. If you need to make a correction, best practice is to add a reply to your post with the updated information.

"New Topics" list is back on the home page, Macks. Speaking of "Filmvorführerforum", Simon, the old forum database could not deal with foreign character encoding. Any attempt at using an umlaut, accent, Latin letters, etc wouldn't work. The new software is UTF-8 and can deal with that stuff. It is a fair amount of work keeping the forums running, but it's not too bad. It's the stress of making sure it's always available that has given me gray hairs. To me those are two different things. Fortunately the more mature the software gets, the easier it is to maintain once the kinks are worked out. Rarely do I get the opportunity to go off-grid for more than a day or two though. I'll see what I can do about the layout, Tyler and Phil. I'll be making adjustments this week to try different things.

Ha! You'll get used to it. I agree this default layout is a bit, err, different. I liked the old design too, which is why I waited three years to finally update the software to the new version. On the upside... It's way more secure and a lot faster. It works better on mobile devices, and has many new features that make it easier to use after a little practice.

I'm pretty sure the now-suspended user is a troll. His signature claims "NYC AC" but his IP resolves to Bogota, Columbia. Post have been removed. Carry on.

Meet the Gaffer is a worthy YouTube series produced by veteran Los Angeles gaffer Luke Seerveld. Lots of helpful content.

Jeff, The Cinematography.com Marketplace is free for private sellers. Brokers and retailers must be supporting advertisers to post here. http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=2693 Tim

Please use screenshots if you want to demonstrate image quality.

Four available. These all work like new. Diva and Parabeam compatible. $35 each dimmer+cord plus shipping via PayPal. Free US shipping plus free forum Sustaining Membership upgrade if you buy all four. The schmutz on the back is residual epoxy as I had them attached to a clipboard on a shoot. http://www.kinoflo.com/Top%20Buttons/Support/Dimmers/DIM-5/DIM-5.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/352176-REG/

Ending this thread now.

It absolutely is.

The Project Vermont Team set out to solve one of the most well-known optical issues in conventional photography: field curvature. Field curvature exists because lenses don’t want to focus on a plane. A lens delivers sharpest focus along a curved path, rather than on a flat sensor. The result: objects appear out of focus across the image. By curving the focal surface, we eliminate the need for the lens to address field curvature and can use the resulting optical design freedom to improve other aspects of the system. Specifically, we can improve resolution, light-gathering capability, lateral chromatic aberration, distortion and illumination uniformity while also reducing system size, complexity and cost. Project Vermont https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-vermont/ Highly curved image sensors: a practical approach for improved optical performance https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-25-12-13010

Hillbilly Grip Truck reviews the compact Manfrotto 12' QSS Light Stand.

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Good news, but remember, it's only got 7 stops of exposure latitude. Time to dust off the light meters! http://motion.kodak.com/KodakGCG/uploadedfiles/motion/TI2496.pdf

Pelican cases about half off at Amazon today. http://amzn.to/2iBCuXH

Sennheiser MKH-416 @ B&H - $600 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/79502-REG/Sennheiser_MKH416_P48U3_MKH_416_Short_Shotgun.html/BI/1221/KBID/1557/DFF/d10-v21-t1-x28228 (expires in 8 hours)

If you find a truly good deal on film making equipment available from reputable retailers, post it here.

The "My Content" search in Profile is designed to only show the last six months worth of a member's posts. Click it and then look at the fine print under "Your Name's Content". Its says: There have been xx items by Your Name (Search limited from [date six months ago])

I have not been removing old posts. The forum's search feature is pretty lame, I agree. If you click the gear icon to the right of the search field on the top right of the forum you'll access the advanced search features. There are options to search by date ranges but the Date selector is cumbersome. It's easier to just type a xx/xx/xx date in the Find by Date field. As other have suggested Google can be directed to search just this site: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:cinematography.com+FILM

Brilliant.

Thanks for the review, Clint.

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I've changed the topic title for you, George. :)

I was also thinking about property loss or damage. If both the owner and renter are insured for property damage then in the event of catastrophe (i.e. a camera gets submerged) wouldn't the renter/production company insurance cover the loss and then the equipment owner's property insurance rates would not be affected?