Shooting 'Southwold' - My first proper outing

Hi folks

I think this may be my first venture into the land of a forum....so go easy

Anyway as one of the beta testers I went out and shot a short study of English eccentricity in a small seaside town called Southwold on the Suffolk coast.

I've created a blog post detailing what I did and how I overcame the challenges...

If you're interested it's over hera on my site http://www.fstopacademy.com/blog/blackm ... ra-review/

I'm also currently cutting a night shoot that we shot using ProRes and am continually putting the camer into different situations and environments. I am genuinely loving the camera and workflow. For me the images are breathtaking and so I can forgive every other little niggle.

I'm also using an iMac 3.4GHz 24GB RAM and Thunderbolt Pegasus R6 from Promise- this does not playback real tim in Resolve but it does work and I dis all my round tripping into FCPX and back to Resolve on this machine.

Any question just shout.

Thanks

Den

Nice!

I really like this imac portion as i consider getin something to use at home
to create looks.

I have some speed in the office with my pro machine.

Alternative would be to go with retina mbp but i'm not sure yet.

Having element on your table is also really nice touch!

Thanks Den, love the piece. I will read the blog asap.
As far as Resolve goes, a lot of early adopters learned the hard way on the fact that you cant view real time.
But this was the case years ago as well in other grading apps.
As soon as Apple gets the GPU working with Magma and Sonnet, then iMac and MBP users will have their day

Hi folks

I think this may be my first venture into the land of a forum....so go easy

Anyway as one of the beta testers I went out and shot a short study of English eccentricity in a small seaside town called Southwold on the Suffolk coast.

I've created a blog post detailing what I did and how I overcame the challenges...

If you're interested it's over hera on my site http://www.fstopacademy.com/blog/blackm ... ra-review/

I'm also currently cutting a night shoot that we shot using ProRes and am continually putting the camer into different situations and environments. I am genuinely loving the camera and workflow. For me the images are breathtaking and so I can forgive every other little niggle.

I'm also using an iMac 3.4GHz 24GB RAM and Thunderbolt Pegasus R6 from Promise- this does not playback real tim in Resolve but it does work and I dis all my round tripping into FCPX and back to Resolve on this machine.

Any question just shout.

Thanks

Den

Thanks Den. To my knowledge your iMac supports max 16G RAM, am I right?

Nice!

I really like this imac portion as i consider getin something to use at home
to create looks.

I have some speed in the office with my pro machine.

Alternative would be to go with retina mbp but i'm not sure yet.

Having element on your table is also really nice touch!

I have a mid-2011 iMac and DaVinci sucks on this machine coz it just utilize OPENCL on AMD graphics chips which is inferior to nVidia CUDA.

Finally I build a hackintosh with nVidia GTX680 graphics card and it rocks.

yes but when i want to stay away from hack then options would be mbp or iMac.

as i described i have full system in the office and imac or mbp seem great way to have
looks making unit at home.

mbp adds even more charm on it as at home i can put it on 24" display and have it
like real computer

i see no point having beefyer machine at home as work moral is hard to keep at home

Welcome, Den. I enjoyed your Southwold video, though in viewing I replaced the music track with "Tourists on the Menu" by John Williams from his musical score to Jaws. Exciting, this camera is.

Thank you for sharing, there are some good looking shots in there !!

Which lense you were shooting with here:

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Hi Theodore, that was a Canon L series 70-200mm f2.8

@jasonxinzhou Actually my machine will support up to 32GB of RAM

Hi Theodore, that was a Canon L series 70-200mm f2.8

Thanks Den