View Profile: Frank Glencairn - BMCuser.com - The Online Community for BlackMagic Camera Users

10-09-2018, 12:05 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Ronin-S Test w BMPC4K in Footage / Frames

A simple offset plate does the trick, no biggie. For the RoninS (and probably any other one hand gimbal) on such terrain, you need one of those...

8 replies | 525 view(s)

10-07-2018, 04:20 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Why the obsession with highlight detail? in Cinematography

Actually it's more a stylistic thing than a technical one. Nothing wrong with blowing out car lights, or windows as a artistic choice, or some...

9 replies | 574 view(s)

09-28-2018, 07:00 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Media card test - revealing battery life in General Discussion

I don't think there is a huge difference. Just writing the data, that is computed anyway to the media, doesn't add much power draw, compared to an...

12 replies | 1376 view(s)

09-28-2018, 03:43 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Q0 is actually more at about the same level as Prores4444 (plus the benefits of raw), but no chance to see the differences at 100%. Just for...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-28-2018, 02:01 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread My BMPCC4K cage/rod support shopping list in General Discussion

Smallrig just came out with a nice affordable cage https://www.smallrig.com/smallrig-cage-for-blackmagic-design-pocket-cinema-camera-4k-2203.html

58 replies | 4260 view(s)

09-27-2018, 02:56 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Pixel peeper test - straight out of the camera, no correction - 800% crop As I said before, some image information loss as expected at that level...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-27-2018, 12:28 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Blackmagic raw! in General Discussion

I usually bring six 128GB CF cards to a shoot, and normally they are more than enough for a whole day, so no need for on set downloading.

303 replies | 36609 view(s)

09-26-2018, 01:07 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Yeah, but as I said before, why make the small undebayered black&white image from the sensor, bigger in camera first, by debayering it, and than...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-24-2018, 10:30 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Blackmagic raw! in General Discussion

You don't have to offload them on set, just drop a new one in every hour or so

303 replies | 36609 view(s)

09-24-2018, 09:29 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Blackmagic raw! in General Discussion

Now that would make me really nervous - when something goes wrong, you loose a whole day of shooting, for "saving" 20 seconds of card swapping.

303 replies | 36609 view(s)

09-24-2018, 09:21 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Funny that nobody cares about that, when it comes to RedRaw :cool:

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-24-2018, 04:47 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

...and you need to zoom in 800% to see this difference :rolleyes: I mean, that you loose a certain amount of image detail, with extreme...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-22-2018, 03:30 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Bwahahaha :D

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-22-2018, 01:46 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Well to me, one has less noise and better color separation :-)

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-21-2018, 12:57 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Testing BMPCC with Tokina 28-70 f2.8 + Black Pro-Mist 1/4 (Ballet Girl) in Footage / Frames

It really has this 16mm Kodak look to it - nice My original Pocket will still have a bright future, for some special projects.

26 replies | 1468 view(s)

09-21-2018, 09:30 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Pocket 4K - low priced cinema lens kit in General Discussion

This here is maybe worth a try: https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/09/21/venus-optics-is-showing-off-sort-of-12-new-lenses-at-photokina/

51 replies | 5310 view(s)

09-21-2018, 08:50 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

On the upside: you save money, since you don't need a OLPF anymore, all the Moire is gone, and you end up with a more cinematic, and less digital...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-21-2018, 02:40 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread New P4K Footage: "A night in the city" Available Light in LA in Footage / Frames

Somebody needs to bring vapour lights back to LA - those LEDs doesn't look LA-ish at all :-)

4 replies | 630 view(s)

09-21-2018, 02:29 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Oops! BRAW isn’t Raw – It’s a Y’CbCr codec in General Discussion

Having shot and worked with BRAW since quite a while now, it highly doubt that it is Y’CbCr. Wouldn't make any sense also. One of the big...

117 replies | 15169 view(s)

09-18-2018, 02:59 AM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Short Film "Atonement" shot with BMCC and used Frank's Instant Cinema Lut in Footage / Frames

Looks awesome, great work!

9 replies | 829 view(s)

09-17-2018, 03:49 PM

Frank Glencairn replied to a thread Blackmagic raw! in General Discussion

Forget it, I was trying to break it for quite a while now - no dice. It's really awesome even at 12:1. I had a hard time to see any difference,...

303 replies | 36609 view(s)

Frank Glencairn
Senior Member

Mini Statistics

1 Groups

BlackMagic Hour

Join Groups 0 Permission Groups

Basic Information

About Frank Glencairn

Signature

Statistics

Total Posts

General Information

Frank Glencairn Senior Member

Mini Statistics

1 Groups

BlackMagic Hour

Join Groups 0 Permission Groups

Basic Information

About Frank Glencairn

Signature

Statistics

Total Posts

General Information

Frank Glencairn
Senior Member