Nate Downes

depends on which revision of the chip. They went CMOS for the SD14 I believe.

Hey, we florida guys really need to get to know each other.

Thanks to this sites rather fair handling of the RED I went from "Will never use it" to "well, if the projects right for it, then sure." It was the zealots from REDuser that turned me off to the camera, as they reminded me far too much of the Red/Blue trolls from the Amiga days. (referencing the color of the mascot that their particular central GUI toolkit used, then later the color of the logo for the particular OS their systems used)

??? You cannot "apply" foveon to an existing sensor. It is a new structure of the CCD so I understand, enabling each pixel to record each color, rather than interpolating as through a beyers pattern. But yes, as of yet the largest foveon would rate as only 2k.

$4.88 per roll of Super8 E64T at walmart is too expensive?

What do you need to rent?

Looks good! Can't wait to see the results. Man, I wanna use my Chinon so badly right now!!! 8)

The fight scenes were well shot, but the action looked fake. Nothing wrong with your work, just saying. I tagged the first half as from the EX1 instantly. A trick I learned to better camoflage the EX1's look is to insert an 85b filter before you color balance. It increases the gamma curve just enough. Rather heavy on the extreme colored lighting, which is neither a good nor a bad thing if that is what you are playing up. The slow-motion on the briefcase looked jerky. Don't know if that's in the footage or the codec. All in all very good work.

Vinetting can be a desired application, it depends on the artistic merits. My wife uses it in her still work quite regularly. It's right there with lens flares and flashing frames. All "no no's" but if used right, can be good effect.

A friend of mine was on Law and Order a year back, and he mentioned the 16mm cameras being used, so I'm siding with Tim here.

Hey, if he doesn't want the film.... I'd be more than happy to take it off his hands? 8)

I know, right? Geesh!

Hang out on an Amiga Computer forum sometime, you'll be surprised at the similarities there. In both the REDuser and Amiga's case, the die-hard fans have gone from being fans to zealots. Once zealotry enters in, forget about reasoned arguements and expect flamewars. I worked for one of the neo-Amiga companies a few years back, and was shocked to see the insanity in some of these peoples eyes.

First off, this statement is untrue. The Producer has final creative say over the film, and Directors that ignore this do so at their own peril. Same with DoP's. Learn which fights to fight. Alternatively, suggest shooting it both ways, as coverage?

I'm building myself one, but I'm in Florida. You know how hard it is to find an 8x10 projector? 8)

There are two or three of us in the area. I'd be interested, but it's an hour drive to let you know. I believe one of the others is on a shoot, so will be unavailable.

good call. You know, I wish that the Foveon technologies took off that are in the Sigma SLR. That would make 3-chip less necessary.

it would require three prisms in total, and yes, the glass would have to be further away. In my theoretical work, the distance grew to the same as on your Hasselbled or Pentax 645. You first have your basic image splitter, passing 70% of the light one way, 30% the other. Behind that on each side, you'd have the three chip prism block to each sensor. Cumbersome it is, but results it would give. Using a simple filter + exposure adjustment test with a B&W sensor a few years back, I found myself with incredible range, and the larger photosites would compensate for the slower speeds.

60GB should be an hour of recording, which is the max you'd want in a single device anyways due to safety issues. And a full agenieux lens set would run into the hundreds of thousands. I'd suggest sticking to the lenses that Panasonic uses on the HPX.

Want to know my training setup, to keep myself sharp? A Canon Optura 20, a homemade stedicam, an $80 Quantaray tripod and a homemade set of lights. I also own a few 35mm SLR cameras. Between those two, I keep myself focused. The Optura was, when I got it, the equivelent of the HV20/30, a consumer camera with professional features. Manual enough to get the job done, to learn.

Making a silicon chip is not much different from processing film you know. Just instead of using retinol, they use various baths, some very acidic, depending on the final result or process used. Almost all of them are completely toxic, hence why the hasmat suits within any silicon plant in that section of the process. And no thanks, I gave up on chips when I realized that, while I did know enough to assist, I was no engineer. I just know enough in how to handle them, and some fundimentals of design. Good to debug a circuit, but that's about it.

