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Thank you Robert for your Komodo and Ursa insight. Always good to hear from those using these cameras in a
real world scenario.
Great frame grabs. Keep us posted on more insights.
Although this forum may be silent- all are watching ,

Best- MH
 
Mauricio Handler said:
Thank you Robert for your Komodo and Ursa insight. Always good to hear from those using these cameras in a
real world scenario.
Great frame grabs. Keep us posted on more insights.
Although this forum may be silent- all are watching ,

Best- MH
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Thanks for this Mauricio. Happy to help where I can - have got a lot of help from others on this website over the years.
 
Here's the final episode of my Mabuasehube behind-the-scenes. In this episode, we move to Polentswa, in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, near the border between Botswana and South Africa. We film a pair of mating lions, drink some coffee, and follow a cheetah mother and her cubs on the hunt. I also do a walkaround of my 4x4 filming vehicle for those of you who are interested.

 
Shot this last summer on Monstro - finally got a YouTube compression that actually matches the grade and look I see in the edit suite.
 
Rob - this time I uploaded a ProRes422HQ version and let YT compress - took some time both for the upload and the compression. Have tried lots of variations on compressing in-house h264/265 and also ProResLT - that never quite got the results.
 
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Just got back from a short family holiday to the Okavango Delta. It was not a filming trip, but I took my Komodo to grab some shots. Really great to be able to carry a Komodo, monitor, batteries, chargers, a few lenses, and a laptop in a couple of carry-on bags. So far I am very happy with this camera for wildlife work - the size, battery life and versatility easily make up for the lack of high frame rates for me.

Here are some sample shots of a heronry, filmed from a boat. Shot on my Canon 200-400. 6K 17:9 MQ. No colour correction, just slapped on a curve in Redcine then did a rough edit in fcpx:

 
Hi All, I've just uploaded the first episode of our new wildlife filmmaking behind-the-scenes YouTube series. There will be 8 episodes in total, uploaded weekly, so subscribe if this is your kind of thing.

In this series, my brother-in-law Andy and I drive to Botswana from South Africa and visit Khwai Community Area, Moremi Game Reserve, and Nxai Pan National Park. It was filmed in late August this year.

On this trip I was shooting primarily on an Ursa Mini Pro 12K and a Red Komodo 6K camera. The behind-the-scenes shots are mostly on a GoPro Hero 9 in 5K. I shot roughly 15TB of footage over 2 weeks. For some idiotic reason I decided to export and upload everything to YouTube in 8K, so if you have an 8K monitor or TV, I hope you appreciate my effort - I have personally never even seen an 8K display :)

I'm happy to answer any questions about our trip, or wildlife filming in general. I've tried to find a balance between overlanding/camping information, wildlife filming behind-the-scenes, just talking crap, and pretty wildlife shots. Please take a look and let me know what you think.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/movingpicturesafrica
Episode 1 - Overland to Khwai: https://youtu.be/lXOjNkA7Qko

Rob


 
Nice, the covid test hurt me haha. Do you or are you able to use af at all with the canon lenses?
 
Here's episode 2 where we camp in Moremi Game Reserve and naughty baboons destroy our tent. We also go on a game drive to film wildlife and find a python, then follow a lioness on the hunt. I was shooting on an Ursa 12K in this episode, but maybe some of you will still find it interesting.

link: https://youtu.be/BVPLsbkQ69I

 
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