Forum: Awake In The Dark
March 1st, 2020, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,289
Re: Found on YouTube -- "Making a Case for Books"
Personally, I must be a lazy wretch. There is nothing more offputting than having to make sure a battery is charged, turn on a machine, trust faith that the thing will work, pamper and protect it...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
January 28th, 2020, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
It is usable again for now. Even its own power management glitch seems to have gone away.
It went through a period where it would not power-on from a battery unless it was "jump-started" from the...
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Forum: 3D Stereoscopic Production & Delivery
January 27th, 2020, 01:21 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 13,104
Re: 3D with Z-Cam E2
Ari Presler of Silicon Imaging was doing some interesting stuff with a 3D monitoring system on a single screen. I do not know how far it was progressed.
There was a display overlay which gave...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
January 27th, 2020, 12:34 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
A postscript to the broken camera saga.
I managed to find on eBay, another broken Ursa, an EF-Mount. This camera's etiology was incremental demise via power management. There was a strong chance...
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Forum: Awake In The Dark
December 10th, 2019, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,081
Re: "DROP" Indie movie in pre-prod.
Up north there are two snakes which look alike. They are black. One is a python and fairly harmless. The other is poisonous. The poisonous one sweats on a blue if it has a human encounter. The...
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Forum: Awake In The Dark
December 8th, 2019, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,081
Re: "DROP" Indie movie in pre-prod.
I remember that one. Lucky for us over here in the West, we don't have the koala but we do have male possums which will go you if you pass under them close enough.
Did you ever get chased by a...
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Forum: Awake In The Dark
December 6th, 2019, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,081
"DROP" Indie movie in pre-prod.
Many will know of Australia's cute cuddly Koala, the tourist showpiece. The population has been decimated by our indifferent attitude towards conservation in land use.
More recently and...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
November 12th, 2019, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
Hello again Andrew.
Thank you for checking in. I have been tied up in a slew of other fixits including having no wheels presently so have neglected pursuing the camera. The collective diagnosis...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 26th, 2019, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,327
Re: LMG review of BMD Pocket Cinema 4K
Wishlist for Blackmagic Design.
Modified pocket camera 4K guts as a retrofit kit for within the existing "big" URSA bodies and turret fixtures with sub-boards to service the big swing out monitor,...
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
October 22nd, 2019, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,166
Re: Si2k without anti-aliasing filter.
For those who are curious, here is an outdoors image shot with the the following :-
SI2K.
Voigtlander-for-Nikon 40mm f2 lens.
Metabones Speedbooster for BMPCC modified to IMS-Mount.
No OPLF....
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
October 20th, 2019, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,166
Re: Si2k without anti-aliasing filter.
I have been revisiting the uncompressed .siv files. They were an impossibilty with the P+S recorder but it seems that the faux-cinemascope cropped image demands less data. I though there might have...
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Forum: CineForm Software Showcase
October 16th, 2019, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,635
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Forum: Open DV Discussion
October 15th, 2019, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 362
Views: 38,591
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
October 15th, 2019, 05:13 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,166
Re: Si2k without anti-aliasing filter.
For what it is worth, here is a link to a short clip with the following items in the image path :-
OPLF/IR FILTER REMOVED.
THIRD PARTY IR FILTER SUBSTITUTED.
METABONES SPEEDBOOSTER FOR BMPCC....
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
October 14th, 2019, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,166
Re: Si2k without anti-aliasing filter.
With just a plain IR filter in the throat of the camera, no anti-aliasing filter and the 35mm to 2/3" Speedbooster optic in play, the setback required to adjust for the thinner piece of filter glass...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 13th, 2019, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
Andrew.
Thank you very much for that information.
Blackmagic keep their product information obsessively close. Without a circuit diagram, he could be confronted with a heavy mission. Being...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 12th, 2019, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
I have carefully prised the spotwelded tag off the battery body. It turns out to be an ELNA 3.3v 22f supercapacitor. It would have been very helpful to have shop information but BM keeps its...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 7th, 2019, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
John.
The screws are pretty straightforward and are equal lengths of each type. There are lots of them.
I sent a message request on the BM world website. They handballed it back to the...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 7th, 2019, 03:06 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
John.
I have an enquiry out with Blackmagic's web support messenger about a possible memory battery and whether replacement then re-update with latest firmware via USB in the camera base will...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 6th, 2019, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
Hello again John.
The battery was not connected to the camera for all of that time it was stored. I have a deep distrust of lithium batteries and park them where they can immolate themselves to...
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
October 6th, 2019, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,166
Si2k without anti-aliasing filter.
This is a long shot given the time since the SI2K was subsumed by the 4K+ evolutions.
Has anyone operated the camera with the anti-aliasing filter removed in order to chase some more "apparent"...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
October 5th, 2019, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Re: Big ursa magenta screen of death
For the sake of the curious, there is a rather poor quality image of the guts of the "big" URSA camera. I have managed to extract the beating heart of the beast without harming anything. So far no...
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Forum: BlackMagic Cinema Camera
September 27th, 2019, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,022
Big ursa magenta screen of death
Does any one know if there is a likely easy cause to fix it or if the camera which is EOL and out of affordable product product is now a historic artifact. I guess it is back to SI2K for me with the...
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Forum: Tripod Sticks & Heads
September 4th, 2019, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 13,019
Re: Vinten Vision 22 head.
Hello again Ian.
Thank you for your responsive post.
I have assembled the head back together again for now. The frictions remain a bit light but that is apparently the way they were supposed...
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Forum: Silicon Imaging SI-2K
August 10th, 2019, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,808
Re: SI2K and Metabones BMPCC Speedbooster
Further to the preceding reply here is some detail about the "Big" URSA fitment.
https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/blackmagic-cinema-camera/535768-metabones-0-71x-optical-cell-bm-ursa-4k-pl.html
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