ryan knight

better be a firmware update then.

yep, my thoughts exactly. splurge on the kingston 32GB 266x, etc, etc.

apparently, it is a great lens. i am thinking of getting it too. but also, the 17-50 f/2.8 tamron is very close to it too, for a fraction of the price (my post, unanswered, is a few below in the canon forum). rk.

Does anybody have any insight on how these two compare? Tamron AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II VC ASL IF Lens vs. Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Zoom Lens I hear the Tamron comes quite close, and is much cheaper. Thanks, RK.

check out video copilot's new anamorphic flare plug-in. quite nice. nothing beats the real thing though.

phil, so you can hit record on your device (AJA or Blackmagic, etc) and capture data without having to hit record on the camera? sats, is the red dot in such a place that it can be cropped out in a 2.40 matte?

Does anyone know if you can record Uncompressed HD to a recorder (like the AJA I/O Express) via the 7D's HDMI? RK.

does anyone have insight as to whether the LCDs on the 5DMKII and the & 7D can be trusted (to what extent), when viewing/judging exposure and contrast and color?

lucky bast . rd....

really? only marginally? would better optics (on both, compared) make the 5D shine more, or would it stay rather insignificant?

how come the 5D is harder to pull with than the 7D? the larger sensor?

how do the two compare to each other? does the 5D MKII's bigger sensor blow the 7D out of the water, or are the MKII's images only marginally cleaner/crisper/(enter your own adjective here) than the 7D's?

i completely agree. i'm thinking of buying a 7D but am not sold yet on it's 24P efforts. i wonder if closing the shutter to 1/60th may help.

shots 3, 4 and 5 are beauties. i like your grade too. would love to see some motion ;)

thanks phil. i'll read and enjoy your links, and probably have more questions.

i'm wondering if it's something that can be done using a high powered mac, like the red's workflow where you generate your own apple pro res dailies using redalert, and then do a conform back to the R3Ds for your DI in apple color. your sample was with an HDV camera - which camera? also, do you have any footage online where i can see the comparison, or the uncompressed footage? thanks phil, rk.

i wonder, though, if this noise can be treated to be perceived as grain? and uncomp'ed HD from the HPX170 via SDI is not noisy? do you know how i could contact the guys who you know did the HVX workflow? rk.

you have tried this process with an HVX? and it doesn't seem worth the extra time, trouble and hard drive space? what about the increased robustness when color correcting? rk.

i'm in the midst of it too and i love it. great program!

it would be easier then to use the 1080/24PA function on the HPX, out through SDI? as supposed to 720 (i would prefer to shoot 1080 anyway), since 24P is recording into a 60i stream, with redundant frame removal upon capture. how does this process change if i wanted to record uncompressed HD from the HVX, via the component out? thanks phil, great answer! rk.

i really want to test it out with my accessible HVX, but i'm waiting to get my hands on the capture card required to record the uncompressed images to a hard drive. in terms of hard drive space, how much larger, per minute, are the uncompressed files in comparison to the P2 dvcprohd files? thanks, rk.

even your first image isn't that sharp. i've used an adapter many times (the results always vary) and what i always try to do is get both the SLR prime and the camera's stock lens at it's sharper point. for the XL2, it's probably between 3.4 and 5.6, like it is with the DVX. i think the XL2's lens is a 1.7 at full wide to 2.8 or 3.2 at full telephoto, making it's spot between the 3.4 to 5.6 range. stop your SLRs down by two to two and 2/3s closed from wide open and that'll be their sweet spot. what i also do is quicken the shutter a touch to 1/60, it'll make images appear sharper as well. good luck.

agreed, and i would have grabbed a 1/8 or 1/4 black frost to take the edge off that "overly focused HD look" you don't like. next time, maybe try exposing for the highlights and looking at how punchy and rich an image that exposure offers. just another option.

i'm sorry, but i think the diffused and glowing highlights look terrible. not sure if you used a promist or a soft fx, or if it was the letus ground glass or done in post, but next time i'd say go less intense with it. sorry, just my thoughts. impressive undertaking though, that you do it all yourself.

not yet. we go to camera this weekend so hopefully early january i can throw some up. thanks, rk.