Ouch, that sounds painful Christopher, you gotta watch those beets!

Is anyone else going to the broadcast forum? I was planning to go down on one of the days, but not sure which one yet.

come find me on the sony stand!

Right, should've typed the full name, sorry. Magic Bullet Looks is working very well for me on Leopard.

Magic Bullett looks demo version worked but after applying settings they were way off after going back to FCP with the settings, the color was way different then in the looks suite. They are sopose to release a ver for Leopard soon.
Not sure why I was having prolbems.

Paul,

Never show fear!!! If you act like you belong there, people will leave you alone. I once found myself surrounded by a gang of young men in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I played cool and they finally relaxed and let me be. I was scared inside, but never let it show on the outside and you will be o.k.

Daniel Weber

I am going to Videoforum on the opening day so will come and say hello to you Phil.

By the way I just ordered a Letus Extreme through your banner link, so make sure you get the credit for it!

Don't know what the waiting time is for it though!

For Christopher Witzke. As for "seeing the sights of Norfolk, those two phrases don't pop up much! :) I take it you were in the US forces based at Mildenhall? I have been there a few times to watch the speedway.(at Westrow) good day out as well.

I was a teenager over there with my parents... my dad was a tech rep ( CIA ) on the SR-71... and yes, Mildenhall. I got the photography bug from him, although his camera was 110,000 feet up. he passed away 3 years ago... I remember showing him my digital back for my hasselblad and when I mentioned it was 22MP, he chuckled and said "is that all?"

Hope you get it soon Steve. I get a very small percentage for orders trough my banner, but thanks anyway.

See you at the end of the month!

Sure. Just had a thought. I will have a simular setup once the LEX arrives in a few weeks ( EX1, Letus EX, Nikon lenses etc)

If you find yourself in a position where you need to do a two cam shoot, for interviews etc, I could be available for the experience.

cheers thanks

And me,i want some experience.I'm available to shoot anything.

I downloaded the 720 version and the colors are all screwy, like green. Someone must tell me what I have setup wrong in Apple Quicktime.

Another short! This time it is a Landscape Study around Dungeness Nuclear Power Station on the South Coast. Very different to my last short. I just wanted to show having a 35mm film adaptor is more than just shallow DOF.

You can read about it and see it at my blog on my website.

p.s. Charles, no idea what you have done wrong!

Phil, Hi!
Good job as always!
Do you have a little hard time to achieve edge to edge sharpness, some shots seem to be softer on the outside of the frame at the same focal distance, is it a fact, or you do it in post, like vignetting on some shots?

Do you already know your settings say for a 50mm 1.4 lens and just dial it or you still have to look at the monitor?
DO you usually shoot with iris on camera somewhat closed down can it be wide open for least light loss?

Best regards, Oleg.

Hi Oleg

those are using the shift tilt lenses.

I don't use a monitor just the screen. I check focus on both the camera and lens each time I change lenses. The iris changes depending on what light there is or how much shallow DOF i want.

Phil, Footage again looks very good....

Thanks for sharing the same....

ray

Did you solve your quicktime problem?

I have uploaded again ad black and white. Always wanted to see some adaptor footage this way. It suits the bleakness

Hi Phil, Yes.... rebooted both of my workstations and now it all seems to work.... very strange...

I had actually seen the issue yesterday with Steve Cahill's blog site, his site
would actually lock up my systems... but yours was still working so I just thought it was his site... but this morning your blog site would load but with a "plug in " error... who knows what apple is upto... maybe they fixed some issue overnight and I just needed to reboot....

seems OK now....

back to the footage.... wow, the black and white version realy changes the mood... as like " Synister " type mood... very dark....

would be nice if you could download both versions.... :-)

am really pleased with the black and white. First 35mm adaptor stuff I have shot that has ended up black and white.

I will add a link to download the colour one soon!

Steve Cahill's Letus Blog
 

Ray- any particular page, Mac or PC and what browser are you using? I was updating blog so that could of been issue can you try again.

http://web.mac.com/stevecahill/Steve...g/Archive.html

Really love the clip Phil. Agree the b&w works perfectly, and gives a real feel for what the place is like. Just one little shot in it that seems out of place and that's the coach. Remove that out and it could be from the 40's/50's.

By the way what is the music? Very familiar. Sounds like something from "The Others".

it's Neptune, from Holst's "The Planets"

Steve, not sure what it was but your site is working for me also...
I'm on PC

Thanks

Durr! Of course! I have known The Planet Suite since I was a youngster and soon as I heard it I recognised it but couldn't place it.

Quick question for you guys. I am on the Sony stand at this Broadcast forum thing and all my work will be playing on the screen there BUT on Thursday I have this debate panel that I am part of. I have been asked to show one of my shorts...now which one do I show. I am leaning towards the South Bank, any thoughts?

My vote to Piccadilly Furs. It has more movement. The stillness of the other films (although excellent as well) make them less cinematic and more photographic to me.

B&W Dungeness. Definately. It has a feel about that the others don't. It feels like the start of a movie, somthing like Great Expectations.

That one will WOW the audience. I am there on Thursday. Hope the weather is not too stormy!

nobody agrees! maybe 2 minutes of Dungeness and 2 minutes of South Bank...

South Bank

South Bank!

south bank

with the exception of the flickering lights in the opening shot, I loved "My Autumn's Done Come" The detail in the close-ups is one of the things that really sold me on the EX1.

sorry.

my site is down currently as it is being revamped. My upload connection is a bit slow, but hopefully be back up in about 4 hours.

Dungeness
 

My vote goes to the Dungeness footage. Exceptional. Not to mention inspirational - now I want to make stuff like that!

Simon

Difficult choice - luv'emall!
Kew Gardens?

my favourite is Dungeness but I am certain Sony will like me to show a bit of colour!
by the way site is back up with re design. A little less messy and all the letus stuff is organised

Good to meet all the guys from the forum today and yesterday.

Been hard work standing up all day talking to everyone about the ex1, also because I am wearing a Sony exhibitors badge I had to explain to everyone that I don't actually work for Sony, just been hired by them for these three days as a broadcast EX1 cameraman. Been enjoyable, i think most people have been impressed by what they saw with it. They have a circle of about 12 cameras pointing at a bloke doing wood sculpting (!) all the way from the a1 to the f23 and the ex1 really shines!

Yesterday a guy from a big FX house in Soho was looking at the cameras, mainly at the pricier ones, then someone mentioned the ex1 to him so he was sent to me. He looked at it, saw the specs. Said thats pretty impressive. looked at the picture and said nice but as usual you can see noise in the dark parts of the image. I said really? I then looked closely and yes it was noisy as hell, so I looked on the camera and someone had stuck on full auto so it had AGC on. I turned it off and he was blown away by the clean image. When I told him it was 4:2:2 out of the HDSDI i think he was sold!

by the way, just booked my flight and hotel for NAB in April in Vegas. Was tempted by the Hooters hotel but though the taxman wouldn't be impressed!

Good to met you too Phil. I really enjoyed the show today, it's great to get to play with some of the top end gear. After a 17hr day though I'm glad to be home, it's surprisingly tiring taking in all that hardware goodness!

Paul.

Nab
 

Phillip,

What days will you be at NAB, full week? My associate and I will be there and would love to chat with you if you have a moment.

Peace and Blessings
Hidalgo

yep. the whole week!