Tons, Kodaks released a ton of new stocks over the past few years. The issue in this case is that this particular filmstock is difficult to process, and very VERY few labs can now handle it. Each roll will run more to process than for me to buy a brand new roll, process it, and have it put on DVD. I'd buy them only for the cartridges, ripping out the film and inserting new stock. (I have a freezer with some double super8 ready to be loaded, once I have some carts)

No, this is based on experience in building silicon chips, and the dynamic range of B&W vs a Bayer pattern. Using a pure B&W sensor I was getting a full 3 stops of lattitude over the bayer patterned chip. In addition, the larger size allows for a finer light collection per-pixel, due to larger photo sites, which also means reduced noise. And finally, lenses made for the larger size give a better depth of field in image, almost a 3D effect without the need for fancy glasses. I shoot 4x5 large format stills, and let me tell you, the difference between that and a Canon Mark II Ds is absolute, and obvious once you've shot with both, and I have. Ahem, you realized you shot your own attempt to dispute in the foot here. "few modern video cameras have more than four or five" is precisely the problem. I never said that the camera would capture 32-bits per color, only that it would store that. There is a solid reason why you do this, it is to allow higher-end process to be used later on, such as HDR, without the need to re-encode the data, causing data loss from the conversion. Future-proof your product, eliminate waste later on down the pipeline, and give yourself room to work with. David actually brought up a brilliant option, use both, the mirrored as well as an electronic, giving you the best of both simultaneously. Now, I'll admit, for the mirrored shutter I'd still like to use a HUD setup to superimpose information into the viewfinder, but that's my preference. I should have been more specific in stating a Solid State Hard Drive RAID array. No, this is simple practicality. By seperating the audio and video we've eliminated a huge issue I've had with every single solid digital camcorder I've worked with: they can do video top but not audio, or vice-versa. I'd rather have them seperate, so I can mix and match up to get the desired results. I am no audio guy, I would not want to even touch the requirements of my friend Romm who is the audiophile. On the other hand, he feels the same going the other way. I'd sooner keep them seperate, especially when not all shots use sound, during which you'd have weight, battery, etc all being sucked down for something unused. Give me a seperate solution and make me happy This part made me laugh, especially as anyone that knows me would never classify me as a luddite. I worked for a computer company for 2 years, helping to design silicon chips, only to have our work destroyed by every parts supplier being pressured by a giant in the field to cancel the type of bridge chips needed for the product. I worked on making a replacement, but by then we'd lost the momentum, and the market absolutely collapsed. I know how to make a silicon chip from the acid baths used to what the difference between an AND and a XOR gate are. I began in this field working with pure digital setups, the first-gen JVC DV cameras. But for me, it is about delivering the best results for the price we have to work with. This was a dream camera, and I wrote my dream, a camera able to deliver the optical illusions desired, with a maximum of editing capability with a minimum of data loss. Which would be simple enough and direct enough to be relatively easy to manufacture, having less junk to worry about. A simple, direct, optics system with capturing capability, that's all. Nothing more than a digital form of an Eyemo, a camera so simple a chimpanzee can run it yet being able to go nose to nose with the best in the business if in the hands of a master operator. Yes, I know the list is impractical, but it is only a dream. For a practical system, I would use 2/3" sensors, but I'd use an integrated micro70 or such into the system. By integrating it into the body, including the reduction optics, you would still capture the DoF without the headache. Another option, and one I would love to see explored, is to license the 4:3 mount from Olympus and adapt it to a video camera. A huge range of established lenses, a proven sensor design technology, all there to use. It just needs licensing and adapting to task. So many options, I just threw out my own dream, based on my own shooting experience. In the end, I feel that if we properly debated this, we'd find more grounds of commonality amongst all of us than differences. We all want to make beautiful pictures that dance across the screen. We have our own ways to do that. And I'm proud of each and every one of us for the work we do.

No reason why you would, as there's a lot less parts within it. The RAID array would be the largest component, and it would be roughly the size of a 200' 35mm magazine. It's size should be roughly the same as the Aaton. By removing as much as possible, and instead focusing on just raw recording,

If you'd notice, my design would also not be in real-time. It would be storing the frames, for computers to work with later on. I am quite aware that you cannot simply discard, but I so know that with enough time and computing power, it can be done. I've even done it myself, but yes, it takes a lot of CPU time.