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Old June 15th, 2007, 03:06 PM   #1
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I shot this video sometime ago to test the A1+35mm adapter's low light capabilities (it has 6db gain):

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2032561629

This was a video poetry project that I thought got lost when I lost my hard drive sometime ago. I managed to save some of the material and came up a limited edition:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2035436024
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Old June 16th, 2007, 10:29 AM   #2
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Very nice. I like the mood and editing to the beat of the music. The low light footage is much better than I expected when you said you shot it at 6db gain.

I see a lot of noise in my shots at 6db.
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Old June 16th, 2007, 10:41 AM   #3
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quite pretty. Both pieces...I especially liked "my lovely head". Which adapter are you using?...curious because I'm not getting anything like this in Low light with my letus XL.
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Old June 16th, 2007, 02:23 PM   #4
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Thanks guys. The color on the corridor piece was actually achieved by "tricking" the white balance. All I did on post was to mess with the levels a little bit. I can't recall which preset I used, but I think it was #7 (which is good for low light stuff). The lenses I used were a 28mm f1.8, a 50mm f1.8 and a 85mm f1.8. I lost a lot of material with a damaged hard disk though. I managed to save some of it, but some crucial shots were lost. This was not a good IT year for me :-(

The adapter was built by an uncle of mine and it has a vibrating mechanism that probably help me get rid of the grain.
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Old June 17th, 2007, 03:10 PM   #5
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Hello Rafael,


I was quite impressed by your prueba con poca luz movie. Lovely images. Can you tell what song it is? What's the name of the band?

Thanks! Beautiful work, congratulations!
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Old June 18th, 2007, 12:47 AM   #6
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Thanks, Eugene. The band's name is Koop and the theme is Hellsbells . Try getting your hands on their first album. It's called waltz for koop. Amazing.
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Old June 20th, 2007, 06:19 AM   #7
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man this looked interesting....
can you post a picture of your setup... camera and adapter !!!
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Old June 20th, 2007, 09:12 AM   #8
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Sorry, Amr, I don't have any pictures of this setup. I can say that I own a brevis and a letus35A and you can achieve this look with both of them. I'm not sure the letus would be able to handle the extreme low light on the corridor though...
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