Dragon test

[scott pommier]

i shot a test out in azusa, a couple hours of shooting. the edit/grading was done very quickly. just wanted to get a feel for how conversion to black-and-white looked under contrasty conditions, and also wanted to test out PMG's 'TYTO' gimbal. i was curious to see if the gimbal would stabilize the camera (shooting from a van) sufficiently to allow stills to be pulled. the image below was shot at 1/48th of a second. compared to the gyros i've used as a still photographer, there's no comparison. the gimbal is much, much smoother.

the black-and-white conversion was done in the newest redcine-x pro, just a simple desaturation/levels adjustment.

spent a fraction more time with the still in photoshop (a program i'm more comfortable with) but this is more or less right out of the box. i hasten to add, the flares are all in-camera.

 

[scott pommier]

http://vimeo.com/92000307

 

[Bob Gundu]

Right on!

 

[Peter.G]

Nice!

Lenses?

 

[Zeb B]

Next time rent my 8R for those low shots ;-)

 

[scott pommier]

zeb, what's that?

 

[scott pommier]

oh, an ultra prime?

 

[Bob Gundu]

Perhaps he meant R8?

 

[Zeb B]

Naw Brah . . . the 8R was epic on the trailer for He-Goat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2v4F8hpn8

Actually if you can suffer through 240P you can see how the 8R does with low chase scene style shots here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RMmEnjwq8

 

[Ryan Wilmott]

Those always look great. I like to use ours for aerials. If you ever need a 2nd 8R I've got one available.

Naw Brah . . . the 8R was epic on the trailer for He-Goat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2v4F8hpn8

Actually if you can suffer through 240P you can see how the 8R does with low chase scene style shots here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RMmEnjwq8

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Arri has higher resolution Quicktimes on their website:
http://www.arri.com/camera/cine_lenses/prime_lenses/ultra_prime_8r.html

EDIT: Nevermind... those are also like 120p. Where did I see the 480p version...

 

[scott pommier]

Peter.G, just canon L zooms. 16-35mm 28-80 and 70-200. tried to keep things as quick and easy as possible, especially where the gimbal is concerned. spin-on variable ND and still lenses,

scott

 

[Christopher Barrett]

One thing I dig about Photoshop is you can do black and white conversions favoring specific color channels. That allows an effect similar to what I used to get shooting black and white film through colored filters like a #25 Red or a deep yellow. It would be awesome if we had a similar capability for B&W conversion in RC-X.... nudge nudge wink wink.

 

[Bob Gundu]

One thing I dig about Photoshop is you can do black and white conversions favoring specific color channels. That allows an effect similar to what I used to get shooting black and white film through colored filters like a #25 Red or a deep yellow. It would be awesome if we had a similar capability for B&W conversion in RC-X.... nudge nudge wink wink.

You sort of can. Turn saturation in the Post Effects to zero. Now adjust the individual colour curves, or any colour wheel for that matter.

 

[Christopher Barrett]

Oooh, I should do some test shooting through a #25 and then convert to B&W.... groovy ominous skies!

 

[Zeb B]

One thing I dig about Photoshop is you can do black and white conversions favoring specific color channels. That allows an effect similar to what I used to get shooting black and white film through colored filters like a #25 Red or a deep yellow. It would be awesome if we had a similar capability for B&W conversion in RC-X.... nudge nudge wink wink.

RCX . . . just copy LightRoom 5 controls and call it a day ;-)