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Panavision DXL-M

Peter Lyons Collister said:
What I would love to buy is the DXL viewfinder. It is awesome.... It would cost more than a Monstro body but damn is it sweet
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Well you might be able to buy an even better one within a year, David Chu and his team at INT where successful in making the very first 2,228 ppi AMOLED display on glass substrate.
 
The interesting point about this is that it brings in the Helium and Gemini sensors into the Panavision fold, as well.

Isn't LiColor2 designed specifically for Monstro and their custom OLPF design? I wonder if they're tuning it for each sensor/OLPF combo, or if it's more of a blanket color science that will let all the differences shine through.
 
Aaron Lochert said:
The interesting point about this is that it brings in the Helium and Gemini sensors into the Panavision fold, as well.

Isn't LiColor2 designed specifically for Monstro and their custom OLPF design? I wonder if they're tuning it for each sensor/OLPF combo, or if it's more of a blanket color science that will let all the differences shine through.
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I don't know if you've messed around with James Miller's LUT he created from the original DXL but that worked fairly well with IPP2 on Dragon/Helium.
So if LiColor2 for DXL-M is just a blanket conversion LUT, based on what James was able to do with the original, I'd assume it would work pretty well regardless of sensor/olpf.
 
Peter Lyons Collister said:
What I would love to buy is the DXL viewfinder. It is awesome.... It would cost more than a Monstro body but damn is it sweet
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I talked to a Panavision Rep yesterday at the show, and he told me that just the material costs of the optical block of their EVF is more expensive then the entirety of RED's DSMC2 EVF. So even though he mentioned that they were actually looking into selling these new products, I wouldn't count on it being anywhere close to affordable. Though still worth it!
 
Talked to a Panavision rep at cinegear yesterday it sounded like, from what he said there would be LIcolor2 luts that we could download and use in post or on an external monitor for us mere mortals that can't afford a panavised dxlm to get Light Iron color science, but my searching has failed to turn these up (may not be out yet). Did just find that original DXL lut and it is NICE +1 James Miller, can't wait to find the new luts. Help a brother out if you come across them.
 
Interesting. I tried DXL2 LUTs with my Monstro, didn't seem to work out so well (overly saturated, heavy green tint, too contrasty) but maybe i did it wrong? I chalked it up to part of the equation being the custom OLPF.
 
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No one happens to have an arri log c to Licolor2 preset? Wish phils looks worked on arris too!
 
Bobby Farokhzad said:
I saw the Blackmagic EVF and I played with it during the show, to my eye the Panavision viewfinder was far superior.
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It better be, can you say something about the benefits of the Pana EVF vs. the Blackmagic EVF (since you have experienced them both).?
 
The Pana EVF looked sharper, had much better contrast, and honestly felt like an optical viewfinder... that is to say I did not feel any strain on my eye. There were other things which don't come to my mind right now but I do remember I was blown away by it. While we're talking about all this I just wanted to give my many thanks to Micheael himself for giving me a thorough rundown of the amazing camera.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUo9VHFjTP/
 
COG seems too high on that HH rig and iSnitch built-in-battery-glass-thingy as controller immediately disqualifies it for a significant chunk of production jobs.

Electronic ND = great
 
JD Butler said:
For the love of god please make this buyable / affordable
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The good folks at Panavision told me that they are considering selling these accessories. They havent decided yet. They told me that we should be bombarding social media asking for it, tagging them, so they'll see that there is demand for their bits out there.
 
Join me on facebook in begging Michael cioni and others at the firm! Together we must fight for this color science! I believe in a future where even the poorest SOB shooting on tokinas like me has this color science! Fight for licolor2 for every red lol
 
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