Why IKONOΣKOP

It’s been almost 2 years since the DSLR movement arose, large sensors, shallow depth of field, high ISO’s and many more but still, a photo camera.

I was one of the first filmmakers here in Greece that adapted the new trend. I sold

my Aaton camera and bought a Canon 5Dmk2, after a long period of research and

lens tests.

Now I believe the DSLR fashion is gone because big industry giants started manufacturing tools and cameras with down to earth prices. I’ll have to admit that Canon and Nikon shook the big giants and made them produce large sensor video  cameras in modest prices.

It’s time for me to move on and the question is what camera sould I buy next. Ok, let’s talk about prices, a decent Scarlet or C300 package comes to $19.000 with out the lenses. Both cameras could use a plethora of lenses from the astonishing Master primes to canon photography lenses. Investing your money into these cameras with a decent set of prime lenses (35mm Zeiss mk2’s or early Cook’s) we’re looking about $40.000 a lot of money for an independent filmmaker.

The question is what kind of lenses I would like to use from now on (Cine or photographic). The price drop on the Super 16mm lenses drove me to the Ikonoskop camera, so I started flirting with the a-cam dII for the past 4 months and when I finally found a set of Zeiss super speeds I ordered the camera. Using cine lenses on a digital camera like the Ikonoskop feel’s like shooting with my little Aaton.  RAW files and 12bit color, beautiful skin tones, good value for money and many more made me say yes to the a-cam.  

Final CUT PRO X Tutorials

For those who downloaded FCPX and need some help here are the best tutorials around. Watching the tutorials I can tell for sure that in a years time X will catch up its ancestor and become an industry work horse again. You can have a look here:

http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

Poll me X

FINAL CUT PRO X

I was going to buy a video converter from the app store and accidentally saw the most expected editing software for Mac the legendary Final cut X. 

For many years I was editing on avid but some people insisted to give FCP a go. I was very reluctant trying something new, I had crazy fears like my edit will go out of sync, the trimming mode is not as good as Avid's and I can name a hundred more. 

The main reason that I finally sat down and learned how to use FCP is because I hated Avid's update policy, every time that was an update you had to pay for it, Apple's update policy was different and a lot cheaper. 

Apple's new strategic plan to eliminate software piracy introduced the app store for Mac and reduced software prices in many occasions less than half price. For example the upcoming Lion OS costs less than €30 and Final cut X costs €239.99

I will definitely buy the new FC X and try it out. Looking forward importing directly from my 5D and play around. 

I will be posting my first impressions very soon! 

  

Technicolor cine style samples

By clicking on the videos below you can view samples using cinestyle patch
on your DSLR.

Baby Primes

Here we have a set of prime Lenses from kelvin Kamera, all re-housed photo ZM.2Zeiss lenses, with manual aperture, fitted with follow focus gears and wait to hear this...

2 sided scales for focus and iris.

The front diameter of the lenses is 95mm and the price is going to be 35-40%less thanCP.2 lenses. Let's see, a single CP.2 lens costs €3.600 minus 35% for a baby prime comes to € 2.340 still expensive but not unreachable. Looking forward testing them!

article source www.cinema5d.com

  

Cine style profile by Technicolor

Here is an interesting profile for Canon DSLR cameras when used on video mode. Cinestyle's profile expands the dynamic range of the image captured and allows the cinematographer expanding his grading options during color timing.
You can download cinestyle for free. The installation on the camera is really easy, just make sure that your running EOS Utility v2.6