Philip- just uploaded additional pictures of you and 2 brief reviews of the Letus Ultimate and the making of your short "Deer Vegas".
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http://web.mac.com/stevecahill/Steve...Blog/Blog.html

Great to have met you in person! Hopefully soon I will be on your side of the pond.

my turn to buy you jellied eels

love that ...
 

slow pan while the sky was going dark over Vegas ... how'd you do that?

very very slowly with my hand on the pan handle for twenty minutes.

kidding the edit is 720p the shot 1080 so all done in edit.

might be shooting in tokyo in two weeks dean

give us a call ...
 

It would be great to meet and I think Kaku would be pleased as well. Both he and I are in Shibuya and the other guys in Tokyo I'm sure would be into a brew or two, or three ... let's have a beer!

if the job is confirmed this week will let you know, in the meantime...

My second short "Red, Red, Rocks" is now up

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_...Red_Rocks.html

Shot on the Ultimate/ EX1 combo with Hien watching something being shot for the first time with his adaptor.

Filmed in Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas

Music is Ghosts 1 by Nine Inch Nails

Info and photos on blog as per usual

The flash version will follow soon.

Done a new short using the ex1 and ultimate in Tokyo. I used a very cheap motorized tripod head for the last timelapse shot(really a telescope head, details in blog)

You can see the short here

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Shibuya.html

thanks to Alex Kubalsky for all his help

Great looking stuff!

One question: are you using the Letus on every shot, changing the aperture for the desired DOF, or are you removing and replacing the Letus between shots?

Thanks!

Nice shots...
Phil, I repeatedly found your music is very well selected...
What music sources you can recommend ? Are you using own archives or are there any other archives on the Internet ... ?!

Shooting nice pictures is one thing - putting it all together with very well "balanced" sound is something else... you are doing exceptional well in that aspect, Phil.

EX1 arrived today... so I am starting the learning curve with the new camera from now on !

Good piece ...
 

Excellent Phil ~ hope to catch up with you today. Been out shooting flowers in the mountains!

Letus always stays on Jon!

Mostly my own music, sometimes I look for inspiration. Death Valley was hardest. The one in end was one i chose before going there, then I changed my mind but couldn't find anything that worked as well

annoyingly one of my ex1's in Tokyo has gone wrong. The LCD has died. The EVF still works but as we all know it's awful.

Gutted!!! Oh and my macbook hard drive seized up too. Must be something in the air.

Oh man! My condolences on the equipment failures. Any chance of finding a Sony service center there? You could ask around Akihabara...

Best of luck.

Hey Phil,

on the encodes online, i saw some flickering in the really high highlight sections of the Death Valley video once between 2:38-2:39, and again between 3:50 and 3:55. Is this anything that you've seen from the camera or some weird encoding issue?

Sorry if this has been asked already, and thanks for the any feedback you can give.

Dave

getting it fixed back in UK

looks like that is some weird encoding issue, not there on my original.

My last short in Tokyo is up http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_..._in_Tokyo.html

half shot on Ultimate, half on Extreme to see how well they compared. Some shots were without any adaptor...

info on my blog with pics about how it was shot...

http://web.mac.com/philip.bloom/Bloo..._in_Tokyo.html

nicely done ...
 

A great piece Phil.

In case I didn't let you know in Tokyo Phil. I think you are an absolute craftsman. Such great work. Respect.

Kubalsky

So good that I can even forgive you for spelling my name wrong in the end credits!

might be easier if you change your spelling for me?

no thanks. It took me long enough to learn to spell it the right way.

see my problem. but now thousands of people think you are kubaklsy might be best for you in your film career.

well first you'll have to decide on which of your -NOW TWO! spelling mistake to go with, kubalksy or kubaklsy?

they all look fine to me mr klubaksy.

will change the credits when i get a chance

my ex1 has gone off to Sony in Paris to be fixed.

The LCD just died, it was intermittent for a few hours then packed in, anyone else come across this?

Whilst there it is getting most of the body replaced as the paint has come off, which i am assured is now fixed, also the handle has become loose, the screw doing nothing to tighten it.

Hope it comes back soon! At least I have my original one which also needs to go in for the paint, got a nice new Letus Ultimate Prototype Mark 2 to try out on it this weekend!

This is a disturbing development. Really makes me suspicious of Sony's QC. These cameras seem to be all over the map as far as build quality is concerned. Here's to hoping mine's not a lemon as well. So far so good (fingers crossed).

it is hopefully a one off. My other one has done about 180 hours and has no problems

Was this camera the first one you got, therefore a very early production model?

no this was the second one i got. But sony prime support are superb so am certain it will be back better than ever. Maybe they will turn it into an ex3 for me...

Then I'll be hoping my lcd goes out as well!!

wish sony ...
 

would get these little problems out of the way~ paint hum! Ultimate 2 should be an improvement and the first one wasn't bad at all. I always said you deserve an EX3 ~ free!

I had to pack my EX1 up today and ship it back to Sony.....after only 2 weeks. I had one of the older serial numbers (102393) and the paint was coming off of the roller/select control already in spite of my trying to use the joystick instead. However, yesterday I found a piece of crud somewhere inside the lens. I never noticed it earlier but discovered it by shooting into an open blue sky, stopping down to around f11 to f16 and zooming all the way to the widest setting. Shooting wide open and zoomed all the way to telephoto would hide the crud or render it so blurry that you couldn't see it. When I viewed it on a larger monitor, I saw even more dust on the image. Depressing.

Also, what amount of Chromatic Aberation is considered "normal" with this lens? I can see very, very slight red and green fringes in some of my shots were there is a hard edged object in the frame. I'm guessing they will replace this lens or, like Philip, they will wave the Sony wand over it and magically change it into an EX3. ;)

Phil
do you think you lcd dying has anything to do with the firewire issue? Thats how mine died.

Andrew, what firewire issue are you speaking of...I have not heard of this nor seen a thread about it...

I plugged a firewire cable into the camera while it was turned on, and proceeded to fry a circuit and my LCD and EVF died. Sent it back to Sony, when it came back I had a polite note warning about this.

A post on Blooms blog about it, http://tinyurl.com/6paztg

That is SO weird. It must be something else causing these shorts as there is no power on the 4-pin end of the cable.

@Dave: 4 pin no power - THATs exactly what I said!

But Mark on Bloom's blog said it was a result of static charge. Pointing us to an ESD firewire protector...

BUT Bloom said that his Mac wouldn't recognize his 350 with the Kramer spike protector in line

UGH. This all happened to me the first month I had my EX1. AND the LCD and EVF died the night before a big 2 camera shoot. Again, thanks to Adobe OnLocation and its holy-crap thats a long delay for bailing my ass out of a jam.

I was really surprised that the EX1 only uses the Firewire for streaming output. I was hoping to speed up some of the file transfers out of the camera by using the FW port. I even tried hooking it up but my Mac did not see the camera nor the cards. Oh well, it's USB for me unless I'm sticking the cards into my MacBook Pro.