Hi Nigel:

When we meet up, you can check it out and see for yourself. I have made some pretty nice images with it. I am thinking that it will be good for walking around, following my documentary subject through the buildings and museums as well as in the car, trains, etc.

You do not get vignetting at 18.5mm bare (for interiors) and at 21.5mm or longer with the Vari ND attached. I was going to buy a proper full frame wide angle until I realized that I don't really care for many of the Nikons (I have the 28,, 2.8 D, terrible lens) and I cannot afford the Zeiss. The Canons have just started looking good with the new firmware, but once again, I already owned the Tokina.

Dan

Hi Brian:

I am pretty happy with the look of the footage so far. I have only shot a couple of things so far but the images are good, I like the look.

I need to mess around with the custom picture settings, I am getting sick of the stock 5D MKII look. I would like less crushed blacks, less color saturation and less sharpening so I will be experimenting with developing my own look. I am shooting all over France and I think France will look better through a more Impressionist desaturated palette personally.

Dan

As of yesterday Vimeo now leaves 30fps HD footage alone & doesn't hack it down to a lower frame rate any more. Vimeo HD now MP4? in the General Discussion Forum on Vimeo

Hey Dan, wonderful rig! Maybe a little intimidating for camera shy people!!! ;-DD

That zoom recorder should be horizontal, not vertical. It has a couple of mics in XY, so you can pan them L-R (if recorded horizontal)...

Thats funny cause I uploaded mp4, and I don't think my original shows the lost frames, but I will recheck.

Edit: Rechecked original, and it doesn't show the issues displayed on the Vimeo playback.

This must mean that Vimeo has screwed up the compression in some other way then. At least the 30fps>25fps horrible conversion jitters & stutters shouldn't be present any more.

We will be able to compare it to the Tamron 20-40mm F2.7-3.5 that I just bought which is a FF lens.

Someone mentioned a style they'd done recently and allowed us to download or mod it. I have it in my cam and it's nice. Just the things you mention, less crushed blacks, slightly less saturation and not quite as sharp. Neucon I think it was called. It'll be on this forum somewhere

Avey

Thanks Avey, I'll hunt down and give it a try.

Dan

It's here Dan. From Luis de la Cerda in the Optimum Color Temp thread.

It's subtle but I like it. anyway, he says that we're free to mess with it how we want, so maybe it's a good starting place for your tweaking.

Avey

Thanks Avey. You are making it too easy for me. Now if I only didn't have a show and two articles due, I could get out my 5D MKII and mess about with with it. I have been to busy to even update the firmware yet!

D

Dude,

your priorities are all wrong man…

:-)

Thanks Avey...

my new 5D set up

total set up cost me around 500 bucks

That Vizio monitor might be a little cumbersome for run and gun.
Seriously, did you fabricate the pieces? Looks good.