Recent content by Kenneth C Merrill

Hey all, I've recently started consigning some of my equipment with a rental house in LA, and I have a question for people who have more experience in the rental business, especially with consignment deals. According to the agreement, the rental house will insure the equipment as long as it is...

Selling my used MMB-1. Great little matte box with 15mm LW and 19mm rod mounts, eyebrow, side flags, 114mm, 95mm, and 80mm donuts. Asking $500. Located in LA.

Hey guys, I'm about to start a show using Signature Primes, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a zoom that could somewhat match. We only have a few specialty zoom shots planned, but I want the image to match as best as possible. We're fine using the S35 to LF expander--so...

Hey guys! I'm doing exteriors and b-roll for a feature film next weekend in New Jersey. Are any of you drone operators available in the Sept 21-23 range? Let me know!

Hey all, I've been getting a weird effect with some of my Leica R lenses where the image not only breathes (as expected) when I change focus, but it actually shifts left/right and up/down a little bit. Is that characteristic of most manual focus stills lenses or does it indicate something gone...

Does anyone in LA have a Xyla Chart for rent? I'm trying to set up a camera test with the Mini, Monstro, Helium, and Gemini, and a Xyla seems like a necessity if we're going to all the trouble. Let me know!

I use Leica R lenses on my Epic-W, and I love the combo because they're incredibly light and match super well with the Helium sensor. The problem I run into is that my follow focus can' fit between the camera body (and WC 15mm rod adapter) and my matte box. I had a crappy Tilta FF-T03 that...

Hey guys! Here's the latest thing I directed: https://vimeo.com/257247869 We shot most of it on Leica R glass, in 6K FF and cropped for the 2.4:1 aspect ratio. The slow motion jumping shots were captured in 4K with a Tokina 11-16mm zoom. Edited in Premiere, colored in DaVinci. Curiously I...

Hey Guys! Here's my second music video of all time. Shot on my Epic-W with Leica R's. Really happy with how it turned out given that we shot almost everything in one day for $3500. The artist is super new and young, and I tried to make her cliche, quotidian song interesting with a visual twist...

UPDATED. Can someone tell me what this weird yellow banding is in the the background? It's in a large portion of the footage I'm cutting (someone else shot). UPDATE: OK, so I decided to hold off further inquiry until I had some footage I shot for myself that was showing the same issue. We...

I finally picked up a Bomb EVF for my Epic-W, and I'm wondering what length of lemo cable I should get to connect the EVF to the lemo adapter on the operator side of the camera. I will probably be rigging the camera with a "recoil" style rig that puts the body over the shoulder. So the EVF will...

According to Mystery Box checksums are a waste of time and give you a false sense of security. Any thoughts? http://www.mysterybox.us/blog/2017/7/5/protecting-your-digital-assets-part-1-checksums-digital-errors-debunked I don't like going against anything Sam or the rest of the Mystery Box...

Every time someone brings up the WC pogo cables, a lot of people come out and say they "know someone" who had their board fried by using those cables. So far, I have only seen one first-hand experience of a cable "shorting out" the camera, but that first-hand account made it sound like they just...

Hey everyone! I recently had someone rent my Epic-W and shoot only ProRes, and they are wondering about recommendations for spanning the ProRes clips. I haven't done it before; so I told them I would do some research. From what I understand, Premiere Pro still doesn't span them on import, and...

Here is some miscellaneous footage from my first shoot with the Epic-W several months ago. I saw it sitting on my desktop and thought I would upload in case anyone cared. Shot with Leica R glass. Very minimal processing and no IPP2 at the time. https://vimeo.com/216258046/a89e17a77c