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Bern Caughey

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2011, 09:25:43 am »

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2012, 11:45:46 am »

 lovely!
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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2012, 01:47:57 pm »

If the other boys are absorbed in their iPhone world, talk to the girls in the bar. Sadly most of them are texting while the boys are playing with apps. BTW, I still use a Nokia 6210. If I show that the subject changes to all the old phones people were using in the past.

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Johannes

Not only are they all playing with their I-phone, but they are I-phone specific.  I've seen someone pull out an Android and they sneer at it and make fun.

I carry two I-phones on the road, cause I'm always breaking one and all I have to do is switch sims, but I use it for biz, sometmes the maps, weather, and finding a location.  Take a few snaps and for phone calls.

Last year I deactivated my facebook page because I just don't know if anyone would care if I had an omelet for breakfast, or if my feet standing next toa tripod looks like art.

Our first assistant get's over 60 yo 70 text messages from his girlfriend every day.  You hear buzz, buzz, buzz.  I told him he should put it in his pocket that way he could actually enjoy all that wasted vibration.

In fact three months ago my wife bought me a new I-pad and I've yet to take it out of the box.  The old one works and I rarely use it because it's kinda fun for watching movie, or showing c-1 remotely, though we have a dedicated Ipad for our digital kit, so I just don't need it.

What I do use more than I care to admit is I have a Samsung netbook I use to tune two of my hot rods and I actually find myself using it all the time because I can do a spread sheet, actually save an attachment and the battery last about a week.  Also it was a good primer for getting use to pc boxes and I know we'll soon have to move our editing stations to pcs (is peecees a word?) so I am now familiar with the microsoft os and don't find it near as bad as most people say.

When we shoot in studio and i want a break I go outside and look at my Iphone like I'm working, but i just do this to get a break and not to be interuppted.  

Actually (though I probably won't do it) I think my next mobile phone will be a blackberry.  Blackberries seem all business and every really powerful person I know carries one, which means they're usually too busy to play games.   They look like their doing biz rather than farting around with angry birds.

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2012, 02:24:09 pm »

... buzz, buzz, buzz.  I told him he should put it in his pocket that way he could actually enjoy all that wasted vibration.


 ;D ;D...


Last time I was in assistance with a big fish here, I heard this dark voice of the boss resonating like an old teacher in the primary school, 5 minutes after we all were starting to install the circus: "...and I don't want to see nor hear any I.phone during the shooting folks. Prohibited!" Le vieux (in french le vieux means "the old guy" and can be use for the boss) can't stand them anymore.
I was so pleased.

No need to say that on the coulisses, the main themes of conversations, not kidding, when it's not the I.phone apps are the facebook stuff...pathetic indeed. I don't know wich one I prefer to be honest...now that the i.phones are prohibited on set, I'm afraid the relacement is the facebook see-how-i-brush-my-teath (gosh, how do I write this theath, tith...anyway too lazy to open the digital dictionary)

Peecees now are NOT the peecees of before. I have an Imac that I would like to use as a monitor on a PC workstation. For me there are about the same stuff nowdays. I could pass from one to another with a safe neutrality. Actually I think that a studio equiped with both is more powerfull than one system only.

I do too confirm that powerfull people I know are mainly on Blackberry. I noticed that too.
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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2012, 07:51:18 am »

The Olympus OM digital are very good lenses. Extremely well built and great glass. More compact than the equivalent. The pro-line is sealed and no distortions.
Generally on the vintage the OM are good oportunity for their qualities.

Another extremely good performer is the 28mm f2 Kino Precision from Kiron. It's vastly used in movie because it's a high performer lens, up to the top with the bests and also, important, you can focus very close, almost macro and the ring is short and precise. With one turn (no need a follow focus) you cover the all focussing range. I have one and it's incredibly easy and reliable to follow focus without ff, and certainly better than still autofocus lenses that aren't working. No surprise the cine industry is using it quite a lot, and IQ is very good. If you can find one in e-bay go for it because they don't last very long.

