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Nikkor Home Movies

Drew Mylrea

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UPDATE:

New stuff here:

http://www.arnoldandthealps.com/dropbox/homemoviela.mov

See post down in thread for specifics-

Shot with the 17-35 and 50 1.4

I don't have my Nikon mount yet but Vlad Eugene was kind enough to lend me his for the week. The lens' all shift around in the mount - I'm thinking about getting a very thin O ring for each of them so the rubber causes friction and stops the shifting. I had them hooked up to a Redrock FF which performed well - you can see some racks in the footage and the shifting doesn't seem to appear in the images / present a distraction.

All footage is on the go, around my house with the 'rents and friend Aaron. All natural light, no staging, etc. Most was about a stop below wide open some was full open. ASA 320. Clips exported to ProRes via the proxies and then to H.264 after a Final Cut edit. No color correction.

2K H.264
http://www.arnoldandthealps.com/dropbox/homemovies.mov
 
I have to say, some of the nicest-looking pictures I've seen from RED. Lovely smooth tones, sharp.
Do I see the dreaded rolling shutter "skew" on the moving shots, or is that just because of the download? If rolling shutter is problematic on moving shots that would pretty much rule it out for me.
Enjoy the camera, and your lovely home!
Steve
 
Nice footage, great to see some varied Nikon work of late. Thank you.

With the Redrock FF and the Red, are you using 15mm bars to be able to mount it or have you jerry rigged it with a Red universal mount and 19mm bars, just wondering as im planning to use Nikon lenses / buy the Redrock and im trying to figure this out at the moment.

Andrew.
 
Skew is there with fast pans. Big deal - most of my stuff is handheld but I'm not too concerned because when characters are the focus your audience's focus is locked - I've shown the footage to a bunch of different people and skew has never been noticed.

The Redrock FF mount is an interesting one:

cinevate.jpg


I've got the RED universal mount hooked up to a block I got from Cinevate (part of their lens support system). I had to drill out part of the universal mount to attach this as the holes didn't line up right. Then I had to get some tapered screws for the Redrock to mount on the Cinevate block. A really cool part of the deal is that the block has the right threading for the LCD arm which lets me put the LCD right past the FF where I want it. I wouldn't recommend going through all that trouble, but I did, so I might as well show off this jimmy-rig.

Thanks for the kind words.
 
This footage is realllllllllly niceeee - I am very impressed with what the Nikon setup can do with capable hands - great job - I am ordering the 17-35 asap
 
As well as excellent optics the 17-35 (unlike most AF lenses) has really nice build quality too, and manual focus is pretty good, not quite upto old MF Nikkors, but MILES better than most of the sloppy AF ones. It's the only AF Nikkor I have, tried to stick with MF but nothing decent in the range in MF do DSLR / Phantom / RED.
Steve
 
Thanks, she'll be fine - it's my mom. I really don't find pulling focus hard on the LCD at all even when I'm recording and can't zoom in. You seem to just know when your racking what is spot on, even at really low f. stops. I also am coming from a Cinevate 35mm adaptor and a 200 dollar 300px LCD which I used to pull focus daily on. THAT was hard.
 
Nice! I really like the look.

Also, this is random, but did your friend happen to just graduate from Reed College?
 
Heh, yeah, I guess so. He and I were the same year I think, though I don't actually know him or anything--which I think probably adds to the fame factor. It's such a small school though that I just kinda remember everyone's face from my class.

Thanks for posting your footage. I'm shooting a feature in Portland/Seattle this summer using a Red (I'll be renting though--I don't have my own), and I'm hoping to use natural light as much as possible. Footage like this is nice since it helps give me confidence that there's a chance it won't turn out looking terrible (assuming that I myself don't screw it up).
 
You should spend money on lighting to make your movie salable. Crabby DP works won't get your movie anywhere. I just don't get it when people said they use natural light as much as possible. Natural light lighting is a lot harder than you think.
 
Heh, I know. We're taking the lighting very seriously--it's just the look we're going for will be a little on the rough side. But yeah, we're not expecting to just point and shoot.
 
Red Dogma Film?

Red Dogma Film?

Hollywoodland South said:
You should spend money on lighting to make your movie salable. Crabby DP works won't get your movie anywhere. I just don't get it when people said they use natural light as much as possible. Natural light lighting is a lot harder than you think.
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I thought we were talking about a home movie ( as I understand it a test) here....
Besides that, films in the concept of "Dogma" are all made without artificial lighting. This may not be that easy, but it's a concept I like.
 
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