Comments on: Panavision Primo Primes: Cinema Quality Imagery

By: Merna Gattuso

Merna Gattuso — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:12:57 +0000

Buenos días!. Interesante el contenido, agregaré tu blog a mi lector de noticias. Hasta luego!

By: Perder Peso Rapidamente

Perder Peso Rapidamente — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:04:46 +0000

No sé bien cómo llegué a tu blog. Excelente. Suerte!

By: Photographyks

Photographyks — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:58:22 +0000

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By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:07:29 +0000

Mohan Streamyx, thank you and I will continue to blaze the trail with all of your help.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:06:48 +0000

Ross, 4.0/5.6 is for action depth of field, people moving, running, etc. If you have talking heads or little movement you can use the shallow depth of field to your advantage. I was just shooting a short for NAB and Canon and I went down to 1.4 on the 50mm and the 85mm several times in controlled set-ups. The 5D and its sensor enables you to do anything you want. The 7D is a very good 2nd place. Your ISO range only wants to fall into 160,320,640,1250 and 1600 ISO, nothing in between. Check out my newsletter on ISO settings and noise. Sign up on the inside track on the blog or the main website and you get insider trading info. that is not given out on the blog.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:14:15 +0000

Toby Oliver, sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you, I have been slammed with work. The 5D is the best quality, then the 7D and then the 1D. The image quality on the 7D is not bad but I prefer the 5D as my go to camera for everything. The pixel size is larger than the 7D so the light gathering quality is far superior. It seems much more filmic in its contrast range. The Panavision mounts mount directly to the camera without any change to the camera at all. The lens mount snaps off just like a Canon prime lens, no cutting up the interior of your camera, no removing the mirror.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:08:18 +0000

Mohan Streamyx, thank you, and I will.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:50:12 +0000

The larger sensor has greater dynamic range and a lower apparent noise floor, but you need to be able to light to around 4/5.6 if you want a sensible DOF. One thing I am not sure of is how that noise floor compares to the 7D when you up the ISO/gain on the 5D. ie. If you have a 7D at f2 and ISO100 and a 5D at f4 and ISO400.

Anyone any thoughts?

Ross

By: Mohan Streamyx

Mohan Streamyx — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:55:39 +0000

Continue up the excellent work!

By: Toby Oliver ACS

Toby Oliver ACS — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:06:02 +0000

hi Shane, thanks for the great blog, such a terrific resource. I am looking at shooting a feature length movie in a few months this time possibly on a 7D with a PL mount conversion with my own Cooke S4’s. The idea noted on the other post of mating it with a NanoFlash recorder looks really interesting – have you tried that yet?
I heard you say (on the Redcenter podcast) that you use the 5D as much as possible and only the 7D when you need to use wider Primos or higher frame rates – is it because the image quality/look of the 7D is not as good? I realise it has shallower depth of field due to the larger format sensor but is there other issues?
Also did you get your cameras permanently converted to Panavision mount for the primos – or were the Primos adapted?
Many thanks for any advice
cheers
Toby Oliver