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I guess I didn't really answer your question... I think my favorite wide angle lens would be the EFS 17-55 IS. It has L-quality glass, wide aperture, stabilization, and is reasonably well-built. It has some issue being adapted for video, as gears added to the focus ring make it more difficult...

Rokinon is also marketed as Samyang (the actual brand) and Bower. They're good and solid, and most of them are decent quality, although I have reservations with a couple of them. From memory, the 35 and 85 looked decent. You can buy a nice Zeiss and get a CP.2-like housing for it made in china...

If you're basing it only on what's available, sure, that's reasonable. I take the "been looking for a while" to mean he won't mind waiting one month for the gh4 to come to market, if that's what he wants. I missed seeing what lenses he had, and will go reread. But if you'd like me to itemize...

The gh4 shoots qt in a "mov" container, mp4, and avchd from what I've read, and it does have an excellent bitrate. While you may not opt to use an external recorder, it's still upgradeable to use one and record 422 10-bit color. And the footage I've seen looks like the interface is also...

The misinformation and wrong assumptions in this thread is staggering. Gels are used to help match or contrast with other light sources, not to change the color of the skin (assuming you want accurate skin reproduction). White balance is for changing skin tones, not gels. My advice to most...

I do mostly still photography, but if I can justify this (monetarily) for movies, I'll pull the trigger.

Dang, wish I saw this in time.

http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=52420

Odd... those springs lose power pretty fast don't they? I can't imagine this can maintain a constant velocity over much distance. Can it actually go more than a foot or so without losing a lot of velocity?

You have a 25 foot cord that's an inch thick?! Is it a garden hose? Is your boom op the Hulk? :) The noise should depend on the nearby signals. Unbalanced wires act as antennas for random signals, especially if they're near something like a power cord. If it's free of strong RF signals near the...

Do converters make a balanced connection or is it still unbalanced? I read up on this a while back and I know it's possible, but not sure if it happens in reality. If balanced, you could toss on this $10 converter at the source, and run as far as you need with xlr...

He said he was posting anon, but then posted under what appears to be a real name. If it were cut and paste from someone else, it would be a non-anonymous repost and would make sense that it was not a pseudonym. A search revealed it was also posted to another forum under the username johnp...

Is John par a pseudonym? Or is that a cut/paste of something else?

Copyright protects the words on the script. It protects lines of dialogue to an extent. Obviously, you can't copyright two people saying hello to each other, but you get the idea. Copyright does protect the idea and characters to an extent. If you create a universe for your film that the script...

You might be able to build a set for reasonably cheap that could fit in a single garage if you can somehow get a few rows of seats. You could build an entire set of half an airplane in the space of a car, with well-lit greenscreen outside the windows. I haven't looked into cost of old seats...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/929347-REG/tascam_dr_60d_4_ch_track_linear_pcm.html Comes with pluraleyes for $200. I saw this on a photography site, and you can buy through their link to send them a couple bucks by using this affiliate link. I have no relation to the site...

Write within your means. Or ask a local graphic arts school, maybe there's a student there willing to give it a stab. The software is rarely cheap, and the art required could be ridiculous.

Yeah, there are not a ton of panel makers but the other electronics make a big difference. I think a good, easy suggestion is to get a panel that has at least a 95% gamut reproduction for sRGB or adobe rgb. I suggest this will result in a good monitor not because that's the only thing that...

No you don't understand. He just wants a simple answer without telling you any relevant information. Can't you guys read? He said he was a newbie so stop with all the questions! :-) :-)

IPS displays are good... And at one point were the best ones out there. But this is like saying "make sure you get a Pentium". Tech changes. What you want is something that has good saturation, very good gamut representation, good viewing angle, and good contrast. You can calibrate almost any...