Took my new Epic for a walk in the forest

[Shawn Seifert]

http://vimeo.com/31244988

Finally had a chance to take my new Epic-X out for some fun. Here are the results of about 45 mins of shooting. All handheld and pulling focus on the barrel. Very rough and unplanned. Just having some fun.

Shot on a set of Zeiss Superspeeds. Almost everything was shot wide open (T1.3), as it was a very dark overcast day.
Most shots at 96fps (5k) or 300fps (2k).

Some of the overcranked shots have some staggering...that isn't the camera. Just me poorly attempting to do some re-timing in FCP. Without the re-timing everything is buttery smooth.

Great Camera.

 

[Luc Bouvrette]

That's lovely. The shots AND that area of Canada (here we're pretty frozen up and ready for our first snow ).

 

[Peter Strietmann]

Dude,

Beautiful! You are fortunate to live in such an exquisite place.

 

[Scott Miller]

Beautiful!!! What a nice backyard!!

And the moment where you panned down the waterfall and had the speed of your pan sync'd perfect with the falling water.... emotionally stunning.... Funny how falling water can bring up such a strong emotional response!!

 

[Jason Zeis]

That was one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen. Along with Coldplay, it is EPIC.

 

[A. Clint Litton]

Fantastic work, Shawn...

Beyond the image quality and excellent shooting, this really made me want to get out of New York and relocate to BC. Looks pretty awesome up there.

 

[Ace]

Beautiful.

I'm still in complete awe of the fact that anyone can trek out and shoot images like this single handed, in the forest...

 

[Shawn Seifert]

Thank you all for the positive comments.

Funnily enough...I grew up not 5 minutes from the park we shot this video in. I had no idea it was there until about a year ago. Sometimes it's too easy to miss the amazing things in your own backyard.

 

[Philipp Straehl]

Beautiful.

I'm still in complete awe of the fact that anyone can trek out and shoot images like this single handed, in the forest...

the same with me. It is what I wanted since I got my first mini-DV. And never really achieved with video.

In that context I have a beginner's question. If you had a camera with a smaller, but same quality sensor and same lens speed. Would you get a deeper focus? I'm thinking that a 2/3" Scarlet with an appropriate lens could be very good for such forest situations.


Edit: what I actually wanted to say, very beautiful images. I also enjoyed that waterfall camera move, it looks good. Such images are probably exactly what I would (and will) shoot when I get hands on a lightweight digital cinema camera. Thank you for showing what is possible. Even with high frame rates.

 

[Duane Wik]

Amazing! love the greens!

 

[Shawn Seifert]

Hey Philipp,

I'll see if I can answer your question for you. It wasn't all that long ago I had similar questions myself. If my response doesn't make sense or is incorrect, I'm sure someone else will jump in with an answer.

If you took a 2/3" camera (say scarlet) and put the exact same lenses on it as I shot my stuff on (Say a 50mm Ziess Super Speed at T1.3), you would have the same depth of field, but a completely different field of view. However, the depth of field would be identical between the Scalret and the epic. You would effectively be zooming into the very middle of the image.
If you wanted to shoot the same shot as an Epic, (ie the same field of view) you would need to use a wider lenses. However, your depth of field would be less shallow, because you used a wider lense. That being said, I've seen many films shot on 2/3" chips or 16mm film which have filmic levels of depth of field.

I hope that makes sense. I've always had trouble trying to condense this concept into a short paragraph. There are much better answers to this same question floating around Reduser.

 

[Philipp Straehl]

thank you very much for your explanation, Shawn. It makes sense, although I see no other way than practical use in the field until I finally will get it. I really want to learn the art of photography.