Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Nikon SLR Footage

Moir said:
Fantastic shots, Ed! Don't want to be too anal but the cat isn't a Jungle Cat (which is an Asian species), I think it is an Ocelot or Margay.
Click to expand...

Oooh.. picky :innocent:
You're correct it is a Margay, but the locals call it a Jungle cat. Either way it's a beautiful animal.
 
Those are absolutely beautiful, Ed. Thanks for sharing!

I was originally planning to go with Nikon, but then switched to Canon because of the Birger. Even so, your frame grabs have given me great hopes for my new Canon glass!
 
Nikon grabs

Nikon grabs

Okay, these aren't as exotic, but here's a couple grabs from a helicopter test we did yesterday. We shot using a Nikon 28-70 at between 28 and 35, ASA 320, shutter speed 400, aperture at F8.
 
I really wish you wouldn't post pics of my house on-line!!
Just kidding...I wish....
I have the 28-70 and those grabs look very good.
 
The shots look gorgeous, and ratify my desire to give the Nikons a serious try. However, I noticed the shots look a bit soft? I hate super sharp images and think that the "sharp softness" exhibited by many older lenses and these shots by Ed look very filmic, but since I also own all those Nikon lenses, I know them to look noticeably sharper on my Nikon cameras. Maybe we need to add a bit of sharpening when using these lenses, or is there a slight back focus problem with the mount? Doug, any thoughts?
 
Doesn't seem to be a backfocus issue, at least on the closeups, since you can identify OOF zones both in front and back of that which is meant to be in focus.

It might come from the downrezzing. You always need to add a bit of sharpening when you downrez an image in order to retain sharpness comparable to that of the original full size image.

Were these shot in 4K? Would it be possible to see some tiffs?
 
Rudi Herbert said:
The shots look gorgeous, and ratify my desire to give the Nikons a serious try. However, I noticed the shots look a bit soft? I hate super sharp images and think that the "sharp softness" exhibited by many older lenses and these shots by Ed look very filmic, but since I also own all those Nikon lenses, I know them to look noticeably sharper on my Nikon cameras. Maybe we need to add a bit of sharpening when using these lenses, or is there a slight back focus problem with the mount? Doug, any thoughts?
Click to expand...

The softness struck me as well, also based on the stills Stephen Pruitt pulled from his use of Doug's Nikon mount in this thread. The color and contrast is beautiful, but it does seem soft to me.
 
wshultz said:
Okay, these aren't as exotic, but here's a couple grabs from a helicopter test we did yesterday. We shot using a Nikon 28-70 at between 28 and 35, ASA 320, shutter speed 400, aperture at F8.
Click to expand...

You shot those handheld, didn´t you? No mount? Did you try some shots with >35? Any skew problems? Were they usable, or "1 out of 20" usable?

Thank you for the footage and all the best,

Jochen
 
eclaire said:
The softness struck me as well, also based on the stills Stephen Pruitt pulled from his use of Doug's Nikon mount in this thread. The color and contrast is beautiful, but it does seem soft to me.
Click to expand...

You're right, there's the same exact type of softness on those grabs as in the ones we're discussing. Very nice, warm and pleasing color rendition and contrast, far nicer to me that anything accomplished by any Zeiss lens, but the sharpness is lacking. What gives?
 
Josch said:
You shot those handheld, didn´t you? No mount? Did you try some shots with >35? Any skew problems? Were they usable, or "1 out of 20" usable?

Thank you for the footage and all the best,

Jochen
Click to expand...

Yes, handheld it was. Skew is definitely a problem with sudden buffeting and camera jerks. Shots where we were able to hold relatively stable for 15 or 20 seconds at a time were very useable though. It's those wild swings that look goofy when stabilized. Here's a couple small stabilized clips. I didn't crop the second so you can see what kind of movement was happening. No skew problems at that level of movement.

http://www.rvimedia.com/video/RickJacksonHouse.mov
http://www.rvimedia.com/video/Retirement_small.mov
 
Wow, that second shot definitely looks like a miniature :tongue: Looks amazing. Good stuff.
 
Looking around the white whiskers on the Margay / Jungle Cat, it looks a little like a diffusion filter.
 
jbeale said:
Looking around the white whiskers on the Margay / Jungle Cat, it looks a little like a diffusion filter.
Click to expand...

No diffusion filter, but having looked at the file again you are right, the focus is a little off.
One of four possible answers to that:
1) I missed focus (low light, wide open, working solo on a short time span and tiny depth of field).
2) There is some water vapour in the camera/lens (humidity is 75-90% here) acting to diffuse the light.
3) The back focus may have slipped from all the carrying around of the camera. Or I installed Doug's mount wrong (I switched it from my other RED camera before I left).
4) The screenshot was taken at 1/4 rez from REDCINE (using the mac screen capture tool because QT 7.4.1 seems to have broken the snapshot export)


Sorry I can't be more help, I'll try and post some larger images when I get back to the USA.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top