David Peterson

Prices of F3 bodies are going to be shooting through the roof on eBay now...  :-/ 

 

On 4/27/2020 at 4:24 AM, Feli di Giorgio said:

Old thread, but just for the record I purchased an F3L back when they came out.

The way I remember it is that the F3L included the sLOG 444 upgrade.

With the stock F3 the 444 sLOG upgrade was optional and cost extra.

Didn't they include the upgrade essential "for free" (they held the price of the body the same) with the F3L? As the original C300 put a lot of pressure on Sony to be price competitive. 

My GF too his an artist, we perhaps could make our place an art gallery too if I for once tied up the place and organized all my sound gear! oops

On 6/3/2020 at 1:58 AM, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said:

I was told that when the big film archives do find a better copy for their library they trash the retired version in the dumpster. If true, isn't that sad ending for film.

It is expensive to properly store and maintain a film archive. 

If you're wanting a frugal IFB/Comtek alternative for small shoots, then this from Leicozic is surprisingly good and extremely affordable:

On 7/8/2020 at 3:03 PM, Robin R Probyn said:

f5 is a better camera than the fs7.. for many reasons   ..  mainly the EVF ,the fs7 is really bad in Rez and construction .,Side LCD panel ,hot buttons and menu display, 4 x SDI , DC in XLR, Lemo plug.. and basic stuff like TC in and V mount ..and a pro level lens mount ..  and the overall construction is far more superior.. alloy than plastic..

I'm not disagreeing about the F5 being a better camera! Is why I keep on being tempted back to the dark side, to buy a new camera such as the F5 to upgrade from my F3

However, most people don't see the point in an F5 over and FS7 and won't pay extra for an F5. Thus why we're seeing a situation where an F5 can sell for very similar prices (or just slightly more) to a FS7 secondhand. 

On 7/8/2020 at 3:03 PM, Robin R Probyn said:

The main reason there are alot of f5,s for sale now, I sold mine too, is because we have all gone over to the Fx9 , as the fs7 was always a step backwards ..the fx9 being worthy of the change ..f55 owners are also going to the fx9.. or owning both ..

Yes, I've got a friend who is an F5 owner and just got the FX9. We're doing a shoot together for an advert this monday. 

BTW, totally random factoid: I just heard about a Sony F5 that had been modded to have a Lemo timecode input instead of BNC!! :-o 

On 5/7/2020 at 6:28 AM, Feli di Giorgio said:

Has anyone heard any rumors regarding an external recorder that will record Prores Pro from the RAW output on an Alexa?

Prores Pro???

Do you mean ProRes RAW?

59 minutes ago, Tyler Purcell said:

A typical feature film editor will have 1 - 3 assistants. They will ingest, sync and label footage. They will organize bins, prep scenes and sometimes build scenes as well. 

Cheers for your contribution Tyler, I'd just add as well that the editor and his assistants are just a small part of the total post production team!

Like you said, there is also color grading, but also an entire post production sound team, plus the VFX, and much much more. 
 

On 5/15/2020 at 3:42 AM, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said:

Do they usually have a crew of other editors / assistants working with them?

Just look at the credits of any blockbuster. 

The answer is clearly:
YES

10 hours ago, Uli Meyer said:

You can't just say 'Nope, I don't buy it. Please do try and answer the question why you think you were lied to. If you can't answer that question, there's something wrong with your thinking.

Where are the 160K+ deaths in Sweden?
The proof is lacking.
While we're certain to experience economic devastation. We're on the fast track to double digit unemployment. (if we're not there already)

9 hours ago, Brian Drysdale said:

The logic behind the NZ 80k figure is explained here:

Based on a discredited model. 
That article was from March, don't think anybody can say with a straight face now in May that we'd have got 80K deaths without a nationwide lockdown. 

18 hours ago, Miguel Angel said:

I like having 0 people on set other than the director and the gaffer (if needed for hand-holding a poly) so I'm quite happy about the workers restrictions on the actual set while filming.

Do you only make music videos?? What about boom ops....
 

2 hours ago, Uli Meyer said:

otherwise even more than 80k could have died

Nope, I simply don't buy the claim our PM made that 80K kiwis will die unless we got put under pretty much house arrest. 

That was a total over the top reaction our government did, we could have taken a more moderate balanced approach instead. 

On 5/14/2020 at 11:13 PM, Uli Meyer said:

So you succeeded in preventing disaster and your response to that is that it wasn't necessary to shut down? The mind boggles.

No, my point was we were sold lies as the basis for our lockdown in NZ. (80K deaths in NZ, which is ridiculous. A total lie, no way that would have happened. That number for instance is far higher than in Sweden. Which has double the population of NZ, and not to mention is in a very different situation: is closely connected to the rest of Europe, vs a very isolated island nation) 

1 hour ago, Uli Meyer said:

Where is his analyses of what would happen to an economy if the virus would have run rampant and killed millions of people?

In our country we were told there could be eighty thousand deaths which is why we must shut down (the harshest lockdown in the western world!), that turned out to be total lies and nonsense. 