Also, some Vivitar serie 1, specially the ones made by Kiron (you have to know what you're buying) are great performers. These aren't zooms but varifocal lenses. I read complains about this by people with obviously limited experience and don't know the goodies (specially in motion) of a varifocal lens vs a proper zoom. It allows to do things impossible with a normal zoom but they require more craft experience and more training. These are top quality varifocal lenses. Highly recommended if you can get one by Kiron.
Make a research in internet about the way to recognise the top units, because then the production quality decreased.

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #26 on: April 03, 2012, 02:36:11 am »

Last year I deactivated my facebook page because I just don't know if anyone would care if ...

Analog is so more tactile.

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #27 on: April 03, 2012, 04:52:14 am »

One of our assistants brags he has thousands of friends . . . on facebook.

My take is that's like having an ant farm and saying you have 2,000 pets.

Anyway, I did a page, like most people, never really used it, never checked it until one evening during a pro bono creative brief, one of the participants was insane.  REALLY certifiable and all she could talk about was facebook.

She kept flitting around of space reading everything on everyone's desk, knocking things over, asking to take equipment (she said borrow) wanted a lesson in photoshop, then insulted everyone in the room.  I said that's enough and it's time we call her a taxi and send her home.

A few hours later every bit of her social media lit up with insanity, mentioning everyone and some ended up on our page so I turned it off.  Just didn't understand the risk vs. the result.

I think the facebook idea is good . . . well better put, I guess it's ok if I was starting and indie band, but it hit me that there wasn't any reason for me to talk about my switch to whole grain cereal vs. toast.

Maybe someday I'll need to use it and turn it back on, but with the mountains of e-mails I get that I don't want to open, much less read I didn't have the time and really who cares if I ride my bicycle 4 miles every morning.  (I don't ride a bike I drive . . . heck I'd drive to the bathroom if my car would fit in the hallway).  (I stole this line from Bern.)

insert smiley face.

IMO

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2012, 05:59:40 am »

I'd go even further.

I think that now it's more profitable for the business to have a private website than a public one, zero presence in social networks and the more we're "difficult" to reach, the best.
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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2012, 06:07:50 am »

I'd go even further.

I think that now it's more profitable for the business to have a private website than a public one, zero presence in social networks and the more we're "difficult" to reach, the best.

I think it's important nowdays to be careful what you show.   Client's are too quick to label you, agencies pitching an account eill grap a clip or an image, drop in a logo and make it theirs, at least for the initial creative brief.

It's just the way the world works now.

problem is if you show what you do, it's gonna get used usually without you ever knowing it, which is no big deal cause when they do it for real they're going to use different talent, backgrounds, etc.

Still, you gotta show what you do.

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Re: Budget Cine Lens Test
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2012, 07:11:41 am »

Maybe showing short representative reels or displayed only the campaigns that have been closed and payed.

I think that showing very little, just the best, just the important campaigns (important I mean not necessarly the biggest but the
ones that went out best).

IMO, it's maybe not even necessary to have those displayed in a personal website but directly in prod-houses webs.

That's what Aveillan does. He doesn't even have a public website.

"I shoot-I take the money-they display-I am reachable through others".

Recuenco has another politics. He even display publicaly in HD almost everything he does.

My sensation is that the networks have reached such ridiculous levels that they start to be counter-productive for the serious people. I know more and more big fishes that tend to step away from the public noise
and their business aren't not affected the wrong way.




Ps: I found a vintage compendium. It works superbly. It's called "the shade +", made in New York USA. Well it's light, not built like a tank though (tht's why it's light) but good enough qualy to handle on set and takes 75x75mm gelatin filters and 6x6 inches to cut for the front. I think it was distributed by Hamma.
It's intertesting because you can mount filters in the front of the compendium that therefore can be used for water etc..."
It comes originaly with a 67mm thread mount and adapters are easy to find. I prefer those compendiums than the matteboxes or screw NDs.
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