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Mike BeresfordJones

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About Mike BeresfordJones

  • Birthday 04/30/1967

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    Cinematographer
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  1. Thanks all. Great info here. Sorry I should have said its a toss up between Cooke S4s and a crop or the Hawk V series anamorphics. Also, I will be shooting a lot of low key "noir" looking scenes. John I will follow your advice re charts. Thanks.
  2. Thanks for the response David. How about cropping vs 2x anamorphic squeeze? I will be doing tests in week or so but would love to get as much feedback from any ones experiences as I can before then.
  3. Hi, I am about to start prepping for my first feature and the Director has expressed and interest in shooting 1:235 aspect ratio. For budget reasons we are shooting on RedMX or possibly Alexa proRes 4444. I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the pros and pitfalls of this scenario.As far as I can work out the Alexa route is with Hawk 1.3 anamorphic's which is very costly and so not really an option. With the Red we could either crop with primes and get the faster lens speed and resulting resolution loss, or shoot 2x anamorphic squeeze with slower lenses and a heavier lighting bill but better resolution. Am I right so far? The other option would be to shoot 1:185. So here the problem is between Red raw and prores 4444. Anyone got any advice here? Does proRes 4444 give the same sort of latitude as Red raw with a higher ISO rating. If anyone could share any experiences or advice on these questions I would be very grateful.
  4. I have used the Pantom HD and recently the Gold and love the 14 bit image. I was thinking of buying a phantom V10 and adding a P2 of CF storage via HD-SDI to it.Then I notice that the HS-1 is in the competing price range(but only 10 bit??). We are hoping to put together a pretty rugged system for portable outdoor use without massive download times and for use in situation like car races etc where vibration would be an issue. I was reading the HD Vs Weiscam-2 post below and wondered if anyone has any similar advice for us? Any advice about rugged download systems via HD-SDI and there problems would also be great.
  5. Yea, sorry about the double post Brian. My bad.
  6. Thanks all, very insightful, especially that bit about the DOF being impossible to work with. As you say 35mm at F4!! HOWEVER...speed does count when you are in low light OR at high speed frame rates which I find myself in more often these days. In so far as 35mm having been right for 100 years...well my friends "times, they are a changing" with the advent of 3D but that is another topic altogether.
  7. Cannon and Nikon as well as others are touting their cameras, either now or soon to be with “full 35mm” chips. Or as I understand it 5K more or less. 5D and 7D etc. This size equates to their old 35mm film cameras and lenses. This size being larger than 35mm film as the film was moving across rather than down. Their lenses work with this format but PL mounting a D5 for example means that not all your film lenses will cover, right? As no one is yet making industry standard top end lenses for D5’s etc. Lieca have stepped into the frame with their “soon to be” range. I have copied from a lens review post below.. “Leica lenses have been a mainstay on my still camera for longer than I care to admit. As part of their new PL mount series, venerable lens manufacturer Leitz is now offering the Leica Summilux (f1.4) design lens models to be released with 18mm, 21mm, 25mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm and 100mm focal lengths. These weigh around 4 lbs., and will be delivered later this year to Band Pro, their exclusive worldwide distributor. Seven more models are also on their way, bringing the set to a total of 15, ranging from a 12mm to a 150mm. All of them feature common 95mm front threads, with a common location for focus and aperture gears to facilitate faster lens changes on set. Pricing is comparable to other PL mount lens sets: the eight lens set runs approximately $178K USD.” I am guessing these are aimed at the growing "stills camera for motion"(5D etc) market as well as the Epic/Scarlet market. Now here is the part I cant seem to get answered. Will the Cooke S5’s or Zeiss’s new ranges or indeed any 35mm film lenses cover this “new” size of chip? Are the back elements large enough to cover 5K. Sorry if I am being really dull and missing something obvious here. Any help would be much appreciated.
  8. Cannon and Nikon as well as others are touting their cameras, either now or soon to be with “full 35mm” chips. Or as I understand it 5K more or less. This size equates to their old 35mm film cameras and lenses. This size being larger than 35mm film as the film was moving across rather than down. Their lenses work with this format but PL mounting a D5 for example means that not all your film lenses will cover, right? As no one is yet making industry standard top end lenses for D5’s etc. Lieca have stepped into the frame with their “soon to be” range. I have copied from a lens review post below.. “Leica lenses have been a mainstay on my still camera for longer than I care to admit. As part of their new PL mount series, venerable lens manufacturer Leitz is now offering the Leica Summilux (f1.4) design lens models to be released with 18mm, 21mm, 25mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm and 100mm focal lengths. These weigh around 4 lbs., and will be delivered later this year to Band Pro, their exclusive worldwide distributor. Seven more models are also on their way, bringing the set to a total of 15, ranging from a 12mm to a 150mm. All of them feature common 95mm front threads, with a common location for focus and aperture gears to facilitate faster lens changes on set. Pricing is comparable to other PL mount lens sets: the eight lens set runs approximately $178K USD.” I am guessing these are aimed at the growing "stills camera for motion"(5D etc) market as well as the Epic/Scarlet market. Now here is the part I cant seem to get answered. Will the Cooke S5’s or Zeiss’s new ranges or indeed any 35mm film lenses cover this “new” size of chip? Are the back elements large enough to cover 5K. Sorry if I am being really dull and missing something obvious here. Any help would be much appreciated.
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