Nick Gardner
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First of all I said Vector scope. I own an HD wave form monitor. My point about you not being in the Union, was that all most all big budget jobs are Union, so you can’t really claim to be working at the top of the heap and talk down about “smaller markets”. My issue was not with your information, but rather your attitude, about which Ron said, “I would agree with Nick Gardner that this kind of “advice” is nothing more than snide, condescending soap-boxing that does no one any good.”
I think it is very sad that a potential resource of knowledge and experiance has been reduced to this type of petty posturing.
Nick Gardner
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My doctor in fact called me shortly after he got off the phone with you, phoned in a prescription for Jamesons, and told me to call it a day. I didn’t mean to suggest that the moderators were not doing thier jobs. I meant to let you know, that I knew I was being over the top, and was willing to accept the out come of that action.
So anyway, point taken, Merry Chrismas, and my apologies to the forum for being a grinch.
Nick Gardner
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Sorry, but you are just acting like a prick Tony. The guy made it clear on his first post that he didn’t need this kind of response. As far as belittling the guy, I wouldn’t say I work in a small market, Baltimore. I Work on Tv shows feature films, and plenty of high end Hd stuff and I have never even seen a HD Vectorscope. And no, no one will pay for it. I also looked you up in the 600 union directory, and guess what? You’re not in there. So get off your high horse and shut your mouth if you don’t have anything useful to say.Merry christmas.
Nick “Calls It as he sees it Gardner”
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To The moderators – If you must ban me, go ahead. If you guys can’t keep schmucks like Tony from acting like 1st graders, I don’t want to be here. -
Hi,
Shooting with the Varicam at 24 fps in Europe, set the shutter to degrees, and go to the 172.8 degree setting. This is exactly what you do when shooting film. Although the 1/100 of a second shutter will work, it eats up a whole stop of light.
Cheers,
Nick Gardner
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You should be able to order any lens without the extender. You are correct, i does lengthen and move the center of gravity forward, and it does effect image quality when engadged. Personaly, I find them very newsy and feel they have no place on a cine style camera. Then again, I think it slightly insane to spend $20K on a lens and then hold the camera by it (the servo handgrip on eng lenses).
Nick “why can’t I have a Ziess super speed” Gardner
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Hi,
I have had the same thoughts for some time now. When using film lenses, some are better than others even of the same type from the same company, so I reasoned that some 2/3″ lenses are better than others. I mentioned this to the owner of my local rental house and he agreed that when projected some of his SD lenses looked better than the HD lenses. I recently did a test between a fuji HD zoom, a fuji SD zoom (a couple of years old, internal focus etc), and a fuji zoom I bought on ebay for $80 for the purposes of this test. None of these lenes have doublers by the way, I always order my lenes without them.
I shot a resolution chart at the same stop (2.8) on all three lenses. Then I took the tape upstairs and cut them together back to back and watched them on a Sony 36″ HD CRT, next to a JVC 17″ HD CRT as well.
Hands down the sharpest lens was the external focus $80 20 year old ebay lens – seriously. Of course, that lens breathes like crazy, the color temp was a little (only a very little) bluer than the others, and it didn’t handle flares as well as the newer lenses.
The other two lenes performed almost identically with the HD zoom being a tiny bit sharper, and the SD lens showing LESS chromatic deviations.
I should also note that I use a Cannon 2.8 300mm with excelent results, and Century sells this lens for HD use. I also know people who use a nikon adapter with long lenes on thier varicams. I did a National Geographic show where myself and another camerman both shot a bunch of long lens stuff. He used long Nikons, I used my Cannon 300. When I saw the shots cut together in the show I could not tell the difference.
I don’t see any reason not to use whatever lens has a look that you like. What you see is what you get and if you don’t like the look of a certain lens, dont use it.
Now I’m sure that all of the techno heads are going to flame me and tell me all about how the chips are at diferent focal planes and that they even moved the red chip spec for HD etc, etc, etc. Yeah I know all that. I also know that 1/10000 of an inch is a BS tolerance in the real world. Yes, in laboritory conditions with everything set up to spec, these tolerances yield the most perfect pictures. If it’s a hot day or the lens mount is not surgically clean, then it’s just pretty damn close.
And anyway, all that goes out the window when you throw up a 1/4 promist. Use lenses that look good. I’m hanging on to the ebay lens.
Just my 2 cents,
Nick Gardner
Local 600
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Is it just me or do these rates sound awfully low ? I rent my Varicam at 1200 per day for the standard 1 lens package. Crew are obviously additional, as are lights and aks such as downcoverters,videotransmitters, client monitors, aditional lenses etc. Even NGT who are the cheapest people in the industry pay 1250 for a Varicam package. I intend to charge maybe 1000 per day for the 900 untill someone tells me they can get one cheaper somewhere else. Lets stick together on the East coast at least and not drop the price too much : )
Nick Gardner
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Hi there,
Good news 🙂 thanks very much for the info.
Cheers,
Nick
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Hi there,
I think you are confused. The FRC is ONLY for off speed footage. If you are shooting 24 and working in a 24fps time line then you don’t do anything. When digitizing you have the option not to capture duplicate frames, but that has nothing to do with the FRC. As far as always shooting interlaced….no.
Cheers,
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While as far as I know no one accepts master air tapes in DVCPRO-HD format (they want Hdcam or D5), no one cares, or probly even knows, what the master that was bumped up to the deliverable format was. If there were Russian HD that had to be hand cranked thru the deck, as long as it met the requirements of resolution, and was delivered on Hdcam or D5 I think that would be fine. That being said, most clients specify in thier contract that either an f-900 or Varicam be used for acquisition.
Nick Gardner
DP, Varicam owner