Samuel Berger

I've never been to Simi Valley, does it look nice like Tehachapi? Thanks for the suggestion.

I hope I make it back! Wife wants us to move to Tehachapi instead. I am not looking forward to a 2 hour commute each way.

I'm back in Washington. Will try again some day...sigh. Sorry I couldn't hang out with you guys

My dad is in town and he leaves Monday, taking my kids with him. After that we will see if we can stay two more days looking for an apartment, or if we need to leave right away. Our funds are getting rapidly depleted. Rent prices are insane right now. I wonder if this means we're in another housing bubble. I really don't want to end up in East Palmdale.

So far it's not looking good. We've been here for two weeks now. If we can't find a place to rent by Monday we're driving back to WA on Tuesday. Maybe this weekend I'll run into Stuart at McDonald's or something. ;-)

:D Anyway, my wife and I are looking for an apartment here in L.A.. Not working out with my credit so we might have to stay in Washington state until that gets better. Completely insane system. We even offered to pay for months in advance. What's also totally crazy is that the rental prices are almost at 2008 levels.

Is this an actual thing that you think?

So I'm in L.A. this week conducting some business and end up staying at the Motel 6 in Sherman Oaks. The place is crappy and around bedtime I try to switch off the light above the sink in the entryway, and it turns out the switch is broken. I complain to the guy in the front desk and he says he can't do anything but change our room in the morning. I twisted off the frosted plastic cover and it turns out there's no bulb I could unscrew. I'd need to cover that light somehow. "Now if only I had some gaffer's tape and foil", I thought. So I went to Target to buy some foil and masking tape. On the mile and a half drive I start thinking about this project I was going to shoot in Seattle. It got canceled, I ran out of money before it even began, and started saving to move here. And I thought of Tyler because I had told him about this project. So I'm at Target in the first floor and I get this sales assistant to take me to where the sleeping masks are, in case my plan fails, and who do I run into? Tyler Purcell. I was so shocked I forgot how to speak for a second. In fact I was so surprised I forgot to take a selfie with him to prove to my wife that this actually happened. I was in a hurry and we exchanged a few words and I drove back with a huge smile in my face because I took it as a sign that my project will happen some day. Made my trip, let me tell ya!

You seem to be fascinated with the absolute worst that mankind has to offer.

After all these years I don't remember it, but I do have one memory: On the day we were trying to replicate the time-lapse shot of the road that goes all around the world, I tried different filters. The one that matched the original the best was completely unfiltered. How I wish I still had that film. The original road went from Boise to Picabu. We found an identical one in Alton, Illinois and did the time lapse there. All that was missing was River Phoenix.

This is a very old thread but this is the first time I've ever read it. I wanted to chime in that when My Own Private Idaho came out was fascinated with the look of it. I shot a number of scenes on Super 8 Kodachrome 40 using filters and the footage seemed to match MOPI very well. This was something I did in 1995 so it was lost to time. So yeah... K40 with filters. Useless answer in 2018, but I wanted people to know the look can be emulated.

Are you willing to wait until September? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1401512-REG/blackmagic_design_pocket_cinema_camera_4k.html

No but after watching that entire video...I certainly will now! Thank you!

Up for sale is this completely serviced Techniscope Arri 2C camera. Sergio Leone made his first Spaghetti Westerns with one of these. 2-Perf will save you a lot of money in the long run. Your rolls of film will last twice as long! This one is built like a tank, with modern gears and a perfect 24fps motor and matte box. And guess what? It has a hard PL mount which means you can adapt modern lenses to it. The very bright custom viewfinder has a ground glass marked for both Techniscope and 1.78:1 aspect ratios. Techniscope is hot now due to DI technology and finer film grain. Flat base, an orientable viewfinder, a hinged door and matte box /rod system. All custom additions made at Aranda Film. Anyone who knows Bruce McNaughton's fine work knows he's recently posted here about moving away from making these brilliant modifications. I spent a lot on this but now due to unexpected circumstances I must sell it. Will include 58mm lens, 16V battery, matte box system with rods, and two 400ft magazines It is a practically free camera in that you are paying about as much as it would cost to modify one. My loss is your gain. Payment through PayPal only. See price on my sister's eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323245778571

Bernie did a wonderful job with my lenses, try him. http://super16inc.com/

Ultimately I feel that if I'm to run Mac OS I might as well be on an actual Mac. Most of my issues were traced to my video card. It just didn't want to run Resolve. I ordered a GTX 1080 Ti and I'm hoping that will be the end of it, but it's only been a couple of weeks since I "upgraded" from Windows 7 to Windows Sad Trombone 10 and it has not been a happy transition. Windows 10 is buggy as heck. The only good thing about it is that it allows me to export from Resolve into H.264 (??????????? Really??? That's a good thing????) without the "Failed to render the video frame" error from before. If I could downgrade back to Windows 7 I would. But now it's been way too much work. If the NVidia card doesn't solve my issues...then it's time to switch to Mac. Which will be a terrible time to do it, because the new Mac Pro is coming out next year. Oooooh yeah, I forgot, it's going to cost $50,000 for the base model. Never mind.

Then what is the point of different cameras existing?

Yeah but then Mr. Wu wouldn't have a video to post on Friday.

What is the desired final output format?

Exactly the way you did here, ask for a gate area scan not an overscan.

Mr. Wu addresses the common concern regarding the lack of a "Middle Codec" for the C200. I have to admit I laughed when he explained the workflow. It wasn't quite what I was expecting. But once again, the C200 proves to be the perfect cinema camera and the best camera to buy in 2018, overall.

Sony needs to stop making garbage.

One of the key complaints is that the FS5Mk2 is an FS5 with a firmware update. Others say that it will bring you to tears. Some FS5 owners are thinking of using black nail polish on the ND knob to pass it off as an FS5Mk2 to clients. One FS5 owner sobbed that if you currently have the raw firmware upgrade and are shooting 12-bit raw out via SDI to an external recorder there is absolutely zero point to upgrade. Especially considering the recent addition of Apple Pro-Res Raw which is now 12-bit raw instead of 10-bit standard pro-res and should offer even more latitude in post production which asides from all the crying will totally outperform any baked in LUT Sony can give a sobbing cinematographer from their Venice color science. Ironically the A7 III appears to have better autofocus than most Sony cinema cameras. This is why the Canon is superior, because they made people, who never thought they'd use AF, pay a premium for that feature. Atomos just released a Ninja V, too, so if you pair that with the A7 III why would you need a lacrimogenous FS series? The A7 III has IBIS too...hmmm.... There seems to be minimal hardware difference in the FS5Mk2. I guess it was an attempt to use up unsold FS5 parts. I haven't used this sorrowful camera but I hope it doesn't feel like a cheap piece of plastic like Panasonic's schizophrenic EVA1. If you can read through all the crying, "as idiotic as it sounds, it would almost seem that the mkii was just being used to market Sony's even newer and refined color science of Venice."

Should've gone with Canon.

I decided against it, it's really way too much money and Consumer Reports says to not get it. What's funny is how common it is for people who use this kind of "drops & spills" warranty, to claim it when a wife threw the item at them. Hm, maybe I should get it.