1 hour ago, Uli Meyer said:

The lockdown was a necessity because we knew nothing about this virus.

In future, if we know "nothing" then perhaps we shouldn't take actions which we know for 100% certainty will massively negatively impact millions of people's live? I hope we learn a lesson from this not to overreact on the basis of very shaky evidence, but I fear we won't and in only a few years from now we're going to repeat this entire mess all over again! 

An American friend of mine made this video about the film industry, and how shutting down our "non-essential" industry impacts jobs across the wider economy and not just us in the film industry.

Don't think I've ever recently seen a product for the sound department get leaked so much before the manufacturer even says anything officially about it, there has been lots of chatter already about the Wisycom MCR54 on social media! As this a major new announcement, the first time ever that four channels of wireless has been squeezed into a SuperSlot receiver. (true diversity too, that's eight receiver boards crammed into there!! And all that only uses at max 2.5W) 
 

£2,880.00 inc VAT (£2,400.00 exc VAT)
Maaaybe this means it will come in just slightly under US$3K in the USA?

https://www.raycom.co.uk/product/wisycom-mcr54-quad-4-channel-rx-with-4-x-tx-and-base/

£6,360.00 inc VAT (£5,300.00 exc VAT) for a kit. 

South Africa is open for business again:

https://www.juicefilm.tv/news/south-africa-reopens-for-filming-2

13 hours ago, Feli di Giorgio said:

Does. else feel that this situation will impact production and tax incentives for shooting US shows in Canada? Between travel restrictions and an economic downturn that could erode support for tax incentives in Canada it certainly seems like a possibility.

Am sure the general economic crisis across the world will lead to many countries cutting support for the arts
 

11 hours ago, Feli di Giorgio said:

- Compartmentalize by department. There is no need for someone to visit wardrobe, unless they work there or are getting dressed.

What about departments that need to work together, such as wardrobe and sound?

8 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

Not an insurance company, a state or provincial government would step in here.  I expect that at some point it will happen.

Yup, I bet the first governor/PM/president that promises to not lockdown their state/country in the future will see a lot of productions flock to there. (welllll.... if insurance and production companies feel like they can trust a politician's word! Ha! Which of course nobody should do)

6 hours ago, AJ Young said:

I'd be interested if the URSA can still hold its own against the older RED Epic. (Maybe??)

Especially as a UMP vs Epic MX are not that far apart in price on eBay these days (well, a UMP is closer to a Scarlet MX really)

11 hours ago, Max Moosbrugger said:

I've been contemplating getting a micro 4/3 camera as my first "cinema" camera for a while, suffice it say I narrowed it down to the gh5 and completely over looked the extremely cheaper GH4. I don't care if I have the latest and greatest film equipment out there, I just want something that will last me a while as I progress as a filmmaker and is capable of rendering profesional video.

The GH5 was a big leap forward over the GH4, at least as big a leap as the GH4 was over the GH3.

I'd take a Panasonic G85/G80 over a GH4! Heck, I miiiiiiiight maaaaaybe even choose a G7 over a GH4

8 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

Personal gear contracts should be unaffected. It's the bigger show bonds which are the issue. The issue is that they won't be able to bond a film, which means the big actors can't be associated. 

My point was if insurance companies become less liquid and their balance books are strained, then we could see insurance hikes across the board.
  

7 hours ago, Manu Delpech said:

They still reacted early and were proactive, I say miraculous because of how quickly they acted and the results speak for themselves.

Nope, NZ screwed up heaps. Went too soft, and then when we did go hard went waaay over the top. 

Not only am I here living in NZ, but I'm following it closely too, watching live the Epidemic Response Committee for instance every time they're meeting.

Our Minister of Health is woefully incompetent, for instance just today he's in the news that he was moving house during the lvl4 lockdown! (let's ignore the issues around him breaking the laws here, but what Minister of Health even has time to move house during a 1 in a 100 year health crisis??) This is the third time, he's been in the news during lvl4 too for ignoring his own ministry's advice! He's also driven (his campaigning van!! What an idiot, where is his common sense political skills?? If you're going to break the law, at least don't do it while driving a big vehicle with your face splashed over it!!) to go MTB-ing, and he drove his family to visit a beach a half hour away (again, breaking the law). And yet, our PM doesn't sack him! At this point, I'm half wondering if he is trying to get fired?? She simply can't keep her caucus in line, and I expect she'll once again do nothing about this just like all the other times (a few days ago another Labour MP, who is on the Epidemic Response Committee, blamed small business that it is their fault if they're suffering during lockdown!! Did our PM demand an apology from her key MP? Nope!)

The major reason we managed to be "miraculous", is because we're the most remote nation in the world. (ignoring a few micro nations which are even more remote than us) To give an idea of just how remote: Auckland's nearest city (i.e. a place also with a million plus population) is Sydney, that's similar to the distance from London to Moscow across all of Europe! We however just have empty sea spanning that distance. Auckland is the most remote city in the world. (defined as the longest distance from one city to its nearest city, city defined as million plus population)
  

7 hours ago, Manu Delpech said:

About LOTR, this is a billion dollar show, they can without a doubt afford to quarantine for 14 days people if needed.  

