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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 :)

1st 24 hours with an Epic

Thanks Kobe and Brice!

I am not really planning to repeat that effort. What I am planning is to learn to know the Epic to a reasonable level before we start shooting big productions on it. The Alexa comparison will be more of a sidenote. But these tests will roll untill september and the Epic is getting new firmware quite frequently, so there's really no point in doing such a writeup on these two cameras at this stage... if ever...

There are intersting things to compare, though. So I'l concentrate on those.

When I wrote the Alexa and R1 MX thing, it had a very specific purpose for those I wrote it for, which was basically:
Find out if we should continue doing our series on RED or not, despite the Epic being... if not "late" at least not in our hands when we had hoped to use it.

I would of course continue working on RED myself, but that was not a too obvious choice for my employers until we had tested the cameras, images and workflows.

AND both of those cameras were officially "done" (but still improving).

NOW the focus is more like: Look at all the fun stuff we can do with this totally groundbreaking toy.

Alexa is really not a part of the equations for most of my employers...

Different situation.
Different writeup... :-)

And I get to shoot a lot. Me likes!

Cheers!

G
 
Runner was shot at 120fps, and slowed down to 25fps, which means x4.8 slower.
 
Eric Z said:
Runner was shot at 120fps, and slowed down to 25fps, which means x4.8 slower.
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I don't believe that. I bet the frame rate was 20p maximum... you slow and lazy Norwegian DP's. Why don't you just hand that camera over to us? :thumbup1:
 
Still testing...

But a bit differently now.

Doing 5 ultrashort concept movies over 5 shooting days.
We're halfway... :-)

Some fun from todays shoot...

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This camera does not cease to amaze me...

:-)

Cheers!

G
 
Whole piece was shot in slo-mo... 50/100 frames.
No issues whatsoever.

Masterprimes. No Matte.

5 Technical POV for the productions...

We shot a greenscreenpiece on Sunday.
Outdoor natural light monday
Studio yesterday
PowerPlant tomorrow
Car saturday.

Fun

BVut the crew is a bit small...
Me and the girl...

:-)
 
I really like the way that camera handle the hilights. And by the way the beard suite you well too. :)
Thanks for sharing.
Regards
 
THX Brice!

That is not me, though, even though I can see the similarity from an image...

I focused on the photography... :-)

More to come, though!

Cheers!

G
 
Gunleik Groven said:
THX Brice!

That is not me, though, even though I can see the similarity from an image...

I focused on the photography... :-)
Cheers!
G
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Oops sorry for the confusion, I was wondering how can he gets a beard like this in such a short period, ha ha ha.
Are those picts come straight from RCX? Nice photography.
Regards
 
TY Brice!

Was a real pleasure meeting you.
I'd love to come back to work with you one day!!!
So much fun just talking.

Yup!

Those images are straight out of RCX.
Just after wrap...

Shot for 10 hours and just had to look through.
Think it's gonna be a fun short...

tomorrow we are shooting in a powerplant! :-)
 
Gunliek,

Im just catching this thread for the first time.

i dont know how i've missed it. Brice mentioned it so I had to check in.

Thanks for posting so many dynamic images. I'll go through later today and download some of the motion.

I really love the way the highlights are being handled here. Smooth. What are the sources for those sharp beams you are creating?

That lens might be a 50mm maybe a ziess.

David
 
Could it be that you've received the Canon mount, and you've installed the 85mm f/1.4 L glass on the EPIC?
 
Here's one more from same shoot...

Same basic lightning, which is:

2x arri 650 tungsten fresnell, unfiltered just with full focus. HARD light.
Same optics as the former image...

On the fishing-net I used 8x 3200 w softlights + 3 of the fresnells to make the flares...

And: Nope, it's not still-glass...

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Here is the 1080 of that image



The Model is Celestic.
Go work with her, she's a gem! :-)
 
The white balance is set to 3200K? or you warmed it up a little bit?

This makes me happy I still have soft tungsten sources.

I like tungsten. It brings a slightly softer quality to digital images because it's below the 5000K native sensor. Images are crisper with daylight. This feels very filmic, right down to the goosebumps.

RPP 85mm@f4?


David
 
I like Tungsten + RED a lot. Even with the original R1 M...

WB is set at 4000 in post I think... Taste, thing...

And it's not RPP 85, even though I think that is a good and fun guess...
Have a look at the flare in the first shot...
 
BTW... I - alongside Jarred and a couple of others :-)...

Feel like the Epic is a fully useable tool for many stills...

LOL
 
Starting to this it's a master prime because the images are so corner to corner.

3800K was as sweet spot for tungsten for me on the M sensor. right at 32K was always a bit too blue for my taste.

David
 
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