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May 22nd, 2005, 04:33 PM | #1 |
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NEW Micro35 images and footage now available
Hey All,
We are wrapping up shooting with the newest micro35 Cinema Lens Adapter. We will be posting new stills, footage, etc. but for now you can see the adapter with the Sony Z1 HD Cam: http://www.redrockmicro.com/micro35_hd.htm Stay tuned to this forum for updates including footage, stills, etc. Brian
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Sample micro35 HD footage
Here is the link to the sample HD footage (it is the last one on the samples page titled "Dancing"):
http://www.redrockmicro.com/samples.html Couple of things to note: 1. shot at twilight 2. There is a lot of artifacting from the heavy HD compression (example; green backgrounds look almost posterized to me). I think it may be a Vegas thing - we're checking it out. 3. the little girl bumped her head - it's a butterfly bandaid Cheers Brian
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Sample micro 35 stills
Finally, here are some stills from the footage:
http://www.redrockmicro.com/micro35_hd_stills.htm Cheers Brian
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Otherwise, looking great. I just called up my buddy after viewing that footage so we can start building our's on Tuesday. We use a FX1 and can't wait to try out the Micro35 on it. We have all the parts needed to start minus one. |
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Brian,
I have seen the clip. Looks OK but quite a bit of light loss for that time of the day... what aperture was it shoot at? 2.8? Also the stills from footage... could you explain how a poor 720/480 (webcam) like this: http://dandiaconu.com/gallery/album12/felix5?full=1 aparently shows more details than a 1280/720 frame from HD footage such as this?: http://www.redrockmicro.com/micro35_hd_stills.htm The hd frame should have had three times more details (I think) and the hair looks a bit soft (to me) Was it the 28-70 lens? or was it not focused properly? How about a rezolution chart? Frames from footage. That will clear the issue. BTW, the lens used on the cat footage was 1.4/35 Nikkor. (shoot at 1.4!) |
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Hey Dan,
These images are reduced about 4x, which would explain the resolution loss. We had a couple of challenges on this shoot - one of them unfortunately was a couple of missing screws (you can see it one of the stills), which may have contributed to some focus issues. [updated] Here are some details regarding the shoot: nikkor 105mm 2.5 lens The Hd cam was set to F5.2 8PM CST Gain was on 'H'
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The original footage is still across the country, so I hope to get that soon. Jamey - who has it right now - says he doesn't see this on the original footage, as you suspected. One thing we also learned is HD post is quite different as well.
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Which can lead us to think it's the WMV compression.
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Yeah - that's a possibility. We are going to look for someone who is more skilled at HD post and see what they can do.
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one thing. What a shamefull marketing strategy from the micro35. The pics are really not inspiring. LOoks cheap to me and doesn't make me wanna investigate the site.
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new micro35 footage redux
Hey all,
We shot some more footage this weekend - we learned a lot from our previous (mis)adventures with the Z1, and managed to turn off the most problematic settings. Here's some new HD footage of the micro35 with the Z1U: http://www.redrockmicro.com/footage/...adingSmall.mov Production notes: Shot between 6-7 PM Zony Z1U at 60i. Two lenses: primary is a nikon 50mm f. 1.4, secondary a nikon 85mm f. 1.8 Apertures: 35mm lens was left wide open. Z1 aperture ranged from 3 to 6.2 No post other than the 180 degree flip. I also uploaded a sample uncompressed tif (it's big - around 6MB) at: http://www.redrockmicro.com/footage....rdenstill1.tif Feedback welcome.
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shawn, thanks for the links, man. Watching them now......let me see....NIce photo there. VEry warm and real. The video is amazing. Who is the lady at the end. I want to shoot a video with her on a beach in Spain (galicia). NIce warm colours and you can see everything is coming together. Very smooth. Nice.
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Jose - that is my wife. I will ask her if she is willing to shoot in Spain with you, though I'm not sure how I would feel about that! Plus she's SAG, so it'll cost you :)
Also a couple other high res stills for your consideration (from a different part of the shoot): http://www.redrockmicro.com/footage/Z1U/bottles.tif http://www.redrockmicro.com/footage/Z1U/flowers.tif Brian
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