Recent content by Christoph Tilley

I am currently thinking about buying a nice set of 6 Leica-R summicrons (19, 24, 35, 50, 85, 135). The set is P+S rehoused, recently serviced, and all glass is from one set. How much would you pay for this? Is $30k reasonable? Thanks for your advice!

I wasn't sure if I should upgrade my Weapon Helium to Monstro, so I asked my reseller for a demo of Monstro. Well, now I want to upgrade. See this... Oh, and I also tested Monstro vs. Venice! I will post my results here soon. Best, Chris

I really want to own a vintage set of 2x Anamorphics, preferably something affordable like a set of Lomos. Does anyone know if someone is selling? Best, Chris

Hey folks, Freefly released FW1.4 beta for the MōVI Pro which supports Majestic Roll. Now you can smoothly control camera roll as a single operator. I am pretty stoked because this opens up a new world of creative camera moves for me. After installing the new FW, I briefly went outside with my...

Our rental bought a set of Leica Summicrons and they gave it to us for one day to test. We shot a little bit on the side on our Weapon Helium in 8K and our Movi Pro, while being on set preparing for another job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMyyLtkI5Q We mainly used 40mm and 75mm for...

Hey guys, I was curious why there wasn't a v-mount to 230V converter available, so we built our own: https://youtu.be/p3QVVhdfJYw Just a couple of weeks we finished building this, Hawk-Woods presented their commercial solution at IBC this year. Seems like there definitely was a need for a...

Hey folks, after our shoot today we turned the camera off and laid it aside in our production van. After several minutes driving we smelled a strange/burnt smell and noticed that the camera was super hot but still off. The camera was so hot, it was almost impossible to touch it. We immediately...

Hey guys, I reviewed the rather new P+S Technik 1.5x anamorphic zoom 35-70mm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yD0JZ_u1ME I really liked the vintage look with modern glass/sharp images. Especially when the 70-200mm comes out, this could be a fairly versatile lens for different scenarios. What...

Hi folks, recently had a shoot on our IPP2beta-updated Helium Weapon with our Motion Mount and I noticed really blue R3Ds in RCX and Resolve. I had to push the WB to 10000K and above to get a proper image (we shot at 5500K). Strangely the monitored image on the EVF, LCD and SDI output looked...

Hey guys, here is a quick breakdown how I am grading IPP2 footage in Davinci Resolve 12.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrFtmG8n9nE The LUTs referenced in the video are: Omeneo Primers (our favorite) http://omeneo.com/primers/ RED2ALEXA LUTs...

Hi folks, just upgraded and tried 6.4 with the new IPP2 today and I really like it. But now I'm curious: is IPP2 enhancing the way my weapon reads sensor data or is it just a more advanced way of previewing Helium? In other words: if I keep shooting in RG4/DC2 and use Log3G10/RWG as a starting...

Hey guys, I tested our RED Motion Mount this weekend on our Weapon Helium for color cast and other things: https://vimeo.com/205801195 Here is the nerdy spreadsheet I show in the video: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EsShK3CisqVHSz4YbS0JnIUfCmn77F7W8Gud_nOcl-Y/edit?usp=sharing...

Hey guys, we just received the Canon Ti Motion Mount for our Weapon Helium 8K, but it simply won't be recognised by the camera. We already did a rediscover, but still no luck. Any help? Greatly appreciated! Best, Chris

Holiday is testing time! So we shot different cameras in the studio: - ARRI Alexa Mini (ARRIRAW, Open gate 3.8K) - Sony F65 (F65RAW-SQ) - RED Epic Dragon (6K, 5:1) - RED Weapon Helium (8K, 5:1) Everything was shot on a ZEISS LWZ.2 at 45mm. We measured T8 at our models face. All cameras...

A short clip we shot in order to test our new RED Weapon with the Helium 8K sensor. https://vimeo.com/192289963 Camera settings: ISO 3200, 50FPS, 1/100, 8K, 12:1 Lens was a Zeiss LWZ.2 PL wide open at T2.6. Quickly graded in Davinci Resolve, no noise reduction. This was the setup: Best, Chris