New Camera Shoulder Mounts

The movie I'm shooting right now is a comedy mockumentary.

Much of the film is handheld, and I've decided to use the Tamron 17-50 f2.8 VC for most of the movie.
I'm also using a certain grade of LowCon filter. I've been using my Old ass Birns and Sawyer DV2000 shoulder mount like this:

http://www.birnsandsawyer.com/_Sales/Camera-Accessories/Single-Handle-Shoulder-Support-(Long).aspx


I've been having a LOT of back pain
and I think I want to switch out to one of these:

http://shop.ebay.com/gini.1980/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

They have a similar appearance to the Zacuto rigs, but seem a lot cooler because they are made by a dude in Korea and are more affordable.

I definitely want to ditch my redrock setup if anyone is interested, otherwise it should be on ebay by the holidays.

New Film, New Festival

Just started shooting another feature on the 7D.

It's a comedy, it's going to be funny. I'm using a bit different lensing on this one, and different filtration.

New Canon Film Festival.

http://www.can-dofilmfest.com

This sounds cool because the prizes are cool.

This sounds extremely CRAP because:
1. You have to pay $40 to enter. Why the Fuck should I pay $40 to enter a film festival when I already blew my wad buying three Canon 7Ds and batteries. Probably never buying a canon Lens. Never say never though.

2. They mention that you have to shoot with a canon HD DSLR including the 7D, the 5DII, or the 1DMKIV - what about the rebel T1i?

Winter Nights. The first 7D Feature Trailer

Enjoyeee!

http://www.theaspectratio.net/WinterNightsLog8.htm

Mad Props to Ari Dassa (director) and Yuki Aizawa (editor) as well as the incredible talent Ari chose to put in front of the lens.

Panavision

Feature Wrapped!

First Feature Film shot entirely with the Canon 7D (2 of them) has wrapped production.

Now for some sleep.

Pascal wanted to know what picture profile settings we've been using.

I have the cams set to neutral picture style, contrast all the way down, sharpness all the way down. Saturation down between -2 and -3 points depending on the scene, and no adjustment to color tone.

Highlight tone priority was used in one scene only.

No Auto Lighting Optimizer was used.

white balance was almost all Tungsten balance, as that was how we lit. The few things we shot during daylight hours were balanced for daylight.

Zeiss primes rock.

I want to revisit a really basic set of well oiled Nikon AiS superspeed primes though for my second cam as a rental option for other people.

Let's see what other kinds of fun I can have shooting with this camera in the coming weeks.

First Feature Shot Entirely on the Canon 7D

I just want to declare that by tonight I will have completed principal photography on the first feature film shot entirely with the canon 7D.

Entirely with the 7D.

Complete.

The Searching for Sonny guys claim to have the first feature shot on a DSLR - not so. I completed shooting on "The Louisiana Conversation" in February 2009. As far as I can tell they haven't finished principal photography. Maybe they have. I guess it just irked me that they took the credit, and while their film does look good - I was first. Of course the production team still doesn't have distribution on The Louisiana Conversation (or maybe they do) I don't know -I'm just a hired gun...

Anyway, that's part of the reason I started a Blog in the first place - to document what's going on. Now that we're almost done with Winter Nights, I can start to share technical details and stories from the production. Cool!

Winter Nights...

Usually I keep my mouth shut about the particulars of the production I'm working on, but since Ari Dassa, the talented director of the film has been publishing his own log of the film, I've decided to link to it here:

http://www.theaspectratio.net/WinterNightsLog6.htm

He's rad. Film's almost done Shooting!