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ISO 25,600! fom 5D Mark II

Canon has a program called Picture Style Editor, but I challenge anyone to get anything useful out of it. When I heard of it, I was already dreaming up different B&W film settings and cross process settings..then I saw the app and tried it. Utterly useless, but if anyone knows how it works, or even if it works, I'd love to hear a simple step by step explanation.
 
Patrick Tresch said:
The Canon is also a really cheap solution to shoot and to make a film. I can also tell that a great European director based in Switzerland took this camera as the A camera for his next feature.
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Does this director happen to be Jean-Luc Godard?

This conversation (http://www.geocities.com/glen_norton/Genesis.html) between Godard and Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Aaton camera engineer, makes me think Godard would absolutely love the 5DII.

JLG paid Aaton a lot of money hoping they'd build him a 35mm movie camera that was as automated as your average super-8 camera. He wanted a point-and-shoot Arri, but he never really got what he was looking for.

The 5DII shoots beautiful pictures, and is about as point-and-shoot as movie cameras come.

Anyway, if Godard doesn't already have one of these things, somebody's gotta go give him one! I'll even lend him mine if need be.
 
sure Godard would love or loves it.. he's a filmmaker.. not a geek.
 
"With the 35BL, you work with three or four people, and when you have that many people around the camera, you make certain kinds of films, and not others."

my fav quote there..

Paul Martin said:
Does this director happen to be Jean-Luc Godard?

This conversation (http://www.geocities.com/glen_norton/Genesis.html) between Godard and Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Aaton camera engineer, makes me think Godard would absolutely love the 5DII.
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filmmaker's gang said:
sure Godard would love or loves it.. he's a filmmaker.. not a geek.
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So you're saying that any filmmaker would love the 5DII and anyone who wouldn't would be a geek?

That's pretty harsh.

Especially on a message board.

Godard spent a lot of time and money in pursuit of a camera that would mostly operate itself; an Arri BL substitute that he himself could operate, without a crew, without technicians.

5DII images aren't Arri images, but they're getting close.

Me, I love the 5DII, but I'd rather it had only full manual controls rather than only the automatic controls it has. Godard, at least from 1979 to 1985, wanted a camera with excellent image quality and automatic features. These automatic features--focus, exposure--were to set apart the 35-8 camera, which he essentially commissioned Aaton to build, from other available cameras. The 35-8 was never fully realized.

To me, the 5DII is one hell of a 35-8. Kind of a Vistavision-8.
 
Thanks, Patrick. I'll look into that. I saw that portion of the customization possibilities, but never thought they movie settings would be included in them, since the camera seems to revert down to basic default settings when in movie mode (by design).
 
Paul Martin said:
So you're saying that any filmmaker would love the 5DII and anyone who wouldn't would be a geek?
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what i meant.. what i said you can read right there 2 posts above yours.. what i meant was.. is.. any filmmaker can love that camera.. about any geek i wouldn't bet my money on the same horse.

disclaimer: i don't think any geek is a horse.
 
i forgot to write.. is it really necessary?.. i would bet my money on both.. godard & this camera.. same for godard's love for this camera..

disclaimer #2: it doesn't mean i'm saying godard is a horse. :)
 
Patrick Tresch said:
He told me that Canon have a big issue with focus. (not our backfocus problem). Focusing on a object while moving, let's take a 100m sprinter coming straight toward the 400mm lens Nikon has all photos sharp Canon don't.

Patrick
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That applies not to every Canon camera, just the EOS-1D Mark III. It turned into a huge fiasco, and this was one of the first places it was noticed.
 
filmmaker's gang said:
"With the 35BL, you work with three or four people, and when you have that many people around the camera, you make certain kinds of films, and not others."

my fav quote there..
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That is a great quote. My collegue and I argue alot about this idea - I love the idea of streamlining the filmmaking process and making it lighter, quicker and more personal, whearas he feels that the process that exists in which 3 -5 people are used on one camera is needed to the quality of the work (and indeed craft) as high as possible.

Great article - I studied Pierrot le Fou at university and loved it...mainly for its madness.
 
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