Recent content by Jeff Kilgroe

Controlling spam on these forums as they currently exist is an exercise in futility. I'm pretty sure most of the spam bots don't even register themselves as proper user accounts, but bypass the "security" employed by this garbage forum software and direct-inject their posts. If there were a...

Yeah... Some of my mod privileges seem to be working today. I was feeling cheeky enough and cleaned all the spam posted in the last 25-ish days plus everything visible from the main forum page. Looks tidier now. Any chance we can get some proper spam filtering on here? Not sure how well this...

I don't know who is doing what here anymore or if any moderators still exist. I still have partial moderator access or ability. I can select threads and posts for moderation, but I can't actually approve or delete anything. It's weird. So I've just been stopping by once every few weeks to see...

Briefly switched to moderator approval, yet the approval system was broken. Not sure what's up around here anymore and the spam is out of control.

We seem to have some new, more stringent approval processes for new posts. I'm not in and out of the forums a ton these days, but I look at the message approval queue when I stop by. Seems about half the incoming posts are just spam. As of this moment, nothing is pending approval, so your...

N-RAW isn't hugely different than REDCODE, and I'd worry much less about the codec itself vs. the processing that occurs prior to compression. File sizes are larger due to the lower processing ability vs more expensive camera systems. Higher compression requires more intensive compute so we're...

Will be just fine... 12bit is 4096 levels of gradation and they don't have to be linear. Most of us are still finishing in 10bit and most endpoint display systems are still 8bit. I'm also curious about the battery life.

There's also USB and WiFi and data I/O on the accessory mount, so options to connect in different ways I suppose. Bluetooth timecode sync is a thing, I've personally never used it, but Atomos, Tentacle and others all make bluetooth timecode products. USB is also a thing and Tentacle makes USB...

I refuse to order this unless I can also have it in Bayhem slime green. Seriously though, this looks great. Can't wait to play with one. The TC support is an interesting question. I can see a few possibilities. The 3.5mm is probably a multi-function I/O.

All VND's work by stacking two polarizers, so we don't have actual tinted ND glass or coatings or the ability to cut IR. So with high ND values on a VND, you will want to stack with an IR cut filter. Also [many] VNDs will introduce a blue/violet color cast at high ND levels as a byproduct of...

We had two of those back in the day... They were bullet proof, just expensive. Dropped one of them in a swimming pool on some stupid ass music video shoot I didn't want to be part of. Insurance paid the ticket, but I actually got the RED-RAM working after getting it thoroughly dried out.

Well, Canon prefers to officially license their RF standard. Viltrox would’ve had much better luck if they would have acquired licensing first….

Lenses are a huge factor. Most of the lenses that would cover true medium format sized image areas like 645, are effectively vintage at this point. And the only real cinema lenses would be IMAX. Newer “medium format” lenses don’t cover the film sizes of old in many cases. They have been...

I agree that RED made the best choice with their sensor development. That said, to expand their current sensor tech to a 645 sized medium format would be very interesting. The MF crowd would flock to it if it could deliver the sensor size they promised in that brochure and/or provided real...

I’ve wanted a 65mm/ 70mm RED for the longest time. And when RED teased those various sizes of EPIC and Monstro cameras way back when, it just made it worse. I still have that booklet from NAB back in like 2009 or whenever it was. If they came out with one, I would probably still have to buy...