Recent content by TheKraut

the easiest way to make money out of a movie, is not exactly the kind of movimaking you would prefer, but however. this is the 100% guaranteed way to make mony out of a movie. you fly to china, find some super cheap plastic crap, buy a few boxes of this trash, then you come back and shoot a 30...

the effect you need to adjust the frame size is called corner pin, you maybe want to finesse it with a mask

@stef using a medium format lens can make a lot of sense in your case, coz you are using it for still images, so moire is not such a big issue for you, while is is a very big deal for video. it is very likely that in your setup the high frequency resolution (no idea what the correct english...

i know, physics sometimes hurt, i am very sorry.

yes maybe "a total desaster" sounds a little dramatic, true. thing is that when you pay for 4k but you get only 2k or less resolution out of it coz of the lens, well how can we call it? it wouldn't call it nice ;-) the other thing is, still images have totally different problems from video...

mate, you speek english natively and not me, so you should understand the difference between picture quality and lens quality. i am talking about picture quality here ;-) the quality of your lens will never change until you drop it. thats true. but the picture quality it creates will change...

all these answers really sound good, unfortunately they are wrong. using a full frame lens on a smaller sensor will decrease picture quality. the reason is very simple. it is the crop factor. say you have a 50mm ff lens and you are using it on a mft. the crop factor is around 2, that means...

with photoshop and a good printer

@stef you are totally right, the one i've posted was totally overpriced, it was just an example to show the model. the lunasix is the best lightmeter i know, i have mine for nearly 30 years now and it is still working perfectly. some people sell them for as little as 10 bucks, but in many cases...

i really like it and i wish my first shorts were that good. there are two things i would maybe think about next time. the first is a more general thing about the story, for me it is too much radio. that sounds really bad, but i guess it is just a matter of editing. leave some room for your...

thats simple to solve. you degrain your plate, then pull a difference between the degrained and the original. then you do your comp on the degrained plate, and at the end you add the difference on top. so you will keep all the original grain and detail abd you dont need to worry about the grain...

here, you might consider this one. works perfectly and under any condition. the little additional part in the front is the spot meter, you can remove it if you like. it is super cheap and it will work for your whole life...

directing has nothing to do with equipment, and usually the less you control as a director the more you get. all you need as a director is your brain. if you want to learn directing, take a few friends and shoot a simple scene from a well known movie. i.e. the "spider scene" from good fellas...

your question sounds kind of strange to me "How far can you go without attending film school?" what does it mean. when your target is to win an oscar then filmschool might be not your best option. but when i ask your question in just a little different way "what does it take to win an oscar?"...

what do you think yourself? do you think it is kind of ok to get away with it or do you think it is awesome? i see that you understand the basic principle of compositing, but it does not feel real, i think you could spend at least 1 or 2 days working on the beam and it would increase the...