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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

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  1. Karim D. Ghantous

    “This reads like an Onion Headline”

    That is one film that I definitely will not see voluntarily. I don't care how good it is. I will not watch it.
  2. Karim D. Ghantous

    What next on RED?

    6x7 lenses should work. Bronica and Mamiya made 6x7 cameras. Fujifilm also made a 6x8 camera.
  3. Karim D. Ghantous

    What next on RED?

    Red's sensors come close enough. But, I think that if anyone is going to make cameras that exceed the DR of the Alexa 35, it will be Pentax. Why? Because I like to think outside the box, and they are the only company, I think, that can easily do it. And that does not entail that they will make...
  4. Karim D. Ghantous

    Apple Event - September 9

    From what I have seen, the new high res sensors on the latest iPhones don't produce images that can enlarge well. Even some big sensors do not have good image fidelity, such as the one in the A7S III. It's not nice. Neither is the A9's sensor. Image quality is not an easy business.
  5. Karim D. Ghantous

    What next on RED?

    Overall I get your point. But this sounds like you're asking for something that can't exist. There's only so much resolution that you're going to get from any such system. The Leica Q has a lens matched to its sensor, and yet it still has aberrations wide-open. So, matching a lens to a sensor is...
  6. Karim D. Ghantous

    What next on RED?

    I wonder what the focus would be with such a sensor - DR or resolution? DR is already amazing with the newest sensors, but you could go a bit more with more surface area to work with. Or just stay with current DR and give 12-14K of resolution. Of course this is all academic, but it's fun to...
  7. Karim D. Ghantous

    Video: 'I bought the cheapest Red cinema camera I could find (again)'

    A Dragon 6K for $750? Yes: (14:15)
  8. Karim D. Ghantous

    Video: 'The Real Reason New Cars Have Touchscreens'

    Touchscreens in cars are stupid. The reason why cars have them is because they are cheap. Thankfully, some manufacturers are going to ditch them. But they should have never been implemented. (8:21)
  9. Karim D. Ghantous

    Trying to get my Leica M lens to work on DSMC2 gemini

    I presume that M lenses work better in S35 mode?
  10. Karim D. Ghantous

    Luma AI’s Dream Machine – New AI Video Generator Launched and Available to the Public

    At the very least, I will agree with this statement 100%!
  11. Karim D. Ghantous

    Luma AI’s Dream Machine – New AI Video Generator Launched and Available to the Public

    What's the highest resolution of these files? Some of these examples look sub-HD. Can you specify 4K etc? I can imagine entire fan films being made with this tech. I an also imagine that a lot of gamers are really annoyed that GPU prices are going to remain high indefinitely. First it was...
  12. Karim D. Ghantous

    So Pentax released a brand new 4-perf 35mm compact

    It looks cool, at least. But the VF is in the wrong position. It should be in the far corner. https://pentax.com.au/products/18926/pentax-17-hf-35mm-film-camera-silver---black
  13. Karim D. Ghantous

    In memoriam: John Bailey, ASC (1942-2023)

    The Big Chill was terrific. And Groundhog Day... very few people get to be involved in classic films like that.
  14. Karim D. Ghantous

    Important message from the future: Obsolescence is finally obsolete

    That's a cool channel. And I love his thumbnails. He's not wrong about old cameras - a lot of them, like the Epic, are still terrific options today in 2024. The Fuji X-Trans filter still has the same problems as the conventional Bayer filter: too many green pixels, not enough blue ones.
  15. Karim D. Ghantous

    Compensating for the Bayer filter green bias

    That begs the question! A camera is not the human eye - or the eye of any animal - and the human eye cannot be translated mechanically. It needs a brain and a mind to function.
  16. Karim D. Ghantous

    Compensating for the Bayer filter green bias

    It seems very faulty to me. Like, they weren't thinking straight. Kind of like f/- stops on SLR lenses, instead of T stops. Big mistake - although that doesn't matter now.
  17. Karim D. Ghantous

    Compensating for the Bayer filter green bias

    The Bayer filter, in principle, is a terrific idea. A hidden feature is that it acts as data compression... of a kind. The problem with almost all Bayer filters is that there is a green bias. That's a huge problem that I'm surprised still exists. In fact, even if all three primaries were...
  18. Karim D. Ghantous

    The big California earthquake - what are your plans?

    LOL You're taking it a year at a time I see!
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