I'm just saying the facts of what happened.
Lord of the Rings suspended shooting well before our countrywide lockdown was announced in New Zealand. 
Clearly just simply the international travel restrictions already in place had a big enough impact they decided to suspend shooting. 

 

3 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

I just got some really bad news from my insurance company, it doesn't affect my current shoot as we shut down in October.  But going forward, all film policies will have a "communicable disease" exclusion.  This means, no independent producer will be able to shoot or get any bank financing, as the insurance company says any future shut down costs would need to be covered by the producer!!

This is very very bad news for us all.  Guess what, all the precautions in the world are now a moot point on set.  Because if the government orders film sets shut down again, the producer will be on the hook. And no independent producer in his right mind will take that kind of risk.

In 2010 and 2011 (& again in 2016) Christchurch (is where I was born, and is our second biggest city. After Auckland of course) suffered multiple major earthquake. Up until 2020, those were undoubtedly the biggest impacting events in NZ history during my life time (and I don't even live in Christchurch any longer! I left decades ago).

That had hugely major impacts NZ across society. One of the changes was that most commercial lease agreements now have a clause that if the tenant can't access their property then they don't have to pay all their rent. As no company now wants to lease somewhere and risk having to pay their rent for months (maybe even years!) on end while neither they or their customers can access the premises. As this is the current situation in New Zealand, LOTS of people are not paying rent to their landlords while this gets figured out. 

 

1 hour ago, Manu Delpech said:

I guess production on the Lord Of The Rings series might resume sooner than expected there.

We already had production of Lord of the Rings suspended before our lockdown was even announced!

I expect because the hassle of anybody coming into NZ was becoming too much. 

So even if we technically "can" still film again in NZ at some point in the future, if any overseas cast / key crew need to be put into a two week plus quarantine (and even then, they still might not be available! If they don't get the clean bill of health), that could be too much of a risk / hassle / cost for the production to put up with. And they'll just suspend production rather than carry on with that burden. 

53 minutes ago, Phil Rhodes said:

I'm not sure I'd call it miraculous. I'd call it a geographically isolated country that isn't a major tourist destination

Tourism is a major major part of NZ, it is a biggest foreign dollar export earner in NZ. Towns like Queenstown exclusively exist thanks to Tourism dollars.  

55 minutes ago, Phil Rhodes said:

Ardern probably has greater latitude to act decisively than, say, much of western Europe, where political decisionmaking seems to begin and end with maximising short-term popularity.

Being a kiwi political geek who has for many many years perhaps too obsessively followed our local politics, I'd strongly disagree with that assessment. Jacinda has absolutely been seeking short term political gains, at the expense of the long term costs to New Zealand. 

1 hour ago, AJ Young said:

Virtual production will get easier because current digital cameras already have the capability to record gyroscopic and easily fit into the system's workflow.

The original URSA Mini was going to have a gyroscope in it! A pity that didn't happen. Maybe one day Blackmagic will release a new camera with a gyroscope built in. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20150422221038/https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/2526-the-ursa-minis%E2%80%99-best-kept-secret

4 minutes ago, Robin R Probyn said:

I was told this actually  viewing a house in NZ..  you need the fence around the pool , even if you never live in the house .. let alone don't have small children and wild parties  .. because if some kids climb over your fence and subsequently drown in your un fenced  pool .. you are legally liable for their death .. and be prosecuted and sued by their parents .. did seem a bit strange to me at the time.. 

Bingo, that's exactly right. 
(except I don't think it is the parents who would prosecute you, the government would do that for them)

The logic does seem weird. If they climbed over one fence to get into your property... what's stopping them climbing over your pool's fence??

7 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

I've said 20 times on here, we will never live in a world without viruses, disease, germs, bacteria, it's not possible.  We need to live alongside these micro organisms and go about our lives.  Lives that are never risk free.  Did you drive a car today? You took a risk you could of been killed.  Same for 50 other activities.

I was summarily flamed of course by other forum members, I will in time be proven right.  As there will be no magical *poof* moment where COVID - 19 just goes away and is no longer an issue.  You want to work on a film set, you are taking a risk, period.  Now let's just get back to work because this is now past the stupidity phase.

Yeah, I too yearn for 2019 when old and sick people didn't die.

7 hours ago, Ben Ericson said:

"360,000 die in pools every year."

Some countries/cities require all private swimming pools to have fences around your pool (even if your property already has a fence around it! And you have no children). Other countries/cities don't require this. 

There are reasonable health & safety responses, and there are over the top responses as well.

9 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

So some news coming down the wire form dateline and a few other news agencies... The insurance companies got hit so bad from all this they're going to struggle to provide bonding for future productions. There are some people who want to rent my equipment and they're having difficulty finding anyone to bond their production. Deadline says it will be a while before the insurance companies can figure out this problem. I haven't called any insurance companies yet, but I'm concerned about that. 

Oh dear, I wonder what implications this has for us who have a lot of personal gear for work when we need to renew our insurance contracts?