@vicharris no, no problems within density. The Rokinon 85mm T1.5 is a fantastic lens with the BMPCC speedbooster. Very lowlight capable.

And here is one I did over the last weekend

My experiment with a DOF adaptor and a BMPCC. Seems very encouraging so far.

Download the original if you wish to make any judgements.

Hey, couldn't find the original BMCC thread so I'm posting this here...

Shot on the original 2.5k Cinema Cam in Prores. All Adobe workflow (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speedgrade). VFX models were done in Cinema4D.

@Oedipax Ha ha. They can and do produce such an organic image. I actually bought four Sgblades last year all for around £200 each when guys were dumping them for nothing so that I could perhaps have two or so rigs and have spares. In the future I may buy a couple more pockets and have a cracking two or three camera rig for peanuts that can produce amazing images. Just a matter of getting the 'relay' lens right. In this case I reckon any 85mm lens will be about right and if you can get it to sit right - perhaps a 58 mm helios will give a wider fov but I got dark corners.

@matthere Hi Matt. Unfortunately I don't have anything other than the SGblade. I suspect that the Letus Ultimate would produce a similar if not slightly better image as it was the top of the range back in the day. The Letus 35 has produced some really organic imagery as well. I am sure that the Redrock Micro M3 would in modern terms be the best available. I wish I could have found one on the cheap on ebay but they never came up at prices I could justify. Not many made either. The great thing as I have said to all the naysayers ( I was surprised at how many there are ) is that the pocket can always be taken off to get the normal pocket look. The biggest advantage is that you can go use stills glass and use the lenses in their native FOV. Much nicer than fiddling with 16mm C-mount lenses. I have a few and focusing is a major pain with most of them. Also no shallow depth of field either. This way one can turn a smallish sensor camera like the pocket into one that can produce a Vistavision sized image if that is what one desires. I love the look of the Nikon 50 mm F1.2 on it. Just magical. The adaptor also softens things a little and even reduces aliasing and moiré a little. Talent need not worry about overly sharpened wrinkles or pores. Frankly, I am delighted because when I first started out with the idea, most folk on the BMuser forum laughed it off as bonkers, but I reckon this image can hold its own if one wasn't told how it originated. If you already own one it certainly costs you nothing to try it. Peace

And here is my anamorphic rig test of the DOF adaptor and pocket. Really pleased with the colours now - I can get a purer white. The IR cut filter is tremendous on the pocket.

As usual the download is so much better than the stream

@act Very awesome wedding video

Just made a really quick video for a couple of friends band. I had two days to work on it, one day shooting and one day editing. My friend came over with a couple of drinking birds and some party umbrellas and we tried to make something with what we had. I shot it with a bmpcc and a sigma 18-35 1,8 with a bmpcc speedbooster + nokton 25mm 0,95 and a slr magic 12mm 1,6. I shot it in raw and edited and graded it quick in resolve from the raw files (without luts) because I wanted to have a quite saturated image anyway.

Any feedback is appreciated

Older topic:

@odessa Thanks for the lut. Sorry for late reply, I haven't been logged in for a while. The lut gave a really good direction to work from. Thanks a lot!

@RodCole

Thanks! Regarding umbrellas: I attached a lot of small paper umbrellas to a large real umbrella which I hanged in a thread from the ceiling, so that I could spin it around. I put a projector which light up the paper umbrellas from the side (but didn't hit the big umbrella above, to keep it hidden). The projector was a bit broken and gave a blue light in the dark areas. I put on an old animated cubist art film by Hans Richter from the twenties:

It consists of white squares moving around on a black background. When a white square is projected on the umbrellas, you can see their colors. When they're in the dark they look blue. I filmed them from underneath.

I hope that my explanation is understandable :).

pinger007 - audio is out of sync. Is it Bmpcc or Vimeo or editing?

@alfaerik

Thanks for the explanation. I understand perfectly.

i dunno, the edit hit the beats pretty well for me.

Thanks @tinyrobot, actually I've been very careful to match the beats, could it be a problem of you player? Anyway most of the clips were shoot handheld, in others I used a konova slider and my steadycam.

@jrd actually all of the clips were converted to BMD film. Some of them were graded from scratch, others starting from Blackmagic-Rec709 LUT (when I knew I would just pump contrast/saturation up).