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would love to hear opinions from peeps that shoot (and not rent out) on why they upgraded to W...
> some folks bought 100-200K of premium S35 glass. Master Primes etc. This is the glass they wanna shoot on. 8K VV with ur non-matched medium format lenses downsampled won't give the IQ that 5.5-6K w/ Master Primes give u. I'll bet on that. Except of course the difference in the 40mm image plane FOV and perspective.
Phil Holland said:And not to wiggle too much around it, there will be "advantages" of shooting 8K and down sampling for a 4K finish with some of the other more modern lenses.
Mike Nagel said:would love to hear opinions from peeps that shoot (and not rent out) on why they upgraded to W...
I'm a human who is not a rental house, though I do rent my gear to productions I shoot on. So I don't know if I fully qualify, but I do work on "all types" of productions really.
My bread and butter is shooting for studios and clients. That's my income and what allows me to continue on my path. I also sell stories and images, which goes hand in hand with my chosen shooting gear. Simply put there's a handful of features I like about Weapon that justify the upgrade.
The short list in no particular order and off the top of my noggin:
- Vastly Improved Black Shading
- Increased Processing Power and Bandwidth/effecting image quality on a positive level (need to test that)
- 1/2 stop more Dynamic Range or 1/2 stop cleaner overall image.
- It appears some new Color Science is on it's way (might effect Epic and Scarlet too)
- It looks like there are improvements to common OLPF and CMOS Artifacts (unclear if this can trickle down to Epic and Scarlet)
- Whatever "Consistent naming and internally accurate timecode" and I can "imagine" something interesting to do with this.
- 3D LUT Support
- ProRes Support
- New Top Fan and new Ventilation Design/Stability
- WiFi on board
- Smaller and Lighter Weight Camera Body
- Newer Modules/Modularity Concept (I dig the striped down camera, a good deal of shoots I do won't even need the BASE EXPANDER)
- New Cable Free bolted on LCD/EVF stuff. A nice and quick to rig shooting package with zero cables.
- New SSD Module Integration without the bloody LEMO Port near that Lens Mount.
- Newer location of the back focus adjustment. Small thing, but a nice thing that doesn't make me take apart my camera if something is "weird".
- Smart OLPFs. I shoot a lot with several OLPFs, this makes this easier and also removes a bit of user error as well.
- Usable Scratch Microphones (need to test, but without a front fan I think this will be a good thing)
- No Front Fan, actually good for really compact lens setups as you need some of that space down there sometimes.
Some of those things relate directly to image quality, some are just "more features". Some completely effect day to day use of the camera, like Black Shading improvements.
I also see the technology RED is deploying in Weapon and can think of a few things that can be added that I'm sure they are working on. There's lots of potential outside of what's been announced because it simply hasn't been developed or perhaps fully implemented yet.
Outside of that, I do want to upgrade to 8K as well. This VistaVision+ resolution on Weapon 8K Dragon is going to be huge (pardon the pun). Lot's of creative possibilities. And I've worked with 70mm 15-perf IMAX, 65mm 5-perf, VistaVision 8-perf, and some other oddities.
However, Weapon 8K Dragon represents a vastly superior, cost effective, and faster workflow than the film options for this larger format. Not to mention in an intensely smaller package.
Yep. The topic of premium S35 glass is "real". And it's exactly that. Designed for S35 coverage. Most Master Primes cover 6K. All cover 5K. And 5.5K is what I tend to shoot the most when I'm using S35 glass these days. Interestingly enough, there are focal lengths of the Master Primes that will cover beyond 6K even, but those are the longer focal lengths.
I have also acquired a matched set of medium format glass, though it took a while to figure that out and how to get there. Though not as fast as Master Primes I have lenses that have as high as a resolving power center frame, field, and outside of field which will be perfect for VistaVision+ shooting. Interestingly enough there's also a few types of Medium Format glass that don't exhibit image shift while focusing, which actually blew my mind.
Zeiss's Master Primes are tremendous and there's nothing to say about that. However, to me their more interesting recent designs fall in the Otus Primes (hybrid motion design) and the Compact Zooms (pure motion design) and these are meant for larger formats. And the Otus Primes are "better" in some ways compared to MPs projected and in practical shooting scenarios. Sadly only two of those exist today, but more are on the way. And one day they will be "housed" properly.
And not to wiggle too much around it, there will be "advantages" of shooting 8K and down sampling for a 4K finish with some of the other more modern lenses.
Honestly though, there's more glass on the way (and there's a good chunk available now as well). I know of at least 3 sets being made right this second that haven't been announced and there's going to be one "important" set in about 2 years.
Thank you for this...Not sure how accurate this is.. but here's a decent breakdown on building a basic.. "shootable" package of some sort. Probably biased, but its insight.
http://www.arriblog.com/main/2015/4...-between-the-alexa-mini-and-the-red-weapon-cf
Not sure how accurate this is.. but here's a decent breakdown on building a basic.. "shootable" package of some sort. Probably biased, but its insight.
http://www.arriblog.com/main/2015/4...-between-the-alexa-mini-and-the-red-weapon-cf
Thank you for this...
ARRIRAW 2.8K 16:9 2880x1620 max 30FPS (with SUP 2.0)
Btw dont forget Alexa mini comes with internal lens control (you dont need to buy 8000$ Arri UMC system)
Redusers will cry over 1080p HDI outputs on Alexa Mini.Recent trend on here is about how come 50K $ camera dont have 4K SDI/HDMI inputs bla bla.
Hmmm. A7s is VistaVision.![]()
So is the 5D. Kind of.
I think this makes a lot of sense. I also totally agree that the myriad of other improvements within Weapon are actually more important than the 8K resolution.That said, it will have to be a rental for us. For the kinds of shoots Amber and I do (we also direct most of the time) our prep and post times are just too long, so we shoot too few days, to amortize vs insurance + depreciation. Rental is the better financial option. But I actually like a return to the rental model. I can let someone else worry about maintenance and upgrades, and rent when I have a gig.