Evin Cameron

Funny coincidence here, I actually just ordered an 85/Pol after finding a great deal on eBay. Much appreciated on this info, hopefully I can independently test the information from this video - it was claimed this orange shift was kept from the double 85 being used, but that you could fairly easily correct back to a neutral balance and that both 85 filters were able to knock the sky down by at least a stop or two - which was definitely confusing as all three example videos shown had this exact same high contrast orange look to them. I think the video might be oddly presented as there also seems to be a more neutral video captured in the desert and the sky is much more in line with what you’d expect - just darkened slightly as though a polarizer was used, however it’s stated to be just two 85 filters knocking the sky down by “about two stops”. (2:56) I think the lack of raw out of camera stills / prints of these examples is what’s tripping me up here, seems like a lot of color and post work going on. This example in the desert is a much more desirable effect for me, but all these other examples had me skeptical with their high contrast look. The reply is much appreciated, I’ll be sure to share my findings on this thread once I run some tests for myself.

Hey everybody, I'm currently in the planning phase for a very minor project - shot on 16mm, half of it will consist of daylight exteriors, and the other half will be nighttime exteriors. There's a lot of surreal themes, so I've been trying to find different ways to convey this - and I stumbled across an old video recently from KINETEK (Matthew Rosen) showcasing different ways to apply filters to darken blue skies. In particular his examples of his work using double 85 filters really caught my eye, and it was something I had never heard of before - and aside from a few brief mentions elsewhere on these forums I couldn't really track down another source of information for this and it leads to a lot of questions I'd have before testing it for myself. Does doubling up with 85 filters on tungsten stock lead to this much additional warmth as a general rule? And would anything be lost color-wise from correcting it back to a neutral balance in post? It's hard to tell because a lot of the example work is post grading, and has a very stylized look to it. I'm also a bit confused on exactly how much each of these filters cuts light down from the sky, and if you still have to deal with an overall filter factor as it's said that since the filter is mostly blocking this blue wavelength of light and allowing most of the warmer wavelengths of light through, it's able to darken the sky and equalize the exposure between the sky and subject - but on a sunny day isn't everything being lit by this same blue wavelength of light? Or am I misunderstanding the concept entirely? All of the 85 Filters I'm looking at have a 0.6 Filter factor, so would I truly be opening up 1.3 stops and then getting this effect? Or am I ignoring the filter factor to a degree as that's what's cutting the blue sky? And as a very quick final question is there any extreme difference in performance between the traditional matte box 85 filters and the circular lens mounted ones? Any help/examples and resources on this topic would be much appreciated. A lot of this information has become incredibly hard to look for on the internet. Hopefully soon I can just bite the bullet and do a complete round of testing myself, but gathering as much info as I can before hand could save me a lot of money/time.

Thank you both for the info, I'm hoping regardless of quality with that converter to just even see if the video tap even functions - since there's no power lights or anything for it I won't know until I can get signal from it. Were you able to power this with onboard power at all? Or were you always tethered to wall power? If my tap works without issue I'd love to pick something up like this instead of the HDMI amazon option. But I'd love to be able to keep everything onboard power-wise.

Hey everybody, trying to decode this video tap that's been installed on this SRII - I can't even tell if it's functional as I didn't get any signal the first time I tried assuming it was a digital signal. After checking out the Visual Products website I noticed their current HD digital video tap is a completely newer model, so now I'm assuming it's a matter of converting the analog signal. But now I'm having trouble finding any sort of converter that'd work - with the exception of a cheaper amazon option that I'd be willing to try just to see if I could get a signal. Does anybody have any insight or knowledge into this? Any help would be much appreciated.