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Marion Laney
August 18, 2009 at 1:32 am in reply to: HPX300 Matrix, Gamma, Knee engineering menu?

Anyone? There must be some experts out there who know this camera better than I do.
How do I get into the engineering menues? I tried the usual options:
Hold dowm menu while cycling power.
Hold down menu for 10 seconds.

Any other suggestions.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 16, 2009 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Shooting LED billboard

I second the LowCon filter. It should help but under exposing will probably be the way to go in any case.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 16, 2009 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Shooting LED billboard

Can you link to a video still of what you see?

Also, if you can do a locked off camera position, shoot the screen with several exposures (bracketing) and see if the editor can help with combining the best of the various combination’s.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 16, 2009 at 9:54 pm in reply to: HPX300 in AR config w/Fugi wideangle 3.5

Yes, for what is on the market it is a nice surprise. We are getting some great atmospheric shots and great composites in Intra mode.

Looking forward to a 1/3″ lens conversion to cine/Nikon/Canon.

Thanks for the menu tip.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 14, 2009 at 4:49 pm in reply to: Playing back through HD-SDI

Dusty,
Great to see your name. Hope all is well with you!

Marion (Former SCETV veteran like you)

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm in reply to: HPX300 in AR config w/Fugi wideangle 3.5

Hi Greg,
This is the Fugi 3.5 w/a and not the stock lens.

As you can see we remove the ENG zoom control and add 3 motors controlled by a wireless Preston FL+Z3. To minimize lens torque we add some Zacuto lens support to the front of the lens. Without it these motors (designed to work with heavier torqued film lens will noticibly move the lens during a shot.

So far, happy with this lens. I ususally use Canon but they did not have one ready to test for our W/A close focus requirments.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 13, 2009 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Playing back through HD-SDI

Oh, the JVC has a good rebate in place now as well.

For an adapter to convert from HD-SDI to HDMI the AJA will do the conversion. From a price point I would suggest a monitor that works for you VS the cost of the monitor & adapter.

I am sure others will have more suggestions

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
August 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Playing back through HD-SDI

Hi guys,
Using the HPX300 on Good Eats right now.

From a budget consideration check out the JVC V17L2DU (also has a 25″ version) HD-SDI in/out, video I/O, ac/dc, 4/3 safety, DVI (using HDMI to DVI adapter when needed). Color matches to my 17″ Panasonic HD CRT quite well.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
February 4, 2008 at 11:37 pm in reply to: New Member needing info on EX1

I believe you are asking if you can more precisely manually control the focus on the EX-1. If that is your question, the the answer as an owner of both HVX and EX-1 is the manual focus is a much more serious/pro system on the EX-1. You can even have real calibrated marks.

If you put your hands on a EX-1 camera just grip the focus ring and pull toward the body and the click will put you in manual focus with trues close and infinity stops. In the forward position the ring reverts back to a non-calibrated configuration. I still have issues with the Avid workflow not being worked out but the camera I still like.

Good luck.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.
Marion Laney
January 24, 2008 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Avid and EX1….Avid Fails again ?????

I had understood that Quicktime/TC do not play well in the Avid. Also, seems all the work arounds so far require shooting 1080i 59.97 only. No off speed work allowed or even 30p.

All this still comes down to Avid and Sony not working together for the benefit of their clients.

Unfortunately, with a hundred+ hours of footage that will have TC on an audio track I cannot hope these work arounds will really work with this much footage. Deadlines/airdates do not move in my world because of a buggy workflow.

Thanks again for the thoughts as I am sure others will benifit in the short term by this brainstorming. The only solution my producer will be comfortable with is delivery of what we thought we were buying.

Marion Laney
Director-DP-sometimes Editor
ideaWercs, inc.
Atlanta, Ga. USA
Producing in HD&35mm&SD
Food Network series “Good Eats” and others.

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